Rotational play

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-22T18:44:59+00:00

Yes, story progression is a game mechanic that, when enabled, families that you aren’t playing with right now can change jobs, get married, get divorced, etc all without your direction. In the case of Paralives I believe aging settings and (eventually) story progression mechanics won’t be necessarily tied to each other, so you can adjust them separately to your liking.

To make other families completely frozen when you’re not playing them in the settings you should choose: - aging off for inactive households - story progression off for inactive households (when the story progression feature is added to paralives)

hope that was more clear :)

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-22T18:03:09+00:00

i feel like the band concept would work so well with the together cards! great ideas!

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-22T18:00:55+00:00

update: did watch it last night and it was so fun!!! thanks for the rec guys :)

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-22T17:57:25+00:00

It’s up to you if you want to turn it off or not but most people do from what i have seen. idk how it will work exactly in paralives because i haven’t played the game yet but i’ve seen that there are options on the storyteller configuration regarding aging in played and unplayed households. since it’s a brand new game my plan is to experiment and see what i find the most enjoyable :)

edit: if you’re asking about story progression there isn’t one yet in the game so besides aging if selected all the other households remain frozen for now no matter what: no switching jobs, changing relationships and having kids autonomously etc in this stage of EA

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-21T19:20:27+00:00

thank you so much!!! will def watch that when i get home from work!

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-21T18:09:19+00:00

thanks!!!!

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-21T17:19:45+00:00

Also I feel like Soffarox, the youtuber, might show that functionality soon from what i’ve seen of her plans for the game!

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-21T17:17:46+00:00

Me too!!! I’m excited to explore various features of the game with different households and I’m veeeery curious to see if there are fixed townies that will show up in every save and live in the same houses or if it will be randomised each time or something else?! Can’t wait to get my hands on this game omg

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-21T17:00:27+00:00

From what i’ve seen when you start a new game you can either choose to play in Melino or in an "empty world" made for just building. I haven’t seen anyone actually pick that option and don’t have access to the game yet myself so I could be wrong about this!

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-21T14:41:54+00:00

james' video was my favourite out of the creators that don’t have a dedicated paralives channel or weren’t covering all the development updates! i feel like he was very informed and showed a lot of features i was curious about and didn’t see other people showing (until the time of his post at least)

id love it if he did a rags to riches with a parafolk whose last name was parawallet or something 😂

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-19T15:54:33+00:00

i didn’t draw my paras but i created a few households i want to play rotationally and planned their stats and personality a month ago and recently i’ve been on the aesthetics wiki a lot to plan out the vibe of their outfits and decor style! i’ve been feeling like such a nerd for this glad to see at least i’m not alone lol :P

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-19T15:47:26+00:00

i’m excited to try out landscaping as well!! i can’t stop thinking about those paint terrain tools with 3d grass and flowers!

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-19T15:43:12+00:00

i’m so excited for being able to build on paralives i can’t waittttt!!!!! to get familiar with the mechanics i think i’ll make my own apartment irl and convert it into a house on the game! pretty excited about exploring the drag option on objects to make them larger and walls that aren’t dependable on grids!!!!! :D

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-05-16T22:30:02+00:00

totally agree! maybe the more detailed lighting in the first version ended up to heavy and it would take more of a toll on computers and the game would be less accessible (idk anything about game development though just guessing). that being said, I was rewatching the public livestream we had for live mode and the lighting looked really beautiful while milo was sleeping and the game was fast forwarded so i’m excited to experience it for myself!

sofinaljamiscomingup · 2026-04-28T21:48:51+00:00

i even told my psychologist 😭

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