Sims 4 Confessions

My confession is that I can't play past the first sim generation. I managed to pull it off a couple of times in the past, but never went very far into the second generation, after the first generation has died, before starting over. So I usually end up playing on the longest lifespan, stopping the aging, or playing an immortal such as a vampire.

@LaBlue0314 and @Chelseadude182 I think my game play strengths and weaknesses have overlapping tendencies with yours. I (literally/clinically) have OCD. I am very driven. I micromanage a lot in Sims, and it is rather exhausting sometimes. I'm always pushing to more achievements/goals, and my aging is off because I'm rather attached to my seed/original couple (loosely based on my husband and myself) and their offspring (who are now spread throughout the other households), so I have a lot of sims who are not expendable crewmen. And who are really rich! Ya... I've had enough of death in real life lately. Let the sims live on... ;)

OP, you're not alone. My children (mainly my daughter) likes to tease me about being OCD. I know my mother appeared to have it, too. But, I don't really believe I'm suffering from that. I do get very attached to my little Simmies and sometimes, I have restarted the very same family but that was mostly because things went horribly awry or when Parenthood was released, I realized the best way to proceed with my family was to start them anew. I discovered teaching teens the Values wasn't really reaping me what I needed. So, I restated this game save again. I aged the teens down to Child Sims, and the Child Sims down to toddlers. The rest were born in-game. Prior to this, I got rid of all the 18th century cc and restarted using contemporary clothing. Another time, I simply had to restart. I left out a few of the children (I'm playing my ancestors) and I wanted them to be from their parents (as in the genetics). However, she was already deceased and in a moment of what I call "Mad-Hatter Moments" I got it into my head to simply put a copy of the parents into the town and have the missing children born to them. With the idea, I would move them in with my original copy of their father. Silly me, that made them roommates, only. Face/palm. One other time the father in the second household electrocuted himself prior to his younger children being born. This was unacceptable. I rolled back a save. (Hey, at least I didn't restart the whole game.)

The good news is I haven't restarted them in quite some time. However, I did get a pair of Beagle puppies at the end of August and am trapped down here on my main floor, until they're fully housebroken. We're getting there, very slowly. So, I copied my game folder onto a flash drive and installed Origin on my laptop and installed that in-progress game. As a result, I'm much further along with the game on my laptop, than where I left off on my gaming rig. I only get up to my loft office on a random Saturday. Hubby has been putting in overtime. My young couple isn't even engaged upstairs. It's odd, too, switching from one computer to the next. I shall have to amend the situation going on upstairs, via MCCC, before the Patch hits which requires we remove our Mods from the game. :open_mouth:

Well, that's my confession. I feel better, don't you? ;)

I am constantly restarting my game. I micro manage everything my sims do and if anything goes wrong I have to start over. It doesn't help that I like to play with full households so it adds to the stress of keeping up with everyone.

I have one more confession about something that has just recently started with me. I am actually having issues with actually trying to start up a game save, now that Seasons has been added. I have this compulsion of not even getting into my actual gameplay until every single sim (premades) have all had all their hot and cold outfits fixed, and that every single lot has been updated. When something is not just so, I have this urge to start over. It's a sickness I tell you. lol

Hi — my name is stilljustme2 and I’m a saveaholic. I have on save where I’m trying to finish all the collections, but I typically start a new save when we get new content. Currently re-imagining Oasis Springs as sort of a Palm Springs type world annex to Del Sol Valley where Sims can commute.

"LaBlue0314;c-16781745" wrote:
I have one more confession about something that has just recently started with me. I am actually having issues with actually trying to start up a game save, now that Seasons has been added. I have this compulsion of not even getting into my actual gameplay until every single sim (premades) have all had all their hot and cold outfits fixed, and that every single lot has been updated. When something is not just so, I have this urge to start over. It's a sickness I tell you. lol

Hahaha... I've never had a sim die, but I've been known to hunt them down and delete the kleptos in my businesses, evil sims, child haters who come in and smash my kids' houses, and (sorry... ageism...) I even deleted a bunch of the elders in the 'unplayed households' at one point since it was full of them (about 1/4 - 1/3 it seemed) and the stupid game kept throwing all of the elders, lazy, crazy, or other rotten traits for an employee as the pool of choices I had for restaurant employee hires. It is a hard job, and the elders had a rough time doing it for 12 hours. It's not like the game lets you send a particular waiter home early, if I remember correctly (though you can in retail, so I hired some there). I was just super exasperated one night and just deleted some of them. Not the ones I made, though. ;)

@SheriGR There is a mod that I now consider one of those must-have for those who play with mods. What it does is that it will take any homeless sim in your game and force the game to use those sims instead of creating new sims. It has really cut down the number of those awful sims that the game will create just to fill in a slot, and it will force the game to use the same sims instead of creating new ones. If the game is short it will still create a new sim to fill in the slot needed. But what I will do is to make sure I have my own and make sure you have a few sims of each age group as homeless, and this mod will force your game to use them.

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=604590

@LaBlue0314 -- Good to know... and good planning on your part! Thanks!

I confess that I lately am spending more time following other simmers escapades than playing the game.