Here are my settings for my messed-up Neighborhood stories:
Loaded PlantSim completed scenario. This is 6 Sim days of game play in a brand new save.
Game options > gameplay > Neighborhood stories checked.
Manage Households > My Households > The upper right button to configure them is green.
When clicked Configure Neighborhood Stories, All Households in My Households, Enable Neighborhood stories on the right is checked.
Selected under that (green) are 3 things: Leave a Career, Retire From a Career, Join a Career.
This makes all MY Households Green. Then in two of my households, I clicked their icons and removed even those selections from them. (I wanted them to stay in the same careers.) And I have the blue circle on both of those households indicating that I have a custom configuration for them.
So for me, here is where it got weird. In one of those households with the custom config, I have no idea where the two males got to (it never showed up in the neighborhood information), but now one of the males from "Other Households" (Tim Wainscot) is showing up there snuggling the female's baby. Those two males should never have moved out or died or whatever happened to them...but they were living in Strangerville. I went through the "not in the world" section too and they are not there.
Now for the Other Households: I set the same overall configuration with only the careers selected. I then set some specialty configurations.
I allowed my version of the Newbies to also have a baby. At the end of 6 Sim days, the Newbies, who started with a puppy belonging to their old dog, now have a child (child, not toddler. 6 Sim days) son, and 3 babies. But the puppy is still a puppy, so the child aged differently.
Custom config for the Pancakes who I allowed to have a baby too, now have 2 babies and a toddler in 6 sim days.
Now that Wainscot family, I had Felicia W move in, so there was 1 adult male, 2 adult females and the two toddlers. I allowed them only to adopt a pet, no career changes or anything else. And there is no sign of Tim, there now. But I know where he went even though there shouldn't have been any change.
I kind of have a god complex and only want certain things happening or not. But to go all out and have 4 children in a 6 sim day period is a bit over the top. (I haven't checked to see if those are triplets yet.)
I hope this helps to figure things out right now. I'm probably going to turn off neighborhood stories though until something is figured out.
