Inactive sims

I have full autonomy on. So, one of my households decide to hang out down town, meet some other sims, do stuff like the festivals and such. Then, I decide to play another household, and my sim is no longer at home where it was last time I played , it's downtown and the work button is glowing because it's time to go work.

So, my sim is out, not doing chores. I don't want time to pass in the households when I'm not playing them! Is there a way to fix this? I'm not sure what expansion packs I have, and even less sure what they're called in English. Uhm, pets, the one with the city and festivals and If it's necessary for the answer, I can load the game and check. Go to Solution.

June - last edited June Kanelbullet you just must have changed your avatar! What you can do is check in to all your families from time to time to keep tabs on them. When I do play with more than one family in a save, this is what I have to do. But I rarely play this way. But yes, it is best to play until a pregnant Sim has given birth, that way there is less of a chance of a pregnancy getting stuck!

I've also heard that it is best to save your game at the time the game resets. I think it is am, but I'm not sure. Perhaps SheriGR can confirm this? I think saving your game at this time is more important if you play rotation play like you do, and not so much for the way I usually play. I haven't noticed anything too weird, but again I rarely play rotationally. I did have one teen with the Ambitious trait get a part time job when I was playing another family!

View in thread. Kanelbullet Even when you have aging off on the non-active household the sims in other households will not be frozen the same state as when you left them IF you have played another household in-between visiting that household. As soon as you play any household, with aging on or off in the household or the rest of the world, certain types of life-interaction will be going on in the other households you are not playing. I guess I gotta change playing style then, like make sure I do not stop playing in the middle of something that I actually want my sim to complete in a specific way.

Tell me something, will births happen when I'm not there with these settings? I've had two births happen without me playing the household but I think I hope it was before I found the aging settings. Kanelbullet , it would only be necessary if you were filling out a Bug Report in the Bug Report section. Sometimes it is helpful to list all your packs you have installed, but in this case it doesn't matter since the base game works the same way.

I don't care for this feature myself. I'm a bit of a control freak when it comes to my Sims. The way I deal with it is to make each household its own Save Game. So I can control the Goths, then in another save control the Pankcakes, and then control my Sims in another Save.

I usually only play one family in each save but I do have exceptions So I might have a Sim I made marry one of the Caliente sisters, and in another save the Caliente sisters will still show up, just not married to any of my Sims. The biggest drawback to playing the way that I do is that if I have multigenerational families that have to live in more than one home. In that case I would have to play as you are playing now, in order to preserve the relationships with family members who live in other houses.

Finally, there could be a Mod out there that would help your situation. I don't play with Mods, as they often break when EA updates the game with a patch much like they will do later today.

After EA releases a patch, all the Modders have to update their Mods to fit with EA's changes, and then you have to be sure you have the updated Mod and not the older one! Too much hassle for me, but you can check it out if you want! But give playing each family in their own save a try! The worst that can happen is that you don't like it, and then you can go back to playing the way you did before! Good luck and Happy Simming! Thank you for your answer! I don't think I'll have multiple saves because I do like having my sims interacting.

At least the unplayed households won't age up, will they? I could manage the birthing by playing that family until the baby is born. Again I have to change my play style, but I'm still figuring this out so I'm fine with that. My friend's got a household of their own in my game too, and isn't playing too often, and it would be awful if my friend turned on my computer only to find their sim is now an elder. So I hope that's not happening at least. I can deal with the sims changing lots but not aging.

Post by Gamesquid17 » Wed Jun 26, am. Post by igazor » Wed Jun 26, am. Log me on automatically each visit. Help Mods Contribute. Board index NRaas Core Chatterbox. The original catch all. General game help, banter, things you should probably put in the correct forum, This is the place.

How to get NRaas to stop assigning jobs to inactive sims? Post by Gamesquid17 » Tue Jun 25, am I wish to make all my sims be jobless but as soon as I make them quit their jobs and switch families NRaas would keep assigning them another one when I don't want them to get one.

Is there a way to turn that feature off? Thanks in advance. Last edited by Gamesquid17 on Wed Jun 26, am, edited 1 time in total. It's not clear what you mean by "your sims. If some subset, then one of the others. City Hall or an in-game computer for Town and Caste Options, individual households or sims for Household, individual sims for Sim. While this will stop SP from assigning jobs to these sims, note that the game itself will sometimes dragoon them into slots to be co-workers for other sims who might have jobs if any do or to be Showtime Street Performers.

In that case, giving them each the Careers mod Unemployed module placeholder non-career, which has no work hours, pay, or progression associated with it, together with disallowing Find Job should put a stop to that. For more on Rotational Play and how we can control what SP does with households once they become inactive, we have this page.