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2. Yes, you can just take the random Sim it starts you with, quickly randomize their name, traits, and aspiration, then drop them on an empty lot or something and go back to manage worlds to play with whatever household you want.
3. If you hit "save as" you now have two separate saves. Think alternate realities rather than same world; while they started the same, the longer you play the more different they will become and what happens in one does not affect the other, nor does time pass in the unplayed save while playing in the other.
Rotational play is when you play multiple households within the same save. So you would go to "Load Save" and then from manage worlds pick a different household then you were previously playing. In rotational play, time passes for all households (though you can set aging to active household only, as you found) and changes you make in the world will still be there when you switch households. As @ttuthill said, your Neighborhood Stories settings will determine whether or not your other played households will have/adopt kids, adopt pets, die in accidents, etc. By default, Neighborhood Stories are off for played households, but on for unplayed. However, if you leave a household while a Sim is already pregnant and switch to another household in the same save, the pregnancy will continue to progress and the baby may have been born by the time you return.
- Active = the household you are currently controlling
- Played = all households you have loaded into
- Unplayed = townies/npcs/any household you haven't created or played with
4. I believe aging settings are per save. I'm not as sure about camera settings; perhaps someone else can chip in with which settings are account level and which are per save.
6. I believe that an auto-generated landlord for play as a tenant is the intended result of not having one assigned to your building. I do not own the pack, however.
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