I've been able to play like I've got TS2's story progression with the NRaas Mod version and that one dosen't kill off my games with teen pregnancy epidememics or glitchy transient migrant camps with the soap opera or other disasters.I also found it took the lag right out of my game though it wasn't anywhere near to being noticable.I play my entire towns like in Sim2 and can play them rotationally without worries that things will happen to inactives.It allows me to manage my town and to create my own types of stories in the town instead of having everything be the modern day suburbia soap opera.