Help me undestand why this is happening (Story Progression)

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Help me undestand why this is happening (Story Progression)

Post by bonniherself » December 6th, 2018, 5:09 am

I have checked every caste time and time again. I have checked the settings for the town more than once. And yet, Story Progression insists on matching up teens with elders or sometimes adults. I most definitely have the flirt/partner settings made to keep teenagers from hooking up with adults of any kind (even though I wish it was possible to have teen sweethearts stay together when one of them ages up).

This is not isolated. I've had multiple instances of the game trying to hook up teens with adults or elders, despite all my caste and town settings, which I have checked time and time again. In another town, I had a problem with teens getting pregnant and even getting married despite the settings prohibiting that.

This is driving me nuts. What am I missing? What should I be checking? Do I need to reset everyting and redo it all manually? (I hope not, that's a huge, very tedious job.) Why would this keep happening?
 

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Post by igazor » December 6th, 2018, 9:41 am

Where you have teens disallowed from flirting and romancing YAs and older (or restricted to just teens, which would amount to the same thing), do you also have the YA and older castes disallowed from flirting and romancing teens? Does it say what it should on individual Sim Options, check some teens as well as some YAs and older, with the settings flowing down to them from castes in (parentheses) as they should?

And refresh our memories if you could, are you using Woohooer? That doesn't have anything to do with couples forming, but it does with romance generally and making babies the woohoo way, as opposed to SP just pushing pregnancies. Are the teens getting pregnant and married by way of each other or also with older sims?

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Post by bonniherself » December 6th, 2018, 10:05 am

I have castes for every age/gender and they're all set to disallow flirting and/or romance with teens, and vice versa. I also have it set to disallow flirting/romance between elders and YAs and that seems to be working okay, but the teens in my game just run wild for reasons I can't understand.

I'll check some of the indivduals to see what their settings look like. That's a good troubleshooting tip.

My other thought, though is... might Awesomemod be affecting this? I think I may have had it set to allow teen/adult romance (for the purposes of allowing teen couples to remain together, and I wouldn't have enabled woohoo, just the usual innocent flirt/romance). I didn't think Awesomemod would interfere with SP, but is that a possibility? I've just redone the settings on Awesomemod and I'll test it, but it seems unlikely that's the source.

I am using Woohooer, and I haven't got teen interactions allowed at all. Thankfully, my current playthrough hasn't had any teens getting married to each other or getting pregnant, so I think I got that fixed, anyway.
 

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Post by bonniherself » December 6th, 2018, 10:07 am

Adding this as I'm checking... I just did a check on a teen in my current household and it had that teen flirt was disallowed but everything else was allowed. What the what? No idea how this is happening, but it's a good start for finding the root of the problem.
 

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Post by igazor » December 6th, 2018, 10:40 am

If you are totally unable to unscramble your SP settings, as it does sound like something is not sticking as it should there, you have the option of exporting them (just SP), uploading them to an external file host, and providing me with a link, by way if PM if you prefer, and I can see how they look on my end. Wouldn't be able to get to this until tonight (in my time zone) or tomorrow though, so you may want to continue looking for the caste options barrier on your end if you can.

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Post by bonniherself » December 6th, 2018, 11:05 am

It looks like the teenagers caste is not being applied correctly. I just checked another teen and looked for something obvious and immediate, such as pregnancy participation, which should be set to false. I went in and manually applied the Teenagers caste and checked again, and the settings were there. So now I just need to work out why the caste is not applying automatically.

 

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Post by bonniherself » December 6th, 2018, 11:57 am

Just a quick followup. I went ahead and deleted the Teenagers caste completely and created a new one, set that up with the appropriate settings, and added that to the other castes (for adults, elders, and young adults), as well as setting it in the teenagers caste. So I guess I'll see how it goes, but judging by the individual settings for the teenagers in the household once I set the new caste and gave it a bit to run and do the automatic add thing, that seems to have done the trick.

This explains a great deal! All the teenagers moving out on their own (I just kept putting them back or moving them in with friends of the family), all the ones in the other town who were getting pregnant and married to each other, all the other weirdnesses that shouldn't have been happening.

I must say, though, it was kind of good for the story on occasion. I had a pair of teenagers in love who got married and I immediate went in, ended the marriage, and put them back in their parents' households. When the teen girl aged up, she rolled the "Commitment Issues" trait, which I thought was kind of funny. She had a bad experience as a teenager, you know, and now she just can't risk commitment... ;)

 

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