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Although this feature seems really good on paper, it does not function very realistically. No sims seem to fall in love and marry each other, at all. I will have the same neighbors call to ask if they should date SimA, then call about dating SimB. Not much longer later they will call to let you know that they are pregnant. Turns out many of the female sims in the world have been getting busy and have 5 or 6 children without ever getting married or having a romantic interest. Perhaps I'm getting old in my age, but I would like to see some marriages rather than tons of single mothers running around in the world (is this what you guys really want?).
Also, I just had a teenager show up to my house pregnant on her 3rd trimester. This means she has been pregnant for 2-3 sim days at the point, yet she is on day 1 of her teen life. This makes no sense at all. Not to mention that she has no romantic relationships with any other sims in the world, so there is no father. I guess the Sim "God" is going around spreading his seed.
I suggest more testing before simply rushing to release content as this doesn't seem like what the developers had planned (at least I hope it isn't). I have to, unfortunately, admit that mods still do a much better job of handling story progression.
A for effort
D for results (and that's being generous)
@RipRizzle This iteration of Neighborhood Stories doesn't include marriages, no. I've turned off all of MC Command Center's story progression EXCEPT marriages in favor of Neighborhood Stories for that reason.
I'm pretty sure that pregnant teenagers shouldn't occur in an unmodded game. Are you using any mods?
Question: If this update doesn't include marriages then why have my neighbors call me to ask me if they should get married? Seems like something that needs to be removed from the game until it can be fully implemented.
I'm not looking for support, as this is the wrong place for it, just providing feedback as to how this update is not "working". I have no mods that would create a pregnant teen, or child as EA has done, the game did that on its own.
When I worked in IT we created many different systems that we would find worked well on paper, worked well in our test environment, but then failed when they went live. I'll be giving this game a break as I am now dealing with the error code: 0 when attempting to save. Too many bugs, but this is typical of a company trying to rush out content rather than making a stable game. Thank you for your input though.
The autonomous portion doesn't include marriage. Your neighbors will still do the "OMG I FOUND A RING IN [NAME'S] BAG WHAT SHOULD I DO???" call but will NOT get married after that. They'll just be engaged until they die of old age (or in an untimely accident, if you've enabled that).
I'm not trying to say your not liking it isn't valid. It's your opinion, and therefore a valid opinion. I'm just saying that 1. this version does not include marriage, that's presumably planned for later and 2. teens cannot get pregnant without mods unless there's a very serious bug in Neighborhood Stories and you're the first one to spot it.
MC Command Center, on the other hand, has (by default, you can tone it down) very aggressive story progression that includes marrying off EVERYONE (thereby breaking your Sim's heart if you're slowplaying it, lol), giving EVERYONE illegitimate children, there's a toggle to allow illegitimate children from affairs, etc. It also includes an option to allow teen pregnancy that you have to specifically enable, so even MCCC shouldn't produce pregnant teens running around your save unless you specifically set it that way.
In short, your pregnant teen NPC is super weird and is either a mod or a bug.
(Do I need to do the "don't work for EA" disclaimer here?)
@xochiquetzl_xkvn wrote:
(Do I need to do the "don't work for EA" disclaimer here?)
I don't know whether you meant this seriously, but just in case, no, you don't need to say (anywhere, ever) that you don't work for EA.
