Sims in the neighborhood getting married or having babies?

SilentGirl490

I know that in the Sims 3 Sims would never get married on their own or have babies on their own (i am talking about people in town) and I know there were some mods for this to make families grow that you were not controlling. I was hoping that this would happen on its own in the Sims 4, that Sims in the neighborhood would meet, get married, have babies etc on their own, but I see that unless you are controlling a household Sims will not age so does that mean that Sims won't do those things on their own?

I find this very annoying that unless it is your active household Sims will not age. Does anyone know how much free-will townies will have and if they will be able to have babies or do anything on their own?

ClaudiaElzo

SilentGirl490 wrote:

I know that in the Sims 3 Sims would never get married on their own or have babies on their own (i am talking about people in town) and I know there were some mods for this to make families grow that you were not controlling. I was hoping that this would happen on its own in the Sims 4, that Sims in the neighborhood would meet, get married, have babies etc on their own, but I see that unless you are controlling a household Sims will not age so does that mean that Sims won't do those things on their own?

I find this very annoying that unless it is your active household Sims will not age. Does anyone know how much free-will townies will have and if they will be able to have babies or do anything on their own?

The only thing I know for a fact is that you'll be able to age or not age the sims around town, I don't know if they will fix the story progression, but I really hope so I'm not a fan of ghost towns

IcySlash

We know the whole Town will age again, or not depending on your settings of choice

But we're not sure how Story Progression will work, or, how much better it'll be compared to TS3. I for one felt annoyed about everyone else just aging and dying (after a while 80% of SV's inhabitants were elders!) and the Game kept spawning random Sims with random names, and some Sims would get a job which they shouldn't be supposed to (housewives) and at unbelievable careers.

I'm hoping we'll be able to 'tame' Story Progression this time. Like, being able to choose what should or not happen with a certain house while we're not playing it.

Mstybl95

The whole neighborhood will age together, that has been confirmed.

And in one of the interviews, Graham said that there was a sim stomping through the park in a wedding dress and they were wondering what she was upset about. He said she probably got left at the alter. If they weren't controlling her, I speculate that sims can use the wedding arch on their own. The wedding venues seem to be in the public spaces so they will be easily accessible to townies. This is not official, but just something I picked up on in one of the interviews.

RainbowDust1

I am praying for story progression!

Edit: I am praying for good/working story progression!

snootypatooty

I hope they marry and have children age and die but as for my sim I start off with aging off for skills etc. then switch off later, but that setting also effected the whole town which I would prefer it not to effect any sim other than my own active household.

sunman502

SilentGirl490 wrote:

I know that in the Sims 3 Sims would never get married on their own or have babies on their own (i am talking about people in town) and I know there were some mods for this to make families grow that you were not controlling. I was hoping that this would happen on its own in the Sims 4, that Sims in the neighborhood would meet, get married, have babies etc on their own, but I see that unless you are controlling a household Sims will not age so does that mean that Sims won't do those things on their own?

I find this very annoying that unless it is your active household Sims will not age. Does anyone know how much free-will townies will have and if they will be able to have babies or do anything on their own?

That part about Sims 3 is not entirely true, I know this for a fact because this has happened in my game before without any mods. This is what I'm talking about: I had a family of three living in Sunset Valley. The family consists of one adult female, and two teenage sims. I had made the adult sim move out after the two teens had became young adults them selves. So the adult female became another townie her self. After having left the adult alone for awhile. She gets married, and has another kid.

Nik24X7

If we don't get it from EA in the base game, I'm sure some enterprising modder will create a Sims 4 version of Story Progression. You can count on it. No one wants a ghost town.

Sid1701D9

Well in Sunset Valley in the original base games sims tended to propose at the dinner and have a private wedding at home, before the wedding arches. However, that part got broken when they added combined buildings functioning as both dinner and something else seems less romantic. I haven't really figured this out yet, and I have no clue. I assume if you put a wedding arch on a lot it should draw engaged couples over to use it.

I never seen anyone in TS3 use the new arch for a wedding those, even in resorts that have the wedding arches.

Hope, its a lot better in TS4

sunman502

Sid1701D9 wrote:

Well in Sunset Valley in the original base games sims tended to propose at the dinner and have a private wedding at home, before the wedding arches. However, that part got broken when they added combined buildings functioning as both dinner and something else seems less romantic. I haven't really figured this out yet, and I have no clue. I assume if you put a wedding arch on a lot it should draw engaged couples over to use it.

I never seen anyone in TS3 use the new arch for a wedding those, even in resorts that have the wedding arches.

Hope, its a lot better in TS4

The townies did get married, and have babies in my games all the way through to the last pack that was released. I just don't understand why that this is not happening in some of the other players' game when it suppose to be doing that. I had to direct my sim's wife to take a townie that was in labor to the hospital a couple of times. :?

Sid1701D9

Yeah, Sims 4 seems awesome, but it still lacks the completeness of any game that has expansion packs.

Anyways, it be cool if the townies could use the wedding arch and we can decide what type of birthday cake we want.

The problems with townies the ones you can play their households is that if you didn't interact with the townies, they where just lame went to work school and back home and not munch care. The Festival lot in seasons never really seemed to bring sims out to play. A festival lot is truly supposed to be packed and in the world I am playing now IP it hardly has anyone in there. Also there is no way to force other sims to get married either, because the wedding arch only works for your active family. If the neighborhood don't have any active relationships it won't create any new in the household. I took this couple from UL and put them in the base neighborhood and they are still boyfriend girlfriend.