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gertie47
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago

Sim being moved in with another Sim while I'm playing a different family

Can anyone help me (with, I think MC Command Center)? I had a young adult sim split from the household and purchase a house with all the money they saved. I played them a day in that house. I then we...
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gertie47
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago

.....And now a pregnancy has started between them. This is ruining my game play. 

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CGrant56
Hero+
2 years ago

@gertie47 

The easiest way to keep the MCCC story progression from affecting sims you don't want it to, is to keep them marked as played with the bright green plumb bob.  And if you have Neighborhood Stories enabled for played sims, disable it in Manage Households.

Hope this helps.

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    gertie47
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago
    @CGrant56 I'll have to go back into that save and check again - but I have the original family and this moved-out sim in the played section of the manage households. I planned to do some rotational play between the now grown-up children as they head into adult life in new homes.

    As I said, this has never happened to me before (I've played rotationally many times in the past), and I've been using MC Command Center for a while now. The only difference is that I've been playing this family for a few months (it was the Too Many Toddlers scenario, that I was doing in my dedicated Scenario file, and I just continued to raise them all to adulthood).

    I don't know if something could have changed with any of the updates (either to the game or to mods).

    But as I said, I have played rotationally in the past, and never have any of my families in the played section of manage households progressed without my control.

    I'm just super confused, and I want to go back and play that family, but I don't want to ruin it all :/

    I may end up removing mods and just micromanaging relationships/marriages in a vanilla way. time-consuming but at least my story can continue the way I choose.
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      CGrant56
      Hero+
      2 years ago

      @gertie47 

      MCCC will still affect households in the played section if they don't have the bright green plumb bob.  If they have the light green plumb bob, MCCC thinks they're fair game.  The move into together is MCCC but the pregnancy could be either MCCC or Neighborhood stories.  

      There is another way it could have happened though.  Those phone calls that you get asking (I found a ring in so and so's bag) should I get engaged/married and should we have a baby?  Both things will cause what you had happen.  But you have to choose on those, and it would have to happen twice.  I know I have inadvertently answered several of those the wrong way.  Do you remember getting any of those calls?

      Hope this helps.

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        gertie47
        Seasoned Veteran
        2 years ago
        @CGrant56 didn't get any of the calls - when I have got them in the past I always swiftly say no, unless it doesn't matter to the storyline.
        In my digging for understanding MCCC, I've been given advice that I need to click on the actual sim that these things are happening to and flag them to not marry/move/have offspring etc - so I'm going to try that the next time I log in, and I'll check back in here if it worked for me or not.
        Thanks for your suggestions though!

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