Broken Game

After spending a lot of time in CAW, I was pretty burnt out. I absolutely will continue to develop my new world over the course of my vacation, but I finally wanted to take some time to play Pets so I could get an idea of what they need, spatially (both on a small and large scale).

I'm disheartened because my legacy family isn't doing so well. Rather, the game files seem to be corrupted. My game crashes very inconsistently. Sometimes I can go days without crashing, other times, just minutes. Because of this inconsistency, diagnosing the problem is nearly impossible. I don't think it's a custom content problem, but there is actually no way to tell.

I save very often - at least once a sim day (and sometimes more if there's a birthday or special occurrence I wouldn't want to lose). Every real life day of playing I copy the save files into a backup. Unfortunately, I can't quite pin down when the crashing started, so I'm not sure which game files to restore.

So, I'm restarting the Gregory family legacy. I'm using the same founders. I don't know if I will start them off in the Hidden Springs, but I eventually want them to end up there. I don't mind it too much since the founders had just had their first grandchild age into a child (the legacy was in its earlier stages).

It is sad to lose them though, but this time, I hope they have less children. I tend to love the founder's children too much and then I can't decide on the heir, so as with the Gregorys of old, I end up with the founders, their children, the children's spouses, and all of their grandchildren crammed into the same house. By "less" I really mean just one. Ridiculous that I can't decide between two. I wonder how other gaming playing legacies deal with attachment issues?

The restart has another purpose. I reckon that I can figure out the root of my game crashes. If the game continues to crash in this fresh restart then I think I'm going to manually reinstall all of my custom content. This would be really tedious because most of my content is merged, but it would be worth it.

I'm also hoping to become re-inspired so I can continue my CAW work. I know what I have to do next, I just haven't been able to muster the creativity and patience to do it - terrain-sculpting the rolling hills. And, while I play, I usually build houses for my families. In the past couple days I already built one - a simulated version of a lovely house by architectsAlliance. Screenshots forthcoming...