Neighbourhood Stories: What Are Your Settings?

"EmmaVane;c-18080793" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-18080665" wrote:

"Stormkeep;c-18080600" wrote:
@Amapola76, the botton appears on each household before you click on them, in the "manage households" interface. it is right next to the heart button that can be used to send them back and forth between "my" and "other" households.

Picture is worth a thousand words, the button in question which appears at both the top and on each household within manage households; follow the yellow arrow:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/7b2c539b9c401d016d4a9b0d329681c1/bddeeecf3de150c7-4c/s540x810/47009e1ed193b657ca43e0520f9384727d76adca.jpg

Thanks, the pictures definitely helped.

It also doesn't work at all the way I would have preferred. I was hoping for something more like the Fame system, where you can turn it off globally and then still edit individuals. So I had gone into options as soon as I opened the game, and turned off the global toggle for Neighborhood Stories. But then there was no option to turn on individual households in Manage Households, which is why the buttons weren't originally showing up for me. So I had to turn the global option back on, and then the buttons appeared so that individual households could be edited.

I really don't love that they set it up that way. The only small mercy is that at least it was defaulted to off for "My Households." However, I play rotationally, and I have a LOT of households, which means that there are several that I rotate in and out of "My Households" and "Other Households." So it's going to take hours to get it set up to the point where I feel comfortable playing my main save without worrying about what will happen to all the households I care about. Thankfully, I only opened it up today because the kids are all off doing their own things this weekend, so for once I have the house to myself and can do whatever I want. :D

Turn it on globally in Options.

Press the reset to defaults button in Options.

Go to Manage Households > Other Households and turn it off for the whole tab via the button top-right (My Households is already off by default, but you will need to do if for Other Households)

No sims will progress unless you...

Click on each household's NS button to set things manually.