PORTSIM SAVE FILE 1.0

PORTSIM SAVE FILE 1.0

portsim is a small city in the south. it was established as a town in 1752, and the current population is 97,915. it's full of history and has a lot of culture. with increasing poverty rates, gang violence, and a drug epidemic, crime is at an all time high. will the city’s new mayor be able to make portsim a safer place?

CONTENT WARNING: storylines involving drug use & violence

download + info under the cut

watch my save file overview on youtube

4 months in the making and it’s finally here! huge thank you to everyone that’s been following me through the process. ♡ y’all are so kind and supportive and i really appreciate all the love. this was originally going to be a personal save, it’s inspired by my hometown (portsmouth, virginia) most builds are based off real places around me, and some households are based off my friends and family. this is very much still personal to me!

willow creek, newcrest, and magnolia promenade have been rebuilt, repopulated, and transformed into one large town

i own all packs and kits, if you don't you can still play this save but build and cas objects will be missing

check out the portsim townie index (wip) to read their bios and keep up with their stories. some already have posts but some are empty, i’ll be adding more as i play

21 residential lots / 19 community lots - please read community lot descriptions because most are multi functional! i also left some empty commercial spaces that are “for lease” so i can add things as new packs come out

added new holidays - i changed names to be more realistic and added a few (spring cleaning day, easter, independence day, halloween, christmas eve)

added 5 new clubs (city officials, a gang, a cult, a record label, painting classes by a townie)

notes:

view update log here

i’ve never made a save file before, and this is just the first version. please let me know if you run into any issues. i want to eventually add more households, and i also want to add + rebuild other worlds

i highly suggest turning the eco lifestyle ep’s eco foot print + npc voting off, unless you want the town to look apocalyptic and the trinity church community space to be set to the winter version during summer etc

i turned neighborhood stories off, but sims were still adopting babies and divorcing each other so i kept them all in the my households tab, you don’t have to keep them there!

shoutout to @cowplant-snacks and @nightlioness for letting me use some of their sims as background townies so there's not as many ugly npcs

next world that’s going to be added: oasis springs + del sol valley - idk which one will be out first! but they're coming soon ♡

DOWNLOAD on patreon (always free)

*required mods for the lit version*

please tag me in anything involving the save! id love to see how y’all play in it!

Day One|| Teen-a-day Challenge

Cheer Captain: Illi Muller

Grade: 12

Favorite listen: Formation

Favorite Watch: Real Housewives of ATL

Dream College: UoB; Communications

My advice to the lower classes? Do better, get better. xx

"I'd like to apologize to those who could not graduate because of my "plunging" top. Soz xxx"

the upcoming update

How to update:

BACKUP your saves !

update the game so that you don't have your whole Mods folder in but move mods, tray and saves to a safe place and update.

clear caches, old last exception files and anything that does not belong in the game files.

once updated start the game vanilla with no mods, let the game generate new save, tray and mods folders.

In game make a vanilla sim , move them to vanilla lot , play a while and save the game and exit.

Do not put ANY MODS in your game until you are sure they are UPDATED!

Put your mods back in game and test them with that vanilla save.

Start with visual overhauls, lighting mods etc..

Add big mods like MCCC, UI cheats etc..

Then smaller mods and always make sure you have the udpated versions

Lastly add your defaults

then other cc and do not dump everything in there at once, but try to put them in smaller patches

and with every mod or folder of cc you add, test the gameplay with your vanilla household.

Once you are sure you have all mods working and udpated you want you can move back your Saves and Tray from the safe place you put them.

Do not go on and about harassing modders to fix their mods, this is a big udpate, updating lot of functions from the base game and other packs. Some mods might break a lot some less, so give modders time to fix their mods and don't be an ass about it.

This way you can update safely and you don't have to be worrying of the possible bugs the udpate gives (remember time moving in cas bug, instant getting older bug) and possibly corrupt your save file with a broken mod. You can spend few days with the vanilla save to make sure everything works as it should.

✨ sims 4 simple icons ✨

i think we can all agree the 2019 rebrand was pretty ugly, so we stuck with the old pack icons as long as we could - whether that was just using the old ones in our download posts for builds or even using mods to revert them back in game (*cough* ME). tbh, the new colours didn’t bother me, but the new design of them wasn’t exactly easiest on eyes… so i went and found these - the icons used in the cas and build + buy catalogs. simpler, cleaner - and not a far cry from the ones we had before. i mainly did this for personal use, but i thought they maybe be useful for some other simmer out there, so here you go! this is uploaded on my birthday too… so consider this my gift to you so we can celebrate together! i scrolled through probably thousands of game icons and files so you don’t have to :)

you can easily use these icons in place the ones of those in @ohmysims‘ nifty icons or @nolan-sims‘s icon overhaul codes (i know i will be doing so!). simply upload each pack icon into a text post on tumblr, click the settings/cog icon in the top right of the post, switch the text editor to html, copy the link ending in .png, and replace corresponding link within the the img src line of each group of code (you should be able to tell which pack is which with the img alt line stating its name before the matching img src line). i know this isn’t the best explanation, but i don’t really want to just copy the code as it was someone else’s original creation beforehand, so if you need any help, shoot me a message! @nolan-sims​‘s icon overhaul does have a lot of helpful links to help with the coding as well as to previous versions.

all credit to ea for the original icons of course. the icons are one zipped file together under the cut - unfortunatley i can not upload them separately as the simfileshare doesn’t host .png files :( but use them however you wish! let me know if you have any problems ♡

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