Sims 4 Suggestion: Update Neighborhood Stories

@thornwillAs far as I understand, kids and pets are already regulated by Sim traits aren't they? So only Sims with certain traits are more likely to get pets or have kids.

@gooochyeeeI've been thinking about if horses are going to count in the "adopt a pet" tab, since they're going to take up a family slot. I hope not either since yeah, having horses in areas that don't really work for them would be an issue. That might need to have it's own tab maybe or just make it that the tab only applies to cats and dogs.

@gooochyeee  That would work honestly, if they add in that option to keep horses from randomly showing up in places like Sulani or San Myshuno, etc.

Like what @thornwill said, I’d like Sims to gain skills when you’re not playing them. (Okay, I have a mod that does that.) We’ve all married the townie and opened their skill panel and gotten the Zen void of ”[name] has no skills,” and it’s yikes. 

They do gain skills from clubs as NPCs, or jobs. But after several saves of gently skilling the spouse so they don’t burn the house down if I take my eyes off them, I now randomize their skills with a mod. 

@TabrisElfLover That was bothering me so much since the feature is somehow useless after the first generation because all the kids will just stay there and grow old and die with their siblings.

I actually made a mod that extends Neighborhood Stories with marriage (it's on CurseForge and called Neighborhood Stories Marriage). I haven't added a divorce option yet though, but that's something I'd like to do.

So far I'm really happy using it and I just can't understand at all why it has not been done officially after such a long time...

Yeah, I’ve been using MCCC set to only do marriages (and only adults because I’ve had my Sims’ hearts broken by MCCC marriage because I slow played it and their love interest married someone else). Otherwise, yeah, you have the household of seven siblings who never marry and die of old age childless.

Of course, this creates the issue where any family-oriented Sim immediately fills all household slots with babies and then dies, leaving a single teen to raise them all. 🤣 But at least my population doesn’t die out in the second generation!

(If you don’t or can’t use mods, you can wander around in managed worlds creating marriages, but that takes time and maintenance.)

First, I was against Neighborhod Stories but now I have it mostly on. Each family has my custom settings and per default is all disabled so it can’t mess with townies. It makes the delete townie much faster because I just need to toggle off custom setting.

As long come all new feature with a button I don’t mind it and I am sure somehow, I use the button on some townie. It would be fun to play matchmaker and then they get someday married or merge household on their own and have an aging button for the household(for player which generally play with aging off for all)

The only problem would be that people still blame NS for some features which come from a mod and not NS. We would get more false bug reports which is already a problem because remove mods don’t restore households to default state. My favorite of them is always the baby-child live alone with a pack of dogs/cats.