Who are you, and why are you my girlfriend?

[Silverdrake]

I switched to a house that had story progression on, and discovered that my sim had a girlfriend. Which is not an unusual event for story progression, but I thought maybe I'd move the girlfriend in so they could adopt some kids. Called her up and found out my sim barely had a relationship with her! She knew none of her traits, and when she asked about her work, the woman was unemployed (which did not go down well with my ambitious sim). I'd been trying to hook this sim up with Thornton, and she kept refusing because of the girlfriend.

I don't really mind the spontaneous love interest in story mode, now that we can protect certain families from interference, but surely they should have to build a relationship as much as the families we play! 

[Shaprepenr]

Yeah. I was really surprised by EA's laziness when working on Story Mode. They made it sound so nice and it IS a breakthrough for The Sims franchise. But God damn it was mostly just smoke and mirrors. For one thing it's a shame Awesomemod exists to do what EA should have done from the beginning. And when I see sims making babies on their own? WTF? Yup. That's EA for you. I really wish Maxis did this one like all the other games. They really screwed this one up. They should fix this while they still can.

Anyways. For your problem: hopefully Awesomemod will fix this in the near futrue. It did  fix the asexual reproduction! 

[Silverdrake]

Yeah, I can see future enhancements to Storymode, and believe me, I am grateful for awesomemod. I think I would have given up in frustration without it.

We should be able to tweak storymode to account for relationship levels, say which families can or can't reproduce, determine a sim's sexual preference, etc. I guess they meant "bad" surprise when the told us we'd be surprised by storymode actions 

[Silverdrake]

D'oh! I just found out about IndieStone's story progression mod: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=349344

"Stopped marriages and pregnancies happening straight after new relationships. Sims will date for a reasonable amount of time related to lifespan settings."

But it doesn't work with awesomemod 

Decisions, decisions...

[minidoxigirli]

I've been using IndieStone for a couple days, and it is a hard tossup between AwesomeMod and IndieStone.  I would phrase it this way- which is more important, story progression being fixed, or everything else being fixed?  Right now for me story progression is more important, so that's what I'm using.

So far, IS has been great- couples that had been engaged since teens and were now elders were finally getting married, all the townies I created are pairing off and having children, and sims are getting promoted in jobs that make sense for them.  However, I do miss all the cheats being gone, including editsim.  There's basic editsim, but it only works on the active sim.  And I forgot about all the whining- sims whine a lot!