Ok, I knew that I had to change the story progression setting in each save. However, I did NOT realize until just today that I had to set story progression for BOTH my played households and ALSO non played households.
So all this time, I naturally had set story progression while I was in the played households window. I assumed that once I set story progression to off, it was off for THAT SAVE. However, it seems, since I never set it separately for non played households, which I rarely have open, that story progression has been on this whole time for the non played households.
The only mystery to me is why before I installed For Rent, I never noticed story progression running. It sure was obvious after I installed For Rent. It is also a mystery why using MCCC or not using MCCC would make one whit of difference if the problem has always been that non played households were allowing story progression.
In all the threads I have read, no one ever said, at least that I recall, anything about having to set story progression in both played and non played household windows.
So, if anyone else totally overlooked this in their game, besides having to set story progression for EACH SAVE, you also need to open BOTH the played and non played households windows, and set story progression separately for the global played households, and the global non played households.
Hopefully, that will solve the story progression problems in my game, and I do hope it helps someone else, too. Whether in a modded or mod free game.
Such a simple solution .... I hope. LOL 😉
@amjoie It depends where you turn it iff.
If you turn it off completely in the game options, it should be turned off for everything.
If you turn it of in the game options, it's very flexible and can be set on many different levels
This thread originally was about the global setting in options
MCCC is relevant as it has it's own story progression but it depends on your settings there and if you have that module or not. Not using the mod myself so I can't tell you what you can actually set with it.
**Face palm** Thank you for the screenie. I never scrolled down to that setting. I thought the global setting was in game, only. Which means I have always had story progression on, even when I thought I had disabled it globally.
But that makes my situation even odder. Because before the For Rent expansion, I never noticed story progression doing anything other than once in a great while, some family had a kitten if they had two cats in the household.
After For Rent installed, my game went crazy. Sims were marrying all over the place, random sims had babies even if they were single living alone, random families had baby horses, sims moved out of one home and into another. I had never seen any of that before. It was story progression on steroids, and kept happening every time I opened my game.
From what I recall, it was happening in both my unmodded and modded saves. And I had not changed any MCCC settings in my modded saves. So something did markedly change after the last patch/For Rent installed. (I suspect they wanted more action in rental units, so changed some parameters. If so, they overdid it a bit.)
Regardless, I do apologize for the confusion in my reporting. I honestly did think I had globally disabled story progression, before, when I obviously had not ever unchecked the real global setting in game options, irrespective of the in game settings.
Now that I actually have the right box unchecked, if I notice any more problems, I will let you know. LOL
So this problem is in progress from year 2022? And still isn't any solution, only completely turn off neighborhood stories? Why is it in game, if it doesn't work correctly? I play on Playstation 4. I try get trophy "Legacy player" and "Alphabeth legacy"... but, problem is, that when I turned off option "Adopt child" in Neighborhood stories, my family members (I don't play activly with them, but I have them in world) still adopting children. I don't want a family tree with million members and it's annoying deleting sims in CAS - cuz loading is neverending when I go to Manage worlds.
Also, I find out yesterday that sims where I turned off option pregnancy, have a biological children. For me it means, that sim is infertile. But I was wrong.
As I write - I play on Playstation 4 so I don't have any mods. I have most of expansion packs - except For Rent and Horse Ranch.
And it still happens to this day. Ever since the update last week (September 2024), the entire game for me has gone to s**t. It took me over 3 days trying to get it fixed, and it still somehow enabled the stories and it's dumb shenanigans.
How it happened for me is, whenever I close the game, and play it again, random sims appeared and placed in lots ALL OVER THE WORLD. All these random townies, and pre-made maxis townies just living their lives when I don't even want them. The fact that even loading much older saves didn't fix it, I am very much inclined to uninstall my game forever. Fix your game, EA, or delete neighborhood stories, period.
