I should probably also let any readers of this blog know that I should be diagnosed with ADD, Sims Type.
Slightly Long Version of What Happened to my Sims 4 file:
In late November I started getting the strong desire to create a Sims 3 world. Back when Create-A-World first came out, I gave it a shot, but was frustrated when it stopped working with (I think) the Generations EP. Now that Sims 3 is a done deal, it occurred to me that I could use it without worrying about updates and patches. The only problem was, my new gaming computer's hard drive was almost out of space on the C drive, and I needed to figure out how to mount the extra drives to be able to reinstall all the Sims 3 packs.
I spent most of the Thanksgiving break figuring out how to use the file management aspects of Windows 8.1 (yes, I was still hanging on to Windows 7 all this time) and how to get all my gaming stuff (Sims 2, Sims 3, Sims 4, Skyrim) on my D drive and still have it work right. Did you know that you can't put your Origin games on a different drive after you install them? Origin will tell you that you don't have authorization to use those games. (Long story which I won't bore you with.) Except one tiny detail.
The second time I reinstalled everything on my computer, I lost my Sims 4 files somehow. (The first time they were still there...but the second time, AFTER using my back up drive as a restore drive, I realized I couldn't find them on the other drive....
I found the Tesla legacy family on my gallery on the desktop, back when Cassandra was a newborn. So I had the DNA, but I didn't have the actual Sims, with all their skills, relationships, history, and achievements anymore. Or the house. Or the amazing garden. If only I had backed them up to the shared gallery, they would still be there.
What to do? I decided to recreate the family, up until Delaney, with the Edit In CAS and genetics tool, but I just did not want to do all the cheating necessary to get them all back to an approximation of themselves. So it boils down to this, story-wise:
Very Short Version of What Happened to the Tesla Family:
There was a huge disaster of some unnamed kind, and the only family members who survived were Barnaby, Cacey (Cassandra's sister), and Delaney. Delaney has gone to live with Cacey in Oasis Springs, right now they are both overcome with grief. However, Cacey is committed to helping Delaney fulfill her dreams (and Brad's and Maddi's), of becoming an astronaut. Barnaby is living in a trailer next door to Cacey and Delaney.
Delaney really wants to laugh with Uncle Barnaby, but she's still so sad all the time.
Delaney gives herself a pep talk before starting on her homework.
Delaney and Cacey are going to make it together.
Here is the cloned family before I killed most of them off: (which was really awful and I was going to do it about three times before I followed through. It just takes so long to use the cheat codes to "remake" sims). Everyone died a peaceful death, of old age. (Even young adults can die of old age with a cheat code.)
And back to Sims 3 Create-A-World, I am learning to use that tool and have decided on creating a medieval world that is reminiscent of the area of the northern British isles and Celtic-like culture. There is going to be a town with a cathedral, a castle fortress, a monastery hill station with most of the other cultural and scientific resources of the area, farmland, woodland, and bluffs overlooking the sea, with a henge.