What issues make you too scared to play with the main save?
We know that the main game and every patch usually include something risking your save or even your game. It's a serious issue if it happens in our main or long-played save.
I am the one who started to use mod "to disable unwanted features", and had to need more mods after every patch and pack arrived.
So, I want to share my thoughts and hear your opinions if you have more things I missing
In my opinion, I break down the main topics into two categories: bugs and features.
Bugs
- Bugs that can break the save file (For Rent period)
- This is the level that makes me stop playing the game for a few months.
- Recently, I still avoided opening a "rental residential lot" for my safety.
- Bugs about visuals and screenshots
- Do you remember "pausing the game but the head still slowly turns?😂" Sometimes it's too scary like the horror movie. And it's annoying when I want to save the screenshot but can't get exactly what I want.
- Many years ago, I couldn't save screenshots in the basement because some visual bug.
- This level of bugs didn't ruin the save, but it was quite a waste of time.
Feature
- Hidden autonomous "romantic" interactions
- I already disabled autonomy about romantic interaction but since Lovestruck, I found that my sims did "romantic introduction" autonomously. I don't sure if it happened in NPC before. Fortunately, there is a mod to disable this auto-introduction. I hope it works.
- Before Lovestruck, there is a hidden "NPC introduction" that boosts the romantic bar to NPC too. (You can read more at ""No Random NPC Romance" mod by lazarusinashes")
- I found this by combining university students into one household and found that some already have love without my notice.
- I'm not too micro-management about townies, but I added the mod to disable this to avoid them ruining my OC's relationship autonomously.
- Bodyshape changing over time
- I almost stop playing the game because I can't control this. It was quite too late when I found that my muscular guy sim became slightly chubby after I took screenshots for one in-game year. Too late to redo several events again.
- Fortunately, I hadn't visited San Myshuno Festival too often before I could find the mod to disable body shape changing (Roburky's Fitness Control), so the damage isn't too far to fix.
I'm not too micro-management player, but I hate when some new mechanics change the details of sims hiddenly. And it's even scarier if some bugs are like "the cancer" that secretly damage your game to the point that can't fix.
Sometimes (or many times), I spent more than 50% of my playtime "checking, fixing, and testing". I even thought that I would better stop playing to use time for something less stressful. But, sadly I still enjoy the rest of the game. 😅
Lastly, I know that each person has a different playstyle and level of uncontrollable acceptance. Some people like chaos thing which is not wrong. But I believe that many people are like me who want to play with enough control.
Or at least, want to play without worrying about the hidden "cancer" in the save file.
