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How do you deal with Neighbourhood Stories?
kozardii
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This feature is frustrating for me.
I want my game to have story progression because I can't manage going into every single household in the game and create storylines for each sim and make them marry and have babies and such. But Neighbourhood Stories is a mess. Every 5 minutes, all households in the game adopt a child and 5 dogs, then everyone dies, then all houses are empty because they moved out. Is there a way to make this feature more organized? Or am I forced to deactivate it completly?
I want my game to have story progression because I can't manage going into every single household in the game and create storylines for each sim and make them marry and have babies and such. But Neighbourhood Stories is a mess. Every 5 minutes, all households in the game adopt a child and 5 dogs, then everyone dies, then all houses are empty because they moved out. Is there a way to make this feature more organized? Or am I forced to deactivate it completly?
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- Hmm… how many households have the “deadly accidents” checked?
If you change the settings for what the game is allowed to do with an household, does that work?
So far if I see that one sim died in a household and I remove the “deadly accidents” afterwards because I did not want all of them to die the game has followed my instructions so far.
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The adopt a child option adds ridiculous amount of random townie kids in my game, literally they will adopt until household can’t accept any more sims. I let them have pregnancy babies for about 2 in-game weeks (that adds bunch of new borns, usually Bjergsen household and Goths are racing each other, Bheeda household also ends up with about 4 babies). Then I switch this off because enough is enough lol 😂. I would keep all the kids options if it worked well, as it is now it’s just filling houses without any reason so I don’t like it.
I keep death by accident, although it did kill few sims I like (Wolfgang from Werewolves pack is a good example), but I treat this as a life challenge. Sad things are part of being alive. But in my experience this feature is not as crazy as adopting and getting pregnant. Other options are fine, few new neighbors arrive from time to time, older sims retire and that’s it.
I'll also go through at the end of each session and look for households that have elders with children (or younger) sims and/or pets and age down the elders so that the kids are less likely end up lost to the void of social services. (I do have MCCC with adoption, but it's been... weird about some settings since Neighborhood stories, and kids/pets it says are adopted don't always get moved.)
I let MCCC handle marriages, since the darned phone calls can't be relied on for that, but at this point, that's pretty much all I let MCCC do in terms of population development (and any moving sims around due to said marriages.)
I've found that if you let the game go long enough (and I play on normal/custom lifespan, not long/aging off) the babies/adoptions tend to go in waves. One week is a baby boom, the next tends to be relatively quiet. I do have several households that are a bit on the full side, but MCCC would do that too before Neighborhood stories. (I actually feel that MCCC is *more* aggressive about population booms than Neighborhood stories, at least on default.) Of course, I also only play one household, so whatever shenanigans the rest of the world is up to really doesn't matter to me.
I am keeping the adopt/have another child option for now so that I get more Sims for my Sims in later generations
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The only reason I have adopting children turned off is because they always turn out to be ugly. I wish there was a way to controle or at least monitor these children like you do with NPC's because they all look like they came from the deepest fiery pit of hell.
The thing is, I sometimes would like my sims to die, because it creates a "challenge" for the other sims. For example, a household with a teenager, his younger sibling and his mom. If their mom dies, there's gonna be a challenge for them to overcome. But if the feature is turned on, besides them dying constantly, the deaths are also completly out of character? I had a sim dying from heights that was residing in Willow Creek and never had been to Mt. Komorebi in their life. It's just weird.
Same here. After seeing the feedback from other simmers that feature quickly went off.
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Yeah. I micro-manage the households that do have neighborhood stories turned on as well. Accidental deaths are just turned on for some specific households, “move in” is ok but I seldom use “move out”.
Hmm… if you feel that they die constantly, maybe remove “accidental deaths” from a few more households. See how that works out.
I deactivated adoption of children, because there are way to many. And I made a mod that lets homeless townies have children and die, too, because per default they are only eligible if they live in a house (but I limited the pregnancies based on household size, otherwise it was really extreme, lol).
I think the excessive pregnancies and adoptions might be due to some settings combination that does not work so well. Like I said, pregnancies and adoptions are only available for Sims that live in a house (without mods). And if you allow them to move out they will eventually do that when the household becomes too big (which leads to them stopping to get pregnant or adopt). But if you disable moving out there is no other limit that makes them stop (except the household size of course, but that is still extreme).
@kadoracsims While modding I learned that the Accidental Deaths feature is tied to the in game culling, so it might be possible that you changed some settings regarding culling which leads to the Sims not dying. I noticed in my saves that it takes a while until the first Sims die by Accidental Death (even with nothing changed about the max number of Sims).
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When it first hit I left it on in one save to see what happened and, boy, the chaos! Sims were dropping dead left and right - even played sims I still had plans for. Babies or adopted kids were everywhere, too. I couldn't find sims because they had moved. I didn't have Cats and Dogs at the time so at least there wasn't a pet explosion in that save. I've since abandoned that save because everything changed so quickly. The rapidity of events is just too much, at least for me. It was out of control; something was happening in nearly every household.
I'll probably try it again one of these days, but only for individual families - there are a lot of premades I really don't care about. I'd check a few of the boxes for them but not all of them - I don't need another baby explosion!
When I get bored of my current save, I intend to make one called "Chaos" with all story progression and NAPs and everything on. It will probably end up with babies and dogs everywhere, and a bunch of game-generated sims in red elbow-length gloves stealing each other's bicycles, then dying of starvation on my lawn.
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