Feedback: Weird Stories sexism/ageism ruined my save!
I'm so upset! It was so much time to fix!
I had no idea the Stories feature would be so destructive, and I had no idea the damage was happening until I had unbelievable repercussions to my Sim families. It took all of my free time over the last several days to try to put things back to semi-normalcy. I had to load a very old save, delete the families from my current game, and then load the old families in. I had to internet-search the amount of funds they usually start with, and then hand-cheat the money in, as well as cheat-force some of the relationships/sentiments they had, and organize them back into clubs, and groups. I had to create a sim, named her "Baby Deleter" just so I could load her, transfer babies to her household, delete the whole household, and repeat. This is extra slow because the household management feature is slow to load and a bit rough to find families in without a search-feature. Also, for some reason, you can't delete babies from households, like you can with pets/toddlers+. Deleting a household of 6 newborns/pets is tedious. It's part of why I started just deleting the entire household, and loading new ones, from old saves.
So, what happened?
All of the adult women move out, and adopt a gazillion babies and animals, or move into other large households, while the men just -disappear-; Husbands, fathers, and sons, just disappear into nothing. For some reason, the game has an odd favoritism toward culling men, and adopting pets/babies. It even affected some of my "towny" sims that I made (groups of 5-8 just to add options for sims to have flavour and friends). Some of these roomies have babies and pets, and two of the guys were culled. I'm sure I don't know all of the damage yet. There's a LOT of babies. The worst part is I have autonomous aging off, so it's just generating tons of babies and puppies and kittens, and none of them are going to go anywhere, while deleting adults, teens, or whole households. I had several homes with just a cat owning it, or children alone. I feel like the game should only modify one family in a sim-year, or at least announce things to me. I never got any notifications about families splitting, or I would have done something. I just knew about adoptions. I don't think it's good storytelling to delete sims, and replace them all with endless streams of puppies, kittens, and newborns that will never age. I do not think it's good story-telling to have adults disappear with kids and pets alone in houses. The speed at which it all happens is apocalyptic.
Take a look at this list of just *some* of the damage to the pre-made families, and my own households:
Geoffry landgrab - culled, his wife moved into an apartment, adopted a baby, and only a cat was left owning their mansion.
Munch family - culled except the kid who was living with a random gen family.
Villarael father - culled, and his three kids alone in their mansion.
Pancakes - adopted 5 cats, and the husband moved in with someone random.
Bailey-Moon - man culled, family house-less
Fengs - adopted multiple babies/pets and living separately
Jangs - adopted toddlers who look identical to each other, and the Feng's adopted toddler.
Spencer-kim-lewis family - men culled
Goths - adopted identical girl toddler to fengs and 2 babies, mortimer culled
Partihaus - men culled
Harjo - adopted a dog,Lucha culled
Bjergsen - dad culled, family got a dog, a toddler, and some cats.
Nishidake - grandparents culled. Daughter alone in the house. Had to delete the whole family. I had aged Kaori to young adult and had a budding romance with a favorite sim, and ishe was in two clubs, for me, so that is a huge pain.
Kareoke Legends - Darling and Akira culled. Miko moved into random house.
BFFs - all three culled.
Eclectic arts household - two culled, homeless
Scott - Simon culled, wife adopted a baby.
Caliente - only Nina left, everyone else culled, moved into apartment.
Rosswell - Ted culled, Meredith moved to Mt. Komorebi, and adopted babies.
TL;DR Culling adult sims and adding thousands of babies/pets is not good autonomous story. Consideration for autonomous ageing off, would be great. Also, please add a name-search feature to household management.