Neighbourhood Stories: What Are Your Settings?

"wahini2024;c-18080023" wrote:
If I have don't fill empty homes as my default setting does the move in option override that?

From what people are saying here, yes it does override it.

"Stormkeep;c-18079195" wrote:
I've now got 4 different setups.

My default for "My Housholds" that are unplayed is to allow them to have babies and adopt pets, nothing else.
My settings for "My Households" that are played is to turn it off entirely.
My default for "Other Households" is to turn on everything except random move outs and deaths.
My custom setting for "Other Households" which are elderly sims is to turn on only random deaths and retirement. (MCCC moves elder sims here automatically with my settings).

These are basically what I'm doing as well. Most premades are in "Other", and I turned off deaths when I got the notification that Moira Fyres had died of laughter. This is a save where I've done makeovers of all premades, so uhh....yeah. Besides, she is always so sweet and friendly. I happened to see her ghost right after the notification, so all thanks to MCCC, I saved her and moved her back in with her family. Phew. Straight to "Manage Households" and turned that setting off. Same with moving out. I don't like when premade families move to places they "don't belong". :D

I really hate to sound ignorant here, but can someone tell me where I can find the menu for settings on this new thing? According to what's on default, that' all that's going on, it's a trifle boring. I just don't know where or how to adjust the settings. :open_mouth:

@GalacticGal There are some screenshots on the official blog that can guide you:

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

"babajayne;c-18080200" wrote:
@GalacticGal There are some screenshots on the official blog that can guide you:

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

Thank you so much!

I had to turn off accidental deaths for awhile (well, except for a Sim I'm targeting), because they were starting to drop like flies. So many deaths!

Yeah, I can see why. I read part of a thread earlier today listing all of the deaths made possible via this patch. :open_mouth: I'll have to think about just how I wish to set up things, now that I've been directed to a very helpful article.

I really like this update. I had everything on at first, but I am customizing for each household now. The adoption rate is high compared to pregnancy, so I will switch that one off for a bit as well as the accidental death one. So far I really prefer customizing households individually, but the mass settings feature will be useful if I want to add a lot of pets or babies in future. I like switching over to the households that have news to play them a bit. So far I get around 2-3 news updates per Sim day.

Poor Salim Benali managed to die sticking his finger in a light socket. :D And Penny Pizzazz adopted TWO children in her tiny studio apartment, I think I might need to move her to something more suitable. I am really enjoying this feature and hope they'll add more options.

The Caliente household adopted a child and then the game moved them out. I moved them back in and set them to not move. The BBF household adopted a child and 3 dogs! I made Willow Creek Park cat and dog friendly so hopefully they may visit with their pets