How do you handle story progression without mccc?

When I used a laptop, I had a lot of mods, MCCC included, and my laptop didn't run any hotter or slower because of them. Unsure why yours is doing that, but it shouldn't make that much of a difference.

To handle story progression without a mod, you'll have to go into each household individually and either play out their progression or use cheats to do it. I use cheats to add progression for minor households in my game by artificially increasing their career level, their skill levels, maybe add new skills, add a kid to the household and age them up, etc. Just so they're all caught up, and I don't have to play out all that progress myself.

"CherryBerryCloud;c-17783889" wrote:
When I used a laptop, I had a lot of mods, MCCC included, and my laptop didn't run any hotter or slower because of them. Unsure why yours is doing that, but it shouldn't make that much of a difference.

To handle story progression without a mod, you'll have to go into each household individually and either play out their progression or use cheats to do it. I use cheats to add progression for minor households in my game by artificially increasing their career level, their skill levels, maybe add new skills, add a kid to the household and age them up, etc. Just so they're all caught up, and I don't have to play out all that progress myself.

Thank you! I've just started to add some kids via household manager.
My laptop is kind of old... after i took out mccc it stoped getting so hot... maybe that's why there's no story progression in the game. It's too much for older computers. I could hear the laptop doing a great effort to run the game with it.

I don't have mccc so I just rotate.

I play with all the families myself. I don't really like what MCCC does for story progression anyway.

I didn't have MCC until after I was in the 4th generation of trying out the Disney Challenge So maybe a couple years after I got the game. I basically just did what CherryBerryCloud said. Basically only played non-main household (other than upgrading them, aging kids, etc) when trying to find them an SO and get a few good shots. The rest of the townies were basically left alone, though. It was just descendant families and such. Even after MCC, I still do this sometimes, because I sort of feel how Sharonia does. Again, mostly just for relatives and such. I get attached to these Sims and families and I want to see them do well. I won't micro-manage enough to keep the game stagnant and keep them from dieing from things (if it unfortunately comes to that) other than old age, but I at least want to set them up. Also to fix CAS. Even without CC in the game, sometimes they end up with questionable outfits.....

Also, with the overheating thing I think it may be your older laptop like you said. I had an old laptop when I was playing Sims 3. It would make all kinds of whirring noises and get quite hot (and this was without a single CC or mod), and I had to play it with a fan underneath my laptop. My current one is getting old by technology standards, but it still handles quite well. Sometimes loading is a bit slower, and my PC snob bf is like "Do you not have a solid state?!" ("uh... Sims is the only game I play that makes my system actually work....?"), but I still deal well. I pop on here or scroll FB or something.. lol