No children or relationships being generated

There is nothing that can be done when EA's built-in story progression continues to do totally random, senseless things or when it breaks down and stops working altogether, short of moving your active household to a new world and starting over. It comes with an on/off switch on the Game Options, but that is all. And that is why the two popular modded versions exist, namely NRaas StoryProgression and AwesomeMod's StoryMode.

Another option is NRaas Mastercontroller, where you simply click on a sim and tell the game by what other sim in the world you want this sim to become pregnant. It's not spontaneous, but it is sufficient where it comes to expanding the world population.

As for 'without mod', alas, they seem to have patched this out of the game at one point (my bet is 2011 because that was the last time it happened in my modless game) to happen spontaneous.

Oh yes, of course on the MC solution. But what I meant was there is no way to fix EA's story progression in an ongoing automated way once it breaks down so that future generations of the world being played continue to propagate without the need for player involvement.

I don't believe it was really something that was patched out on purpose. Actually, EA's version of story progression on TS3 is pretty cool (for a first attempt at it) once one gets used to how it functions and how it insists that all of the inactive households exist strictly for the convenience and amusement for the actively being played one. And its tendency to rotate inactives out of the world and rotate fresh sims in was not a truly horrible idea, if it actually worked as it should. Unfortunately it just doesn't work as intended for most players, there will always be some exceptions, beyond a few generations and then Ghost Town Syndrome begins to set in, no kids are around to go to school with your active ones, there's no one around for them to date or mate with as they become of age, etc. from there.

No, maybe it wasn't on purpose but a lot of people complained about the clone babies and not everyone was a fan of freshly created sims put into the game turning up pregnant the next day. Lol, that happened to me too. A girl I had created for my heir, to meet, fall in love with and marry. Next thing I know she shows up with a belly and the accompanying ugly maternity clothes and not only that, the father turned out to be my sim's very old uncle, a bachelor :D So I don't know, maybe they tried to tone that down which resulted in it completely disappearing. I liked the surprise myself to be honest. Not a fan of the clone babies though.

I remember by the way that even when it still worked, towns would die out as well. How do you manage to keep your world populated, since you have played the same save for years? Or do you have aging disabled? Or is the mod good enough to keep the community alive?

"JoAnne65;c-16863382" wrote:
How do you manage to keep your world populated, since you have played the same save for years? Or do you have aging disabled? Or is the mod good enough to keep the community alive?

NRaas SP works too well, or rather I do have to keep a constant eye on the baby-making and immigration rates relative to the amount of suitable and available housing in each world. I've got sims coming out of the rafters in two of my connected worlds and keep having to replace them elsewhere or begin fostering emigration, which is not all that easy to do within the mod.

Wasn't always that way. Started out with EA's story progression and quickly saw my first world suffer from rapid population decreases after one complete generation. AwesomeMod didn't help very much, it slowly moved in two or three new households where I was hoping to see at least a couple of dozen. There certainly wasn't much overcrowding at the school entrance when there were only five kids/teens attending and three of them were mine. :/

Am sure I was doing something wrong back then or hadn't satisfied some condition or other of Awesome's StoryMode, so I inserted a bunch of households of my own making at the time just to make things feel more realistic and still had to travel my older teen/younger YAs to other worlds to find dating material. But once getting NRaas SP in play and getting through learning how it all worked, that kind of thing was definitely history. :)

I've been playing with both the NRaas Mod collection and awesomemod installed for disabling the autmaoted school assignments for about three years now and my towns are at least starting to grow and thrive with increasing populations and the sims will begin having babies whenever they're ready to start and new families move into the towns on occasions whenever I go into edit town to move them in.The only issue is that I have to do story progression in manual mode with rotational play like Sims 2 only with the TS3's open world to make any real story progression happen in my games.It's kept my saves stable in a very unstable game engine for years.

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You'd probably benefit from NRAAS's Story Progression mod.

Also, check if you have lots of system resources. I find when I have a family with children at school and get them to talk to friends when at school it doesn't take long for the town to have lots of children. But I have 16 GB RAM. And that is with just EA's version of Story Progression. I think the game can't do it if you are low on RAM.

I recently put NRAAS's Story Progression mod into my game and the only thing I've noticed that's changed is the chefs and cash register operators in my restaurant and savvy seller shops don't turn up for work and have to be replaced. I had that happen occasionally with EA Story Progression, but it seems none of them can ever make it to their shift now. It's getting a bit annoying and I may take the mod out. I've not tried to do anything with it - I just put it into the mods folder to see what would happen.

I do not use story progression mod and I am having the same problem, no kids being generated, and everybody who works at the store and restaurant don't show or are being replaced. Sims go to order, nobody cooking or selling. I have a store on family lot (no cash register) zombies shop all night on full moon, they get mad at each other for being in the way, but restaurant is down town and there is never a cook. I do not think it is story progression, it started happening after an update for Island Paradise. People use to go to my hotels, now its only my playable Sims.