Turning Story Progression Off
Does anyone play with story progression off? I have been mostly playing the Sims 3, but I decided to play a bit of Sims 4 today. I was tunnel visioned on finishing some aspirations that might be b...
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"Atreya33;c-18307677" wrote:
I have it turned of as soon as it was added to the game. I never liked story progression in the sims 3, in fact I consider it a down side of the sims 3. I am glad it is only optional in the sims 4. I like the households outside of my played sims to remain static. By default I have aging for off for unplayed households so I don't get empty worlds either. The off option works very well.
Are there any specific aspirations you are struggling with? I completed most of them. Some tasks are tricky or take a long time but most worked as expected."fujicakes1;c-18307646" wrote:
Tbh...I have been playing Sims 4 for (only) a year, and I don't know what story progression in the game is? I never play according to any sort of rules or anything, I don't even know what the rules are, and I never have had problems. So maybe just forget that there is a story progression? Hm. I dunno.
Story progression is a system that was added to the sims 4 in an update. Actually it is called neighbourhood stories. Story progression was the name of a similar system in the sims 3. This system allows the game to move in new households into empty lots, give unplayed sims a career, let them have children, adopt a pet, let sims die. The idea is that the world feels more alive and changes over time. The big advantage of the sims 4 is that you can customise the system on a global level for all sims and allow exceptions on a household base. You can find information about the settings here
Ah! I see. I have aging turned off for all characters including unplayed as well. I have seen notices about neighborhood stories but didn't really think much about it. It has never interfered with my gameplay, although I know that things happen because I had notices turned on one time with mccc before a previous update and everyone was getting divorced and remarried and pregnant and etc, or they were married but they got pregnant from someone else, it was pretty entertaining. And sims do move for sure, sometimes into houses that I later want, but I just...ahem...either move them or...delete them. Depending on how much I care at the time. Thanks for telling me what that is!
