New Save Plan: How do you, start fresh?
After seeing a tweet about one of the Sim Gurus always striping their world when they do a new save, it got me wondering about the rest of us, from fashion to day-to-day activities, I wanna know how y...
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Well I've only done one save restart so far, so I don't have perspective of "this is how I usually do it".
I'm new to Sims 4. April sale on Steam got me back to Sims. I played Sims 1, and I owned Sims 2 and Urbz but can't recall even ever having installed them (I think that's due to my old PC dying at that point and me switching to Mac due to work, and only going back to PC in 2019 - but I thought the disc was dual format back then so I'm actually not sure why I bought but didn't play Sims 2 so many years ago).
Anyway...
I went into my old save and copied every lot that I had customized into my library, then put them into a new save. I then did the same with a few households I liked, and with most of the random townies.
Once I had that new save, I deleted all Maxis Sims from a copy of it - and that's my new game.
After playing the new save for a week, I found out I'd missed a few lots, and I'd put several of them in without having bb.moveitems on. So I had to put a lot of lots back in again; meaning that if I do this again my 'backup blank save' isn't actually any good.
My reasoning for this was that I like the custom lots I've been placing down and then tweaking to my tastes, and I like the random townies that I've been getting and slowly tweaking. But as for the Maxis sims, I had both no attachment to hem, but also felt weird anytime they got 'altered' by my game play. So having half the lots in the game taken up by sims that I feel some need to "preserve in a pristine state" was a large waste of potential. Clearing them out means every sim in the game is 'mine' and whatever happens to them is just whatever happens to them as a result of gameplay. Something I can live with as they're not "special".
I'm new to Sims 4. April sale on Steam got me back to Sims. I played Sims 1, and I owned Sims 2 and Urbz but can't recall even ever having installed them (I think that's due to my old PC dying at that point and me switching to Mac due to work, and only going back to PC in 2019 - but I thought the disc was dual format back then so I'm actually not sure why I bought but didn't play Sims 2 so many years ago).
Anyway...
I went into my old save and copied every lot that I had customized into my library, then put them into a new save. I then did the same with a few households I liked, and with most of the random townies.
Once I had that new save, I deleted all Maxis Sims from a copy of it - and that's my new game.
After playing the new save for a week, I found out I'd missed a few lots, and I'd put several of them in without having bb.moveitems on. So I had to put a lot of lots back in again; meaning that if I do this again my 'backup blank save' isn't actually any good.
My reasoning for this was that I like the custom lots I've been placing down and then tweaking to my tastes, and I like the random townies that I've been getting and slowly tweaking. But as for the Maxis sims, I had both no attachment to hem, but also felt weird anytime they got 'altered' by my game play. So having half the lots in the game taken up by sims that I feel some need to "preserve in a pristine state" was a large waste of potential. Clearing them out means every sim in the game is 'mine' and whatever happens to them is just whatever happens to them as a result of gameplay. Something I can live with as they're not "special".
