When you don't pause your save. . .

No. It might be different in The Sims Mobile (I’ve never played it), but in the main series, nothing happens while the save’s closed.

If you don't close your computer but leave the game running, it totally does! I sometimes forget to pause and I go to a different screen on my computer and then when I open it up again, my sims are just living life. I think the game automatically stops if your computer goes to sleep though and it definitely stops when you exit the game completely.

well, the other day i bought a pizza for my sim on the sims 3 and the next time i logged on the game again everything was the same, except the pizza wasn't there.

"catmando830;d-984865" wrote:
When you don't pause your save and then exit the game, does Sim life go on while you are not playing?

I've always wondered about this.

I mostly pause before exiting, but . . . ???

Haha! Reminds me of the episode of "Broken Mirror", "USS Callister". ;)

"Admiral8Q;c-17749008" wrote:

"catmando830;d-984865" wrote:
When you don't pause your save and then exit the game, does Sim life go on while you are not playing?

I've always wondered about this.

I mostly pause before exiting, but . . . ???

Haha! Reminds me of the episode of "Broken Mirror", "USS Callister". ;)

Was that from the show "The Last Ship" ?

I'm pretty sure they go on their lives regardless of whether you play or not, but then quickly return to "Stage" so you can continue :-) Live is a stage and people are actors, after all :-)

"ArcherDK;c-17749099" wrote:
I'm pretty sure they go on their lives regardless of whether you play or not, but then quickly return to "Stage" so you can continue :-) Live is a stage and people are actors, after all :-)

Did you see the episode I was talking about? It's actually quite amusing. ;)
(A bit creepy too, of course)

I once left mine running for 10-15mins unattended as nipped outside to sort some thing and didn't hit pause, came back to a monster tumble drier fire that had spread outside, with all the sims just stood flapping about it, thankfully no one died...

"Cheekyimp;c-17751647" wrote:
I once left mine running for 10-15mins unattended as nipped outside to sort some thing and didn't hit pause, came back to a monster tumble drier fire that had spread outside, with all the sims just stood flapping about it, thankfully no one died...

Something similar happened to me. When I first got Tiny Living, I was playing in a micro home with a Murphy Bed. I went to the kitchen to fix a quick meal without pausing and come back to find my Sim crushed to death...

"Elisetom;c-17751811" wrote:

"Cheekyimp;c-17751647" wrote:
I once left mine running for 10-15mins unattended as nipped outside to sort some thing and didn't hit pause, came back to a monster tumble drier fire that had spread outside, with all the sims just stood flapping about it, thankfully no one died...

Something similar happened to me. When I first got Tiny Living, I was playing in a micro home with a Murphy Bed. I went to the kitchen to fix a quick meal without pausing and come back to find my Sim crushed to death...

Yep. This happened to me too. I started my first evil criminal sim, gave him a tiny home with fast internet so he can troll the forums, he tried to go to bed while I was away for a sec and when I got back, grim was standing over him playing on his phone. I think it was karma.