The Sims 4 Neighborhood Stories; Opinion

I'd be so annoyed to have an NPC loose their role that way. Making them over is a pain in the behind already.

I think it's pretty buggy and wasn't really worked through all the way before it was released. Stories progress to fast. In hindsight the idea is good but. I don't think it was well executed.

I loved the thought of it when it was initially announced. Sadly, I had to disable it. Part of this decision was because of the bug that prevented saving if you had some of the options checked (ahs this been repaired?) Another part of it was that it is way overtuned. My game was filling up with babies and toddlers as if it was attempting to give a child to every adult sim and to fill some of the households. Also, a large number of those children seemed to be either adopted or children that single sims had with random townies, which I wasn't too thrilled about. I do wish sims would actually form couples on their own before acting like baby factories or orphanages...

"Chicklet453681;c-18103311" wrote:
Have mine completely turned off as well, and also use a mod to stop the phone calls.

The whole baby/child birth and adoption (and pets) was happening so ridiculously often (and placing these kids in with households whose houses did not have room to accommodate all of these additional people). It literally made no sense! I can not stand things like this so off it went.

Even though I never wanted any type of story progression, after reading about the options and customization, I was intrigued because it sounded really good on paper, but like with all things TS4, it was turned up to 11 (extreme level).

When it's like that, nothing is special, meaning it happens sooooo frequently that it's just more annoying rather than "Ohhh how cute! The Such-n-Such family just had a baby!"

Now it's more like "Really?!! You needed to adopt another kid because the 3 you adopted last week weren't enough and your little 2 bedroom house isn't feeling like a sardine can enough for you?"

My thoughts on this feature. I have nothing more to add.

@SerraNolwen: That bug has been repaired by now.

Disabled in mine.