Neighbourhood Stories: What Are Your Settings?

I’m fidgeting with my settings as I play rotationally while setting up my base/AU save. So here’s a few things that I do.

I have specific settings for played households, each is different. For example Bob and Eliza adopted a cat (I gave them my own CAS version of Iggy) so I turned off the adopt pet feature. Now the only option selected for them at the moment is “can retire” but, Eric and Alice can only retire or have a baby and once they have a baby, I’ll turn that option off and add “adopt a cat/dog” on my next rotation back to them. Once my sims complete a goal I’ve set for them, I remove that option.

The Sages and Father Winter have all options turned off.

Households that I haven’t rotated to yet only have the option to join a career. Everything else is turned off until I play the household. If I don’t like the career or they didn’t pick one, I choose it and then turn off that option for them.

I set death by accident to Vlad only. I plan on using it for other households but for now, he’s the only one that gets that honor…I think he might still be alive. Don’t quote me on that.

"UniqueKhaos;c-18080383" wrote:
I’m fidgeting with my settings as I play rotationally while setting up my base/AU save. So here’s a few things that I do.

I have specific settings for played households, each is different. For example Bob and Eliza adopted a cat (I gave them my own CAS version of Iggy) so I turned off the adopt pet feature. Now the only option selected for them at the moment is “can retire” but, Eric and Alice can only retire or have a baby and once they have a baby, I’ll turn that option off and add “adopt a cat/dog” on my next rotation back to them. Once my sims complete a goal I’ve set for them, I remove that option.

The Sages and Father Winter have all options turned off.

Households that I haven’t rotated to yet only have the option to join a career. Everything else is turned off until I play the household. If I don’t like the career or they didn’t pick one, I choose it and then turn off that option for them.

I set death by accident to Vlad only. I plan on using it for other households but for now, he’s the only one that gets that honor…I think he might still be alive. Don’t quote me on that.

I have also turned it off for these sims. I don't want them to loose their special roles because they move into a house. I find it odd that the system is by default enabled for these special sims. Are there any other sims that loose their role if they move into a lot.

I have a special save to test the neighbourhood stories. I noticed that in fact you do not only get news of people in your neighbourhood but also from elsewhere. At first I allowed everything for My households and other households. Got a lot of babies and adoptions, and two moving out. The two moved out families did not move in en empty house or appartement, they were just «not in the world». What I am afraid of is that the employees of my restaurants, whose competence have been maxed out might loose their job and be replaced by others with low competence.

Decided to turn off Move Out and Adopt Kids - game kept giving grannies new adopted babies. I also like to play with genetics for my couples so don't want a flood of adoptees. Kept have a new baby for couples but game is tending to give those couples who are almost elders new births so will keep an eye on it. Sure their teens can take care of the new sib but in some cases the kids are already married when their parents have a new baby. Keeping adopt pets - if I get an ugly one I change it. Any families I don't want changes for are still in My Households but most of them are in Other households. The deaths seem to have slowed down a lot and some of the move ins etc. give me a chance to get creative with my game so I like them. But most move outs just don't cut it for me.

"Atreya33;c-18080458" wrote:

I have also turned it off for these sims. I don't want them to loose their special roles because they move into a house. I find it odd that the system is by default enabled for these special sims. Are there any other sims that loose their role if they move into a lot.

Because they do not lose their special role if they move into a house, only if you actually go into LIVE mode playing them. Which makes it safer to not move them into a house in the first place, but ultimately moving into a house alone is not a problem. There are no sim roles in the game where just moving them into a house, if you never enter LIVE mode with them, is a problem.

More dangerous for those special sims than the move-in option is the career change option as some of the special roles involve a career flag as well. So it is the right move to have neighborhood stories OFF for them, regardless

Right now, I am playing a save that has everything on except move out. This is for every household except my played household, which allows nothing. I think I may turn off adoptions. That is the only thing that seems excessive right now. I have had a few deaths. But as this save is new, I am not upset about it. So far, the deaths seem appropriate. I lost a couple of sims to Mt Komorebi, one to electrical shock, one to heat exhaustion, and one to a cowplant.

I'm still confused about how to actually change individual households.

The patch notes say, "To change configurations, just select Manage Worlds in the Options menu, and then select Manage Households. From there, you can choose either My Households or Other Households, and then configure the Neighborhood Stories by selecting the button at the top-right for all the Households in that tab. Or you can configure them separately per Household, using the Neighborhood Stories button in each Household."

Well, I'm in Manage Households, but when I click on a household, I don't see a "Neighborhood Stories" button anywhere. Not in the menu popup, nor do I see it if I go all the way into CAS.

@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

"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

@Amapola76, turn it off with the button at the top right corner for "My" and "Other" households. Then you can still edit individual households to enable it just for them. The game options global toggle is just that, fully global.