I'm trying to figure out a better setting for SP's stories. I like hearing about how my active families friends and NA family are doing and I like knowing when people are having kids, breaking up etc. But it does seem to be WAY too much sometimes. I currently have the speed set to 240 sim min, which I would assume would mean it will look for or feed me a story every 4 sim hours, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Also when I'm feeling over-logged by stories I thought that going in and dumping the story log would clear up stories but it doesn't seem to do that and I still get bombarded.

I don't want to stop them altogether, but I'd like them to be a bit less often and it doesn't seem to matter what I set the speed to, in one game I set it to 12 sim hours and I was still constantly deleting dozens of stories. I like this feature, but I'd just like things to slow down. Am I missing a step somewhere or focusing on the wrong things for slowing down the town updates??

I hate to miss out on any major happenings, but I've narrowed things down to just friends and family and it still seems to be too much. Anyone have any recommendations for a good setting?

If you tamper with the Story Manager in that manner, I expect that things will get so far out of sync with what is being reported on vs. what is actually happening in the world that eventually (okay, I'm exaggerating here) you will hear about new births when the "baby" by that time is actually a grandparent or has died of old age already and the story reports will never catch up.

It sounds to me like you want to slow down actual progression, not keep things zipping along while slowing down only the story reports on that progression. The progression is going to happen anyway regardless of whether or how it's all reported on. Accordingly, you would want to set the speed of overall progression to Slow or Snail if you haven't already and then perhaps increase the Manager speeds on the various kinds of progression further meaning Career, Skill, Friendship, Flirts, Romance, Lots, etc., not that of the poor Story Manager. Otherwise you are essentially telling the (real) world to carry on as it always does but only report the news to you in your newspaper one half page at a time (or on the TV news for three minutes at a time out of thirty if that metaphor works better) -- you will be way behind and very under-informed before long and the stale "news" reports just won't be meaningful or relevant any longer.

It's already on 'slow', perhaps I will try snail and move speed back to 120 minutes or so. I don't understand how it all works. I just want fewer messages bombarding me. I was thinking too, that somewhere I can have SP report on only certain types of stories, but I don't remember where to do that. I only found the section about friends, family, etc.
Frankly I don't care who increases their skill levels, but I like to hear about the other types of events like parties, romances, babies..etc.

Yes, but my point was that by successfully slowing down the Story Manager you will hear about these things sim days and then weeks after they have happened. That setting alone will not slow down progression. I would suggest actually putting that one back at the default setting.

To control which stories are reported on by their subject, which yes you may find helpful, look under SP > General Options > Options: Stories > Disallow Story. I use this when I sometimes get tired of reading about the exact same not very interesting (to me) things repeatedly.

igazor wrote: ↑

February 20th, 2019, 6:12 am

hat setting alone will not slow down progression. I would suggest actually putting that one back at the default setting.

What was the default? I can't remember.

The default is 10. I don't know if setting the overall progression speed to Slow changes that. You could start up a test game, note the manager speed, change the overall speed of progression, and see if that changes things.

I've never changed the Speed setting under Options: Stories (which I think is what you are referring to). What I do instead is go into Disallow Story (also under Options: Stories) and disable story types that I'm not interested in (like Skills: Skill Increase). Maybe instead of slowing down the story manager try limiting the types of stories to what you really want to hear about. It will probably involve some guess work, the list of stories isn't terribly self explanatory.