Using Aging Off/Story Mode Off - game takes 18 minutes to save
Writin_Reg:
JBoat,
You guessed right. After I placed all these families in the empty hoods, I have been playing one family a night to build up relationships, jobs, skills, etc, etc. In my case I also have Story progression and aging off - assuming i could establish each household on it's own path until all households have a place on the landscape with me being the carving God of that direction. Then i planned on turning story progression and aging back on with the last family in each hood which are my key choice family that I figured I would control in the end.
I am doing this in all 4 of the "empty hoods", where the EA hoods I had played fairly normal with aging on and story progression on. I was not liking the fact that EA screwed up the way I thought it was supposed to play - with all aging pretty much on key with each other - when instead the houses I was not playing seemed to have excellerated aging on. My own Sims were still not yet adults (they were YA) and I was playing the 190 day option of aging, yet their supposedly same age former schoolmates were turning elder already and I had not done anything to keep my sims younger. So this totally annoyed me almost as much as the cloned neighborhood babies and the vanishings of the few Sims I had put in the game as chosen Sims for my Sims. It was as if the game mechanics purposely chose to eliminate any Sims not of the selected household including former selected household sibblings that had been moved out. This was my chief interest is being rid of all EA sims at the get go - which meant I needed to give each family I put in the game a history.
Like I said it isn't as though a few minutes is long - especially compared with Sims 2- it's just the fact the EA Hoods save in seconds while the cleared ones are now taking minutes and I have only played about 5 or 6 of the families in each of these new hoods so far. I wonder what happens by the time I get to family #30 which is my own main family in each hood. It is like the cleaning process actually bloats the hood when it should be emptying it or if you compare the number of sims with a history in these new hoods to the sims EA had in their hoods.
Lissa:
My neighborhood that takes a long time to save is the original Sunset, not cleaned. TS2 aging on, and I am playing all the families. I play each family one sim week at a time with frequent switching to check on what other families are doing.
tizerist:
I've had three crashes while saving today. Had to go back to the .backup every time.
My save times are not particularly bad, about two minutes.
Aging off. Story off. Save is 62.1 mb.
Writin_Reg:
As I am not the least bit awesome, I didn't dare and just used those cleaned by others. There is cleaned variants - 3each hood - one modthesims and some precleaned hoods on this site. There is a way on here to also clean your own hood but being me I was not about to mess with it - as I screwed up several Sims 2 games some years ago trying that kind of thing and never again deleted anything. But if you search around you can find out how it's done by reading several threads, and perhaps you'll have been luck than I ever do.
I am so unawesome once I make a mistake I try never to do it again. hehehe Go to the Sims 3 section under Facts and Strategy. Answers there.
Anach:
Quote from: tizerist on 2009 July 13, 23:47:20
I've had three crashes while saving today. Had to go back to the .backup every time.
My save times are not particularly bad, about two minutes.
Aging off. Story off. Save is 62.1 mb.
Good idea to create a series of saves, such as "save 1", "save 2", "save 3", and use them over and over. That way you should never need to use the .backup, as you are never overwriting the current save. I do this in every game I play. One save file is asking for trouble.
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