More than 1 game world save option?

"EternalRose;15243412" wrote:
Yeah but I don't want any Sims in the world at all, I just want a world for building. Tired for the useless steps of CAS. Also not sure if anybody else tried it or not but when you create a Sim to make a new world then delete the Sim from the world........you have to keep that Sim in your saved Sims folder or your world will be deleted, even if you save. Tried this a couple of times & the same thing happens.....notice even though you delete the Sim, that Sim's name is listed under the name of your save.......so unfortunately even though you delete them from your world you have to keep the Sim in your saved households folder. :s I think they need to fix it, bug?

You can quickly delete all the Sims in the world in Household Management, then save that as your base. Your world will be empty. You don't have to keep anything in the saved household folder. I've done this and it doesn't break a save.

Yeah, thinking something is wrong with my game. When I do that it deletes my world. :/ I haven't stated a build though (just editing it). Maybe that's why.

When you clear a world you need to keep at least one household. You can have them be not-in-world (as in they don't have to live on a lot) but there needs to be one household present (it should pop up a warning about it). But so long as you have that one household you should be able to clear everything and everyone else out of the world without any problems. Then use the Save As save setting and Name it whatever you want. Then if you don't save anything else it will be what you start with when you press the big Play button or just use the Save File button on the top to locate the world in your Save Files. Just be sure you continue to use the Save As save feature to save your building progress or it will overwrite the blank world and you'll have to go through the process of emptying the world again.

The game will eventually generate more not-in-world sims though but they'll just walk around in the background and not interfere with anything or you can continue to clear them out once a night or get a mod to block their appearance.

I'm not sure why having one sim wandering around the world is a big deal I mean they don't do anything but exist if you spend all your time in Build Mode you won't see them at all and if you get to the point where if/when you want to repopulate the world you can delete them easily enough at that time.

Ok, that why then I didn't have any sims in the saved households for that world. :P Silly me.

The very first thing I do, whenever I install TS4 on a new device (or on a wiped device ... always fun), is start a new game (+ in top right corner), take whatever sim pops up on the CAS screen (randomize name, just grab a random aspiration and the first three traits my mouse hits), hit the check, and then pop them onto an empty lot. As soon as the lot loads (I keep my finger poised over the pause button), I pause it before the game has a chance to spawn anything (townies, whatever). Hit the 3 dots in the top right corner to manage worlds, and go to Household Management (just to the left of the 3 dots).

Delete my 'dummy sim' household (later, you can also delete them from your library, since any household you create in CAS gets automatically saved to your library when you start the game), then go to "Save As" and save the world as "Empty." This is my jumping off point for every future new game I start, whether I want to create a new household to move in, play a pre-existing family, or just build. I like having this save, because I can go in and, say, add in my updated parks that I've made, or swap out the regular Windenburg gym for the one I updated, and then I only have to do it once, I don't have to keep making the same changes to each new world I start. IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER: if you're going to use your "Empty" world to start new games, be sure that, once you are ready to start a new game, you click "Save As" and save it as a unique game name (even if it's just something as simple as Smith Family 1).

My next step is to go to "Save As" again and save it a second time, this time as "Building." Once I am positive I am in the "Building" save, I go back into Household Management and delete all sim families (except 1, since you do need at least 1 sim, but you can evict them from their home). Then I go through and start bulldozing whatever I'm not interested in keeping.

Then, whenever I come back into the game, I just click on the floppy disk in the top right of the image above, and decide where I'm going: my empty world to tool around a bit (or start a new game), one of my existing families, my building world to tinker about and, well ... build. Etc. I almost never actually click on that little + in the top right corner anymore.

Here is my question that is related. I have the Base game only right now and in New Crest all of the Lots are empty. Which is fine I love placing lots. But then when I start a NEW game I MUST do it again. I want to place the Lots and it forever. Use it on 1 or 200 saves. Can anyone help me with this?

"Dragonsheart42;c-17280087" wrote:
Here is my question that is related. I have the Base game only right now and in New Crest all of the Lots are empty. Which is fine I love placing lots. But then when I start a NEW game I MUST do it again. I want to place the Lots and it forever. Use it on 1 or 200 saves. Can anyone help me with this?

This thread is old so will probably get closed... But when you have the save you want hit "save as" and create a new save file. Name it base game save or something
Use it every time you want to start a new save but don't save over it again. Use the save as again to name the next save that you started from that one