What Makes You Re-Start?

Queen of Restarts, here. Generally, it's something that totally throws my overarching plotline off of the rails. Sometimes, it's getting a new Pack, such as when Parenthood came out. I restarted with the same Sims once I realized how hard it was to teach Teens values. Better to start them off early. Other times, I lost a key Sim to death. Still other times, when I got wild & crazy and decided to experiment with a new mod. I even set up two saves with the same Sims just in case. :open_mouth: That was a huge disaster. In save A, the only sister was abducted from Uni and although her second older brother was a Rock Star of some fame and totally rich, he kept having to pay the ransom and they got no closer to saving her. Seems there was a bug in the mod! In the alternate save B, the mod kept randomly killing my Rock Star and systematically went after his brothers. I uninstalled and started all over again.

Still another time, a couple of kind-hearted players put me onto the way for my Rock Star to earn Accolades for his music! This was worth starting all over again. This save wasn't without it's troubles, however. Turns out the much preferred three-week season was behind the glitches in the Starlight Accolade Show, that sometimes just wouldn't happen. I reluctantly removed it and went to two-week seasons, instead, after starting all over again. Things were going well, but then MWS came out. I wanted my Rock Star and his wife to have the wedding I could never give them. I have that one saved, along with the one where he earned 17 Accolades. (For this one I'm waiting until the Road to Fame mod is updated.

The wedding finally happened, but again, not without glitches. The one prior they did the full slow dance for which I have pictures. In the current save, I've dubbed REDUX, things are going reasonably well. I'm up to Uni, although I've only written and posted through their honeymoon.

I've gotten this family (in the past) up to their six children before things went awry. All of these later attempts are just to get back to that point. Patches are my enemy despite making copies of the save and doing what we're told to do to safeguard it.

But, I'm having a blast!

Don't worry about your restarts. It's a lot like writing a book. If a chapter goes in the wrong direction, you simply rewrite it until you get what you need from it. At least, that's how I view it.

"notasmokealarm09;c-18115762" wrote:
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 could do that, too. I lost both Dirk Dreamer and most recently, Thorne Bailey. I never played them, but never expected to lose them, either. Drat the NS!

Been playing the same save since I bought the game on it's release way back whenever it was.

If I get bored then I rotate or add a new sim or a bunch of new sims. As pretty much every sim in the game is now one of mine there is a consistent look and feel across the game.

Now if this was an RPG or an MMO then I have a serious case of restartitus or way too many alts. In FF14 I have to force myself not to do alts because you can do everything on one character. In EVE Online, so many alts!

I love character creators, and well, this game is the top dog there :)

Having played The Sims since inception I don't think I've ever played a single save longer than second gen. Of course back in Sims 1 there wasn't really generations as we know now. Through all the iterations of Sims I've been more of a world builder and less of a character player. In Sims 3 I really got into game play and began to want generational play but would get bored with the second gen. or an overly convoluted family tree and start over. Having babies in vacation worlds always seemed to break the game for me. With Sims 4 I've certainly played more with actual sims but still want to build the world around the sims first. I'll take weeks building the world and be so "over" with that save by the time I'm done that I have no desire to actually play with the sims. Now I try to build the world as I go. The 'Scenarios' have really helped in that regard. It keeps things from getting too boring while I build the world and actually play with the sims. Now I'm concerned that the save will corrupt on me as I don't want to lose any of my unique characters and, of course, my builds.

Because I miss the original premade sims at the start of the game.

Reasons for a Restart:

• The current challenge I'm playing is complete.
  
• Discovered I've accidentally broke the rules of a challenge after playing and saving for a length of time. However, only if I can't fix the mistake with cheats.
  
• Started a save in the wrong custom template.
  
• Forgot to change the gameplay options and/or Mod settings for a particular save.
  
• When testing a new challenge idea doesn't work out and needs to be tweaked.

I think that's it. I'm not counting when something drastic happens due to a glitch/bug. I simply don't save in that case and hope I haven't lost too much gameplay as a result.

I usually restart out of boredom or because MCCC, and now NS, made my game all wonky and I can’t be bothered to fix it. But I love my current family so much that I don’t want to restart even though the save itself is a HOT MESS. Everyone will just have to live with the chaos that I inadvertently caused ?

If I like a family but the save is a mess I just transfer them to a new save.

I recently did a rotation filled with all the sims I had ever played.

I am currently re-starting to try out a rotation of every single scenario released. Since most of them are for single sims I thought it would be a good place to start some new generations. I don't think I've ever started with so many single sims before.

I was faithful in the beginning then lost my save due to a computer meltdown. Went into re-startitus (lol) for awhile.

Now I am back at it again. My selfsim has aged much better than me though. :/

I also have been doing scenarios on separate saves for those days when i don't have a lot of time or energy to put into my main Sim.

Restart itis is a great way to put what I have. There are lots of reasons I restart, but the main three are 1) Starting a new legacy and becoming generally unhappy about either the legacy starter or the subsequent generations 2) I do get to gen 3 or 4 or 5 (that's the longest I've lasted) and it all starts to feel a little out of control--too many siblings having too many kids and the rotational play just getting out of hand and 3) I'm very OCD about the worlds themselves. I'm not a builder but I do like to replace each and every lot with what I consider the perfect replacement for that lot. And as more and more of my favorite builders release better and better lots, it gets to a point where I almost want to start over to create the perfect worlds.

I do finally think I've solved at least #1. I created a 1st gen legacy starter sim I like so much that I only ever want to kick things off with her. I saved her to my library and uploaded her to the gallery just to be extra safe. (I must have done a good job on her because she's my most popular download). So far I've only restarted her once since I created her, and that was because of problem #3--the world wasn't perfect enough for her.