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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DollsAreMyBaes
9 years ago
Hi everyone!
Thank you for commenting on this thread.
I noticed a lot of you commented about the mccc, which I am aware about. However I don't think I will be using it in my gameplay. It's just a bit too scripted, there's no element of surprise.

Obviously I want my sims to have some role in what happens in the street, say if I had a sim that was friends with Travis, I could get my sim too convince Travis that Summer is the one. Instead of just a mysterious god forcing Travis to get Summer pregnant. I want it too make sense basically. I understand some people might not like this in their game, so an option for progression to be turned off would be nice for some players who obviously don't want to get invited to weddings every other week. Reminding me, it would need some self control. I don't want TOO much drama. Like if Bella left Mortimore for Don, but Don was secretly engaged with Nina meanwhile Nina was pregnant with Bjorn's child but Bjorn recently died of electrocution. Just little bits and pieces. The sims isn't a story based game like Life is strange for instance. There's no plot twists, but there should be! It gets boring very easily. Too easily. I just want spice instead of sugar for once.
Freezie7
9 years ago
I wish that townies would be promoted and such in the job, or even find jobs. I wish they'd have babies on their own too
ByondTime89
9 years ago
I think it would be nice if the world around your Sims changed as your Sims' household changed with it.

The closest thing to this sort of "story progression", without mods, is the interaction in which you can "Ask About" one Sim to another. This results in the two introducing themselves to each other later. The other option is to "Talk Up" a Sim to another, which in turn prompts them to begin dating one another later. Both interactions then notify you about how things went.

Though it's not much progression, it's a start at least?!? I just hope they build off it at some point. While I generally don't care too much about what other Sims are doing, as I'm focused on my Sims, I would really love to see the world change as my household changes. I think it would be really great if I could take my original Sim's great-great-grandchildren to the park and they play with Alexander Goth's grandchildren. It would feel... I dunno sweet? Nostalgic? It would just be really nice to have that kind of world. :3
Dayvon64
9 years ago
Correct me if i am wrong, but one of the reasons there is no story progression is because people complained about it. Just like how people complained about toddlers. Honestly i want progression without having to use a mod and it's because people get so personal about Sims and do not think about the community. I see a lot of i don't want this or i don't wany that. Yes you have a voice, but just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad for everyone else. Sorry if this sounds like ranting but we lost a few great things because some people decided they wanted to have a quick easy game with no depth or challenges.
Briana2526
Seasoned Traveler
9 years ago
"Dayvon64;15306021" wrote:
Correct me if i am wrong, but one of the reasons there is no story progression is because people complained about it. Just like how people complained about toddlers. Honestly i want progression without having to use a mod and it's because people get so personal about Sims and do not think about the community. I see a lot of i don't want this or i don't wany that. Yes you have a voice, but just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad for everyone else. Sorry if this sounds like ranting but we lost a few great things because some people decided they wanted to have a quick easy game with no depth or challenges.

People really complained about stories? this is a first hearing this wow I liked the stories like you said it made the Sims personal I mean the devs are trying to make the Sims more personal with feelings and emotions well why not have a back story of some sort the Sims 2 was a good game full of stories and such and townies should have lives being married and have kids and a job.
ByondTime89
9 years ago
Yeah, people were saying it was happening way too much -which I understand, if my Sim got abducted more than 3 times in one sitting I'd probably be annoyed too- but they really didn't need to turn it as far down as they did... it's practically nonexistent now. I suppose sometimes it's hard to find a fine balance with some things.
BlueOvale
9 years ago
I like the FB idea. On our pc we would add townies to our FB, then read juicy gossip about their lives.
And with real FB updates that we can read please, not just an empty interaction.
Cybrdroyd
4 years ago
Sims 4 should have shipped with npcs autonomously marrying and having kids. It doesn't make sense that they don't. Part of the fun for me was watching all the townies carrying on alongside my played sims. Sure, I could play the other households and do it for them, but that would take so much time and what fun is that?
nicnacsim
9 years ago
They really should re-release the sims 4. This game needs it or they need to stop giving us half-baked content and pump out something big. But I will be patient even tho I'm not even playing.
anettesb
9 years ago
"PrincessVee;15179215" wrote:
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.

thats why I havn't gotten the game... but some of the packs have made me consider... still don't like to buy a game where I know I need modes to have fun