What Makes You Re-Start?

I re-start very often. Usually, when I return to the Sims from a hiatus, even if I intend to play the same family, I still delete the current one and start from scratch. It's just a personal preference of mine. I have a story to tell, and everytime, I want to start it from the beginning, here is the family, here is their backstory, now let's build a life for them. And if it decides to go in a different direction this time, then so be ia Also when I create a completely new family, I send them into my new save, and take it from there. I like to keep my focus on 1-4 families per save, usually.

I think I keep one really old save since the beginning though. It serves as the experimental save for all my untested whims and idea I don't want to bring into one of my played saves until I've seen the result.

I use the same Sims all the time, restartitis hits me the second marrige and the first child happens for some reason. I kinda prefer playing single Sims, but also just don't like the idea of living alone at the same time.

My restartitis generally has me sometimes playing new Sims on the same save though since I like catching my new couple in the background doing their own thing.

I restarted over the weekend. The neighborhood stories thing killed both parents of a family I like. Which left the teenage daughter to raise her younger brother and sister. I didn't like this, so restarted. And made sure to turn off the deaths part. :)

I kept doing that for 4 years with my favorite Doctor Who household. I'm now just playing a Doctor Who Legacy that's made him now his own Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather/Grandson. I'm doing this until I reach the 12th Doctor Who. :p
Also, I've noticed that I kept restarting my Darknight Couple (based on Batman & Batgirl) way too many times. So now I'm just going to leave them married & parents to their little girl Robin; I'm even thinking of getting them to have another baby but this time a boy. However, I have to think of another name because having two Robins in one family is silly. :D
Another time I restart my game is because one of my favorite sims has died from hilarious so to get them back I make sure I don't save so I can just go back to the last save & prevent the death from happening.
FYI: I kind of figured it out how to prevent sims from getting to giddy so their mood doesn't turn into hilarious. I get them some inspired plaques & inspired potions. It seems to help them. ;)

I restart when the story I’m telling comes to a satisfying end. If I’m playing a one sim household, that’s usually a few months. If I’m playing a bigger household, it can take years. Right now, I’m playing an entire world, so who knows.

"DaniRose2143;c-18115719" wrote:
Not for me, because once I start rethinking that, then I start rethinking every other detail, and that brings my OCD into it...and re-startitus.

This sounds exactly like me!

I have played the same save since I started playing TS4 a bit over three years ago. Lately I have found myself thinking about starting a new save, but I don't want to do it, because I really like my current main families and background sims and it would be too troublesome to move them all over, or even move the main families. And honestly, why start over now? I have worked hard to pick just a couple of playable main families and built stories for the background sims. I'd keep most of the existing lots too.

But I'd like to start a new save because I think a new save might work better. Not that my current save is super buggy. What can I say... the idea of a fresh new save is just tempting :sweat_smile: I guess I might also be tempted because everything is quite well in my current save and I have good plans how to continue and... maybe things are going too well and I feel like my job is done?

Anyway, I think I won't start a new save yet. Maybe later when I can move my main sims easier. I'd like to use existing sims for a new save, because it's nice to have something familiar to start with.

I've only ever restarted a save once, and that was with my first experience playing a legacy-style family (by my own rules). I ditched the first effort pretty early on because I discovered better ways to achieve what I wanted to do. I still have that save three years later (or rather, a series of "save as" versions of it), but I now rotate to other households as well as the original one, and I find that I need to rotate out to other saves pretty often to prevent myself burning out on that style of play.

As for most of my other saves, if a story isn't working well or if I take a disliking to a sim I made, I don't start over with them. I either incorporate elements of those partly developed tales or characters into other stories or get rid of them entirely. Occasionally I'll go back to an earlier story premise once enough time has passed to let me see it with fresh perspective, but more often I move on to something new. After all, there are infinite stories to be made, and even if I live a thousand years I'd barely scratch the surface, anyway. :lol:

I get bored and start over in a new save. It's really not much more complicated than that for me.

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