Switching between households, is it worth it?

It's the Late Night style apartment, with those "hidden" balls. Sorry, forgot to put that in my question.

"5782341b77vl;13643995" wrote:
It's the Late Night style apartment, with those "hidden" balls. Sorry, forgot to put that in my question.

Oh, I should have asked for clarification as I misunderstood. But now I'm still confused. A LN "apartment" is a fancy Regular Residential lot with the added bonus of the dark, cannot be entered NPC units. Only one resident household can live there. Where does the switching question come in again -- are the parents and children to be two different households or all one big household?

"igazor;13644265" wrote:

"5782341b77vl;13643995" wrote:
It's the Late Night style apartment, with those "hidden" balls. Sorry, forgot to put that in my question.

... -- are the parents and children to be two different households or all one big household?

Same building, different apartments - parents' apt faces the carousel while the children's will be on the other side, facing the valley... once they're grown up.

Only one resident household can live on a LN apartment style lot. So you would be playing/controlling all of these sims at the same time, as if it were one big regular house -- which it kind of is. Right? Then there is no switching involved.

(head beginning to hurt) Unless you are using another party's apartment mod. Or am I still not "getting" it?

So, if I understand you well, it's impossible to play proper rotation without a mod. Bummer.

@Hejix No, it's not impossible, mods just make it easier to control what happens to your other households when you're not playing them.

Wow, this is an old thread. For those just now following along, the suggested Rotational Caste settings described here years ago partially as a result of this very conversation and others like it have been available on our site for NRaas StoryProgression users for quite some time now.
http://www.nraas.net/community/Story-Progression-Rotational-Caste-Settings

I would say that proper rotational play as most of us would have it in mind is very difficult if not entirely impossible without either NRaas StoryProgression or, for those so inclined, the AwesomeMod way of arranging things. It's the nature of the game. In TS3 the EA way, inactive residents exist strictly for the convenience and amusement of the actively being played household. We aren't meant to care about what happens to them all that much and there isn't any built-in way to designate that some of these sims are "ours" as opposed to the rest of the households in town that are not so that they therefore get more protection or are treated differently by the game.

This is also the nature of mod development, once we get past the things that fix total gameplay breakage or instability and begin adding new features like player-controlled towns and their progression. A need is identified and a programmer sets about finding a way to address the need. The alternative for those who will not use mods becomes a matter of playing around the shortcoming or altering one's playstyle to suit it. In this case, in other words, don't move any sims out of your active household if you demand any kind of control over what may happen to them.

Oh no. I hope I didn't do minion necro posting thingie. Lol.

I want some sort of control. So, if ever I rotate, I think I'll get the mod. For now, I'll stick to parallel saves with backup.

Thanks!

"igazor;c-16882491" wrote:
proper rotational play as most of us would have it in mind

This is interesting! What would that playstyle be in more detail? How do you play the game?

@Aroroaskies -I use the rotational play much like the version in TS2 in my sims games though it's heavly Modded with both NRaas Mods and awesomemod is also there to help with fixing school issues like overcrowding and routing fails by disabling the autmaoted school assignment system.I have been playing a full-blown TS2 style of rotational play in my TS3 games which means I end up playing what is actually more like an open world TS2 game on the TS3 game engine.