HUGE UPDATE: STORY PROGRESSION IN THE SIMS 4 

I hope the Sims community starts making those “left the Sims running for X hours/overnight/X days” videos again because seeing how drastically the world changes with this update would be really fun.

I would love to see sims get into relationships, married, divorced or smt like that. Sims enroll into uni and actually graduated and go into their jobs degree. I’d also like to see them add some drama like affairs 👀

Now we just need to fix the family tree / genealogy situation so that family members are not just strangers. We need half-brothers, uncles and aunts, mother-in-law, everything else, please make this happen, speak aloud about this! It is so necessary. edit: yes we do have a family tree i am aware of that but it doesnt recognize extended family like ts3 did. thats what i meant. i wrote this when i was very tired and i dont think i made that clear. playing legacy challenges or multiple generations aint rly worth it bc sims dont recogonize family outside the household. i just know it could be better.

I wish it was also implemented into social options as well, there is a "Gossip" option and you could find out that somebody is pregnant or died through that.

Im so excited rn kfjksdf If they add being invited/attending OTHER people's weddings in the sims as a part of these life change updates then i will absolutely SOB

looking forward to see the NPCs having 5 kids and only 1 bed

I was checking on this yesterday and when I checked, the husband of a small family had died. A Sim week later, I looked at the family and they'd adopted four cats. It felt very accurate.

this reminds me of the time my sim was at an art gallery and her boyfriend called saying “i found a ring in my girlfriends bag, i think she’d gonna propose! should i say yes?” and i, confused, answered yes. then when i got home they were engaged

My first time checking recent neighbourhood stories: “The Bjergsens adopted a dog” “Judith Ward adopted a toddler” My second time checking recent neighbourhood stories: “BELLA GOTH DIED IN A HOUSEFIRE” “THE CALIENTE’S ARE PREGNANT” “THE BFF HOUSEHOLD ADOPTED 3 CATS” “THE LANDGRAABS MOVED TO GLIMMERBROOK”

The Landgrabs are just getting ready to play the Too Many Toddlers Scenario.

you know EA is strugglin’ when they start ACTUALLY listening to what the community wants

Omg imagine getting a wedding invite for townies and get to BE A GUEST AT THEIR WEDDING?! I love this concept.... Hopefully it gets added in the future!!

I‘m just SO GLAD they made it as customisable as they did. I find myself not being into the autonomous features in the sims, they really did find a way to get us the best of both worlds.

i don’t know about anyone else, but i like it when other sims have kids because the kids already in the worlds grow up too fast… so i’m happy that we will get more kids to the worlds!

they should add “enroll in university” and “go on vacation” options

sims autonomously having kids more often is gonna be SO good for my legacy gameplay. I always run out of friends my heir's age somewhere around gen 5

If they can name every cowplant after you, then they can time their announcements to mock you. That's definitely what's happening here!

I hope this also plays well with Dream Home Decorator. Call me in to design a nursery!!!! A kids room for a new adoption! A better kitchen cause Eliza is a chef now

Definitely want dating and marriage to be added later so that my moved-out offspring can keep building the family tree without me.

I know it would be incredibly difficult to implement, but I’d love to see a bed pop up on the lot if a child was adopted, similar to how a bassinet appears when a sim has a baby. Or a pet food bowl would appear if a dog or cat was adopted.

I hope they add onto the customizability to add intensity sliders of some sorts because things like moving out or quitting a career I'd prefer to not happen super often but to still happen so it'd be cool if you could adjust how often that'd happen.

it's great to see players getting excited about this game again cause that hasn't happened in a long while..

Kayla: I don’t think that I have ever been so excited about a sims update. Me: didn’t she cry over configurable stairs?

"Looks like death is rare." My game: Half of the Charm family, Bella Goth, Naoki Ito, and some other characters I don't remember were all wiped out within the space of a week. I'd be okay with this except when I went to their houses, they didn't spawn gravestones or urns. There *really* needs to be a way to retrieve tombstones for randomly dead sims. My other two minor complaints: When a family moves out, they don't get money based on their former house, and they don't have to pay money for their new house. I had the Spencer-Kim-Lewis family move out, and I decided I'd better go in and move them back into a place myself so they didn't, say, move into a one-bedroom tiny home or something. Despite formerly living in a mansion, they only had starter funds. There were no 4+ bedroom homes I could move them into for $24K. I can use cheats, but would prefer not to. And this one is a complaint about the previous iteration, with the phone calls, but I had one of my played households call my currently active household and ask if he should start dating Nina Caliente. I said, yeah, go for it. He called back to say they were in love. Cool. I switched over to playing him to maybe get him married to Nina and ... he doesn't know her. The game obviously keeps track of that sort of thing, but it doesn't seem to actually make changes to the sims' relationship scores.

Story progression I would love to see: 1. Townies having their own parties - I wanted to be invited too and choose my own "party guest" quest like party crasher, belle of the ball, social butterfly, wallflower, party pooper, etc. 2. Sims skill increase 3. Sims getting promotions & demotions - especially prioritising ambitious Sims. (If skill increase is off, this automatically get turned off), lazy sims are more likely to get demoted ✨ 4. Relationships: - dating, break-up, cheating, engaged, married, divorced, and bonus relationships like flirtationships, workwife, etc. Also if Sims with negative social traits are more likely to break-up like jealous or hot-headed. Sims who are non-commital are more likely to cheat, etc. 5. Memories - Sims getting consequences and moodlets all on their own with other sims 😌 6. Reputation changes:- In the Get Famous expansion pack I want my mean and evil sims to be able to get negative reputations. I also want a new reputation slide for romance as in reputation from "homewrecker to perfect partner" and how it affects your likelihood in successful dating and you can only override it with high charisma/flirting abilities. 👌🏽 In the likes and dislikes box, I want new options; 5. Health & Diet: You should be able to move vegetarian (it really shouldn't waste our personality slots), lactose-intolerant in likes and dislikes. Add types of cuisine as a like/dislike for Dine-Out expansion pack would make so much sense. And foodie should be able to start food blogs. 6. Sexual Orientation; I definitely think with people being able to get into relationship we should be selective like if someone prefers fem individuals they get depressed and sad if they're in a relationship with a masc and on auto-mode are more likely to break-up. I also think sexual orientations should unlock in your teens and you can have the birds & the bees talk with your parents which prompts you to decide your orientation and you can do a range of options, which could be represented as spectrums. You could even make asexual systems, etc. If you don't have the "talk" then it should be randomly selected in adulthood like a surprise.

Extra things I'd love to see! Dating and marriage will come with an attraction system based on traits, aspirations and likes and dislikes. Cross pack compatability with people joining university, and joining clubs also based on traits for example!

This update is FANTASTIC. I’ve been playing with it for hours. Just wish sims could get married randomly, then it would be perfect. Hope it comes in a future update

Wish the neighbourhood changes were announced like a news articles or a gossip column for the more "juicer" life changes. Like how we had newspapers in TS2 and TS3, Sims could read the news to find out all the changes that is taking place in their world. Or even a news channel they could access from their TV/Phone/Computer. That would be fun. I'd also like them to add some sort of fued update later on, lmao. So, "X's new family is currently fueding with Y's family because of their recent divorce. The step kids don't like their new parents. Etc." Maybe I've just got too much Bridgerton and Gossip Girl on the brain. XD

This update came out only yesterday and so much appended in my legacy save, like one of the sisters of my sims had twins and the other sister adopted a baby while she already had a teenager, plus my sims cousin adopted a kid AND a cat, all of that in two sims days ! Edit: I didn't think this would get that much likes 😅😅

I was playing yesterday and my current sims aunt died electrocuted and her husband just adopted a child (even already being a old man almost dying) while my sims grandmother adopted a dog. I confess, I'm loving this new update and all these aleatory surprises. Maybe now vampire sims can die accidentally because of the sun? Who knows.

I would personally love to see maybe for step 3 or later on down the road something where 1. Younger Sims when they age up to adults they move out. 2. Your sims could be invited to a wedding or play a role in a wedding depending on if your sim has a good relationship with them. 3. Your Sims can get invited to birthday party’s and so on and such through neighborhood stories.

The pop ups remind me of like people gossiping about things, like “Oh she quit her job”, “They adopted a pet”, and I am so here for it 👏🏻👏🏻

“The Pancakes Household has adopted a child. Eliza Pancakes has died in an accidental fire!”

omg neighborhood stories has been so fun. the feng household just adopted the ugliest dog ever, and like wow i kinda wanna steal it

Moving out would be cool when family adopts a child so they’d need a bigger house or an extra room. Cuz what happens with bedrooms when you have a new kid?

For those of us who have the vampire pack, I think it’d be interesting if they added a “became a vampire” option in the next story progression update

I think the only thing that could make this better, aside from getting more of course, is if we would adjust the frequency that certain events happen

I think this update is SO important. It’ll mean EVERY save file will feel unique and I love that

Yes it would be so cool to see Bob and Eliza Pankcakes to randomly get a divorce. Or see random weddings or get invited to them. I hope they add that feature.

This is SO exciting. I would love if they added other sims going to college and graduating at some point. I'd love to do a 100 baby challenge and the moved out kids actually lead their own lives. I think they should also do an update on families to recognize in laws, cousins, step family, etc.

I literally love this because when I do my legacy sims the world dies off around my active family and it gets boring in later generations.

literally yesterday while doing a legacy challenge i was thinking about how sad it is that other households don't really "live". I was afraid the sims that have to move out the house will just all die and not do anything on their own. immediately had a landgraab get electrocuted. great update!

I started playing Sims again a few days ago as I finally had time. I go back on it later and notice how almost every non played family had either adopted an animal or child (unless they had one). Of course, Bella Goth was missing. Plus, one of my sims started a fire and like 3 random neighbor sims ran in to help put it out. Then, neighbors later visited with a meal to offer. Kind of cool. I just didn't realize that they were personal options you could do now.

i think this module system is awesome. i feel like modders will definitely be able to add some other modules for us to activate and get more stuff, like sims going to uni, getting into relationships, cheating on each other and stuff... a dream!!!

J Huntington III and his husband filled up their household w babies. They have 5 kids and a little dog now I was surprised they had so many but i don’t mind finally the town will go on without us doing all the work 🤣

A fun thing about this is now all the extended family from your legacy plays can get on with stuff now. I'd like to know the logic behind the pregnancies and adoptions - e.g., do they need beds available?

This update is killing me. EVERYTIME I switch from my main family BOOM a new baby in the household!!!! It’s definitely spicing up the game.

I'm really glad they did this. I hope in the future this can be extended to autonomous casual romance (ACR). That was a fantastic Sims 2 mod that made the game feel alive.

I think those pop ups needs to be less likely like I don’t think every day your neighbors would move out/ adopt a child/ die.

One big thing for me would be to have a summary of each sims history accessible in a separate panel. Right now we can see what are the likes, dislikes and jobs of sims we know (if we have asked about that), but a more complete panel of information, including known past employments etc... would be nice. Playing this game I am often confused about who does/likes what already, and with sims changing things like jobs (which is a great addition of course) I will be even more confused about the sims I meet.

This is the type of thing I’ve been thinking about with adding burglars back, I’d love to have the challenge back w the option for it to not happen if you want.

I love everything about this! The most exciting thing to me is that they’re able to adopt pets now. I always hated that when I started a save I’d be the only person in the entire world with a pet (minus Brindleton Bay)

I love this update, I got a message to say that the Goths had decided to adopt a toddler, I only ever use townies/premades as DNA donors, but I had two toddlers and decided to pop over for a play date

I didn’t even have wild custom settings (mostly just turned off moving for the basic townies) and all of the households filled up with kids and pets in 2 weeks. I’m talking single sims with 7 pets in every world. Definitely too many too quickly for me. So many events were happening that I thought clicking the mailbox triggered events at first 😅 It seems that the custom settings are like a guaranteed event that will keep repeating until the household fills or I micromanage them anyway. I can’t wait to see what the next phase of this story progression update will be!

I tried the Rom-Com scenario, it seemed like it would be fun. It kinda broke my game. Thank God I did it in a new save file.

Clement Frost moved into a lot in my game. He is also friends with my sim so he called asking if he should ask someone on a date and I said yes and so now he has a girlfriend as well.

I played with this a bit yesterday and left all of it on and my Sims went wild with adopting! One one hand it’s nice because my neighborhood was starting to look a little elderly but at the same time it was very overwhelming at first.

This is going to make having a massive family tree so much easier omg

*Kayla:* "This is the first time a Sim has autonomously gotten pregnant in my game. This is the best day of my life!" "Overall, Sims Team, you have made my life." *Dan:* Um...say what now???

I'd like to see a 'frequency' option where you can set how often Townies make autonomous decisions.

Great, now we just need more sims to engage in social events and activities 😂

My first time ever checking and I got “Mary Greenburg was so angry she burst into flames and died.” 😅

Nancy gave birth to the Alien twins from her abduction and then 1 minute later was eaten by a cowplant. It was great! I love this story progression! So much more fun to play with. It's like the whole town was brought to life FINALLY!

what's so cool about the adopt a pet thing is it makes everything feel more connected? like this is a thing from one expac that can now *automonously* spread to worlds from other packs

There’s even more types of calls. I got one about a simstagram meme and one asking if they should go on a date with a townie sim.

itd be so cool if they added that sims could randomly be turned into/attacked by vampires

9:19 So her original name is Francine Spencer, in my country for some reason they changed it to Francine Salazar, I normally hate when they do this, but on this particular sim I liked it

I think you should do another“leaving my game on for 24 hours”. It would be a great way to see more of the story progression update.

I love how simsie is like “I want someone to die!” Legacy challenge : “Can people stop dying it’s really annoying!” 😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️

Johnny Zest just sitting there watch his mother and father adopt every child possible.

I had stopped playing the Sims 4 for a year because I got frustrated with having to repopulate the town with gallery families in order to do my legacy files. One day I got so bored I just opened the game and realized they had story progression and the toddler update and I freaked out in excitement. Now I'm always interested in starting new files to see how the towns are different. For some reason though the Pancake family always has a full house of bio kids for every file I've done.

i was WAITING for this video hahaha

I’m so excited about this! I’m working through a legacy challenge and I want the iconic townies to stay around so now hopefully that’ll be easier than having to go into their households lmao

YES! I love this so much. This makes me excited to see future adjustments and what they add to this. Love that they did it in a way where you can customize it so specifically down to household by household and which ones are active. This is so huge for story telling and progression. Gahh so hyped for all the unique saves and potential.

I'm just getting back into the Sims 4 and I'm so excited about this! Finally it'll seem like the Sims around me are progressing in life as my Sims are moving and living their stories :D

I want neighbours stories to include skills. That would tie well with career promotions!

My only issue is they seem to happen way too often, especially some of the super big ones

I got a death notification for the neighborhood stories. It is so funny. This is what it said: Brent blushed so much he exploded.

"It seems like death is pretty rare" Me who didn’t check neighborhood stories for 2 days and suddenly half my neighborhood had died: 😳

I feel like this update can get overwhelming, they keep getting pregnant and adopting everyday, plus getting pets. Will a dog bed and dog bowl appear in their house when they get a dog? Or will they get another bedroom when they adopt kids or get pregnant?

As someone who loves to have big families w/generations I loveee this so I can play my sims while the others in the fam still develop. More realistic as an entire world!!! Super excited to play this!! Also they’re totally trolling Kayla with that twitter response lolll

This is so wonderful! I had many of these things configured in my McCommands, but it’s so much easier them being proper to the game

i’m honestly really happy about this update, but i also have the feeling that there’s ** too ** many things that are happening per day? id probably have to see more gameplay, but overall this is a great uodate

I’m literally so happy about this, and I’ve just begun a new legacy challenge and it’s been only like half a generation so I can still get this in. I’m excited to see what modders do with this.

I can't say that I've seen that the townies have filled the whole household with children only, but there is definitively a few households that are filling up quite a bit with cats and/or dogs. Though, some households are getting quite a lot of new children... I think it's quite great though! Love the update. I had Dina Calliente die of overheating, but that's the one death I've seen so far. Though, in my game, the Landgraabs have adopted or birthed three kids and a dog, which I believe is because of Geoffrey being Family Oriented. Almost every household in the world has gotten at least a child or pet.

since i ea skittle n first started watching sims videos, i’ve always wanted this! i’m so so so happy and now i feel motivated to start playing the game again

Oh my god this is amazing! I've been wanting this since i was a kid and started playing sims! This is the best thing that has happened in sims since alt-placing windows and doors. I am so excited!

On the one hand this is amazing. On the other hand I play with aging turned off. So I feel like having all of these on will eventually lead to all the townies being dead and all of my worlds full of orphaned babies.

This is really interesting as I've got MCCC and my biggest issue is that Sims have too many kids and all my townies have half siblings cause so many of them partner swap. But I may turn that off now in MCCC and just have this.

Love how she said no baby booms lmao. My game I had the Goths, the Langraabs, the Pancakes, The SKL household, the Caliente's, the Bff's all adopting and having babies in the span of two Sims weeks. So my game has a ton of babies that would never have existed without the help of this update lol

your excitement is infectious. how sweet.

Okay so… What risk factor made Miko Ojo died in my save while she was making cereal???

Besties, we should admit that without Simsie we wouldn’t know anything about the sims

‘I’m here for the dogs and the death’, a classic Lilsimsie line 🤣

Your excitement makes me excited!!

I had Mortimer die from exploding from anger! Like, 10 minutes into playing with the update😂

I would like to see sims get renovations if you have dream home decorator cuz yea they have more kids but they only have like 1 bed in their house so i do wish they’d be able to get renovations randomly

2:12 Funny story, in my legacy my Sims were related to the Goths (one of their story progression kids) During a party for my heir the whole family gets a call Mortimer died. I check the family tree and Bella died... By cowplant

As someone whose been very critical of the sims 4 recently, I have to give the devs credit where its do, I tip my hat to them.

Simsie: “I’ve been DREAMING of something like this!” Me: “BUT DOES IT WORK!!” 😂😂