Question about Twallan's Story Progression

[Hosfac]

I just installed Story Progression over the weekend and have been using it in my Starlight Shores file.  One thing I noticed is that the townies have basically taken over every unoccupied home in the town - the only real estate available if my family wants to move are the empty lots.  Is this normal?

Yes.  Kids will move out when they're adults.  Also, it does a "bed check," meaning that if there aren't enough beds in a house to hold everyone who lives there, the households will either move to a bigger house with more beds if they can afford to do so, or will split up if they can't.

The best way I've seen to deal with this is to place affordable houses on all available vacant lots, so there's enough room for your town to expand.  If you had a particular house that you wanted your family to move into, save it to the bin and demolish it.  Then place it when it's time to move.

[ladybarefeet]

Seems like it is bogging my system down badly using the Story progression mods.

My game was freezing up while I was just moving around the house and it would freeze for 30 seconds or longer in some cases. So, I bought a new graphics card. The best one Best Buy had. And with that I had to buy a power supply. I was surprised that the $300 in upgrades didnt help, but the pc is now scoring better anyway so, whatev. No regrets. It might play Guild Wars better too.

Anyway, so now I am uninstalling the mods and with each uninstall of mods I am getting a healthier running game. I was trying all I can to keep the master controller, but its next on the block if I cant get the game running smooth. Ugh. Beautiful mods that the game NEEDS, but the lag they bring to a perfectly good computer... blah.

[Dellena]

It's not your video Ram that you need more of but computer Ram.

[Seabody]

StoryProgression will do that to a game. Whilst I enjoy twallan's Mods in non-Dynasty games, I wouldn't touch StoryProgression myself. I can see why people like it and I would like it myself, but my computer is a few years old now and has a large amount of content on it, SP would lag it a wee bit.

[LivvieLove]

I'm so torn, reading all of your posts of Story Progression.
I, too, once heard all the stories of it's wonderful addition to gameplay but I tried very hard to keep on chugging through my EA created Story progression with the excuse that I "didn't know how to use" the story progression mods properly and I would risk damaging my game.

One day, I buckled down and learned everything I could about how to make it run smoother and put it in. I absolutely loved it.
The mod made my game exactly what I wanted it to... but it came at a cost. I started noticing glitches in careers and in my game that eventually made some aspects of it unplayable... so now it sits in it's own little folder on my desktop as a reminder of what could have been. It was with University that I was experiencing a lot of trouble. Even though I told SP "No" when entering University... it was still turned on. My games glitched out heavily after that and seeing as I enjoy the aspect of continuing education I had to make a choice and remove Story Progression.

[Laneybug7]

I've also noticed that whenever I have Story Progression, not only does my game lag a lot, but it has this really strange glitch. For instance, when I send my teens to school, it is so overpopulated outside of the school, that my teens can't go inside and end up being accused of skipping.  That also happened when I sent them to prom and various other things. Not sure why it happens and literally ALL of the kids/teens that exist in my town are just standing outside the school. So it has this overpopulation glitch that tends to slow things down too.  But I did like some of the stories and how it hooked Sims up and gave them jobs, etc. So now I've decided, when I start getting bored with my usual families, I add story progression for a day(real life) or so just to mix things up and then take it off again. The other mods I have are Overwatch (so useful), Master Controller(love it too), Hybrid(I lenjoy making faerie/witch/genie/mermaids), careers(it's okay) and traveler(really fun).  For the most part they are fine, it's just SP that makes things get a little glitchy and strange.