How often do you 'reboot'?
jolrei:
Quote from: witch on 2008 August 27, 07:34:57
I seem to have lost interest in my current hood ever since I realised the release of AL was imminent. ::)
See, just the opposite for me. I have been so involved in my current 2 hoods that I forgot all about the release date for AL. Now I come back from a few days away and find that it's on the torrent sites. I'll hopefully just add AL to Matysdoorp and keep going.
notveryawesome:
The only times I've 'rebooted' a hood:
1) I used to have several custom themed neighbourhoods that required a lot of CC. I got sick of my game taking 20 minutes to load, so I trashed the hoods, and only kept some of the CC, mostly Victorian build items, because it's not unrealistic for a more traditional hood, such as Pleasantview or Riverblossom, to have a Victorian area or subhood. My game now loads in under five minutes, slightly longer if I delete groups.cache.
2) I used to have the Megahood that combines the three original Maxis hoods, decided it was too big and unruly, and started over with clean templates of the individual hoods.
I go through phases when it comes to choosing which hood to play. I play Pleasantville for awhile, get bored with it, play Strangetown for awhile, get bored with it, play Riverblossom for awhile . . . you get the picture. I tend to get bored with any particular hood after a few weeks, so I've yet to make it through generation 3 in any hood, but I'm determined to stick it out this time, and stop deleting my hoods. The last hood I played in TS2 was my custom sci-fi/space themed hood (I caved and went on a DL spree but my game still loads in 5 minutes, nyah!), but lately I've been playing Castaway Stories. This has really made me appreciate my beloved TS2 mods, such as 'nowhatsthis' and 'paintcontinually' - I'm going crazy without them, crazy I tells ya'!
sarianastar:
I played the same neighbourhood for three years before it inexplicably broke due to operator error and lack of backups. My legacy family is technically on Generation 23, which I started them in Dec 2004. Fortunately I had extracted my toddler Sim before that happened, for just such an emergency, and used him to create a new neighbourhood and a new legacy, but I still count it as an ongoing family story :D
I have additional neighbourhoods for different things, but my Legacy remains in the same one, and I"m backing up regularly now, so I don't lose everything again.
Chain_Reaction:
I've never restarted my neighborhoods and I've had the game since it came out. I loaded Pleasantview once when I got the game and messed around with Don and the Pleasants a bit but got the urge to create my own sims. I have no idea how but I ended up in Veronaville and i've been playing it ever since. All the playables that were there when the game shipped are still there untouched as I went on with my own families, except just recently I went to play the Monty household because the Gypsy gave one of my sims the teen guy that lives there as a date (I can't think of his name.) I also went to play the Capp household the other day because frankly i'm fed up with seeing consort in my sims home business, he needs to die. I haven't ever loaded Strangetown, the desert look isn't my thing. I made my own custom neighborhood and never bothered to play it and I deleted it when I installed BV for sake of disk space.
sewinglady:
I've lost two neighborhoods...1st one was to a nasty Maxis glitch...in the time before I knew about this place.
Second one was to a nasty Maxis glitch...I think I was coming here, but couldn't save it in spite of that - it happened when I installed Seasons.
So I've got a custom neighborhood that I started with 16 college students (8 in each of 2 dorms) back when I first installed Seasons...some of the families are 3rd and 4th generation now...and I'm reluctant to play until I know it's safe.
So I started another little custom 'hood when I installed AL - not sure if I'll keep it going, or not...it's a lot of work...especially since i'll probably stop playing once Sims3 debuts...
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