I've heard of many players who have been playing the same save since the game was released. Though my first, long-lasting save has long been lost, I still have one that is a bit older, like two years or so. I currently have 4 saves in total, but I am only actively playing 3 of them.
The first one, the oldest, is a rotational save I used to play a lot, but the families were just too many to keep track of. Additionally, there were some families I wanted to advance to the next generation, while I wanted to keep other families the age they were. I don't like enabling aging for active household only because it's too immersion-breaking for my taste, that's why I abandoned this save and kinda parted it into 3 different ones. I didn't delete this first save because I still occasionally use it to transfer lots and households to the 3 new saves.
As for the 3 I am currently playing, the first one is a one-family save in which I am playing the very first family I've created in TS4 (which I even played back in TS3), mainly with the focus on Get Famous and Basemental's mods. Even though it's the same family, their lives are vastly different from the version of them I've played in the first save. I also plan on integrating Discover University gameplay into this save, though I don't have the pack yet.
The second one is a rotational save in which I play a few other families, all in some way connected to each other, which I all transferred from my old save. The packs I mostly use in this one are City Living and Get to Work, but I also plan on doing some vampire-related stuff there.
The third and last one is a save specifically for Realm of Magic gameplay, maybe also with Vampires in the future. I only play one family there and it's the one I wanted to advance to the next generation in the old save, which I am probably gonna do soon.
How many saves do you play with and for what purposes do you use different saves? I'm always curious to know how other people play the game.
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I just have too many ideas for game play and I start new saves every time. I play all of my saves rotationally.
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One is my granddaughters - so I don't play it
One is the not to be mention modded one.
One is my ginger challenge (trying to make the whole world's ginger with genetics) Still generation two
One is my original rotation. Sad to say I am still only on generation 3 with this one. Made mistake of too big of families. Trying next gen only one child per couple if any - might have more childless couples or non couples
One is my test game (Vanilla) for when patches and new add ons arrive.
I don't get to play much anymore so usually there is an update or new add by the time I get to play again
Me too. I had one from when I started playing up to, last month, I think. My game wouldn't play with it after I updated my computer and I had to start fresh. I've had the same one since then.
Even though I don't have the same save, I do have the same Sim I've had since the beginning though, because she'd been backed up (although it didn't keep her skills or completed aspirations). That's not as impressive as it might sound though because I don't think I've even been playing for a year.
The last few weeks I have been solely in my Drifter folders. This save dates back to Oct 2018, when I started my Schmitt drifter family with a fellow simmer. I'm hoping to complete the challenge by mid-Feb, at which point, the whole folder will then be saved to my external and I'll move on to another save I'm trying to finish up with.
1. For the 100 baby challenge
2. My main save which has 5 seperate saves in that folder
3. My Upgrowth save folder
4. A folder for builds without any mods in it so its cc free when I upload to the gallery
5. One for a rags to riches save
6. And then 2 more save folders that I use to test mods when we get patches
Two of my oldest ones are from early 2015, and I haven't played them since probably 2016, but haven't deleted yet for sentimental reasons.
My next oldest is also from 2015, but was made the day GT was released. I call this my "main save", since this is the only save I continue to play to this day. I play rotationally and have gone through many generations, and to keep things organized I have a doc on my computer to keep track of everyone and everything.
I have another one that I created when ROM was released, but haven't gone back into that since it was made. I'll probably end up deleting it. It was one of my many attempts at creating an Occult save, but I'm just not much of an occult player nowadays. Doesn't help that I'm just not interested in starting from the beginning, which is a big reason why I haven't moved on to any new saves.
I also have a test save for when a new patch or dlc is added and I want to be sure I don't have any game breaking bugs before I open up the save I'm playing at the time.
And my granddaughter has one for her sims that she plays when she has a sleepover.
The second is a typical family save, which will more than likely turn out to be as involved as the Westbrooks.
And the third, and most recent is a single mom who's daughter is living with another family as a foster child. The mom was a young mother and lost custody of her daughter. Her daughter just aged up to a child. The mom is working to get her back and provide the life she needs and deserves.