Unplayed Sims Having Babies?

"ayyitsmell;d-999399" wrote:
Hello! I have a question about unplayed sims, not sure if there is already a discussion for this. I noticed that families I have never played with are all of a sudden having babies. Like my Bailey-Moon family has 2 new kids and a third one on the way. I have my neighborhood stories on but I never received a call from them asking if they should try for baby or anything. This also happened to another family who now has a new baby. Am I missing something? Is this a new thing?

When they improved neighborhood stories, they made it so that families would have (and adopt) kids autonomously without player input if you leave "have babies" and "adopt children" on in the master controls for Neighborhood stories. You can turn it off for all unplayed households, or just for select ones.

Its amazing how many babies other sims are having, I think it will need to be lowered with an update soon. I noticed it with my new rotational gameplay game, every time I check the mailbox for news someone either adopted or had a baby LOL

"DaWaterRat;c-18103389" wrote:

"ayyitsmell;d-999399" wrote:
Hello! I have a question about unplayed sims, not sure if there is already a discussion for this. I noticed that families I have never played with are all of a sudden having babies. Like my Bailey-Moon family has 2 new kids and a third one on the way. I have my neighborhood stories on but I never received a call from them asking if they should try for baby or anything. This also happened to another family who now has a new baby. Am I missing something? Is this a new thing?

When they improved neighborhood stories, they made it so that families would have (and adopt) kids autonomously without player input if you leave "have babies" and "adopt children" on in the master controls for Neighborhood stories. You can turn it off for all unplayed households, or just for select ones.

Oh wow! That's pretty cool actually. I saw several families having babies so I had to increase my sim capacity to 'unlimited' instead of 200. Hopefully it doesn't get too wild in my game LOL. Thank you for the insight!

I just wish that the families having so many kids weren't in 1 bedroom houses lol and single sims in the 3+ bedroom ones lol. I am hoping the move in /option will fix that eventually

"verlainem;c-18103642" wrote:
I just wish that the families having so many kids weren't in 1 bedroom houses lol and single sims in the 3+ bedroom ones lol. I am hoping the move in /option will fix that eventually

Why do you think they finally gave us bunk beds?

"ayyitsmell;c-18103598" wrote:

"DaWaterRat;c-18103389" wrote:

"ayyitsmell;d-999399" wrote:
Hello! I have a question about unplayed sims, not sure if there is already a discussion for this. I noticed that families I have never played with are all of a sudden having babies. Like my Bailey-Moon family has 2 new kids and a third one on the way. I have my neighborhood stories on but I never received a call from them asking if they should try for baby or anything. This also happened to another family who now has a new baby. Am I missing something? Is this a new thing?

When they improved neighborhood stories, they made it so that families would have (and adopt) kids autonomously without player input if you leave "have babies" and "adopt children" on in the master controls for Neighborhood stories. You can turn it off for all unplayed households, or just for select ones.

Oh wow! That's pretty cool actually. I saw several families having babies so I had to increase my sim capacity to 'unlimited' instead of 200. Hopefully it doesn't get too wild in my game LOL. Thank you for the insight!

The more sims the more fun! :)

"mcrudd;c-18103582" wrote:
Its amazing how many babies other sims are having, I think it will need to be lowered with an update soon. I noticed it with my new rotational gameplay game, every time I check the mailbox for news someone either adopted or had a baby LOL

Yeah I quickly realized it is a little too heavy handed for my taste. I basically adjusted it so only half of my unplayed houses are able to adopt or have children, and then once they have two, I turn it off for that household. I also didn't like that houses with just roommates were adopting and having kids, so I turned it off for them.

Its a nice feature, but as with everything else TS4, its exaggerated and happens too often. I've had to turn off all options, except move in and get new career/retire. I didn't like that pre-mades moved out of their family homes. Random townies can move whereever, but not the Goth's.

I play with aging off always, and I find it difficult to deal with all the babies. I have no idea what to do with them. They'll just stay babies forever.

It hasn't been too much for me it appeared allowing all the unplayed have kids made the game pick a few here and there who have kids, since you can turn it off and pick a few families to add to their homes customizing what feels right for you I hope they don't mess with it. Might even be good to stop them until your played sims are ready for more babies so there are love interests at the same age and whatnot.

The autonomous baby-making can make the population explode rather quickly. I thought the MCCC preset was over the top, which is why I don't use that mod, but the official story progression settings are just as bad. The first time I played after the update, I had forgotten about it, until I noticed that everybody and their mother was suddenly popping out babies like a popcorn machine. Had to resort to my trusty old baby-slaying tools again.

But unlike with MCCC, at least I know how to turn it off, and over time I turned off all the other NPC life choices as well. Because as soon as you disable one of them, the others become even more annoyingly frequent, and the job hopping was getting out of hand, too.