Your best tips on historic gameplay
I'm playing a historic save for the first time, and in some ways it's easy, in others it's a steep learning curve. Things like figuring out how fast time should move, how to deal with the changes of d...
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Things I learned were keep track of the families and their birthdates, and plan roughly twenty years ahead of the future, especially for future partners.
Maybe write down/record their life, later in the game when you need to remember something you can always go back and refresh your memory. It helped me a lot to look at my thread to figure out the relationship between the sims and checking older save backups. It became necessary after the family tree went broken after the six generation.
Don't fear of deleting unwanted sims immediately. If nobody knows about it nobody will judge your decision.
Especially at the beginning you will mess with the families.
With first installing mccc more troubles are in the game. Suddenly you will face a high divorce rate, adultery and too many children all at once. So checking the marriages and pregnancy settings are most important. I was so tired of all the elderly females grabbing all the young adult males, while elder males stayed single all the time. Allowing marriage only the same lifestage is a must to have for me. I delete sims here too.
Take your time to checkout the setting on a different save.
I had my problems that I couldn't let my sims go. So I plan plenty of days with them. I knew I need more time with them. If I hadn't this kind of anxiety, I would be fine with shorter days. It works good for me.
Plan a cemetery for your sim families. Seriously, It gave me a nostalgic feeling whenever I go there, looking at the gravestones, and seeing their engraved lifedates. I remember them and their stories.
I tried to play without out mods and cc, but no chance. The first thing I've got rid off was the monster under the bed, with so many children it's a nightmare mechanic literally. It was a relief. At the beginning of the 1920 I went to cc shopping, just because I had no alternative clothes for the young kids.
Maybe write down/record their life, later in the game when you need to remember something you can always go back and refresh your memory. It helped me a lot to look at my thread to figure out the relationship between the sims and checking older save backups. It became necessary after the family tree went broken after the six generation.
Don't fear of deleting unwanted sims immediately. If nobody knows about it nobody will judge your decision.
Especially at the beginning you will mess with the families.
With first installing mccc more troubles are in the game. Suddenly you will face a high divorce rate, adultery and too many children all at once. So checking the marriages and pregnancy settings are most important. I was so tired of all the elderly females grabbing all the young adult males, while elder males stayed single all the time. Allowing marriage only the same lifestage is a must to have for me. I delete sims here too.
Take your time to checkout the setting on a different save.
I had my problems that I couldn't let my sims go. So I plan plenty of days with them. I knew I need more time with them. If I hadn't this kind of anxiety, I would be fine with shorter days. It works good for me.
Plan a cemetery for your sim families. Seriously, It gave me a nostalgic feeling whenever I go there, looking at the gravestones, and seeing their engraved lifedates. I remember them and their stories.
I tried to play without out mods and cc, but no chance. The first thing I've got rid off was the monster under the bed, with so many children it's a nightmare mechanic literally. It was a relief. At the beginning of the 1920 I went to cc shopping, just because I had no alternative clothes for the young kids.
