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xochiquetzl_xkvn
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

Re: Story Progression update is flawed and annoying

I'm a rotational player and I feel like Neighborhood Stories should bypass your favorited/played households. The way it is now, it seems based entirely on your relationship with the other Sim, but if the other household is another played household you might have other plans for them! Also it leads to awkward things like your Mom calling to ask if she should Do The Deed with your Dad and give you a sibling.  😉

I'm doing the new Neighborhood Confidante aspiration with my Super Sim, and.I've had the following frustrations with it:

  1. The Sims who call and ask, "So, hey, should I get pregnant with my spouse?" NEVER GET PREGNANT. I suppose this could be because of my mods? (Does Wonderful Whims prevent this?)
  2. My other households in my rotational save are constantly calling whatever household I'm playing. CONSTANTLY. At least one call a week from Super Sim's mom to ask if she should get pregnant unless I'm playing her. If I am playing her, one of my other favorited/played households will call the main house (but never the Sim with the actual aspiration) to ask if they should get pregnant. Okay, the most persistent "Should I have a baby?" callers are Family-Oriented, come to think of it, but... they're very persistent.

I have had luck with convincing people to change careers. My Sim with the aspiration is a Global Superstar and I've started "Instant Besties Friendly Introduction" any Paparazzi and "Ask to pursue dream career," which I find hilarious. (Okay, I just like messing with the paparazzi.) So far they've become writers, babysitters, and secret agents.  😉  So this part of Neighborhood Stories is A+++ would mess with the paparazzi again.  😉 

Also, I did get the ring in bag thing but I was planning on having those two get married anyway, and at least they were actually calling a third party.

One final thing: I'm pretty sure that it's As Designed that my Sim can't encourage Brent and Brant Hecking, with whom she has 100% friendship, to expand their family, but that makes me sad because they would be cute Dads and could totally adopt. Ah well.

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  • Cyan148's avatar
    Cyan148
    New Ace
    4 years ago

    I didn't think of that, yeah they should add adoption to it. It would probably be best as a separate option but that's a good idea. Also it would be cool if they did backwards updates and went and integrated it with the dlc so you could maybe encourage your sims to adopt a dog or a cat. 

    But right now it's a rather flawed update and I'd rather have them sort it out than add new features. 

  • daikoyu's avatar
    daikoyu
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    If they add that then they need to go back and tweak the sim ai. I never saw an NPC feed his pet or full the bowl.

    It’s just frustrating, I really will believe the team give the best but all the bugs, its just so frustrating if they add something like this and its again full of *weird* tweaking. I’m full in for more settings for console and vanilla players. I think this is the best way. Mods are good for specific tweaking and so should it be. I had never bought sims 4 if I know that the game had story progress.

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