The hardest decision

My hardest decision is picking an aspiration. Sometimes it's hard to find a good fit.

For me it’s starting over or sticking with the current save. I have created about 9.6 million saves over the past 8 years. I’m currently setting up yet another save ? because apparently I like torture. I have replaced the lots in 9 worlds (I own every single pack). My goal is to complete 1 per day for the next 2 weeks, although I plan on taking 2 days for Windenburg.

I’m not sure why I can’t stick to a save. Maybe it’s because I don’t get attached to my sims anymore. The last family I got attached to was made 5-6 years ago, I don’t want to play them because I don’t want to age the kids (quadruplets) up but I also don’t want to keep them at the child stage ??‍♀️

I’d really like to stick to a save for longer than 3-4 weeks. I think once my save is set up, I’ll play rotationally to do makeovers, advance lives/stories, stories and add in some of my own sims.

I’m ready to fall in love with a save, starting over every other week is tiresome.

For me it's moving out of Forgotten Hollow to a bigger lot elsewhere or starting a new save. My sim has 2 of her kids buried in the front yard, the household is full again after 1 son got married and had a grandson and another son was abducted and had a granddaughter. The dog was deleted when I took the family into cas to change the granddaughters alien diaper when both babies became toddlers. The 2 ghosts are still club members, moving to a new save would delete them but I do miss seeing Mortimer and some of the old school sims around town alot...and the dog, Lol. I forgot to mention I play vampires so all the old townies are long dead and this is my first legacy!!! :D <3

Hardest for me is letting my Sims die or making them die for story purposes. My challenge Sim, Essa, was supposed to die of old age last year, but I just couldn't do it. So I made she and her husband vampires instead. The last time I let any of my Sims die was 4 years ago in the Apocalypse Challenge. For story purposes, I made my current Sim's wife die by Pufferfish Nigiri. I'm having a hard time dealing with it since the couple had just gotten married and have been together almost all this year. So, yeah...that's the toughest for me. :/

"Karababy52;c-18179862" wrote:
Hardest for me is letting my Sims die or making them die for story purposes. My challenge Sim, Essa, was supposed to die of old age last year, but I just couldn't do it. So I made she and her husband vampires instead. The last time I let any of my Sims die was 4 years ago in the Apocalypse Challenge. For story purposes, I made my current Sim's wife die by Pufferfish Nigiri. I'm having a hard time dealing with it since the couple had just gotten married and have been together almost all this year. So, yeah...that's the toughest for me. :/

@Karababy52 This! So much this. While I might not have as heavy storytelling (I often let my sims autonomy to direct me) the overall idea is still there. Ever since TS2 I have been bad letting go of sims I grow attached to and this sudden attachment may come totally unexpected too. Abigail is a good example in TS4. I didn't really care that much for her when she was an YA/Adult (thanks to me failing forming a good roleplay) and was actually fully planning and wanting for her to go through the life stages (first one to show me the death by old age) but when she became an Elder something really endeared her to me and I just couldn't let her die. She still isn't "the favorite" but for some reason it's still really hard for me to let her die.

I have always had this tendency to preserve favorites by turning them vampires (or other immortal occults) because they are an immersive way for me to do so. BUT at the same time I roleplay heavily and also don't want vampires or other occults to become too common because they'd then lose what makes them fun/special for me in the first place. Sometimes it just doesn't fit the character at all. Like Abigail. Her husband is a vampire and could turn her whenever without problems but I just don't see that happening considering her character and the way I like to play her (and while her husband might have the evil trait he isn't enough of a jerk to force something like this on his loved ones).
So I guess for now Abigail will just hang around till I'm ready.

@EgonVM @GalacticGal In that case I would take the easy way out. Whichever household is my least favorite would have the bad day. There's probably a good reason why they aren't a favorite. I have two in my big rotation that aren't sympathetic characters, and one has no redeeming value. If drama comes knocking I give it one of their addresses.

"DaniRose2143;c-18180597" wrote:
@EgonVM @GalacticGal In that case I would take the easy way out. Whichever household is my least favorite would have the bad day. There's probably a good reason why they aren't a favorite. I have two in my big rotation that aren't sympathetic characters, and one has no redeeming value. If drama comes knocking I give it one of their addresses.

I'm a bad sims dad, I tend to give drama to my favorites (minus death, of course, I want my sims to suffer, not myself, so killing sims is extremely rare). Wasn't there even a saying about superheroes along the lines of "If misfortune befalls you, that only means you are popular with the reader. Popular heroes suffer misfortune. Unpopular heroes don't suffer, their books get canceled."?

"EnkiSchmidt;c-18180700" wrote:

"DaniRose2143;c-18180597" wrote:
@EgonVM @GalacticGal In that case I would take the easy way out. Whichever household is my least favorite would have the bad day. There's probably a good reason why they aren't a favorite. I have two in my big rotation that aren't sympathetic characters, and one has no redeeming value. If drama comes knocking I give it one of their addresses.

I'm a bad sims dad, I tend to give drama to my favorites (minus death, of course, I want my sims to suffer, not myself, so killing sims is extremely rare). Wasn't there even a saying about superheroes along the lines of "If misfortune befalls you, that only means you are popular with the reader. Popular heroes suffer misfortune. Unpopular heroes don't suffer, their books get canceled."?

I see myself as their (mostly)benevolent Goddess. I want to see my favored sims be happy and prosper. I send bad days to smite those sims who have displeased me. Bad days for my favored ones are usually something like, a failed audition, a book or work of art that wasn't very good, or it's a broken heart from a romance that wasn't meant to be. In extreme cases they get smited upside their heads. I'd have you ask Simeon what happens when you irritate me but, he's no longer around to answer...I guess you really wouldn't have had to ask, I demonstrated what happens to sims who really displease me.?

Between these two, starting a new game and resuming a game, for me most difficult is starting a new game. Resuming is no problem. I now have 2 saved games that I alternate between but starting a new save can be a chore for me because before I play I HAVE TO put down community lots that I prefer to use and that can take some quite a long time especially in Newcrest. That is mostly due to my problem with attention span and the impatience that comes with it. I am seriously considering creating a save game ready with all the community and residential housings that I like to have and add to each new saved game. That way I can just start a new game without the fuss that comes with it.

But my lack of attention span these days is the main cause that the only saves that I can really concentrate on is my very old one from 2018 and my newer one I started...Either beginning this year or end of last year and of course I rotate with gazillion households in both. The reason my second saved game has so far helded my attention is because I have been seeding that game with my 'own Sims' (mostly townie saving and households that the game has moved in into unoccupied houses). These Sims, I give a past, present and a sketchy future that is malleable. If I manage to create a household that I like and is interesting to me, they are a keeper and I find it can concentrate better on them.

That being said, I have no compunction over killing Sims. If Sim is uninteresting or is in the way they will meet Mr. or Miss/Mrs Death. If a Sim dies accidentally I won't have any Sims interfere on their behalf. I HAVE had Sims beg for mercy for their friend/lover/family member of course especially if I find it is not their time but...if I have a eureka moment when they flop onto the floor and discover that their death might give off some good storytelling or a changes I had not foreseen before, then my remaining Sims will get a nice urn on the mantelpiece.

The hardest decision to me is which of my sim kids is going to be the heir and stay with mom and dad while the others move out. It's always so hard for me to let the "extra" kids go. I don't play rotationally, I have tried several times and it's just not for me. The kids who move out always stay in touch, but I miss playing them every day and when they have kids, it nags me that those kids will not have me to raise them LOL.

If I could just learn to like playing a rotational game, this problem wouldn't exist. :'(