Multiple household gameplay flaws in single save file (rotational play)
I’ve seen some bug threads already, where most of the responses is it’s normal. But I’d like to give some feedback on rotational game play. What I mean by that is multiple households in one save file where you switch between them.
Previous Sims households would ‘freeze’ when you played another household in the same save file. You can change aging only for active household, but the world still moves on.
- work/school performance will go from good or excellent to average or poor.
- if you return in the middle of the day, you’ll find your sims are missing work or school
- if you have DU, any time passed means you’ve missed classes and usually you’ll return to that household to find you’re either on academic probation or suspended
- pregnancies will move on without you. Including giving birth and the baby will get a randomly generated name (note, the baby won’t age up if you leave the household alone)
- your family relationships take a hit and decrease the longer you’re away (even though time is frozen?)
I just don’t understand why this happens when every other sims game would freeze your household. It makes multiple households in one save file really aggravating. Now I have to have new save files and can’t really do generations anymore. I don’t think this was a good addition to the game personally.