Your First Save file in the Sims 4

It's funny. The first family I made in Sims 3, they had five kids and still to this day I remember all their names and one great-grandchild's name.
Carson and Annabeth(the parents)
Dylan
Cayden
Taliah
Teddy
Jessica.

Dylan's granddaughter was named Pauline but I nicknamed her Polly.

In my first save file I started out with Stephanie, she lived in the cheap neighbourhood in Willow Creek. I just played to explore the game, back then in 2014. I think Johnny Zest (named Zest Johnny back then :joy: ) was either her first boyfriend or a good friend. She later got married to Adam (a Sim I made ) and they had two kids, I think I named the boy Derek and the girl either Sarah or Hannah? I don't remember.
By that time I added two other families to the rotation - one of those couples was made by my friend. Those couples also had kids, so it was a nice rotation and I probably had big plans for them.
I do still have the save in back-up, so I could go in to snap some pictures and look up names. I stopped playing that save around Christmas 2014 if I remember correctly. I don't actually remember why, but probably because of the excessive autonomous flirting that messed up my rotational play.
I do still have a copy of Stephanie, I did give her a couple of makeovers over the years, but I still see her as my main Sim - even if I rarely play her.

In my first save, I made a mini-me, one of my favorite sims from Sims 3 (Erin Kennedy), and a woman from a story I'd written. They were all meant to test different things -- stay at home work for my sim, gender mechanics for Erin, and how regular careers worked for the other woman. I LOOOOOVED the mouse-movable camera once I discovered it, and ditto for using the hand in live mode. My main interface struggle was the wall settings now being at the top right of the screen instead of the bottom left. I remember it took me a while to figure out how to look at motives, job, etc. That first night I mostly waited until my Sim had emotional distress over needing to pee or needing to eat, and then took appropriate measures. :lol: These three sims would all have children with one another, and I kept playing until the...16th or 17th generation before fatigue and other saves distracted me. For a while they were my go-to house to explore new stuff/game/expansion packs, but then I shifted to using anotherself-sim for that.....and now I've been playing the self-sim's family for a while. They're on gen 5, I think.

My first save file featured a Sim I made in the Demo. Her name is Rita Benet, I randomized that name in CAS. She is a painter/gardener Sim with the Freelance Botanist aspiration and was mostly a tester Sim to check out the game when it first came out. I never took any screenshots during gameplay back then and stopped playing her at some point, most likely to try a challenge. I love challenges!

Later, when Outdoor Retreat came out, I gave her a make-over and sent her to Granite Falls to check out what the pack had to offer. I still have both save files in a folder for her, but haven't played with her in a long time.

Here's a pic of her from the CAS demo. Sadly, this shot and a few others from CAS are all I have. I could load up her save file again though and take some I guess. Kind of curious what I did for her house. All I remember is that it was a one story in Willow Creek next to the Pancakes with a tiny front porch and BIG deck out back. The screenies aren't that good, they were taken when I was using my old toaster of a laptop. Oh well...

https://i.imgur.com/P3QbpUO.png

Here she is in Granite Falls enjoying the campground. She also met and befriended the Hermit in this save file.

https://i.imgur.com/HAlcemJ.png

Happy Simming! :)