Has Neighborhood Stories Gone Wild In Your Game?

Yes! I have so much going on in my neighborhoods now that I have stopped reading them. As for newborns, I'm not sure as there was just too much to keep up with.

I like the concept. Keep in mind you can 'tweak' it. For "Played" (Heck no for me, stays off!), For "UnPlayed" (Have it on, but all features off). For each household then you can customize it. At the moment, the only household I have customized with a few of the features is "Harris" in Evergreen Harbour.
So yes, I have not playtested it yet. Good to start with one household.

With base-game, no packs, no mods, had that issue of things going insane when I first started playing. ;)

For me it was just killing off my Townies too much, and while I was fine losing some of the older ones I've had in my saves for a long time, it got excessive and I shut it off.

I only had pet and child adoption, plus having a baby turned on for a few Townie families (most of my Townies are single Sims) and I never saw any traction with it, but my understanding is that's affected by traits. I'm guessing the Sims I was allowing it for didn't have the right traits.

I boot out nearly all the premade Sims too when I start a new save, so I don't have a lot of unplayed households living on lots either. And I had it turned off on the ones I kept, because I'll want to play them at some point.

Adoption has gone totally nuts in my game so I turned it off for most households. I am disappointed that I have no idea what happened to Eliza Pancakes. I couple sim days ago she was there and then it was like she never existed. I assumed she died but I didn't get any kind of notification on the neighborhood stories updates. I don't know if it was because I was playing a sim that didn't live in Willow Creek or what. I visited Bob. The house seems so big when he is there by himself.

He is not sad about her being gone, there is no urn, no trace that she ever existed. She doesn't even show up in his family tree as a sim that has died. That bums me out, a lot. She's not in his relationship panel at all. Completely scrubbed. I'm going to have to play his household just to make sure he remarries and has a nice life. I feel bad for him, I was hoping the game would make them have kids but nope, it just erased Eliza all together.

It seems to function very closely to the MCCC story telling. So no, I like it very much, this is exactly what I wanted and also tells me this is very much playtested.
Btw, a bug makes a lot of babies dark skinned despite not actually being that. It has nothing to do with this patch.

I just got notification that one of my families is expecting a baby. That was my first notification. It's my main sim's son and daughter-in-law.

I like how they implemented it, in terms of just how much control they give us for each household and each setting. But I'm disappointed that we can't tweak the individual settings in terms of actual tuning.

Right now, accidental deaths kills far too many sims too quickly. It completely wiped out the entire elder population in under 2 sim weeks when i set all elder households to allow accidental deaths.
Pet adoptions adopts pets at the rate of a couple per day which, at the rate pets age, will eventually fill up every household in the game with pets.
Baby births does not create new births at the same rate as sims are dying (especially with accidental deaths on) so it is not sufficient to maintain populations at the default tuning, yet child adoptions is through the roof and would completely displace all genetic offspring if left on as it is tuned significantly higher than births, apparently.
Meanwhile, joining careers needs to be disabled because it can break your game and cause the error code 0 save issue.

So, basically, the entire feature needs adjustment, and sadly they didn't give us the tools to do the adjustments ourselves. A simple "on/off" option is insufficient given that the entire population of the game and the rate at which it ages (or not) can be adjusted.

MCCC is much better for literally every feature that Neighborhood stories offers except pet adoptions, because MCCC lets you tweak the tuning values not just turn things on/off. The only thing Neighborhood stories does better than MCCC is the pet adoptions and the ease with which features can be turned on and off by household.

@Stormkeep I agree. Fine tuning the chances should be there for it. Like MCCC.

I don't particular care about the neighbours in Sims 4, unless they're a potential love interest in which case they very quickly get moved into one of my played households. I have noticed some hilarious outcomes with the neighbourhood system though, including one house with 5 dogs and a toddler, no adults, not teens. I'm half considering playing the house as a 'raised by wolves' scenario. :D

"shellbeme;c-18084744" wrote:
I am disappointed that I have no idea what happened to Eliza Pancakes. I couple sim days ago she was there and then it was like she never existed. I assumed she died but I didn't get any kind of notification on the neighborhood stories updates. I don't know if it was because I was playing a sim that didn't live in Willow Creek or what. I visited Bob. The house seems so big when he is there by himself.

He is not sad about her being gone, there is no urn, no trace that she ever existed. She doesn't even show up in his family tree as a sim that has died. That bums me out, a lot. She's not in his relationship panel at all. Completely scrubbed. I'm going to have to play his household just to make sure he remarries and has a nice life. I feel bad for him, I was hoping the game would make them have kids but nope, it just erased Eliza all together.

This reminds me of a show, I think it was called ‘Missing’ and there was a team who had to find out what happened to the missing person. Sure Eric Close was in it.

Also if a Sim suffers an accidental death why doesn’t an urn get generated? ??‍♂️ Does the Grim Reaper only appear on an active lot? Is he required to register the death in game? Maybe that’s why there’s no urn? ???‍♂️.

Maybe in Options, a master report we could go through if wanted that tracks everything that changed. ?