First off, this is my new post. Sorry If I mess up.I was playing around with household management giving townies a makeover (.....I wont say anything about them faces) and I decided to read the descriptions for each household. Cool story lines such as the Pancakes unhappy marriage, Summer and Liberty's feelings for Travis, and Don's old habits bound to die hard. But then I realized...They don't do any of that.Katrina and Don will never have children, Summer nor Liberty will declare feelings for their roomie, and Eliza and Bob actually have a pretty good marriage.So I want townies with lives! I want townies to have babies, get married, cheat, and so much more. Currently townie lives revolve around my sims, their lives are eat sleep go out when my sims go out repeat. We should put the texting feature to use! The texting feature is the best thing from get together (aside from windenburg....oh windenburg....) I want my sims to find out a friend is pregnant or getting married! My sims could get invites to weddings, or baby showers (if added). Instead of just being asked to go party or grab a bite to eat. We could also put the gossip feature to good use, in ts3 when gossiping with other sims you would find out a chick you flirted with at the summer festival has the good trait. I'm thinking of the same of ts4.Another way to gain information would be to add a "Simbook" type of feature to a computer or phone, you could see certain status's that hint or directly say a piece of information about that sim. Maybe even posting selfies or other pictures.It get's boring when you have to control the house hold to control their lives. I want to be surprised! I want my sims to be surprised. Add to this discussion if you have any ideas! Sorry it's bad. it's late in the UK.

If you're open to using mods, MC Command Centre (at Mod the Sims) leverages the game's API to add exactly what you're looking for (except for the invitations part).

Yeah the stories are so broken you can't play off of it I really miss the stories.

I actually posted about this pretty much before i saw this post. I also miss the stories, the part i feel that makes sims more alive, and just weirder :)

Sorry. I don't want story progression. Culling is already bad enough in my created sims and the stories I try to make up in my mind about them. I can't even get my own sims to have stories. I can't imagine how bad it would be trying to play if the game made all the townies play out the games stories. I really don't care if the barista my sim ordered a drink from last week has a kid. I don't need a notification that they met a new sim or got married. What I care about it that my sim remembers the sim I want them to for my OWN story progression.

I hate when I've got multiple families, and I switch to a different one for 3-4 sim days, and go back to the old one....they've gotten demoted, grades are slipping, and their relationships are pretty much nothing !

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luthienrising
Hero+
9 years ago
If you're open to using mods, MC Command Centre (at Mod the Sims) leverages the game's API to add exactly what you're looking for (except for the invitations part).
Briana2526
Seasoned Rookie
9 years ago
Yeah the stories are so broken you can't play off of it I really miss the stories.
snofnugg
New Scout
9 years ago
I actually posted about this pretty much before i saw this post. I also miss the stories, the part i feel that makes sims more alive, and just weirder :)
fullspiral
9 years ago
Sorry. I don't want story progression. Culling is already bad enough in my created sims and the stories I try to make up in my mind about them. I can't even get my own sims to have stories. I can't imagine how bad it would be trying to play if the game made all the townies play out the games stories.

I really don't care if the barista my sim ordered a drink from last week has a kid. I don't need a notification that they met a new sim or got married. What I care about it that my sim remembers the sim I want them to for my OWN story progression.
kck2371
9 years ago
I hate when I've got multiple families, and I switch to a different one for 3-4 sim days, and go back to the old one....they've gotten demoted, grades are slipping, and their relationships are pretty much nothing !
EisbergsEnte
9 years ago
There's (almost) no Story Progression. They call it "having full control", but yeah, it's a pretty static world indeed.
valerie1795
9 years ago
This is called "a story progression" which sims 4 unfortunately doesn't have. It would be amazing if it ever come's back. So far, none of the townies start families of their own and very soon the worlds turn into old people worlds, and then ghost worlds, unless you have the MC mod. I play with a lot of mods and CC, but I don't like depending on mods to enjoy the game.
anettesb
9 years ago
I would love a sort of story progresion to be an option, something we can turn on and of. Like the weather in sims 3, jyst here it is
may townie sims move in toghter yes/no
may townie sims marry yes/no
may townie sims have children yes/no
may townie sims level up their skills yes/no

and similar questions
then you pick the things you want
could even have a setting that let you choose if you want info when things happen or you don't
Dreamprisoner
New Spectator
9 years ago
The MC command center mod lets you give townies story progression, I dont think I'd want it personaly though, I like my sims staying put. The stories are there simply to inspire you to play the family, I mean, Don could easily get katrina pregnant and have affairs with the daughters if you played them. My problem is that the relationships never match up to the stories. In Sims 2, when you played Don he would already have romatic connections with multiple women in the town, whereas now, he starts off with no romantic connection to any of the three girls, despite him being 'Katrina's boy toy'. He should have had half romantic bar with katrina, and romantic interest with the two girls. And the pancakes had a good marriage judging by the relatioships, whereas their romance bar should be close to full for friendship and very slim romantic interest. The fun of the sims is dropping in on a family half way through a story, seeing how a young gold digger may be having an affair on her older husband, or Cassandra is engaged to don, who's cheating! Thats missing from the sims 4.
Fanphoria
8 years ago
I play with MCCC, which helps with a lot of this, but I agree, it would be nice if it was provided by hte game. Or at least the option--what's nice about MCCC is you can CHOOSE what you want, which gives a lo of versatility. Not every body plays the same--some want more control, some like to be surprised, and I wish Maxis built in settings that let you control that. I mean, that's basically what MCCC does, but why do we have to depend on mods so much?

Personally, I would LOVE to get wedding invites, and the see the NPCs have fuller lives. With MCCC have it set NPCs get married and have babies, but it's totally random. I don't ind that so much, since it certainly makes some interesting stories (I just made a thread about it actually :-P), but how amazing would it be if the NPCs were actually more inclined toward their specific stories? I think that would be amazing.