What happens with non controlled sims around the world

> @Sharonia said:
> I know I can use MCCC story progression for this but honestly I don't like it. It just fills my game with poorly dressed sims when all the uncontrolled sims start having children and they grow up. I'm to much of a control freak and I want all the sims in my game world to look nice and not be dressed in crazy random mismatched outfits.

This is the problem that I have too but not after MCCC. It has a feature to save outfits and have randomly generated sims to only use your saved outfits when they get generated. It is a lot of work to make hundreds of different outfit combinations for each of the seven categories but it is very much worth it in the long run. If you're not super picky, I think there are already existing MCCC Dresser configurations that already did the legwork. I never really have the poorly-dressed townies annoyances anymore for years now.

"SimsLady2000;c-17768414" wrote:

"shotbyron;c-17768014" wrote:

"SimsLady2000;c-17767361" wrote:
Well, you could try rotational play. In one of my saves, before I started using mods, I would delete all existing townies and families and I started with my own families and rotated through them. However, you could also just create and fill some houses with your own creations and play them randomly and grow them. PC does offer some advantages in a game like this but you can pull it off without mods on a console by just getting rid of the premade townies. They just don't have much to offer. Some of the preloaded families are actually fun to play with. I like the Fyres for example and the BFFs and the Pancakes even.

In my saves, I use a number of mods to do things I am too lazy to do LOL. NPCC, for example, allows you to direct which jobs townies fill. MCCC allows me to pull townies from my library only so my library only has sims I want in my game. I have it nit set not to generate random townies. It doesn't mean you can't remake them to your own liking without it though. Build some nice houses etc or use the gallery to download non-cc homes, venues, etc and you can make your own stories very nicely without any mods at all. If anything, integrate the townies into your stories!

That is what I may end up doing. My plan was to create a teen and use him through adulthood until his death. I've yet to even touch the university pack really, so was hoping to fill my town with other teens/families and try to get good grades, do the college thing etc. But if the other teens/young adults don't do anything. Then it kinda defeats the purpose. I'd rather have a natural organic world then one where I control everything. That to me just doesn't seem fun. Maybe controlling a couple sims. But I don't want to control the whole town just to have a growth and changes. Oh well. Is what it is. Guess I could just go back to living in my mansion, being a professional photographer to the stars. Did they ever patch that issue where freelancers couldn't get paid for completed gigs? Thats around the time I quit playing last time. Just started back up.

I am with you 100%. I also like the game to more organic, almost chaotic LOL.

So the sims who attend college with you will advance in college. I noticed in one save I had Caleb Vatore in classes with my sim and he did attend college and received a degree all while in the NPC bin. Also the preloaded sims, Fletcher and Clarke, both completed college with honors without my assistance. This happened before I used mods. In addition, I have noticed that townies that have jobs advance their skills. So if you are visiting a bar, the bartender actually skills up in mixology and charisma. So they aren't completely non-engaged. I do believe they patched the freelancer problem. That one was annoying for me too. I had like 8 freelancers at the time!

Good to know they'll actually do their studies. Now I need to find a way to cheat and put sims in college, without the steps of making them go to HS, work on their grades, apply etc. I simply want to create and drop them in. Hopefully there is a cheat on consoles. I know PC has one.

"CaprianaB;c-17768474" wrote:

"shotbyron;c-17768390" wrote:

I wonder if it's possible to turn aging on and off as I please. Like play with main sim and have aging on. But when I switch to a secondary family, turn it off. Then resume aging when I switch back.

Yes, you can manually change the aging anytime. I do it frequently with my rotation.

Ah perfect. At least this way I can working on my other sim families without my main sim becoming old too quick lol.

NPC needs to be requested by the game to get a job or do something that resembles the late story progression of TS3 (which almost everybody hates so they use mods ?). If your Sims use the Interact with Co-workers at the job, and if there's none Sim at Manage Households on that career, then the game will pick one Sim to fill that role.

You can say that NPC Sims also get skills when they are visiting lots that your current Sim are at it. That means that they will unlock some skill-related interactions that probably will show up when socializing with them. I guess you will notice more effectively this if you play on long lifespan, or with aging off or even with the potion of youth.

With Eco-living expansion there's some scenario-related phone calls that gives you opportunity to make a decision about someone else get married or have a baby (I guess this only happens with households placed on lots). I wonder if Sharing is Caring NAP Sims that picks up my violin at my home gets it on their personal inventory or on their household one. NPC Sims that have items on their inventories will probably use it when visiting lots (voodoo dolls, violins, tablets... I guess everything). It is not the same that SP did on TS3 but those little layers of variables can set up some nice surprise moments.

(that all said, it seems that TS4 is more rotation wise. It worth a try if someday you get interested ?).

Just some observations I made, sorry if I was not clear or kinda of confuse. I really like this subject xD