Question about legacys

[typenamehere]

I have it off.

[TheLostGirls]

Maybe he or she moved in with another family. My sims have done that before.

[typenamehere]

I picked the house for him he's staying on his own.

Oh when I moved him out, I picked the house he was leaving as the active household if that makes a difference.

[typenamehere]

I'm sorry for the double post but I've tried everything and I still can't use this sim.

It shows he's in the house but I just can't take control of him:(

[Pam]

Let me make sure I understand your problem.  You moved a Sim out of your main household and now you want to play him instead of the main household?  To do this, you need to follow these steps:

1.  Click on the menu button in the lower left corner of your screen while you are ingame to go to the Main Menu (this button has three dots on it). 
2.  Click on Edit Town. 
3.  Once you see the Map View of your town, there will be a button with two little houses on it in the lower left corner of your screen.  This is the Change Active Household button. 
4.  Click it and you will be able to select another household from the map. 
5.  Choose the house where your new Sim lives.  You'll get a warning message that changing your active household will cause you to lose the promised wishes of your current household.
6.  Continue on through that and you'll then be in the house with your new Sim and he will be under your control. 

Be aware that if you have Story Progression turned on, your main household will continue their lives without you.  You could go back to them and find that they have changed jobs, gotten married, had children, or any number of things.  To turn Story Progression off, click on the lower left button for the Main Menu and choose Options.  One of the tabs will have the Story Progression option.

I hope this information helps you. 

[typenamehere]

Thank you pam

So with story progression off it's like the family are in pause mode or something?

[Swede1992]

So with story progression off it's like the family are in pause mode or something?

Practically speaking, yes. However, you can of course still do things like marrying other sims, ask a couple to break up etc., but all that requires a conscious decision from you as a player, so they won't do anything by themselves.

[typenamehere]

Can people die with it turned off?

[Swede1992]

Can people die with it turned off?

Complex question, but I will try to answer it satisfactorily:
It becomes very unlikely since they won't have accidents on their own. However, you can still kill them within the basis of normal gameplay, for example setting up a fire in your home lot and asking other sims over may kill those sims in that fire.

Then also you have to remember that story progression and 'aging' (another option in the options menu) are two completely separate concepts. With aging on, everybody in the neighbourhood ages; with it off, nobody does. No matter what you've chosen for story progression. Therefore, with story progression off (i.e. no new sim will move into the town) and aging on, every uncontrolled sim will eventually die off due to old age and you've gotten yourself a ghost town. The game will only keep at least one 'townie' (uncontrolled sim which works in working places, but don't live in a house) per working place with story progression off.

Note also that this makes it impossible to have your household aging, while everybody else stays the same age as in the manner of Sims 2.

[blulightin5]

Swede, they can die of accidents that you don't make or control. I have had some die of drowning. I also have a thing about legacies. My sim has a great great grandson, but it shows that the great great grandson isn't part of the family.

[TheLostGirls]

I think the family ties disapear after great-grandfather

[Pam]

Swede, they can die of accidents that you don't make or control. I have had some die of drowning. I also have a thing about legacies. My sim has a great great grandson, but it shows that the great great grandson isn't part of the family.

What exactly does it show on your family tree?

I think the family ties disapear after great-grandfather

If you're talking about the family tree, the ties continue on for generations.  The family tree for my 12 generation legacy family was intact for all of the generations and showed all the blood family and all the parents that weren't blood.

[samoht04]

My Family Tree Shows the Current Heir, his kids, his wife, his father and mother and his Grand-Father I can't remember if it shows his Grand-Mother.

[blulightin5]

Swede, they can die of accidents that you don't make or control. I have had some die of drowning. I also have a thing about legacies. My sim has a great great grandson, but it shows that the great great grandson isn't part of the family.

What exactly does it show on your family tree?

I think the family ties disapear after great-grandfather

If you're talking about the family tree, the ties continue on for generations.  The family tree for my 12 generation legacy family was intact for all of the generations and showed all the blood family and all the parents that weren't blood.

Mine doesn't though.

[samoht04]

When a spouse dies the family tree renders them un-married which is pretty stupid if you ask me, so the husband will not be able to see his Wife because she is no Blood Relation if she dies. Only Children of the couple can see the married in spouse.