About how many families/towns does everyone have and play?

[Phoenix]

Wauw, that is what I call A LOT! I should start a new thread about what are all the names of all your created sims, just for you.

  I know---I am terrible!   I'd like to say those are my only saves but those are only the saves in my *active* Sims3 folder.  I always think I *may* want to go back to a save and play it again---so I keep it.

  As for names---I use this handy dandy 60,000+ baby names book.

[CreativeCrayola]

I have a grand total of one save file, my Legacy. I tend not to have more than one at a time, because I always get distracted and then I never play another one ☺

[Trentorio]

I want to say too many to count but that isn't true. I am playing 4 or so active files, one is a family of performers I use only for Simport requests because they are so buggy otherwise and I can't imagine starting over with them.

My other files are semi casual attempts at playing beyond one or two generations.

I am also working on most recently the Seasoned Traveler LTW, because I have never fully explored the World Adventures EP.

I have one sim couple, the first I ever made that I play in each new town that comes out to see the world and see how their game differs from the last one. Those saves are all there in case I want to play it on a whim.

I have deleted a lot of saves over the past year.

I have every released town, and Union Cove, which is where my sims spend most of their time.

The game is huge and there is a lot of things to do and premade sims to try as well. I hope you enjoy it!

[KrispyNickyB]

I have four right now. One Legacy- The Millhams that I write a story for. My Dynasty which I am also writing a story for. I have two other games I play and do whatever I want in. It keeps me from getting too frustrated with my dynasty and legacy games.

[ZapKid]

I only have a Scientist in Lunar Lakes right now- I do have dozens of files though I use for building in Edit Town.

[MoMoll]

I started a new game in Starlight Shores using NRaas Traveller and my singer sim is now going to travel to the other towns (UC, Bridgeport, SV, Lunar lakes) to perform and make friends. Maybe she'll pick up a boyfriend in each town?

[mandamouse123]

I actually just deleted all of my saves.  I cheated to get money in all of them, and I've found that it isn't as satisfying playing with families like that.  I had a family that I played for a month, just waiting for the game to become exciting.  I finally realized that it wasn't ever going to be, at least for me, because my sim hadn't worked for any of it.

Also, in my new game (with no money cheats!), I purposely chose traits, LTW, and a job that I wasn't comfortable with.  It gets old playing the same type of sim over and over, you know?

[Lynley1248]

At the moment, 12-13. Most of my saves are strictly for building and I think I have about 6 or so.  Generally, I try not to have more than one saved game per town. I have a family in Sunset Valley, Riverview, Barnacle Bay, and Starlight Shores, each with different traits/lifetime wishes/etc so I don't get bored.  I also have 2 saves for my favorite family in Twinbrook, which is currently on generation 10.  I am constantly making families and then deleting them, though, so my number of saves can vary greatly from week to week.

[wednesday21]

I currently have - according to my saves folder - one save file only and its default backup. That is, my immortal dynasty challenge. However, that is not true as I, like many others on here, have inactive save files. I keep them on another hard drive as if I see those in the main menu I will get distracted and play them (and then they will lag awfully) and then get upset over it. So if I start a new save file, that's it, that one becomes the one and only file. I know this style of gameplay is weird, but that is really the only way I can discipline myself to actually playing Sims.

I have plenty of worlds including all EA towns and various custom worlds that suit my tastes. I never got around to installing create-a-world so I don't have any worlds of my own. Some worlds I like to play in frequently while others I only ever used once or twice (such as Lunar Lakes or Barnacle Bay).

As for my inactive save files, there is nine of them. I've not played some of these for a really long time but I intend to get back to them once my new computer arrives. Surprisingly, I could care less about a couple of these... however the save files I really did care about are no longer available. Some have inevitably vanished in different incidents whilst others I deleted accidentally myself. Not much I can do about that, eh?

-M.

[Tuesday]

Right now, I have two.  My "main" game, which is a SuperSim type thing where I'd like to max out every skill and reach level 10 on every career.  This hasn't gone well for me, though, because my games get buggy pretty quickly.  I've started over again and again.  I've gotten better results recently with frequent backups and limiting my playtime into shorter chunks.  Epic-length simming sessions seem to breed glitches.

My other save is a Bridgeport game which is just for fun.  Personally, I like Bridgeport but it does require some adjustments to play style because of the long transportation times.  I've been having fun with creating and sharing custom memories on that game.  Sometime in the indefinite future I'll do a similar game and share my story on the forum for all y'all, but generally I find it really slows down play to pause and take custom memory captures or screenshots.

That said.... I have every EA-released town except Barnacle Bay and at one point had savefiles for each one, plus an extra in Sunset Valley.  I deleted them all when I realized that I was probably never, ever going to go back into those games and also cleared out old sims from my library that I'd never use again.

[MoMoll]

Well, had to scratch my game because when my sim returned to Starlight Shores her career outfit was a pair of cut off jeans and a shirt with no shoes. Somehow during the travel she got bugged. Too bad, she was a big hit in Bridgeport!

[Kaye]

I have all four slots used. Hidden Springs, Appaloosa Plains, Bridgeport and Starlight Shores.

[DeNile]

I have all four slots used. Hidden Springs, Appaloosa Plains, Bridgeport and Starlight Shores.

You can have more than that, just in case you don't know, you just get an arrow button that lets you scroll through all of them.

[Lisey]

Right now I'm only playing my Legacy (the Lockwoods) because I REALLY wanna finish a legacy. I kept getting a bug that killed my legacy attempts but I think I've figured out a work-around now so I have a fighting chance!

[Kaye]

You can have more than that, just in case you don't know, you just get an arrow button that lets you scroll through all of them.

Oh, my god. Are you serious?! *smacks forehead* I am such an idiot! I really did not not know that!