March Patch Speculation 2022 (Patch 2 Out Now)

https://twitter.com/TheSimCommunity/status/1503794321908187151?t=yGZTy_kxnmtW6iBrsiwbZg&s=19

Blog
https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/neighborhood-stories-system

Sadly the bug fixes are deeply disappointing again. Rockets? Chefs? Decorator and paranormal careers? Herbalism? GTW career animations?

"catloverplayer;c-18078366" wrote:
Blog
https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/neighborhood-stories-system

This looks very fiddly. I’ve got 80 Sim limit spread across 11 households in My Households.

Looks like I have to select the options for each one if I enable Neighbourhood Stories. I want Billy and Sally to have kids but not move out. The Pancakes can have people move in but not out etc. I don’t know if I want to actually go through every house.

The Unplayed Households is worse, they grow every play. More Sims get generated and I’m constantly having to go through the list to manage them. The micro management for setting each criteria in these neighbourhood stories feels exhausting! ?.
I like the concept but I’m definitely disabling this for Unplayed Households.

Its cool, this new stuff and all, but what if they'd fix actual major bugs? I don't mind waiting a little longer and then getting it fixed. For example, clipping issues, teleporting Sims, fps drops randomly (even on high end systems), T posing Doctors.

"ncisGibbs02;c-18078506" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-18078366" wrote:
Blog
https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/neighborhood-stories-system

This looks very fiddly. I’ve got 80 Sim limit spread across 11 households in My Households.

Looks like I have to select the options for each one if I enable Neighbourhood Stories. I want Billy and Sally to have kids but not move out. The Pancakes can have people move in but not out etc. I don’t know if I want to actually go through every house.

The Unplayed Households is worse, they grow every play. More Sims get generated and I’m constantly having to go through the list to manage them. The micro management for setting each criteria in these neighbourhood stories feels exhausting! ?.
I like the concept but I’m definitely disabling this for Unplayed Households.

Admittedly, I just started a new save so the list wasn't huge, but it didn't take that long to hop into Unplayed households and just tweak the ones I didn't want to move out/change jobs. Hit the Stories management button, click options on or off, save and move on to the next one. I only changed the general conditions for the households where I cared what happened, so the Goths, the Laandgrabs, the Pancakes, the Callientes, the Charms, the Vampires and the Magic sages. Everyone else I left to the whims of the computer. It was kinda fun to see Geeta Rasoya finally get her Grandbaby via Raj adopting a toddler, or Bella and Mortimer having kid #3. And lots of houses have new pets too.

But then, I like that sort of randomness in the unplayed households, because I don't want to micromanage them.

"ncisGibbs02;c-18078506" wrote:

This looks very fiddly. I’ve got 80 Sim limit spread across 11 households in My Households.

Looks like I have to select the options for each one if I enable Neighbourhood Stories. I want Billy and Sally to have kids but not move out. The Pancakes can have people move in but not out etc. I don’t know if I want to actually go through every house.

The Unplayed Households is worse, they grow every play. More Sims get generated and I’m constantly having to go through the list to manage them. The micro management for setting each criteria in these neighbourhood stories feels exhausting! ?.
I like the concept but I’m definitely disabling this for Unplayed Households.

If you set it globally for all households in the category then you only need to 'fiddle' with those households where you want them to be different than what you set as global options.

The next patch this month will probably only have fixes for mws and maybe some other bug fixes thrown in there.

"DaWaterRat;c-18078588" wrote:

"ncisGibbs02;c-18078506" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-18078366" wrote:
Blog
https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/neighborhood-stories-system

This looks very fiddly. I’ve got 80 Sim limit spread across 11 households in My Households.

Looks like I have to select the options for each one if I enable Neighbourhood Stories. I want Billy and Sally to have kids but not move out. The Pancakes can have people move in but not out etc. I don’t know if I want to actually go through every house.

The Unplayed Households is worse, they grow every play. More Sims get generated and I’m constantly having to go through the list to manage them. The micro management for setting each criteria in these neighbourhood stories feels exhausting! ?.
I like the concept but I’m definitely disabling this for Unplayed Households.

Admittedly, I just started a new save so the list wasn't huge, but it didn't take that long to hop into Unplayed households and just tweak the ones I didn't want to move out/change jobs. Hit the Stories management button, click options on or off, save and move on to the next one. I only changed the general conditions for the households where I cared what happened, so the Goths, the Laandgrabs, the Pancakes, the Callientes, the Charms, the Vampires and the Magic sages. Everyone else I left to the whims of the computer. It was kinda fun to see Geeta Rasoya finally get her Grandbaby via Raj adopting a toddler, or Bella and Mortimer having kid #3. And lots of houses have new pets too.

But then, I like that sort of randomness in the unplayed households, because I don't want to micromanage them.

That’s my problem, I don’t like leaving things to my Sims. Any of them. I want to decide ?.

Thanks for replying how easy you found it. Makes me feel more calm about it. ?

"Stormkeep;c-18078601" wrote:

"ncisGibbs02;c-18078506" wrote:

This looks very fiddly. I’ve got 80 Sim limit spread across 11 households in My Households.

Looks like I have to select the options for each one if I enable Neighbourhood Stories. I want Billy and Sally to have kids but not move out. The Pancakes can have people move in but not out etc. I don’t know if I want to actually go through every house.

The Unplayed Households is worse, they grow every play. More Sims get generated and I’m constantly having to go through the list to manage them. The micro management for setting each criteria in these neighbourhood stories feels exhausting! ?.
I like the concept but I’m definitely disabling this for Unplayed Households.

If you set it globally for all households in the category then you only need to 'fiddle' with those households where you want them to be different than what you set as global options.

I will just have to try and not want to manage every household individually! I can see that will be hard. I will set global options. Thanks! ?

@ncisGibbs02, what I've done is use a combination of both. First I set it globally for each of the two categories, with the settings I want for "most" of those households. And then I went in and individually adjusted just a couple of households were I wanted it different. ... Like turning it off completely for all of my "played' households.

It took me all of like.. 4 minutes...to set it up for all of the households in my game. And I have a lot of households, every single house (and apartment) in every world is occupied.