Hi guys! So Sims 2 was my first ever Sims game, and I used to play it a LOT when I was little. But now that I've reached maturity and found out that it lacks story progression, it feels kinda weird to me. Your Sims' aquaintances not being able to age and all... So ever since I found that out, I haven't played it.
Is story progression such an important detail? Is the game still fine without it? I wanna get into it again! Thanks!
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There are many, many ways in TS2 to age Sims and or set relationships or whatever, if you want the game to 'progress'. You don't even need mods. The TS2 devs built right into the game cheats all that we might need to do this stuff for ourselves if we want others to age up, and or change ages, and or to be in a relationship with someone else, or be pregnant by someone else, etc.
But if you don't like that much control (I do) then there are plenty of mods that can do it for you.
Thank you for the reply! I'll give it a shot! :P
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In terms of aging NPC friends with your sims, they did add a feature to age up some friends automatically when your sim ages up. You can also age your NPC friends up by inviting them over and having a birthday party for them. And, of course, there are also cheats and mods that help too. I think The Bat Box mod has an age management feature. It certainly has features that allow you to add skills and (if you have "University") add a college degree to a newly created adult sim's background and clean up old gossip data from your save to prevent save corruption.
Same for me , I am taking modeling pictures of my sims 4 , I am dismayed by what I am seeing nobody went to work by themselves, some of my sims were pregnants with infants born. Story progression is not good really even in sims 3 I disabled it because it was not well made.
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This is where I stand too. I have two major styles of playing; I either want to do the story progression fully myself in a rotational style so I can fully control the story I'm trying to play out, and the sims 2 caters perfectly to this, or aging off for all sims, which I use for both self-imposed challenges and for a relaxed "my dream life" simulator.
I sometimes deviate from these styles, and control singular families, which I always turn unplayed aging off for. This is because I don't like EA's default story progression at all and it's actually one of the worst things added to The Sims franchise in my opinion. Nothing seems to ever happen with it on. Sims will VERY occasionally get married and have kids, but most seem to spend their life doing nothing and eventually die off, and your save becomes a literal ghost town that you have to fill back up with new sims after 2 or 3 generations. I'd rather deal with socialising with the same sims over and over, adding and removing Sims at my own discretion, than slowly watch the town die off.
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