Hi all,
I’ve been around a long time - started with Sims 1 and continued from there. Learning how to find things in the new forum. Love Sims 4 - can play it in so many different ways. My favorite thing to do is downloading premade save files and then setting up all the relationships, jobs, skills, clothes (I keep a lot of stuff that the author has included but love tweaking.). I make sure all the houses are playable. If the save only includes certain neighborhoods, I fill in all the others with new homes, new families etc. I love the premade families but have my own versions that I’ve put together over the years that I replace them with (unless the author already has relationships, skills and jobs set up for them. In that case I give the premade a makeover in CAS and leave everything else intact). I spend hours doing this and then save the final result as a Template so in the future I can come back, copy it and play a game. I love keeping all the versions of saves (for example I have Simsie 1 - 10, each with its own fixed up template.
Does anyone else do this? I find my save files through general google, Pinterest, Tumblr, Patreon, from all over the world.