Fill Empty Lots Change
From the patch notes: "We have tidied up the Game Options menu a little by removing the Fill In Empty Lots option. This particular option has been superseded with Neighborhood Stories and the “Move...
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"DesertSimmer1971;c-18102363" wrote:
Instead of just unchecking one box, If I understand @DaWaterRat, since there are approximately 93 permade and not in world sims at the beginning of starting a new game with all the worlds, I would now have to go into each household and edit the neighborhood stories one at a time since this feature is turned on automatically. This would have to be done every 5 to 10 minutes of play or because the game generates townies to fill roles in the game. I would also need to go into each empty house/Apartment which is over 100 lots with all packs, and zero out the bedrooms and bathrooms as well.
I would like to play the game, not have to spend my time doing this. I don't have the luxury of having hours a day to play a game.
No, you can change it globally for all Unplayed households. So all unplayed households will have the same behavior. You change 2 buttons once. Newly Generated Unplayed Households will all have the same restrictions.
Heck, you can turn Neighborhood stories off entirely with one check box.
It only becomes an issue if you want to have, say, the Goths and the Landgraabs move out and in, which I'm assuming you don't want.
Here, I don't have screenshots at the moment and won't be playing sims for a few hours, but here's the overview that Sims Community did on Neighborhood Stories
https://simscommunity.info/2022/03/16/the-sims-4-guide-to-neighbourhood-stories-customisation/
