Okay guys.. I have a question.. I am one of those micromanaging sim mums who will literally pause the game every time I get ready to queue up actions so no time is wasted and my sim never does anything without my knowing it (Very type A) and because of that I have never dared to switch active households because I don't want them doing things while I'm 'gone' from that household and ruining my storyline. However, I have almost all of Twallan's mods and I have heard that using those you can heavily control what your other active household is allowed to do or not do. Can someone tell me what options are best to choose and where to find those options if I want: My non active household TO: Continue improving skills Continue going to workKeep mood lets highNot let pets be taken away NOT to Form any new relationshipsNot to break up any relationships they already have Not to get romantically involvedNot to quit their job and randomly go do .. something else. Then, After I've set all the options as you guys recommend, how do I go about changing my active household and how do I get it back. And when I go to make my new active household how do I get back into CAS to create the sim for that one (either legally or through mods) THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

NRaas has a page for rotational play. It relies on StoryProgression cast settings. See here. There are explanations for 2 different approaches. I think you should be able to adapt one of them to your play style.I'm too much of a micro manager myself to ever try rotational play like that. I have thought about playing two households in different worlds vy Traveler, but apparently you lose wishes when switching that way which was a deal breaker for me.

@Beck1590 - I've been playing this way for years (no surprise) with 2-10 households per world that I rotate through on a regular basis. A couple of my preferences are a little different from yours, but although complex the SP caste system is very flexible and can be adapted as @TreyNutz says to suit your needs. For example, I don't want "my" inactives, just the protected ones that I am playing myself, to skill up in my absence and I don't want them aging either unless/until I am playing them actively again. Others have different preferences here. Inactive sims will always be pushed to go to work/school. How well they do there may, of course, be a different story. :) Don't worry about the moods and moodlets of sims you aren't playing at the moment unless they are on-screen and your actives are trying to interact with them. Their moods will rise and fall, if they have a good home environment they will tend to the high/elated side much of the time because they will be surrounded by mood enhancing objects and sims when they aren't in semi-hibernation, and the game itself will take care of their basic needs until you wish to play them again and rotate back in.Let us know, here or better at NRaas on our message boards, if you have any questions about the Rotational Play setup. It uses some pretty advanced mod features.http://nraas.wikispaces.com/page/messages/Chatterbox(free Wikispaces account and NRaas wiki membership required to post)

I'm not sure what caste settings you'd need. I don't play rotationally myself. You might want to post on the NRaas site. But I can answer some of the other questions."Beck1590;c-16240725" wrote:EA Story Progression Disabled NRaas Story Progression ActivatedTime is now running at 1 times normal speed The first statement means you have EA story progression enabled in the game's option panel (the last tab). This is ok, but it might take a touch longer to load the game since NRaas SP has to turn it off.The second statement means that NRaas SP is installed and enabled and is managing your world.The third notification is from NRaas Relativity (not SP). Relativity can slow down the flow of sim time, so that a sim minute lasts longer in real life seconds than normal. Animations are not affected. Relativity adjusts motive decay and motive gain to compensate. The end result is that sims have more time in the day to do things. If you've never changed any of Relativity's settings then it's not having an effect on your game. You should try clicking on city hall>NRaas>Relativity>Set Speed> to try out a setting. The EA default is 37, so choose a lower number. If you really want to see the effect try changing the speed to 19 (half of the default) and play for a sim day to see if you like it. I use 19 myself for most games. For others I set the speed to 75% of the default (28).Relativity also affects the rate at which sims learn skills. They will learn skills faster if you slow down the speed. You can adjust this by going to city hall>NRaas>Relativity>Relative Skills and change them all to False. On the false settings, sims will learn skills at (what I think is) the EA default rate no matter what Set Speed setting you are using in Relativity. You an also have Relativity adjust the skill gain rate to the lifespan (Apply Life Span Skill Factor setting), and lastly you can go to city hall>NRaas>Relativity>Skill Gain Factors to increase or decrease how fast sims learn each individual skill if you want to really customize the mod (default is 1, higher means they learn faster, lower than 1 means they learn slower). I think what Sarah means is that she has adjusted her Relativity settings so sims skill slower. I don't know what settings she uses though.What does setting the speed on "Snail" ...City Hall>NRaas>StoryProgression>General Options>Adjust Speed>You have 5 choices: snail, slow, default, fast, rabbit. NRaas SP has different managers which run periodically to progress inactives. The Adjust Speed setting changes how often these managers run. I use Slow or Snail mainly because it reduces the performance hit to the game from SP. I'm not sure how, or if, this setting is used in when playing rotationally. You can adjust each individual manager to run more or less often in city hall>NRaas>StoryProgression>General Options>Options: >Speed. AFAIK the speed setting is the number in sim-minutes between each run of the manager. The Adjust Speed setting is an easy one-click way to slow down or speed up how fast NRaas SP operates.

Excellent! :D Also can you PM me the setting in the W mod that I'll need to have to allow my sims to interact the way you mentioned yours can do as long as you're controlling them even if they're in my no romance caste? That way I can make sure I have that setting toggled correctly. Thanks for walking me through my first rotational play set up!! This is going to be fun. Now I can actually follow my families so they'll last longer than one generation!

Thanks guys!! This is super helpful! Though I'm realizing I had a blonde moment. The whole reason I wanted to start a new active household was to make a partner sim for mine to fall in love with and be able to play out their lives before they meet.. problem being.. lol If I set it so my inactive house can't fall in love with anyone.. then how in the heck do I get them together? Because if I take the setting off I'm a bit concerned my inactive sim will go wind up with some other sim and then my plans will be kinda messed up lol. Recommendations?

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Beck1590
7 years ago
So I checked. I do have EA's story progression enabled. When I uncheck it to let SP take over so it won't take the game so long to load all the life states get greyed out like pets, vampires etc. What does this mean? I'm still good to uncheck it right? Because SP takes care of all those life states and etc.?
Beck1590
7 years ago
So when I clicked into Set Speed it asked me to enter the speed (number) I want to run and it showed up with a zero (vs a 37.) So what should I insert? I was going to try either 23 like Igazor for 28 for a day and see if I like it and slow down skilling too and just put it back if I didn’t but I’m a bit thrown off because opening it to find 0 instead of 37 makes me confused on what’s wrong. Sorry I’m so dense!!
TreyNutz2
7 years ago
"Beck1590;c-16243027" wrote:
So when I clicked into Set Speed it asked me to enter the speed (number) I want to run and it showed up with a zero (vs a 37.) So what should I insert? I was going to try either 23 like Igazor for 28 for a day and see if I like it and slow down skilling too and just put it back if I didn’t but I’m a bit thrown off because opening it to find 0 instead of 37 makes me confused on what’s wrong. Sorry I’m so dense!!

The Relativity Interactions page explains that setting. The default setting (0) is actually for intervals. You can set up intervals so that Relativity slows down sim-time during the day, but use a different value during the night when sims are sleeping. I don't use intervals myself; it's a bit too complicated for me. If you don't set up any intervals and leave Set Speed at hte default setting (0) then the game will run sim-time at the default speed (37).

"Beck1590;c-16243013" wrote:
So I checked. I do have EA's story progression enabled. When I uncheck it to let SP take over so it won't take the game so long to load all the life states get greyed out like pets, vampires etc. What does this mean? I'm still good to uncheck it right? Because SP takes care of all those life states and etc.?

SP will handle most of that. If you want wild animals populations handled you'll need NRaas Register.
TadOlson
7 years ago
I've got NRaas story progession set to the snail speed and most big changes are managed manually while the daily lives are managed by the Mod.I've got the lifestates enabled in the game options and disabled immigration in story progression so I won't get the town flooded with a population overload.
igazor
7 years ago
I don't use intervals either. Just change the speed setting to 23 or 28 if you want to try that.

There seems to be some confusion on the story progression checkbox in Game Options.

If SP's progression is set to be in control, then it doesn't matter if the box is checked or not. SP's will take over.
If SP's progression is not in control (switched off), then EA's progression will take over if the box is checked and there will be no progression if the box is unchecked.

Both systems cannot run at once. As for leaving the box checked causing longer startups, maybe a microsecond? I've never heard this before.
TreyNutz2
7 years ago
I've noticed that after loading the game and clicking play it takes a tad longer for mods to kick in and SP and Relativity notifications to show up if EA's story progression is enabled. Not a big deal but longer than a microsecond.
igazor
7 years ago
"TreyNutz;c-16244218" wrote:
I've noticed that after loading the game and clicking play it takes a tad longer for mods to kick in and SP and Relativity notifications to show up if EA's story progression is enabled. Not a big deal but longer than a microsecond.

Oh, on that end. I'll have to try that myself to see if I can feel the difference.
TreyNutz2
7 years ago
"igazor;c-16244231" wrote:
"TreyNutz;c-16244218" wrote:
I've noticed that after loading the game and clicking play it takes a tad longer for mods to kick in and SP and Relativity notifications to show up if EA's story progression is enabled. Not a big deal but longer than a microsecond.

Oh, on that end. I'll have to try that myself to see if I can feel the difference.

Now I did say above, " it might take a touch longer to load the game." So not much of a difference. Since I can't play while the mods are loading I do consider it part of the save game loading times.

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