Template Saves

"GalacticGal;c-16288958" wrote:
No, but I would love to start. It is tedious, and if something vitally goes wrong and the best thing is to start anew all of that work is for naught. One day, I'll just take the time to set the world up the way I want it and then do a Save As. How do you get it to come up when you're wanting to use it, though? Just load it and do a save as before you plant your family?

Yeah i just load it up and hit "save as" to create a new file, then make my sim and move them in as usual :) just make sure your template file is clearly labelled as such. I "save as" constantly so the names of saves wont get changed to something like "Saved Game 4" or something lmao

"somethingstellar;c-16288969" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-16288958" wrote:
No, but I would love to start. It is tedious, and if something vitally goes wrong and the best thing is to start anew all of that work is for naught. One day, I'll just take the time to set the world up the way I want it and then do a Save As. How do you get it to come up when you're wanting to use it, though? Just load it and do a save as before you plant your family?

Yeah i just load it up and hit "save as" to create a new file, then make my sim and move them in as usual :) just make sure your template file is clearly labelled as such. I "save as" constantly so the names of saves wont get changed to something like "Saved Game 4" or something lmao

Thank you. Not sure how soon I'll get to it, but I'm always doing the Save As, since someone suggested it keeps the save from getting corrupted. And, I label them, too. Just wish said labeling would show up in the document folder. It used to be so much easier …

"GalacticGal;c-16288958" wrote:
No, but I would love to start. It is tedious, and if something vitally goes wrong and the best thing is to start anew all of that work is for naught. One day, I'll just take the time to set the world up the way I want it and then do a Save As. How do you get it to come up when you're wanting to use it, though? Just load it and do a save as before you plant your family?

Yes, you set up the template, I use " Template 01" as the file name. Then when you want to start a new game, select this save file to load and immediately , once it loads, select " save as" and name it whatever, now you can use this game file to start your new play. Your template is untouched.

One thing I noticed, is that in a game file you need to always have one household selected as played/active, whatever its called now. The game does not like when there are no houses selected in that.

In all my templates, Johnny Zest is always the selected household and therefore the thumbnail for them, one, because I leave the neighboring lot to his "pebble burrow" empty, to use to load gallery sims as townies, and, two, cause I just like him, and I can tell its the template at a glance by the thumbnail.

Anyone else do this?

I do it sometimes - I call them Master Saves.

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Yes, I have two templates. One is totally devoid of houses, venues, premades, etc. and has only one Sim. For some reason the game won't let you keep a save without any Sims at all. The other one has a few modified premades on their lots, some modified premades 'not in world' and one venue of each type. The first one I named 'Totally Blank'. The second one, which I use most often is called, 'Custom Template.'

Actually, I just purchased the Vampires GP a week ago so now I need to go in and modify Forgotten Hollow and their premades in both my templates. Thanks for the reminder! :)

"Karababy52;c-16289331" wrote:
Yes, I have two templates. One is totally devoid of houses, venues, premades, etc. and has only one Sim. For some reason the game won't let you keep a save without any Sims at all. The other one has a few modified premades on their lots, some modified premades 'not in world' and one venue of each type. The first one I named 'Totally Blank'. The second one, which I use most often is called, 'Custom Template.'

Actually, I just purchased the Vampires GP a week ago so now I need to go in and modify Forgotten Hollow and their premades in both my templates. Thanks for the reminder! :)

BTW, there is a blank save file on tumbler, I found it on "Lana CC Finds" there is a menu where you can find a few game saves, in fact.

"somethingstellar;c-16289045" wrote:

"3KNPen;c-16289025" wrote:
I have one started. I'm slowly building the world but I was impatient to use it so I have started some saves in the the half completed file. I plan to switch out some of the households from time to time so I don't get tired of seeing the same old townie sims all the time.

Thats why i love the story progression mod honestly lmao Im never bored because i like seeing who ends up married to who and having kids hahahaha its different every time. and after the first generation is dead and gone, all the sims im dealing with are the different offspring that came from all of them.

I do have story progression but I like to change things up and get a dash of some differing non randomly generated genetics involved in the mix from time to time.

"somethingstellar;d-934172" wrote:
Every time i started a new save i had to do things like put in additional houses, put in public venues like restaurants and the bowling alley, add lot traits to parks, etc etc which obviously becomes very tedious after more than a few times.
So i created a world where all the worlds were set up to my liking and from that save, i spawn all my other new saves with a simple "save as".
Anyone else do this?

Yes, I have been doing it ever since TS3.

I do this too and I have one piece of advice:

Back up your template save. It's very easy to accidentally overwrite it.