Story Progression

http://simsvip.com/2014/07/02/the-sims-4-gurus-talk-story-progression/

So, just heard about this. What do you think about it?

I'm not very happy about it, to be honest. :/ I admit, I'm more of a sims 3 fan than sims 2 and as such I'm used to the ways of 3. Going back to the way sims 2's story progression (which isn't really progression at all compared to 3 [not to say 3's was good either, gotta love Twallan!]) seems like a step back and is disappointing to me. But yeah, what do you think? Do you like not having a lot of story progression or are you the person who likes playing one family and let the others do their thing?

I do like it .Biggest complain of Sims3 players to Ts2 system is due to the diference of age wich can be opted out by the player weather it likes TS3 neighborhood aging or TS2 restrict aging or no aging. And personally , i find the new system less anoying than TS3 one where romances start ,babies born and totally non-sense jobs are asigned out of nothing and without any reasonable logic, and most of all, i hate families beign randomized, mixed and kicked out of town.

I want them to age, nothing else, i dont like things geting out control and goofing everything up, i have to say i am geting very fond of the new SP and find those to be very good changes. I am a simmer that likes to go switching between families, and i dont want my sims to be frozen in time wille i am out but i dont want the family to get messed up either. The new system is a very pretty upgrade as it clearly went in a compromise between TS2 and TS3 system, taking out the headaches caused by both.

I like it, i like it a lot. Sims3 lovers may not like it, but as a TS2 player this is just what i needed.

This does mean that I will have to change my game style a lot... I don't normally play multiple households, but it also means I can expand my game style . As long as once I've played a family they continue to gain skills and such, I'll be happy. I will have all kinds of ideas to play out with all the families in my worlds . I'm looking forward to how the game works and how I work it .

Agreed because I play the same way you, do (one family til I get bored, marrying a random townie, etc.). I guess we'll all have to wait and see how it's all going to work.

What you mean ?

Actually ,for that in particular,you just need to play one of the two .

Exactly! Though it may be a while... I heard Twallan retired and isn't going to work on 4. I think there was another person in the community who made a story progression mod, and I heard he/she isn't going to carry it over either. Either way, I do hope someone makes one sometime.

Thesims2 had open lot and fully playable grocery stores and clothing stores, as well as toddlers that were way more intersting than Thesims3 ones and swiming pools. Thesims3 may have introduced Open world, but overall it prooved to be a downgrade as much as Thesims4 looks like, but in diferent aspects and it did not change till now as many of the features in TS3 are rip off from either Sims2 or Sims1. Sims2 also had socialbunny and sims4 do not, and even aliens at basegame.

For me, if they reverted to Thesims2 system with better graphics and CAS as you are stating that would be great as that i find that system way much better, but that is not the case and it certainly wont be unless they add everything TS2 had with EPs as far as what was exclusive to TS3 will mostly stay with TS3 now.

See, that's the exact opposite of me! With the sims 2 I never felt a need to venture outside, whereas witih 3 things were there and open for me to see and as such my sims went out more. Hopefully with the shorter loading screens it'll more like 3 than 2.

I have to admit that I will miss story progression or at least Twallan's version of it. I'm glad that we'll still see sims in the neighbourhood ageing up alongside our own but I will miss seeing the sims grow in more than age. I've had a couple of occasions where my sim's best friend from elementary school and his worst enemy from that same stage would end up getting married.