"EgonVM;c-18349393" wrote:
"GymeaLillie;c-18349328" wrote:
@EgonVM Thanks for this information too. A lot of my households that have been played are marked "unplayed" by me on purpose for a gameplay reason. I don't play every single household each round, so I need to age up "unplayed" households for one week at the end of every round to make everyone age evenly. Households with key gameplay moments get played, but others wait until another round. From what you have explained, I have caused teens without an upcoming birthday to be at risk. So at graduation, I could go through every single household with a teen and mark them "played", then change it all back afterwards. I guess only homeless townies would appear at the ceremony? This mod file takes a lot less time just to pop in when I need it. I appreciate the explanation though. I haven't seen that mentioned before.
Yes, only teens generated randomly would age up.
The played and unplayed households is a different story. You can always use a birthday cake to age sims up earlier (bake a cake and add birthday candles), but I wouldn't make my played households into unplayed for several reasons:
- Unplayed sims lose more relationships than played sims.
- Unplayed sims may lose their mobile phone cover and umbrella preference.
- Unplayed sims may be put in a NPC position (especially the unemployed ones). If the position requires a skill, they will get it. My retired sim once got into this predictament. She was then retired not from the business career, but from reflexionist career. Don't know how it is now, with Neighborhood Stories doing its things...
- Building in unplayed households allows you building with infinite funds and no household inventory (like with community lots!). It could be a money exploit though...
The game has changed so much so I don't know a lot of unplayed effects, but essentially, unplayed sims tend to get reduced in their data so that the save file wouldn't get big. Thus unplayed sims seems to be meant for sims players doesn't care about...
I also noticed a couple of times when I marked played households as unplayed and then later put them back to played, that one sim in a family list her job, and with another household one of the sims career changed. The career change one was before neighborhood stories came out. My two rotational saves have neighborhood stories turned off too.
