Your longest save

Zerelth · April 15

What is the longest you have played the same save?

Sometimes I will get bored with one save after a couple of days and sometimes I play for months in a single save. I'm curious about others!

simgirl1010 · April 15

My current save. 5 years. Only 1 family.

Smellincoffee · April 15

In The Sims 1, I hit the 'hundred days' milestones in several households, the most memorable of which is the Socialites. They had six kids, I think, one of whom died in a Christmas tree fire. That family was special because I made myself do careers I usually avoided (Politics and Business) because they were so friend-intensive. (The Sims 1 counted the number of days a family was active on a lot, and if you played through 100 days you'd get pop ups telling you about the people who made the game. It was very cool but it would reset if you moved the family somewhere else.)

In The Sims 2, I played my self-sim's family until the neighborhood became corrupt, and then I created a new neighborhood and played it for almost ten generations, I think, until it also corrupted. I focused chiefly on the Green family, whose founder was Mortimer Green of SimCity 3000. TS2 hoods had character limits and old neighborhoods would become unplayable after a while.

TS3....I only had one family I sunk a lot of time into, and that was Sage Roark. She was an eccentric artist who became wealthy, and bought a clone-daughter of herself. I continued playing clone-daughters of Sage for four or five generations. She was named after the "Sage" host of San Andreas' Radio X, and for Howard Roark, the passionate artist and uber-individualist of Fountainhead...so her personality was interesting, to say the least.

TS4....I've played several saves through many generations, though never past ten, I don't think. The longest was "La Familia", which began with sim-me and later grew into a sprawl across multiple worlds. I used it to experience a lot of the packs and mods. Right now my biggest active save is a Pleasant legacy, which has gone for 4 generations, but it's actually longer than that because gen 3's heir died and was revived three times, then prolonged his life with numerous potions. Eventually he had a son who I liked more than I liked him, so I let him finally expire. I also remade Sage, and set about making her the Perfect Sim who had maximized all skills, done all aspirations, etc. The amount of packs outpaced my ability to do all the new stuff.

I should load that one back up again, Sage is great fun.

SERVERFRA · April 15

My 5 Timeline Game Saves now has about the same amount of households, which is about 10 to 13 households each.

Simmingal · April 15

I think my current one is my longest save yet with ts4 its been around since 2019? or was it 2020? anyway its quite old compared to my other saves that used to turn out rather short and deathful

DaniRose2143 · April 15

The save in my signature, Under The Tartosan Sun. I started redecorating Piccolo Luce for my main character Danielle Chabert about a year and a week ago. A lot has changed since then, but that save is still far, far closer to its beginning than it is to its end. I don't see an end to that story anytime soon. It will follow me to Rene/TS5, LBY, Paralives, or whatever at this point.

Zerelth · April 15

Wow, and I thought I played singles saves for too long! Thank you for sharing everyone it was great to read through them! ♥

SweetieWright_84 · April 19

My longest save would have to my Westbrook family in TS4. I started that save in 2017. O don't play it much anymore but I played it exlusively for 2-3 years off and on. I plan on going back to it one day when I figure out what I want to do with it.

FurAndYarn · April 19

My longest save lasted several years and 34 generations. I started to have issues with the save after a game bug and moved the current heir over to a new save. I'm now on generation 51 overall.

I blog their story... the link is in my signature.

Umbreon12 · April 19

I think my oldest save for Sims 4 is about two years, with multiple families.
The one for my Sims 2 is much longer, but i don't play Sims 2 as much anymore.

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