I have copies of my Sims in My Library. When I need to restart my family, I grab a copy. Seems simple, right? I have even gone so far as to save them again via cas.fulleditmode after they have skills and jobs. I thought I had done that. However, my one Sim, the Dad, has the Single and Loving It lifestyle in progress. And I'm thinking, say, what? He's got a wife and five kids. But, when I checked the panels, nowhere did it say he was a spouse. :open_mouth: I use the MCCC mod and thought to myself, there must be a way to 'fix' this little goof. Obviously, I forgot to set their relationship while in CAS. Face/palm. Taking them back in will give them the just married moodlet. Yeah. You're oldest child is closing in on eighteen years old and now you decide it's time to get married? :/ Better late than never, right? (Except it's better never late.) Oh, well. He's off to work, so I can't fix him, so I click on Louise and change their relationship to make him her husband. I get an interesting pop-up saying that Joseph is no longer collecting alimony, as he just got remarried. So, do I present the scenario that they were married, had their children, divorced, but for the sake of the children continued to live together? And then decided that's working out so well, they would tie the knot again? I hate when I make these really unforgivably, silly amateur mistakes. Ugh!What to do about me? I promise, I did pass the cognitive test. ;pSo, please take this time to confess your moments of goofiness in which you failed to do what you knew you should do in the game, but for that rare brain-fart you somehow forgot. Please, don't leave me hanging out on this steadily bowing limb. Share. It's okay, no judgment. It can happen to anybody. ;)

I have, on occasion (it shames me to admit it has happened more than once), gone to quit the game after playing a bit too long and crossing over into "I'm going to bed because otherwise I will pass out face-first onto my keyboard" territory......and when the game sensibly asks whether I want to "Save and Exit" or "Just Exit", chosen the latter option because my brain is dumb dumb stupidhead brain when sufficiently tired and knows not the meaning of the word "save".It's not as bad as it could be, since my borderline obsession with editing townies I see wandering about means I'm often going to Manage Worlds, and there's a save prompt there.

Technically Laitha has died twice. First time was being burned alive from the Dryer. It had been a long time since I last saved, and half of Gen 3 was already underway, and death had already claimed her soul (I was tabbed out and saw this all when I came back...). I just bit the bullet and reloaded the older save. From then on I save twice. I "save" and then when I need to exit the game I "Save and Exit". I always "Save and go to manage worlds" when I need to manage my households too. I got a nice mental system in place to prevent any lack of saving.The other goof was between Brandi V and her uncle Leslie, which produced Brandi VI and screwed up the family tree. While the incest was totally unintentional, it was the first time someone in the family had an unplanned child. ^^' Again, tabbed out and coming back on the tail of things gone wrong.

"GalacticGal;d-990498" wrote:Yeah. You're oldest child is closing in on eighteen years old and now you decide it's time to get married? :/ Better late than never, right? (Except it's better never late.)This line confuses me. What does the age of your children has to do with your decision to get married? Heck, if you and your high school sweetheart that you have been in a relationship with with for the past 70 years decide to 'tie the knot' at age 86 or something for whatever reason (and have your adult grandchild walk you down the aisle) then that choice is entirely your prerogative.

I started a save the other day where I have 8 sims in each base game world. I had done this a few times but there were a couple issues with the other saves, so I started fresh...for the 3rd time. I cleared out every lot in all the other worlds (except Magnolia Promenade). Anyway, I decided to make Mt. Komorebi and Sulani vacation worlds. This way I can play them more than I do now. While going to each lot and changing them to rental lots, I kept bulldozing them instead. I didn't do it just once, it was nearly every lot. Luckily, they were lots I built so I just had to put them back so no harm was done. But, I got so frustrated with myself, and probably still have a hand-sized print on my forehead from all the facepalms. I'm also really bad for going to Manage Worlds instead of exiting Build Mode. I can't tell you how many times a build session I do that. It's a wonder I get anything done in this game for all my mess-ups.

"Pamtastic72;c-17900546" wrote:I once built an entire 4 bedroom house and was so proud of it, only to find when I went to count up bedrooms and bathrooms to put it on the gallery it had zero bathrooms. ☹️?Well see, that's where you pretend it's a much older house and built an outhouse in the backyard. ;) My Dad was born in 1928 and he grew up in a house that only had an outhouse. It snows in Kansas, too. No wonder he and all but one brother (who shared a bed) wet the shared bed nightly. :open_mouth: My poor uncle Paul.

Well, That's Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into!

SimuLord
4 years ago
I have, on occasion (it shames me to admit it has happened more than once), gone to quit the game after playing a bit too long and crossing over into "I'm going to bed because otherwise I will pass out face-first onto my keyboard" territory...

...and when the game sensibly asks whether I want to "Save and Exit" or "Just Exit", chosen the latter option because my brain is dumb dumb stupidhead brain when sufficiently tired and knows not the meaning of the word "save".

It's not as bad as it could be, since my borderline obsession with editing townies I see wandering about means I'm often going to Manage Worlds, and there's a save prompt there.
Aikamatkustus
4 years ago
Technically Laitha has died twice. First time was being burned alive from the Dryer. It had been a long time since I last saved, and half of Gen 3 was already underway, and death had already claimed her soul (I was tabbed out and saw this all when I came back...). I just bit the bullet and reloaded the older save. From then on I save twice. I "save" and then when I need to exit the game I "Save and Exit". I always "Save and go to manage worlds" when I need to manage my households too. I got a nice mental system in place to prevent any lack of saving.

The other goof was between Brandi V and her uncle Leslie, which produced Brandi VI and screwed up the family tree. While the incest was totally unintentional, it was the first time someone in the family had an unplanned child. ^^' Again, tabbed out and coming back on the tail of things gone wrong.
Maxpayn1
4 years ago
"GalacticGal;d-990498" wrote:
Yeah. You're oldest child is closing in on eighteen years old and now you decide it's time to get married? :/ Better late than never, right? (Except it's better never late.)

This line confuses me. What does the age of your children has to do with your decision to get married? Heck, if you and your high school sweetheart that you have been in a relationship with with for the past 70 years decide to 'tie the knot' at age 86 or something for whatever reason (and have your adult grandchild walk you down the aisle) then that choice is entirely your prerogative.
SweetieWright_84
New Spectator
4 years ago
I started a save the other day where I have 8 sims in each base game world. I had done this a few times but there were a couple issues with the other saves, so I started fresh...for the 3rd time. I cleared out every lot in all the other worlds (except Magnolia Promenade).

Anyway, I decided to make Mt. Komorebi and Sulani vacation worlds. This way I can play them more than I do now. While going to each lot and changing them to rental lots, I kept bulldozing them instead. I didn't do it just once, it was nearly every lot. Luckily, they were lots I built so I just had to put them back so no harm was done. But, I got so frustrated with myself, and probably still have a hand-sized print on my forehead from all the facepalms.

I'm also really bad for going to Manage Worlds instead of exiting Build Mode. I can't tell you how many times a build session I do that. It's a wonder I get anything done in this game for all my mess-ups.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"Pamtastic72;c-17900546" wrote:
I once built an entire 4 bedroom house and was so proud of it, only to find when I went to count up bedrooms and bathrooms to put it on the gallery it had zero bathrooms. ☹️?

Well see, that's where you pretend it's a much older house and built an outhouse in the backyard. ;) My Dad was born in 1928 and he grew up in a house that only had an outhouse. It snows in Kansas, too. No wonder he and all but one brother (who shared a bed) wet the shared bed nightly. :open_mouth: My poor uncle Paul.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"Zimz4;c-17900455" wrote:
"GalacticGal;d-990498" wrote:
Yeah. You're oldest child is closing in on eighteen years old and now you decide it's time to get married? :/ Better late than never, right? (Except it's better never late.)

This line confuses me. What does the age of your children has to do with your decision to get married? Heck, if you and your high school sweetheart that you have been in a relationship with with for the past 70 years decide to 'tie the knot' at age 86 or something for whatever reason (and have your adult grandchild walk you down the aisle) then that choice is entirely your prerogative.

I don't subscribe to that line of thinking. Babies outside of marriage (while a personal choice) is not one I would make. I play my Core Values.
SimuLord
4 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-17900916" wrote:
"Zimz4;c-17900455" wrote:
"GalacticGal;d-990498" wrote:
Yeah. You're oldest child is closing in on eighteen years old and now you decide it's time to get married? :/ Better late than never, right? (Except it's better never late.)

This line confuses me. What does the age of your children has to do with your decision to get married? Heck, if you and your high school sweetheart that you have been in a relationship with with for the past 70 years decide to 'tie the knot' at age 86 or something for whatever reason (and have your adult grandchild walk you down the aisle) then that choice is entirely your prerogative.

I don't subscribe to that line of thinking. Babies outside of marriage (while a personal choice) is not one I would make. I play my Core Values.

This to me is my favorite part of The Sims as a game. My personal values are traditional to the point of being retrograde—reflective of my childhood in a conservative suburb in the 1980s. (My political values are a completely different story, but not one that's relevant to this conversation, so that's all I'll say.)

Point is, reflecting those values into a Simworld creates something that a lot of folks around here would find appalling...while a lot of other folks' Simworlds, were I to play in them, would probably strike me as being on Sixam for as far away as they are from my playstyle and worldview. It's kind of awesome to think about, really.
SimmerGeorge
4 years ago
Okay so, this might be slightly off-topic but when I was a kid playing the Sims 2 it always asked you before quitting:

"Do you want to save the game before quitting? Any unsaved changes will be lost." And it had the options, Yes, No or Cancel

Now with my 8 year old brain I thought "Unsaved changes will be lost? No I don't want that" So I would click on No instead of Yes ignoring the first question completely. Everytime I got back into my game I was so confused as to why I lost my progress.
Then one day I realized "Oh, I must be clicking the wrong option when exiting". So next time when I tried exiting I wanted to get it right. However, by then I had forgotten which option I chose last time that didn't save my progress so I read the question again and what do you know. I answered no again.

I did that around 8 times until I realized I was supposed to answer "Yes". I was not a bright kid.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"ACruelButLovingGod;c-17901348" wrote:
"GalacticGal;c-17900916" wrote:
"Zimz4;c-17900455" wrote:
"GalacticGal;d-990498" wrote:
Yeah. You're oldest child is closing in on eighteen years old and now you decide it's time to get married? :/ Better late than never, right? (Except it's better never late.)

This line confuses me. What does the age of your children has to do with your decision to get married? Heck, if you and your high school sweetheart that you have been in a relationship with with for the past 70 years decide to 'tie the knot' at age 86 or something for whatever reason (and have your adult grandchild walk you down the aisle) then that choice is entirely your prerogative.

I don't subscribe to that line of thinking. Babies outside of marriage (while a personal choice) is not one I would make. I play my Core Values.

This to me is my favorite part of The Sims as a game. My personal values are traditional to the point of being retrograde—reflective of my childhood in a conservative suburb in the 1980s. (My political values are a completely different story, but not one that's relevant to this conversation, so that's all I'll say.)

Point is, reflecting those values into a Simworld creates something that a lot of folks around here would find appalling...while a lot of other folks' Simworlds, were I to play in them, would probably strike me as being on Sixam for as far away as they are from my playstyle and worldview. It's kind of awesome to think about, really.

I was born in the 1950s, so you can well imagine how retrograde my viewpoint is. LOL I'm happy in my Bubble and I try to think of how others feel when choosing my words on this forum. I don't judge and I have always said there is no wrong way to play this game. Play the way that makes you happy. That's what I do. :)
VWoodsong
Seasoned Observer
4 years ago
"SweetieWright_84;c-17900560" wrote:

I'm also really bad for going to Manage Worlds instead of exiting Build Mode. I can't tell you how many times a build session I do that. It's a wonder I get anything done in this game for all my mess-ups.

Thank you! I thought I was losing my mind, considering how ridiculously often I do that very same thing. Well, I still may be, but it's nice to know that at least I'm not alone. :lol: