Are my sims doing things while rotating households?

@carpenoctem00

All your households are in the same world. If you play them like that, time will pass.

If two of your sims, that are in different households, are friends, they might hang out with each other right? So if you play with one household, say the sim is called Ryan. And you invite Charlotte, from another household, so a bar. When you're at the bar, you decide to leave the game, and next time you come back you want to play with Charlotte's household instead of Ryan's. Then you will start at the bar because that's where she was the last time! Logic! 🙂

If you do not want to play like this, with your sims in the same world interacting with each other, you have to start a new save/new game, on the main screen and create your new household in their own world.

What I usually do is try to switch households on the weekend. Sims might miss work or school, or not do their homework, but when you're not controlling them, it does not infect their grades or career progression. If you start their gameplay on Tuesday noon though, they might still be at home and really late, then it will have an impact. Therefore I try to change when as many sims as possible are supposed to be at home 🙂

Thanks for your reply! That makes sense, though I was hoping that because they're in different locations (one is in the first "world", the other household is in the third world, can't remember the name of it...) and they hadn't ever interacted that it would stay that way. 

To clarify, are you saying that I need to create a new save in which nothing else I've made exists except for the household that I want to remain unaffected? And then I can continue to play them both on their one saves? That's a bummer, but I see the logic in it. 

@carpenoctem00, yes, you are understanding what @CMeki is saying! 🙂  It is the only way to completely control all of your Sims' households.  I have over a hundred separate Save Games in my game.  Some people prefer more interaction between all their Sims, but I want to control them more. 😇  You can still populate the new save games with other copies of families that you make, (but just for variety of neighbors) but never play any family except the main one in each Save Game.  So, give what CMeki suggested a try! If you don't like playing this way, you can always go back to the rotational play with in the same save game! 😉

I have the same problem. I had a family with a baby, a toddler and a teenager. The teenager moved out when she became a young adult, got married and became pregnant. 

 I played in her world and she had the baby. I came back to the other household and the toddler was a child and the baby was a child as well. I don’t want it to work that way.

@Jocelynnn2303it sounds like you only want the played household to age, you can change that in the gameplay setting.