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Sims progressing while I'm away
SueAlJen_123
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While I was playing with one family, one of my other sims gave birth and the game chose the name. I've turned off aging and autonomy and it still happens.
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There is only so long that the game will let a Sim stay pregnant for.
If you want to choose the Baby name, be there for the birth.
Not like you could in TS2, no.
You can turn the aging off but time still marches on.
Of course you can.
But the game isn't going to pause a pregnancy just because you're not there to watch it.
Mylita
when you return to a previous family the game will have random rolled their relationships and everything.
Sure you can. Just not while someone is pregnant. Wait for the baby to be born, name it, and then rotate. I've been doing rotational play for weeks now with only active families aging, and it works great for me.
I do wish they'd warned us about the baby birth/naming thing. I didn't expect that either, the first time. Easy enough to avoid in future, though.
You can do it, you just have to not care about whatever relationships get rolled when you do.
I'm finding it hard to get past that personally so it discourages me from rotating.
I play my families a week at a time.
Edit to add: Sometimes friendships have decayed back to acquaintance, since it's been 6 weeks. But that's it, and I can get those back up in one evening of chatting.
I don't like the fact that my sims are "progressing" while I'm gone, but at least it's better than Sims 3. Because of "story progression" I was unable to play my rotational style with Sims 3. I quit the game completely as a result, so I'm happy I can now resume playing, even though I'm playing on a much smaller scale than I did with Sims 2. In that game, I rotated between 140 different families.
I don't object to my sims developing friendships or even mild crushes while I'm playing other families, but I don't ever want them to fall in love, get married, or have babies while I'm away, nor do I want them earning money, getting promotions, quitting their jobs, or pursuing new careers.
Everyone has their own individual play style, and I hope someday EA recognizes this and creates a game that allows us to set many options for ourselves, such as the length of pregnancy or the length of each stage of the aging process.
When I rotated families in Sims 3 it would name the baby then as well. Not sure how it can be avoided. The kid would never have a name if the game didn't name it while you are controlling another household. It's like if your sim guy gets a girl pregnant who doesn't live in your household the game will name it then as well both in sims 4 and it did it in sims 3 as well. Although it's actually much worse now if you have a kid by a sim not in your household. I did this and the girl had twins but the twins were their own household. They didn't even live in the mom's household! How dumb is that?
But in TS2 aging off meant time stopped so the baby didn't grow, if they baby doesn't grow then it can't be born. That is the point of rotational game play....Sims don't progress without you...it seems they didn't quite decide how it was going to work in this game. Lots of things in TS2 couldn't happen if aging was off...or autonomy was off..but neither seem to stop anything in this game.