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Anonymous
13 years ago
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Stop Neighbors From Aging

I know there is a box to uncheck that says something like stop neighbors from aging. I turned it off but my sims that are not in my active household are still aging!! Make it stop! I want each sim to...
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    Gardia
    13 years ago

    Turning off the story progression won't stop the rest of the sims in the town from aging. You really need to turn off the aging for every sim by unchecking the enable aging, it's the only way. Your sims can still grow up, but in this case you have to force them to it. When you want them to age up, turn testingcheatsenabled true, shift click the sim that you want to age up and then choose force age transition.

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Gardia
Seasoned Ace
13 years ago

Did you restart the game right after you unchecked ''enable aging''?

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    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    No, I didn't. I kept playing. But I have played the game a few times since then, opening and closing it at those points. Should I recheck it and save and close and then reopen and uncheck it and restart the game? Will that fix it?

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      Gardia
      Seasoned Ace
      13 years ago

      Do you have other households in your main menu, or just this one that your playing with? If you have the time, you can try making a new household, once the family is installed in the house, change the lifetime to 2 days in all the ages, turn enable aging off, and see if your neighbours get older (in the first day, try to make friends with them so that you'll know if they've aged or not).

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        Anonymous
        13 years ago

        Okay, so I made the aging down to 2 days and turned the enable story progression off, and families not in my active household still aged. I do want my sims to grow older but only when I am playing them. If I turn off the aging altogether, that means everyone doesn't age right? I want the active household to age but not the neighbors. Is that what story progression of neighbors mean? Or are they doomed to age no matter what?  I I thought turning it off the story progression, not the aging itself would make it so they would not age. but it seems no matter what I do, they keep aging. I am getting so frustrated with this. Should i turn it back on, restart the game, turn it back off and restart it again? Think that will work?

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