question about the death of a Chosen sim, when the family wasn't being played
minonda:
I was playing a family yesterday, and the Chosen elder female's life meter was full, so her death was imminent. The next day I played a different family, one of whom invited the previous family to their house, and the husband arrived heartbroken because his wife had died. I have the awesome mod installed, but have not enabled Awesome Story Driver, so shouldn't that death have waited until I played the family again?
Also I have been noticing that when I haven't played a Chosen family for a while, most of the food in their fridge has spoiled, and one of them is usually off the lot even though they were on the lot when I left them. I usually shut the game down when everyone has gone to sleep for the night.
Are these effects off the Awesome story driver even though I didn't enable it, or have these things been in effect all along and I'm just now noticing?
Process Denied:
Life goes on with the Sims whether you enable Awesome Story or not. The only way to stop it is to turn aging off.
Mootilda:
Turning off aging doesn't stop a lot of things from happening. For example, the food will spoil regardless of aging; unplayed sims will still go off-lot, to school, to work, to the park. There doesn't seem to be any way to get your unplayed sims to just freeze until you are ready to play them again, the way that they did in TS2.
minonda:
Quote from: Process Denied on 2009 August 20, 22:48:47
Life goes on with the Sims whether you enable Awesome Story or not. The only way to stop it is to turn aging off.
Okay, I guess I misunderstood what awesome mod does, because I thought it prevented things happening in the lives of the Chosen by turning off story progression. I guess it just prevents the stuff that really ruins the game, like making families move out of the town and parthenogenesis, and having them age while you're not playing them, etc. Although I thought that if she aged enough to die while I wasn't playing the family, then she was aging while not being played, which I thought wasn't supposed to happen with the awesome mod.
Not suggesting that the awesome mod is wanting, because I wouldn't be able to play Sims 3 without it, just saying I must have misunderstood. Which happens frequently when I try to grasp the mechanics behind games and mods.
J. M. Pescado:
I think your fundamental issue is that you still want this game to be TS2. That is really not how it works. While I have added a few options to allow you to emulate a more TS2-style, this is still TS3, and the entire point of TS3 is the unified time and world, so you cannot simply entirely FREEZE a sim in its tracks like a TS2 save. You can configure the aging to behave like TS2, but microscopic events like actions will simply march on anyway, as part of the Open World thing, because a sim cannot simultaneously be frozen in its tracks in its house, AND visit you, like in TS2.
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