Feature request: better "continue", quicksaves, auto save rotation
In one of many discussions about save game problems and the accompanying frustrations I made a suggestion I would really like to see implemented. Below is the "meat" of the feature:
This seems to be an ongoing problem, so maybe there could be a few "quality of life" enhancements to make the inevitable reload faster and prevent larger loss of time and progress. I would suggest these features, as I don't seem to find any place to put feature requests specifically for console. feel free to move this to wherever someone reads this list:
- a "quick save" option directly at the top of the game menu which rotates a few quick save only slots (like 3 or so) automatically without needing to select your own. After saving it would automatically close the game menu.
- a configurable "auto save interval" in the option. This would obviously interrupt gameplay so you would have to turn it on manually and set your preferred interval in minutes
- a "load last played household automatically" option to enable in the game menu. This would bring you straight to the last household you played after logging your user in on the title screen. With this I don't mean the household preselected at the "manage world" screen, but the real loaded household in paused state and ready to set a game speed. When you had a crash, the load times wouldn't matter so much because you wouldn't have to be sitting in front of the console to press "A" and could get a coffee or tea to soothe your nerves instead. This option would reduce the normal "select account" - "load main menu" - "click resume" - "select household" - "click play" cycle to "select account on title screen and wait until you are playing your last save".
The Sims 4 could be a great title if the developers would just add a tolerance for errors or at least use the aforementioned methods to prevent huge progress losses. This is what frustrates most people and everyone - including me - is too lazy to save every 10 minutes because it is currently too unintuitive to rotate save slots.
Maybe this thread can be upvoted to gather the moderators' eyes.
Thank you for your time 🙂
