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sparilis
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
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Neighborhood Stories off yet unplayed Sims are still aging and having kids.

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:Mac Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.100.144.1230 What...
  • PipMenace's avatar
    PipMenace
    2 years ago

    Aging is a separate setting from neighborhood stories. You can turn aging on or off for played and for unplayed sims.

    They’ll never just be frozen if you’re playing in the same save though. Pregnancies will progress, university semesters will progress, and when you go back to the household they will be doing something different from where you left them. If you want to stop playing a household for a while and then come back to find them exactly as you left them, then you should play in a different save until you come back to them.

sparilis's avatar
sparilis
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
@luthienrising wrote:
@sparilisTurning off aging will stop their children from growing up. It won't stop them from having children - that part is a Neighborhood Stories setting.

I turned off aging and Neighborhood stories. Everything was fine for a while but now unplayed Sims are aging again. Also, getting married, having children, and moving to new houses. What am I doing wrong? 

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luthienrising
Hero+
2 years ago

Aging isn't controlled by Neighborhood Stories; it's controlled by your Gameplay Options. Check in Options again.

Getting married and moving from one house to another isn't controlled by the game at all; it's available only from mods. Mods can also override your having-children Neighborhood Stories setting and, I believe, your aging settings. If your mod settings are changing and you didn't change them, make sure you don't have OneDrive syncing your Electronic Arts folder in Documents.

  • sparilis's avatar
    sparilis
    Seasoned Hotshot
    2 years ago
    @luthienrising wrote:

    Aging isn't controlled by Neighborhood Stories; it's controlled by your Gameplay Options. Check in Options again.

    Getting married and moving from one house to another isn't controlled by the game at all; it's available only from mods. Mods can also override your having-children Neighborhood Stories setting and, I believe, your aging settings. If your mod settings are changing and you didn't change them, make sure you don't have OneDrive syncing your Electronic Arts folder in Documents.

    Thanks for your response. I appreciate you taking the time to help.

    The only mod I was using was Carl DineOut Reloaded v3. I'll get rid of it and see what happens. A screen shot of my GamePlay settings is attached. I had Auto Age for the Active Household enabled as well as Pet aging. I'll turn those off also. 

    As for syncing with the cloud, I don't have OneDrive but I am syncing my Documents and Desktop folders with iCloud (I'm on a Mac). 

    • luthienrising's avatar
      luthienrising
      Hero+
      2 years ago

      Perhaps try unsyncing those.

      • sparilis's avatar
        sparilis
        Seasoned Hotshot
        2 years ago
        @luthienrising wrote:

        Perhaps try unsyncing those.

        I don't think I'll do that. I'm not using any mods now and unsyncing would cause other problems for me. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I appreciate your time.

    • DarkSimzzz's avatar
      DarkSimzzz
      Seasoned Vanguard
      2 years ago

      I'm also seeing this suddenly. 
      I always have only active household aging but now when I switch to a household I haven't played for a while sims suddenly age up!
      This has never happened to me before, only since the last update I've noticed this. I have aging turned off now completely and seeing if that helps. 

      • luthienrising's avatar
        luthienrising
        Hero+
        2 years ago

        @DarkSimzzz Do you also use mods? A mod like MC Command Center can override your game settings for this part of gameplay.

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