According to the Sims 4 main menu, "the hardest decision is Resume Game or New Game".For me the hardest decision is which sim to pick when starting a new game. I have 97 households in my library plus close to 200 premades in the actual game (missing 2 packs). So yesterday I wanted to play a short living off the land/simple living challenge with an unskilled starter household. Of my three saves atm that new househould would fit best into the cottagecore one. That was the easy part. But which sims to use... I sat and stared, sat and stared, unable to decide on my protagonists. I had almost decided on a household, when the urge to also include my picks' friends stuck, what would have resulted in at least three households getting added. So back to square one it was. In the end I chose George Cahill, Erwin Pries and the BFF. (George in my gameverse is Erwin's father and he also mentored the BFF in a Star Wars save, so now they form a unit in my mind.)What is the hardest decision for you?

Hardest decision is whos point of view I should use to tell Bellas story so I keep getting stucklike i could tell it from bellas point of view as she rediscovers her memories but that would be rather confusingI could tell it from alexanders point of view but he does not know allI could tell it from Cassandras point of view but she knows even lessI could tell it from Mortimers point of view but that compromises other points of viewheck I could even tell it from Don Lotharios view but then its less of a goth story more of a lothario storyI could tell it like all knowing watcher but wheres the mystery in that

That is actually the hardest decision for me. I have an old save where I know that I have too many sims and most things have been done. So what I should do is start a new game and start over. But I don't really want to because I don't want to play everything again.So I am as the game menu said, "stuck in Limbo"...

@Simmingal What about an all knowing watcher who enjoys surprises and likes to keep/spring secrets? A bit of a mischievous streak?And/Or simply include some bits from other points of view as required.@EnkiSchmidt I can quite relate. I have restarted so many, many times looking for the ‘perfect’ Sim that I now have quite the library myself and can spend too much time thinking about who to take for another spin so-to-speak.

My hardest decision.Today for drama, there's going to be a break up/job change/falling out/cheating/death/etc!But to who? I don't want my sims to have bad times, so who do choose. Ah, it's so difficult! Someone has to have bad time!

"GalacticGal;c-18179199" wrote:Honestly, I find it difficult to decide to go with a save that is a many times over restart. What would I benefit from yet another restart? Do I just stick it out with the save in progress? Do I ever go back to my Main Save? Or, as someone suggested with this latest restart, that I stick with it and make it my Main Save. So, after much gnashing of teeth, I finally made the determination to restart once more. I set the season in the previous restart to fall, since I was carrying forth the family I began with, ready for high school to commence. Problem is, things were dropped in the process IE albums released, but more importantly sixteen songs he had written. Since they were written via instruments, there are no hard copies of them. No sheet music, not cd, no nothing. The time will be hard to recapture once high school starts. I had no real choice but to restart, One. More. Time. However, I did decide this one would be my NEW Main Save. This freed me up a bit on the order of songs to have him license. However, I'm still married to the order of suits worn at the Accolades. Face/palm. I change out the clothing to help me keep track.Sometimes, it's difficult to be me.And us @GalacticGal. Trying to keep up with all the restarts and various saves. ?

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Simmingal
Hero
3 years ago
Hardest decision is whos point of view I should use to tell Bellas story so I keep getting stuck

like i could tell it from bellas point of view as she rediscovers her memories but that would be rather confusing

I could tell it from alexanders point of view but he does not know all

I could tell it from Cassandras point of view but she knows even less

I could tell it from Mortimers point of view but that compromises other points of view

heck I could even tell it from Don Lotharios view but then its less of a goth story more of a lothario story

I could tell it like all knowing watcher but wheres the mystery in that
logionX
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
That is actually the hardest decision for me. I have an old save where I know that I have too many sims and most things have been done. So what I should do is start a new game and start over. But I don't really want to because I don't want to play everything again.

So I am as the game menu said, "stuck in Limbo"...
moppy14w
Seasoned Newcomer
3 years ago
@Simmingal What about an all knowing watcher who enjoys surprises and likes to keep/spring secrets? A bit of a mischievous streak?
And/Or simply include some bits from other points of view as required.

@EnkiSchmidt I can quite relate. I have restarted so many, many times looking for the ‘perfect’ Sim that I now have quite the library myself and can spend too much time thinking about who to take for another spin so-to-speak.
EgonVM
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
My hardest decision.

Today for drama, there's going to be a break up/job change/falling out/cheating/death/etc!

But to who? I don't want my sims to have bad times, so who do choose. Ah, it's so difficult! Someone has to have bad time!
simgirl1010
Hero
3 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-18179199" wrote:
Honestly, I find it difficult to decide to go with a save that is a many times over restart. What would I benefit from yet another restart? Do I just stick it out with the save in progress? Do I ever go back to my Main Save? Or, as someone suggested with this latest restart, that I stick with it and make it my Main Save. So, after much gnashing of teeth, I finally made the determination to restart once more. I set the season in the previous restart to fall, since I was carrying forth the family I began with, ready for high school to commence. Problem is, things were dropped in the process IE albums released, but more importantly sixteen songs he had written. Since they were written via instruments, there are no hard copies of them. No sheet music, not cd, no nothing. The time will be hard to recapture once high school starts. I had no real choice but to restart, One. More. Time. However, I did decide this one would be my NEW Main Save. This freed me up a bit on the order of songs to have him license. However, I'm still married to the order of suits worn at the Accolades. Face/palm. I change out the clothing to help me keep track.

Sometimes, it's difficult to be me.

And us @GalacticGal. Trying to keep up with all the restarts and various saves. ?
Gamer_Cat24
New Traveler
3 years ago
My challenge is not starting a new game for the 100th time.
I still play my other saves, but I get a new idea, and don't want to ruin an existing save with my ideas.
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
3 years ago
Everyone who replied that you find not starting another new save/deciding between an old and a new save hard, I do understand that!
I'm a serial restarter myself, but because setting up yet another parallel universe is so much fun I don't even try to stop myself from acting on the temptation.
shorty943p
New Traveler
3 years ago
Lately for me, the hardest was, do I just uninstall or keep on struggling with a mostly broken game due to the updates.

I did persevere though and finally got the game stable again.

Three days of mod testing, to find the one small file that had a no longer used function that was totally breaking the UI so the game couldn't start or even be stopped other than Task Manager.
Moridhus
New Spectator
3 years ago
My hardest decision is if it's safe to install and play my last game again after that last update fiasco with all the bugs. I don't want the game deleting my favorite characters again.
DaniRose2143
Hero
3 years ago
It starts for me in CAS. It often takes me 20 minutes or more, just to set a new sims first everyday outfit. All together I usually spend over an hour trying different outfits, makeup, and jewelry combinations just to give them one outfit in each category. It would take me all day to give them 5 outfits in each category.

I frequently have a hard time deciding where I want them to live, which world and house. I get to the choose a world screen and freeze. Like you I suffer from restart-itis, and those two questions have been the reason for a restart. I can't make up my mind so I get frustrated and start all over.