How much story progression happens after a week with neighbourhood stories enabled?

[@WhinyBrit]

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[@LadyOakes0625]

Love ur video, in my game it hated the the landgrabs it killed them off, after letting them have 3 more kids, then Nancy, Jeff, and two of the kids died!

[@happytofu5]

I wonder what happens to kids if all adults die. Can you continue playing just with the kids or do they have to have an adult in the house? Would you be up to try that out?

[@SnowyOwl0731]

@@happytofu5 Teens can live alone in a house, so if there was a teen, the kids could stay. If there's no teen or older, the kids get adopted out autonomously. I don't know about the adoptions, though, if it's your household. Haven't gotten there. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@kjhinshaw]

I need them to update Niece, grandma, great etc so that you could actually see family trees… I love the update… I love seeing dogs getting adopted and being walked in the neighborhood.

[@YujiUedaFan]

Yeah I wish there was a mod for that too.

[@sunshineyrainbows13]

PLEASE family tree update is what I want the most. Being Latina and playing Latino families....AUNTS, GRANDPARENTS, COUSINS, etc MATTER!! Family matters! I can't believe Sims hasn't fixed this. 😭😭

[@misscakepop1591]

Yes we really need a family tree update!

[@ueubly]

yeah my favourite save starts with an aunt and her niece and the aunt doesn’t show up on the tree ☹️

[@YujiUedaFan]

@@sunshineyrainbows13 I also don't like that grandparents/sons/daughters only go up to great. I think ancestors/descendants should be saved for great, great, great, great instead of just great great.

[@ally14xx]

I also would like an OFF switch for randomly generated townies. And a way to see other sims family trees! I think these would make sense with the new update

[@lemonweirdo]

Same! There might be a mod for that somewhere, but it’d be really cool to have that in the vanilla game so that everyone can play with it, even people who can’t install mods.

[@Azmina_the_warlock]

@@DBT1007 weak bait m8

[@evelynmagoo]

@@DBT1007 it’s not that deep dawg they’re just randomly generated

[@-alif7188]

@@DBT1007 Take your meds

[@beepbeepimasheep7347]

Or they could add sims from the gallery. Maybe it could be the ones that you have liked. So you don't jetzt have the normal townies but the sims don't look horrible

[@dylan3892]

I hope they add dating, marriage, divorce etc in a future update

[@Jjjjjjjames]

I thought you meant to the game and not the neighbourhood stories so I thought you just lived under a rock

[@lavagarden]

@ChicaIsTheBest_2005 Yes!!!

[@sieraorr6315]

The thing I like the most is how many children a family has/adopts is affected by traits! Family oriented sims tend to adopt or have multiple children. Sims that hate children never will add children to their home and other Sims seem to be somewhere in between! Also about 3 things happen per a day

[@nerdychocobo]

finally traits do something in sims 4

[@lj2265]

I really need them to tone it down though. The Spencer-Kim-Lewis family adopts and has kids like crazy and the only one who has a family oriented trait is the grandpa lol Its kind of weird that grandpa has that much influence especially since the actual parents don't seem to be as kid obsessed. Seems like its the entire household that makes a decision rather than the individual sims involved.

[@voiceoreason9884]

That explains why the Goth family always gets so full. Bella is family oriented. They had three babies and adopted one, then after Mortimer died, she adopted again. Sims who hate children are at least able to call and say they were thinking about a baby. I was shocked when Lily Feng asked my sim, but I let them do it. On another save file where I wasn't friends with the Fengs, I saw a child walking around whose last name was Feng. Unfortunately I never confirmed whether she was related to Victor and Lily or if an unrelated Feng family spawned. I just sorted unplayed sims alphabetically and I don't have any Fengs anymore, so I will never know for sure whose kid that was. I might just have to fill my world with married couples who hate kids and hibernate for a while as a vampire.

[@voiceoreason9884]

Update: I deleted everyone but Vlad and the Fengs from a fresh save file. I then aged down the Fengs, maxed out their money, and coppied them into every property in the world. In Willow Creek I made all the Victor Clones family oriented, all the Victor Clones in Oasis Springs hated children (in addition to Lily hating children), and all the rest had their trates unchanged. All were disallowed from accidental death and moving out, Windenburg was disallowed from adoption, and Forgotten Hollow was disallowed from natural birth. Then I fast forwarded from the beginning of adulthood clear to death by old age. Results: No babies were born in any of the towns. I guess even the family oriented Victors couldn't talk their wives into having a baby - but it didn't stop them from adopting. Straight out the gate, Willow Creek was flooded with children. Aparently a spouse who hates kids does nothing to hold back the family oriented baby craze. By the time they were elders, every household in Willow Creek had kids and two of them were even full houses with six kids. In Oasis Springs, where they both hated children, no children were adopted. They were also less enthusiastic about pets than I expected. In Windenburg, where I banned adoption, all of them died childless. Everywhere else, about half of the households had adopted at least one child by the time they were elders. The interesting implementation of this is: while having a baby is a bilateral decision, adoption is apparent a unilateral decision. The non child-hating spouse can make the independent decision to adopt, and force a child onto their spouse. I checked the relationship panels of a few adopted children, and they did regard Lily as their mother. When the couples were elderly, I had Vlad befriend a couple with a small toddler. I knew she would be taken away when her parents died, and I wanted to see if Vlad would remember her when she was. As soon as the second parent died, the toddler (his best friend) disappeared from Vlad's relationship panel. No sad moodlet or anything. Last experiment - I wanted to see if a family oriented spouse could convince their child-hating spouse to have a baby if adoption was banned. I set down another family oriented Victor with a child hating Lily, and a family oriented Lily with a child hating Victor, just in case gender affects chances of conception. I disabled adoption for them and ran the game for a sim week, nothing happened in either household. As a last ditch effort I disabled stories for every other household in the game and ran another week. Either they have a baby or no stories at all. No stories, I guess a child-hating sim can never be talked into having a biological child, not even for a family oriented spouse who can't adopt. I gave them back the ability to adopt. Both couples adopted within the next week.

[@axXMISSAYxa]

@@voiceoreason9884 thank you for this experiment

[@Bluehoshiflower]

I made two households: household A, and household Malfoy. I played with household A actively, and the Malfoys were passive with the stories mode functions on. After a while when I checked, Draco Malfoy had a baby with mom X, however, the baby lived only with their mother. So I jumped to the Malfoy's household to move all three together. Turned out that Draco Malfoy did not even know his baby mama... I had to find the mom manually. The game just randomly generated his baby with a random NPC. I hoped at least this function will have some consistency, like Draco can only have a baby with one of his acquaintances. Just basic Sims 4 stuff.

[@symmage3196]

I've seen other people talk about this. 🤦🏾‍♀️ not really story progression if the links don't link up. if a townie has a baby with other townie they need the connection/relationship. Surface level antics. MCC handles it a better

[@Bluehoshiflower]

@@symmage3196 Yeah, MCCC has been around for years, and it works awesome. Seems like the update gets more randomness to the game without any proper story progression weight.

[@wikicatyt]

Unfortunately after a generation the town will still just be randomly generated townies because the sims team forgot to add dating and marriage, so it will all be single sims with adopted kids, and adopted kids - are randomly generated townies. To answer the townies questions, as far as I know Sims 2 did generate random townies especially school friends which is particularly annoying. But the Sims 3 doesn't seem to generate any random townies, except npc roles like bar tenders, tourists, paparazzi's and so on which makes sense cause with open world you can't really hide townie sims, where are they going to go to sleep if they don't have a house?

[@manonpavllptdr]

true, no random generated townie. and after playing for a while, i was surprised to see an unknown sim with a last name like "Goth", only to realize that the premade family children got older, married, had kids etc... which kept the worlds alive !

[@lunacouer]

Sims 3 does generate random townies, but since they're homeless, they disappear into an "invisible" lot around nightfall. If you ever get NRaas Tagger and turn it on, it's the weirdest thing ever to watch their tags all gathered on the corner of an empty lot, but you can't see the sims themselves. 😂

[@wendillon92]

They didn't forget, it just isn't in phase one. And it is present, it's just the same as before where people call you and ask "hey should I go out with [x]" and "I found a ring in [x]s bag"

[@wikicatyt]

@@lunacouer I do have tagger, but I never paid attention. I know ti creates npc but I didn't know is created just normal townies, all the sims I see around town are the original families or their kids, I never see townies like in the sims 4.

[@wikicatyt]

@@wendillon92 Sure it can be added later, but until it is added, progression is only useful for one, max two gens. Sims calling you to ask is really not good enough for story progression, since it only affects your friends.

[@mackenziedesire7515]

Here's hoping they keep working on this feature, since it has a LOT of potential, but I think it needs some more fine-tuning options and the ability for sims to actually partner up, etc.!

[@geraldinelewis8314]

I would love to know when new couples get together and be invited to their wedding. The Sims 4 used to have your sims be invited to birthday and house parties

[@stefaniefrench7355]

I love this update!! I think my biggest shock so far was that while playing in the save where I exclusively play scenarios I got a notification that one of my favourite townies (Jeb Harris) who my legacy sim married in a different save file, had died from a rock climbing accident. For just a second I PANICKED before remembering that this was a separate save and my legacy Jeb is fine 🤣

[@surelysims]

Jeb Harris Supremacy!!!

[@KianaeJ]

It was so sad, with the neighborhood stories in my game, the Bjergsens had triplets and then the dad DIED right after😩 the mom was left to raise three new borns plus the two girls they already had on her own.

[@frideb0rg]

unexpected lore! that's exactly why I love the idea of story progression

[@theoriginalsuzycat]

The mom - Clara? - is such a forgiving sim. In one of my plays, my sim had a casual hookup with Bjorn and got pregnant so she convinced him to leave his wife and family and marry her. They sold the house too (my sim was amassing wealth via marriages) and the Bjergsens had to go and live in some random small house. Clara was always quite friendly towards my sim despite her hideous betrayal.

[@nanyummyify]

😭

[@hello__512]

“oh hi thanks for watching my video” i love that sm never change it

[@bronwenraza6176]

For me, I tend to turn it off for most of the week and then turn it on for only a day or two. Id love to see a toggle feature where you could tailor how many events you got roughly per week.

[@MiaHoney]

The annoying thing now is you can't re-ask what career someone is. Someone who didn't have a job, took a job but it doesn't update nor can the question be asked again.

[@CyberZombie]

While my household sleeps, I read the world story updates every night.

[@maddisynn666]

Sims 3 does randomly generate NPCs/Townies. It gets to a point where I personally had a mod that cleaned up randomly generated NPCs because if too many existed, the game ran very slow.

[@kryonc.f.9487]

Whats the name of the MOD and how it works?

[@maddisynn666]

@@kryonc.f.9487 twallan's master controller! It's a great mod and it really does a lot of stuff. I highly recommend googling it because there is a lot of reading if you're curious on how it works.

[@SnowyOwl0731]

I LOVE the progression! I leave it all on for all families. In my current save, Nancy Landgraab died of embarrassment (after having a baby), Katrina Caliente stayed out too long in the sun and burst into flames and died, and a couple other well known townies got eaten by cow plants. 🐮🌿🤣😂 It's actually quite shocking, lol. Also, more babies and pets have been adopted in mine than babies have been born. But the Goths and Bjorgensens seem to have more babies than others. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Bluehoshiflower]

I just love the chaos.

[@irishduchess7577]

Bella is family oriented, are either/both of the Bjorgensons? I’ve never played with them.

[@Azmina_the_warlock]

It's great!

[@Eiandha]

With MCCC, you can set the game to only generate Sims from your library. You can even limit it to your Sims from your library (excluding Sims you have saved from the gallery).

[@ultratwittee8251]

How do You do it?

[@Eiandha]

@@ultratwittee8251 From a computer, choose MC Command Center, Population, Population Settings, Import Tray Settings, then set Import Tray Percent to 100. There are further options there to specify if it should keep the same outfits and other things.

[@ultratwittee8251]

@@Eiandha thank you 💗

[@shotgunbettygaming]

I've found about a 50/50 reliability on the neighborhood stories. Sometimes it's just not going down the way the mailbox says. The deaths are always real though LOL!😂 And no you don't just get one a day, you can keep clicking the mailbox until it says 'nothing new to report'. LOTS of things happen in a single day!

[@p.bckman2997]

On my first day Minerva Charm fell to her death mountain climbing and one of the townie households I'd put down in Henford lost a member to a vicious chicken. I'd say this update works like a charm!

[@Wild.Flower]

I just wish the houses could adapt to having the new children/pets. I know it's not possible, but it ruins the spell when I visit a household with 4 children and a dog and yet there are no dog beds etc and no extra rooms or enough beds for the new children.

[@Ariancia.Thystarian]

Finally gives a point for the interior design game pack, now they really need someone to update their homes =P

[@Ellary_Rosewood]

It's so frustrating because basically every household will just continue to have babies one after the other until the household is full. Suddenly, the world is filled with toddlers. What we really need is a sliding scale to customize it even more, being able to input percentages for each one. Maybe 1 event can happen for each household in the span of a week. That would be nice.

[@cindycristobal8738]

you can customize each family actually. its easy to do if you don't want to have babies in every household. Or just choose to turn off neighborhood progression for all or a selected few family. So I don't really see any frustration with this update.

[@Ellary_Rosewood]

@@cindycristobal8738 Yeah, I know that. I want them to have babies, just not getting pregnant AGAIN and AGAIN the second they have one, until they fill up their household. It's frustrating for me because I have to keep track of who's been having kids, then keep going back into the household management constantly, having to find said family, and then changing the settings every time a certain family has whatever "enough" kids is for my gameplay style.

[@fanhon3413]

Jep think so too... Some households are full with baby's und others are... Well, I realized when I was visiting quite many households, that there are at least two tombstones on the lot... It keeps killing Sims, leaving some households with only 1 sim left... I was really annoyed by that...

[@tonkuriihq8133]

it's also annoying that sims won't marry or date on their own. Just all become single parents with 5 kids which is very unrealistic lol. I was excited for the stories, but after seeing how it worked i went back to just using MCCC to make unplayed sims have families...sure 1 or 2 sims being single and having a bunch of kids is a fun idea but not when that's literally all there is lol. I only use it now for adopting pets (which even then I have to put a limit on before everyone becomes crazy cat ladies), moving in, and changing jobs I would be happy tho just with stretching it out more, especially births and deaths.. I like the idea of random rare accidents killing sims bc it's realistic to life and adds a chance of drama/tragedy. but not people dropping like flies edit: another issue which I'm not sure is neighborhood stories bc it keeps happening even when i turn babies off, but they need to add a neutered/spayed option into pet cas. Every household with a female animal that I added in through cas has their entire family full of pets within a week bc the original one bred, and there's no way to get them to spay the pet if they're unplayed. I like populating the world with lots of animals in theory but more often than not it's just clones of the mom and they fill up household slots

[@Ellary_Rosewood]

@@tonkuriihq8133 Yeah, that's one of the things I want most. I don't want to keep having to go manually into other townies' households, give them relationships and get them married, putting a pause on my own storytelling. I really hope they make that patch soon!

[@taylorslack6573]

I have mixed feelings about the update. I appreciate how it doesn’t leave my game stagnate and other sims are truly living their lives. I did have a lot of babies and children adopted in my households that I play with so I turned those off, but one family in particular had some drama happen because of this update. My sims was cheating on their partner with someone in the other households tab and everything in neighborhood stories was enabled for other households. I left her and played with her brother then got a text from her saying her and her girlfriend were having a baby… of course.. i was confused.. then realized she also had a boyfriend! So I go back to play with her and in fact she was pregnant. While playing with her and finding out she’s pregnant I also find out that her boyfriend is dead because of neighborhood stories. So all of that to say love the update but it can really make you think on your toes!

[@claraberg1214]

I had my Sim have an affair with her maid and I had my sim have her fight with her boyfriend about it and played that part out and I was going to have her call up her maid and he was a ghost! I was like wtf!! What happened?! 😅😅

[@Bluehoshiflower]

Okay, but this is just absolutely hilarious :D

[@thegeekyfangirlishere97]

I had a notification that a woman tried to give a rabbit a carrot and the rabbit chose violence and she died from it! Made me laugh from a couple of minutes! 😂😂 🐇 🥕

[@styxthistle497]

I learned the hard way that neighbourhood stories can affect your sim if they're in a relationship with an "unplayed" household, so recently I came back to find that one of my male sims was suddenly a father of four with another on the way

[@noalangan7645]

i always love hearing you say ‘thank you for watching my video’ thank you for making it!

[@impossiblewhimsy1257]

I love this feature, I have adopt child turned off save for 1 or 2 households (cause damn so many adopted kids by single sims, it's absurd sometimes,) and will turn have baby on and off, periodically, to try and space how many babies are born in my save at any one time. I do love adopt pets, my only gripe about that is how if you go into CAS in a house that adopted a pet, those pets have no breed, and you can't really adjust it in CAS, so you end up deleting the pet, cause it won't let you exit out of cas, due to the missing pet information. (I'll go into cas to fix a summer/winter outfit, or gussy up an aged up child for example) and the pets not even being automatically set as a mixed breed sucks, I don't want to delete these pets, so that's a bit of a bug, to be sure. Overall, it's a great quality of life update. I would like to see get married, ect, added to this feature, those features MCCC let you customize be brought to the base game would be wonderful.

[@cassninetyfour1238]

I just name it mixed breed or mut! That lets me get out of CAS :)

[@lunacouer]

Have you reported this on the EA Bug reports site, or hit "Me Too" if someone else did? I ask because there's this big mess with not being able to save your game via "Save". You can save via "Save As...", but otherwise, a lot of people are getting Error 0 and it's corrupting their saves. So far, SimGuruNick is telling everyone to turn off "Join A Career" for all households to stop this, but it doesn't work for everyone. I imagine that pets with missing data could mess things up a bit too?

[@impossiblewhimsy1257]

@@lunacouer I have yet to have any issues with any of my save files (knock on wood) and thus far, deleting the dog works fine to get out of cas. Thank you for the heads up regarding join career causing issues though, I have that turned on for nearly everyone.

[@kitsu1379]

Don't know about 3 but sims 2 did have randomely generated townies. You had the sims living in a neighbourhood before you started, you had some premade homeless sims with set names, some premmade homeless sims with randomly generated names (I think these sims came form downtown and therefore were called downtownies as oppose to just townies) but you also had completely random sims that the game spawned to populate the world, like for example people to rent vacant apartments or claim vacant dorms in uni but it also spawned just random passerbys, I guess it was to keep the world populated even when you'd married, or killed off, all the premmade homeless sims. Also some of the service sims were randomly generated, waiters and chefs were randos and each neighbourhood had a couple of preset maids but once you got rid of them they just randomly generated new ones.

[@Nurse_Lucy]

I can't wait to see a modder to make a mod where you have the whole list of household and radio buttons or on/off toggles to make managing everything a little easier

[@augustinesim1672]

I'm actually the opposite of you: I like random sims with random and silly outfits, the diversity amuses me and makes the world richer in my view. If everything was "selected" and "tailored" it would get very boring after a while. I also like my world chaotic and unexpected, I don't like to micromanage every single household what they should do or not do. I get the point, you might want to follow up with the lineage or something else but to me unless it's for a very specific purpose (aka story/fiction/etc) I couldn't be bothered.

[@tainav618]

I agree. I think the game is fundamentally chaotic due to how it was made and I've learned to embrace it the way it is. I love seeing townies in hilarious outfits or with silly names. If it really bothers it's not actually a problem, I just go into CAS and have a ball using their personality and likes/dislikes to give them outfits.

[@violet7773]

One of my sims once dated a townie whose pjs were: a tank top, panties, stilettos, sunglasses, and shoulder height gloves. Everything was a different colour. She was beautiful

[@shanellemurrey9300]

@@violet7773 that sounds absolutely amazing lol I would love to see that honestly

[@cherrypopzicle]

About random new Sims, there's an option in your settings to turn off "fill empty lots" and that will basically do that for you. You might have to delete the "off world" households if you don't want ANY other Sims (haven't tried it myself) but no "off world" households will move into empty houses

[@thecurator2626]

What is meant by “off world"?

[@cherrypopzicle]

@@thecurator2626 Like they are in your game but they aren't moved into a house as default

[@thecurator2626]

@@cherrypopzicle I think I understand. What I don’t like is when I delete them and the game just randomly generates new ones to take their place while culling “off world” Sims I intended to keep around. The settings are somewhat confusing to me.

[@MarianadeOliveiraSaitu]

@@thecurator2626 You can also limit the number of Sims in your world in settings if I'm not mistaken. That might help.

[@thecurator2626]

@@MarianadeOliveiraSaitu thanks. My limit is defaulted to 80 but I don’t think that number has ever reached more than 10/80. Is that the setting you mean? I have turned specific story progression features off for certain households and enabled them for others but that doesn’t necessarily solve the culling issue for when my Sim has a good friend that is not my favorited or own Sim but is “off world”. How do you adjust the settings? I remember there being several articles and forum posts about it years ago, but I don’t remember any of it.

[@cinnaxbunbun]

This is one of the updates I've been the happiest about. I always wanted all other sims to just progress without me having to do anything so they can just change things up and make it more alive. I always tried to do what I can within the household I play and mods as well like wicked whims for example so it's really nice the sims team finally added something like this. The only one I turn off is moving out because I wouldn't want any of the premade sims moving out of their houses, what they're known for, etc. Hopefully they add an update to it to 1. Show multiple events at once so you don't have to keep clicking on the mailbox multiple times and 2. Regenerate how often they adopt and have kids because I personally think it happens a little too much to where it doesn't make sense and they'd fill up their households too fast.

[@inuzrule]

First day we got this update I started a new save, enabled everything for everyone, and had my sim meet The Goths. The very next day Mortimer Goth visited my sim...as a ghost. He had literally died the previous night of being struck by lightning. So on one hand the new story progression is great for adding some excitement, but you gotta use caution with what effects which family.

[@KaylaWeasley]

I definitely agree with you about no randomly generated sims. I wish there was an option in the neighborhood stories that would let you turn them off and only have the actual townies and created sims

[@StoryGirl83]

In The Sims 2, I know you could generate sims, mostly special NPCs. I don't know for sure if the game generated them on there on, but if you did certain things it would spawn townies. Some examples I know of: - Cash registers would generate teen sims to work them. My sister and I created a lot and just filled it with cash registers to increase the dating pool for our sims. - Empty dorms in college. We had a dorm with dozens of dorm doors. Not rooms, doors. Some rooms would have dozens of doors. Anything past eight was automatically filled and if you didn't move in more than one sim (you had to move in at least one or it wouldn't work) it would fill those other seven spots. Obviously they worked with already existing young adult townies, but when they ran out of them, they created more. - Marry, move in, age up or otherwise remove from their position townies holding the following positions: Maid, Nanny, Gardner, Paper Boy/Girl, Fireperson, Burglar, Private School Principal (or whatever his job was) and the like. I think mascots and streakers for college might be part of this, too, but those also might pull from already made young adults. I'm sure the list is at lot longer, but all of them have three that they rotate through. If you have less than three the game generates more unless you have something that prevents that from happening. Most of these are adults. A couple are elders (nanny and I think principal). One that I can think of is teens (paper boy/girl). There is no regeneration of children if they age up or otherwise are removed, which is annoying, because if your child sim befriends a townie sim you'd want them to age up with them and pretty soon only your sims are left which becomes a problem if none of your families other than that one have children. Obviously all of this is specific circumstances. It's not a case of a low population or anything like that, but since my sister and I exploited this to increase our dating pool (mostly to prevent everyone from being related to everyone since our sims tended to have huge families, so you might have two or three siblings marry into the same family and another one or two might marry the cousins of the sims their siblings were marrying. We had a notebook specifically to keep track of who was dating whom and due to the mess our neighborhood was, sometimes they were betrothed at birth or had a potentially dating pool of like three sims) I thought I would share what I remember on the subject.

[@elenap1529]

I 100% agree with you on getting rid of random townies! I REALLY hope they make that change in one of the next updates because it drives me crazy! Lol

[@LeFroge]

Just want to quickly say how much I love this channel and your voice and personality. So calming and suddenly funny when you least expect it! Good job!

[@Sergio255-e3l]

i really love how you make your sims. They are always very colourful and cool, so different from other sims that i see in the gallery and of course much nicer than the random sims the game generate. I wish you would share them in the gallery, because i have no talent to make something like that myself :). Nice video, like always, thanks for sharing it :).

[@elleinadcollection]

I’d like to see more of my own sims around the neighborhood too and like she said about bumping into someone’s great niece or something that would be interesting. 7:20 or maybe if a npc role is needed your notified so you can make your own maybe?

[@katiebailey3439]

I'm not sure if most people would call this cute, but the cutest thing for me was Vlad adopted a really grumpy looking cat. It somehow was very fitting.

[@alexanderermels1525]

I absolutely agree with you in that I would LOVE to somehow disable randomly generated sims.

[@ginlikespandaas309]

i didn't realize neighbourhoodstories was with that update enabled untill i found out the landgraabs had adopted 6 children. Nancy had moved out at this time and I couldn't find her wearabouts. i already called her the new Bella Goth until she just showed up to my house as a ghost. (my sim never ever talked to her before) also Katharina Caliente moved to that trailor in stranger vile, has a son now and lives with another men who i refuse to believe is the father (the men is black and the child is as white as Vlad). Victor Feng who seems to still be married is constantly asking me about my opinion that he wants to date other men and woman i don't know. he became the biggest unfaithfull fuckboy husband and keeps telling my single sim to not cheat on his wife (my sim isn't married xD). i can just say the story progression is HUGE and i didn't realized untill that safe game became a mess.

[@noisyface]

I've fond that only about 1-2 things happened after a week.

[@barbarareynolds329]

I been on a BINGE of your videos, seeing you just posted made my whole day

[@todorokishouto7491]

I feel like the first update (where your own sim has to influence the households) still works but is a bit messed up. In my save the husband of my daughter, that live in a different house together with another couple and their child, adopted 2 dogs and another child through this new neighborhood update. However, the guy keeps calling my sim asking if they should try for a baby, which wouldn't be possible because the household is full. However he s t i l l calls like every day to ask, even when I say yes he calls again the next day. So annoying.

[@releasethehounds9945]

The one thing i do wish was if u could check these household changes in the neighborhood/overseas from their online social media on their phones/computers I think that would definitely add a little more immersive dimension to the new system i hope mayb they could add it in the near future or a modder comes up with it soon

[@tainav618]

just wanted to say in ItsMeTroi's new video, she shows a mod that lets your check the Neighborhood Stories on the phone with check social media timeline, asking Sims to gossip, and a couple other things!

[@christianvalentine2724]

kaylee and eliza look like they're both Bob's wives when they sit together in their same color clothes ngl

[@starlight4065]

I was about to say your crazy but when you explained why you didn’t want randomly generated sims and I agree with that. It adds more depth

[@Blakely_]

I have started like 4 new saves since this update and in all of them, Nancy Landgraab is pregnant within what feels like seconds of starting lol

[@ears9115]

The vampires in my game each have pets and children. One lady adopted seven children in a 1 bedroom house, six babies in a row (I aged them up to toddlers and gave her things to keep them alive).

[@theanonsisters]

Yes! would love no more randomly generated sims with squashed up faces wearing every accessory in cas

[@az25blue]

Great video! I'm loving the story progression. The was not doing a good job of populating empty lots prior to this. I mainly play legacy style so I had to constantly add new families to the worlds on my own. Now Sims are moving in and out. There are more kids did my sim kids to meet and more pets in the worlds. I also like getting invitations from other households to come meet the new kids/pets.

[@WordsFlowMagnetic]

I ended up turning off "move out" for all neighborhood families because the amount of empty houses was getting ridiculous. After all, the whole point is for the neighborhood to seem lively and active, not empty

[@crazygamer_1082]

That was the case for the Sims 3 I am 90% positive. It was literally just your sims, STORY townies, and then like the “extra” townies who populated the other houses and jobs. But those extra townies still had some connection usually to something in the game that was important.

[@missacat5027]

I use Mc command center for random generated sims, i love that you can allow the mod to only spawn sims from your gallery insted of the game adding random sims to your game. :) It makes so everyone looks cute.

[@skunkyraccoon7572]

I agree with wanting no more randomly generated townies. They always look silly!

[@yasminni485]

The first day I played with this update I had 9 Sims dying in accidents in one sim day. And that's right after I saw another youtuber playing this where they figured sims dying probably doesn't happen that often. I guess it all in the roll of a dice. And for some reason the Landgraabs keep having babies, they have like 5 (that's how the Landgraabs stay rich... keep it in the family). Still, some of those notices are pretty funny. My favourite one is when sims die due to bursting into flames while making a salad.

[@cortalina8617]

I think I'd like it to be an option to turn on or off random sim generation. In some save files I'm fine with it and in others I'd rather it not happen.

[@AndersRose]

I like it but I'm also a little worried about how much changes so quickly. So far my approach to it is have what features I want enabled for like a Sim day or two then turn off everything until I think the world needs some spicing up.

[@skylopez6555]

Happy weekend Carla! Thank you for always posting I wait every day to see your videos🥰❤️

[@dustinmalpass]

So much OMG. Oasis Springs was fuggin' empty in my playthrough. They had either moved out or died. All that was left was my households, Zest, and a family of rich people.

[@lj2265]

I'm already having issues with it. I was skeptical when this came out because Sims 3 also had story progression, but most Simmers who played that game ended up overriding it with the Nraas mod version. And I can tell already that I will probably be keeping MC Command Center's story progression. It seems its the entire household that makes a decision, not just the sims involved. So while its cool traits influence things, its traits from one sim in a household that influence the entire household. Like for instance, the Spencer-Kim-Lewis have and adopt a zillion kids right away, except the only person in that family who has a family oriented trait is grandpa lol He's making all the decisions. Which is kind of annoying tbh because the actual parents having the kids don't seem to be that kid obsessed. I also seriously dislike the way they present neighborhood changes to you. Its nice that you only get notifications when you ask for them, but its ridiculous that they only give you one thing at a time and you have to keep clicking it to see more. Just give me a list of all the changes lol I don't wanna click on the mailbox all day long. MC Command Center was great too because it let you set percentages and days of the weeks to run certain things so if you didn't want everyone having babies every single day you could do that

[@rowan404]

I paused at 8:42 to talk to a friend on Discord and did a double-take upon returning because, at first glance, I thought there were 2 Elizas due to your sim having such a similar outfit.

[@marielledelaine]

that tiger wallpaper would be great in jasmine's room in the disney princess build from 2021 you did!

[@Leto85]

I like it that you've tested this. This way I still get to see what's going on in this update. I cannot even install this update because I get some weird +c error, or something like that. No idea how to fix it.

[@xxsniperkittykatxx]

1000% agree. I dont get why it's so hard for the Sims Team to make sims. The Maxis Team has created tons of sims already and they don't all have to placed in home (Baby Ariel, Not Santa, etc).

[@JadeDabrowski]

There is a mod to stop townies being generated! It’s called NPC control. I’ve never used it myself, but I’ve heard good things about it! Might be worth checking out!

[@mowana1232]

I agree with you on the random townies. There should be an option to switch them off. I have a mod that does that (Zero's No Random Townies). It works very well and I really recommend it, especially if you play with a safe file that already has plenty of housed and non-housed townies. If you start with an empty safe file, you have to make sure to put a good amount of your own sims into the game, otherwise you will be seeing the Crumplebottoms and the red haired guy with the kitchen bowl on his head (forgot his name) a lot since they are the only sims that can't be deleted.

[@catlovessoftball]

I like the update! I play for generations and there came a point in time where I had no children or pets in my worlds. I had to download them off the gallery or make a bunch of kids so that my children would have friends. Now I don’t have to worry about it.

[@phillyphil1690]

Sims 3 had sims from other towns and locations that would visit your neighborhood (at least with WA installed). I think the shopkeepers and stallholders were the only ones randomly generated.

[@sabrinaloizides-merideth9874]

If you keep clicking on the mailbox, you get more stories of the day. They change over at 3AM, I think. Also, in my save, Vlad adopted two kids and Judith Ward went to sleep with the fishes (the game's wording, not mine). Also, my Sim's uncle, Daffy, died because his toilet caught fire. There's a new stinger that plays when you get a phone call about the death of someone you know which is good because sometimes I miss the ringing phone.

[@ladypinetree1820]

The Sims 2 and 3 do randomly generate sims. In the Sims 2 you can use the tombstone of life and death cheat to create new townies. In the Sims 3, story progression will make sims and move them in to empty houses. The game probably does stuff like that so sims will always have romantic options to prevent incest.

[@axolotl195]

I didn't know about this update and was very shocked when an elderly couple adopted 3 babies. Now I know why 🤣

[@positivelysimful1283]

I don't like random townies either; I love MCCC features that allow you to pull all random townies from your own library, so at least they're not ridiculous-looking with hard to pronounce names.

[@nomiflower9707]

Now there's always a house that's either filling up on children, cats, dogs, or mix of two or three, when a sim asks if they should try for a baby or a new job i usually just say sure what the heck. Making the Sims unrecognizable is what i live for

[@annikathewitch3950]

I've been playing for a while with neighborhood stories on and only just realized it was A Thing. Anyway now I'm trying to sort out the absolutely massive family tree the townies have spontaneously created in the background.

[@worthexcellence9163]

Generally it's a super great thing, totally what I hoped for... They could tweak it a little bit, though, as Bella ended up with like 6 new children with Mortimer, and then the moment he died, wow, a new husband. :0 I mean, they were friends of the family, and they ask me several times, but... There are so many kids everywhere. So many couples. They could calm it down a little bit... Especially as now searching for a single sim that could be my sims' spouse is a real hardship. Nothing else one can do but break a marriage. Hopefully one without kids, but, well, stuff happpens. :c

[@katiebailey3439]

For a bit your sim was just sitting on the couch while you were musing, so it looked like you two were in sync.

[@TheDaechan]

I did this to test it too. Mine was wild! So many people died that I was going to befriend. In order it went, Travis Scott, Dirk Dreamer, Mortimer and then 2 days later Bella Goth. They left Cassandra to look after Alex and 2 other kids and a cat! I moved Summer in with mine leaving Liberty with a child that Travis adopted and a cat. All within 2 weeks of gameplay... what a roller coaster 🤣🤣 I love it though! Keeps it so interesting !

[@zoeyx9821]

I'm sure there were randomly generated sims as far back as the sims 1. I have memories of a sim with a grandma head and a CC sexy body that I had to lock in a box till she died cos she upset me so much!

[@trashywindbag7263]

all I really want now is something simillar to the sims 2´s memories. for example one of my main sims died and I just dont know how it happend, and everyone in the home was o.k. no sentiment, no nothing... so he is just gone :V And I dont want to disabled accidental deaths, they are fun... but if you dont check the mail box everyday you missed them

[@beckawilk]

It works surprisingly well with mcc where you can limit household size, no of offspring etc so you dont get the Bjergsen issue. Sooo many pets are in my world though, i love it. You need to continue to click on the mailbox because it only tells you one change at a time. Click until it says nothing of interest each day. You get about 4 or 5 per day.

[@essa2956]

The thing that made me chuckle was: a random townie died. “Tamati has died. Tamati was so angry he burst into flames and died!” That was the drama I was looking for.

[@wendillon92]

In my save I got the update that Eliza Pancakes died after she tried to make a bowl of cereal and it spontaneously combusted. It was fantastic.

[@misstressfoxtail05]

You mentioned hoping the game stopped spawning randomly generated sims. Unfortunately this doesn't stop that from happening. Now they just happen in the form of new sims moving in and adopted children. I've found that the sims pick the adopt a child option more than the have a baby option and the adopted children sometimes look very similar to each other. A lot of them seem have red hair for some reason at least from what i've seen so far. I tend to turn off adoption for all but a few households. ETA: Also the sims 3 had randomly generated sims as well. I found them just as annoying in the sims 3 as I do in the sims 4.

[@LifeOfTheAngels]

I’m pretty sure in both sims 2 and 3 sims randomly generated, however Ik there’s a mod for ts2 that makes it so the game doesn’t generate townies, whereas I’m not sure for the sims 3 but you can download worlds that aren’t populated and they’ll stay that way

[@dustinmalpass]

This is the kind of update TS4 needed.

[@mandyharris1037]

Sims still call me if I know them. My whole world is filled of kids after almost a sim year 😂😂

[@AnonYmous17]

I wish when you click the mailbox for neighborhood stories that it would just show you a longer list of events, not having to click 10 times to get 10 different popups (which actually pop UNDER, so you first have to close the previous popup. Really annoying.)

[@graceharper601]

Personally, I really like this update. My current sims sister who I don’t play with went from having one kid which I had made them woohoo to have, to having four kids because of this update.

[@moratheexplorer8764]

Nooo the walk through walls and walk through sims is an improvement, you don't remember how much we suffered with The Sims 3 when they got stuck so much?! It was the worstttt

[@frederickpetersjane]

I quite like this addition, I do wish there was just a list of all the things that happened so you don’t keep clicking 😂 But I really wish they’d update family’s to have more detail, ie niece nephew cousin etc. I’ve also recently been thinking about sims fame and how unbelievable it is for a famous sim to be friends with someone and that person not gain some fame simply from knowing them. Same for families, the child of a famous sim would in reality be born famous same with spouse/partners. I wish they’d make that a little more realistic. Not excessive, just a little fame added to those in close relationships with famous sims.

[@hookedbycrafting5348]

That was something I hated in sims 3...so I quit playing the pack

[@shellyleduc1]

Awe I am so happy for you. Have a blast Karla. I love it when you play a game to show us how it will be. When are you going to put your houses on the gallery. You are awesome of decorating your builds. Please stay safe and take care my friend Your loyal fans Michelle and frank

[@TheDaechan]

Also, incase people didn't know, to get the full neighbourhood stories, check them every day. I open the notifications and then spam it when I put my sims to bed. Get the update on the day. I've missed some updates because I let it go a few sim-days.

[@indiafox5786]

Ready to watch a new video like always, Brit!

[@RetroAgate1]

The sims 3 has the same mechanic, since it’s an open world and all sims generated so whatever other sims do and if they just have a little kiss they can have a baby at the hospital! And also have pets!

[@cindycristobal8738]

I like the neighborhood progression update. I customize it so things that are happening won't be too much.

[@kawaiipiggy4456]

My biggest gripe with the neighborhood stories outside of it seems like it really wants to fill every household to the brim with children/pets is when the deaths happen. Like the first death that wasn't from old age was to the Hecking family. It didn't tell me how Brant died and i only noticed it cause i was in manage worlds and i just saw he was alive like the day before. I went to the household to see if there was a tombstone or something that would tell me how he died. Brent wasn't sad that his husband died or anything like that. In fact Brant practically didn't exist to him after he died. There was no relationship there was nothing with him in the family tree. He wasn't a ghost in the relationship bar he just didn't exist anymore to Brent despite Brant still existing in the game cause later i got the spirit fading away for Brant pop up. It seems counter to what they promised if in the process of a death happens they cease to exist to their loved ones and family.

[@Kittekassitar]

🤷What bothers me about this update is that: When they adopt "children and animals" , "they do not take care of them"!!! - Children do not have rooms or beds or needed things, etc. And animals don't have food or anything , and they don't teach or treat their children and animals when they're sick! 🏘They fill all 8 places in the household sooooo fast - even if they live in a 1 room house or on an empty plot. Soooo SAD! People from different ethnic backgrounds move back and forth, back and forth (or disappear altogether from the game) - without changing their clothes styles or habits , and die from cold or other weather etc.! 🗞And the news is annoying to click, you get the news if you click. (so so soooo many clicks). It could be like the newspaper was sims 3 ??! Otherwise I like it ,but it still needs a lot of work! 🥴

[@jbcarter2707]

I had to stop the adoptions and pregnancies after just 5 days. Bella had quadruplets. Clara Bjornson had twins and also adopted 2 kids. Even the single Windenburg guys now have babies. Also I now have many households with only teens and kids, due to single parent deaths. I had my decorator sim go and age up babies as she went around making many, many toddler rooms.

[@deadxbyxdawn306]

I think it’s time to do another lonely vampire play through. Watch the generations pass on with fast lives. See people grow old and have children while I sit in my home and write stories and paint.

[@wendillon92]

That is an awesome idea.