Story Progression Toggle: Is it borked?
Zarifeke:
I haven't been religiously checking the paper, but every time I do, I get none of those announcements. All I've seen is random useless news tidbits.
I also happen to be playing with free will OFF and story progression ON, and lifespan set to epic if that makes any difference. Could free will somehow be the option that does what we think Story Progression should do?
I'm gonna make more of a habit of checking the paper every day, to see if I get any of those kinds of notifications.
Maybe everyone should also make a note of what your free will setting is on, to see if that might have anything to do with it. Either way, something is seriously wonky. Story progression should be controlling ALL of it, and thus has to be broken somehow.
OR the toggle is indeed flipped, and story progression ON is what stops all that from happening. ???
seanachai:
If your Free Will is off though I'm surprised the Sims you aren't playing aren't dropping dead!
Zazazu:
Quote from: TashaYarrr on 2009 May 22, 03:53:08
Quote from: Kyna on 2009 May 22, 03:45:39
Zazazu is talking about after the birth. In TS2 you could choose which sim stayed home, by not letting them go out to the car pool or school bus. It sounds like Zazazu is saying there's no way to send the mother to work in the few days after the birth in TS3.
This. Even if Mom had 3 days' paid leave, she could still go back to work the next day (or heck, the same day depending on when the birth was) as long as another adult was there to babysit. If I'm understanding correctly, Mom is not *allowed* to go back to work till a set time.
Exactly. If you try from the career tab, it tells you that your shift does not start until 2 days, X hours from now, despite it definitely being normal work time. If you try from map view, it says your shift has not started.
This is outside of the main topic, though, and we already have a random gripe thread. On subject, I'm now doubting the newspaper headlines. On a Sunday, I was told that the Wainwrights had moved out. On Tuesday, first spawn brought Hilda Wainwright home from school. A quick check shows the Wainwrights sitting pretty in their old house.
rufio:
Actually, I've been wondering - is it possible for adults to leave the lot when there are <= 6s there? Does the social worker come?
Zarifeke:
Quote from: seanachai on 2009 May 22, 04:11:07
If your Free Will is off though I'm surprised the Sims you aren't playing aren't dropping dead!
That's the thing: everyone else does things autonomously PERFECTLY fine from what I can tell! When I go to the park for example, people arrive and eat and hang out and talk to people and whatever. It really doesn't seem like free will is off for them. So it seems like the free will setting is only affecting my own playable sims.
Edit: And setting free will to high didn't seem to make a single difference. They all still did the same exact things they did when it was off. Only difference was my sim was doing things on her own.
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