Oh no....I am... emotionally attached.

Can I offer congratulations on raising a couple of fine Sims?

I'd <3 to be able to become attached to a Sim or Sim family and play them that long. Admittedly I still haven't had any infants yet so I should definitely test your theory. I do recall once, being rather sad at the passing of Bob Pancakes who died of old age, but not before seeing his eldest of two daughters married. I've never got that far again...

@NRowe well thanks, it takes some trial and error and I play a lot of sims, I have most my saves on long but normal is hard for some reason, there is not enough time hehe. Yeah that's really special for who knows why just watching them saying good bye when they have been assured their kids have everything...ugh don't even get me started on their parents.

I feel your pain. I typically get attached to the sims I play from birth also. Like you, I don't like having aging off and long is too long. In the past, I've even shed a small tear when one of my favorite Sims died of old age. That's usually a good indicator that I've done well in raising them and giving them a good story (or letting the game give them a good story).

My sim self has raised twelve children over three marriages so once the last three are out of the house i think i'm ready to have him age up to elder and retire. I know he'll have to go at some point but i'll be the one to choose that moment.

Can't help it but I get attached to all my sims and I play quite a few of them. Admittedly, some are favourites.

@Lenny_Ogg Yeah I get that sometimes too, some sims you just need they are all adorable I especially like the ewok picture, so long as things go well with sims 5 I imagine I'll have some families to take with me then myself.
@SweetieWright_84 Long is okay sometimes if you have a big enough of a rotation but I find I usually don't as I have multiple saves and just go for whatever group I'm in the mood for but it might be nice for sims you know have to go but aren't there yet. Aw that's sweet, sometimes I don't know what it is about these little pixels like life goes on and you may forget them sure but if you so choose to you can really just enjoy them.
@Brd709 I can't even imagine that many kids, I had one long running disaster family where they got up to eight kids before making their way to old age. That's right best let go on your own terms.
@rudolpha I am like that too, while I still want a slightly stronger computer it has been nice to keep saves relatively small by expanding the saves themselves. Some I save families who knows why but I love their neighbors :D

Speaking of my kids up there I took a break from this save just to go mod free for a bit, test other mods and the like and coming back I realize I am gonna miss all their siblings and now I have to decide if maybe more of them will have kids. I'm gonna have to potion of youth their mom and dad Leila and Magnus.

I mean it's kind of fun that way though at least you know you've really enjoyed yourself, feel free to share more if you feel the need to, I suppose not just saying goodbye but enjoying the ride there goes hand in hand here.

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@SweetieWright_84 Long is okay sometimes if you have a big enough of a rotation but I find I usually don't as I have multiple saves and just go for whatever group I'm in the mood for but it might be nice for sims you know have to go but aren't there yet. Aw that's sweet, sometimes I don't know what it is about these little pixels like life goes on and you may forget them sure but if you so choose to you can really just enjoy them.

It's amazing how much of a hold virtual people have on us simmers, isn't. I still think about the ones that have passed on but I can't and probably won't ever not let the natural trajectory of their lives pass. I get bored with aging off. I like watching them progress through their lives.

Years ago, it occurred to me that I needed to write the story that had been knocking around in my head. I had a terrific book that had a series of questions to answer about your Main Character, as a way of helping the writer to make them complete; one of which was about their life/biography. I had to create Brianna's family. In the course of doing so, I gave her four brothers: Aaron, Erik, Joey and Adrian. I made Erik Brianna's favorite of the four. He was during the brief time we spend with him in the mini-series, a struggling musician. But he was a minor character, so we learned little more than that. When I began playing Sims, it was great fun to translate my Cantrell family in the game. Erik could never be a singer in Sims2, but he did become the mayor at one point.

I brought this family forward into Sims3. When Showtime came out, my dream for Erik came true. He became a Superstar, Rock Star, great on the charts, but unlucky in love, as it turned out. I made the decision to play Sims4. Again, in the beginning, Erik was limited in what he could do. The Pinstar Legacy Challenge was adapted for Sims4, and that's when I decided to bring Erik into my game. I made him my Founder. He had discovered he wanted a family over all of the Fame he'd acquired. Since that Challenge requires we play on Normal, I said goodbye to Erik all too soon. Once I completed that Challenge, I decided I would play him again on Long, so that I could have enough time with him.

Some of you are aware of my woes in regard to lost or glitched saves along the way and the very many restarts. I've finally gotten over having to restart, in favor of a game save recovery or rollback. My last restart was February before the Infant patch was dropped. I do have a goal in mind for him, which has yet to be met. What I'll do when that happens, I don't know. I had another curiously odd glitch occur in my game recently. This save has been going strong since February before the Patch for Infants dropped. In fact, I had just gotten the save back to where I was two+ years ago, with his youngest girl, Cadence, aged to Child. Thankfully other players reminded me to make a copy of this save, which I did. The most recent glitch I encountered was Erik was out front of his house on New Year's Eve. I got a notice he was freezing to death, so I immediately put the camera on him. But neither he or his sister, Brianna, would move from their spot in the snow. I forget now how they got unstuck, but Erik made it inside where he promptly froze to death. :open_mouth: Punch to the gut.

To say I was in shock, is an understatement. I ended up writing his obituary while I still couldn't feel a thing. I posted it and the next day is when I cried. This after reading all the wonderful posts by so many other players. I even had put up a poll asking for suggestions on where to go from there. In the long run, the very nature of the glitch, coupled with the opinions of others, made me realize it was okay to roll back the save. But, yes, I do get very attached to my Characters, even in books I have written. So, it's not merely the game mechanics, in my mind. Erik was only a baby, briefly, in my game and never a Toddler.

The infant update really made it harder for me to not get attached? I got attached to these 2, and their little brother https://i.imgur.com/P85nrW7.png https://i.imgur.com/jgOHtFK.png I want to see them reach highschool, but then that means I'll have to age them up and their parents too. I don't want to age anyone up ? I'm thinking about saving them and having them in 'alternate universe' save but then I'll get hooked and invested in that too?

@SweetieWright_84 It really is, I find myself doing that at random, there are actually a lot of lots I haven't lived on again going with smaller saves, so every once in a while I'll go to a house and think of the first family to really feel like they were living there. Takes a while to reuse houses I built for that same reason. :)
@GalacticGal ah yes I'm no stranger to Erik, I wouldn't say it's always game mechanics even in a normal setting I mean if you were bored you could have a throw away save and whatever it just passes the time. You simmed and that's enough but as soon as it becomes casual or constant story it's no different than the lives of any other character and many people on the planet can appreciate loving a decent character no matter where they started. Still, the infants get to me, how dare they grow up but they need to ha.
@BlueSeaWaves They are super adorable, gah I don't want to think about them in highschool that means too much time has passed and I repeat, how dare they grow up. You know I did that for one of most beloved families, the moles I was using them in a test save because i wanted my mods but wasn't sure if they were working so I knew if anything was gonna break it would be that one. Anyhow I saved them just like I had done when I just updated the couple and sometimes I don't even want them in game cause I know they are gonna die as of now I only lost them because of game issues I've never put them to rest. Thinking on it now don't think i can they just need to be frozen in time on the gallery, maybe you can try that, a little play a little careful saving.

Even if you get hooked.