Hi folks. I was away for the weekend and forgot to pause my games. I know some of my peeps will have died having lived "unfulfilled" lives, too late to have children, etc. How do I roll back my families to when I last closed the game 3 days ago?

Depending on when your backup files saved, the information in this post may help you.

Thanks Heather. I do have my back-up files...the files are currently dated 2-3 days ago, but the date stamp for the current and back-up are the same.. Do I open the games, then exit and then replace them with the back-up files? This is what I need to know....
thanks

Unfortunately, if you didn't pause your game, I don't think there's much you can do. You can try to back it up by keeping the game closed, and replacing the appropriate game file, but I believe that the game will take the additional time into effect and your end results will be the same, but it won't hurt to try.

Also, it would help to know if the backup files you have are the ones automatically created by the game, or ones you made yourself. This could be an important factor on whether or not the game can be restored to a previous state.

I saved some of my games from an earlier version and at the time didn't know that they should be paused. I don't know how old they were, but you know when we were playing version 02. Recently I decided to try them out, and all my peeps were alive. They were sick, their houses were nasty, I got this email about feeling neglected..Lol. But they're all living. There's still hope Reirecc.

These are copies of the original ones made by the game.....is that better or worse?

OK....I will open the games now and hope/pray for the best! I'll let you know how it turns out!

The copies made by the game will be overwritten every 10 or so minutes that you have the game open, and if you closed it 2-3 days ago it saves that information and calculates how much time you were gone in both the original save files and the backups so this is not good.

If you had a backup from 2-3 days ago that you saved for yourself elsewhere, you could've used this to return to the state they were in 2-3 days ago.

Well, you can try them, Reirecc, but that means that the backup files were not paused (which means what I said above - the game will take the time passage from 2 days ago into effect, and your end result will quite possibly be the same). There's no harm in trying, but the easiest way to do that in the future is to make your own (paused) backup files as listed in the procedures I showed you.

Yes...it all now makes perfect sense now..... I will go ahead and see how it pans out. Thanks for your input!