Story Progression Settings

"SuzyCue72;c-17291328" wrote:

This is a bit confusing, I thought you said that you started using mods with the sole purpose of getting total control of the inactive sims lives, and at all costs prevent unexpected and unplanned things from happening?

Using the basic download with Nrass, and not digging down to figure out what I can do with it which is much more than I am doing, I can control: divorce, marriage, aging, births, moving out of town, people moving in to the family's house, death, changing careers if already employed. THOSE are the things that matter the most to me and are already preset with Nrass without any muss or fuss. As @igazor told me when I asked about the career thing, since I left that Sim unemployed, the game gave her a career. My other stay-at-home parents I was able to get them self-employed or retired to stop them from doing things I didn't want them to do. Nrass doesn't completely freeze a family like TS2 does but it's close enough for me to be able to enjoy TS3 so much more. In all honesty, I was kind of happy with the way it turned out for the Diamond family. I played them yesterday and Mrs. Diamond got to level 9 stylist, a career I had never had a Sim do before. Ever. So that's been kind of interesting. Mr. Diamond took one day off work unpaid and then he had a day off on his scheduled. On day three, there would have been a 2-hour gap between the time Mr. Diamond went to work and Mrs. Diamond got off. So I had Mr. Diamond make sure the two toddlers had their needs taken care of and then he hired a babysitter (I know, I know). It turned out great through. The babysitter was very attentive to the kids and when Mrs. Diamond got home, she had very little to do. Interesting play I've never experienced before.

Do I think Nrass causes some weirdness? I personally think so. But it's not game breaking from what I can tell.