Eco awareness: The cheap Story Progression substitute?

A bit off topic but how do those of you who do rotational play, do so successfully? I loved rotational play in the sims 2 because I could pick up where I left off but I've always been afraid to do so with the sims 4 and culling and all that and I want to do this vanilla if possible because I've played with MCCC before and more personality please mods but I get tired of having to check for updates with mods.


Let me also say I do love story progression, however not the default one from the sims 3 but how it's done with Nraas SP mod. If they added something like that I would be all over it or if It were something like the sims 2 and the attraction system with their own new spin on story progression that might suit 4 better as it's a closed world similar to 2.