As the title states: I like the feature that NPC families are getting kids on their own when I play in a single household save. But in a rotational save I would like to decide who gets kids and when. Is there a way to prevent the currently not actively played families from getting kids autonomously?
And is the “aging off” for not active families actually preventing accident deaths as well or only the aging?
Thanks a lot!
Yes, but it’s been a while since I tried this.
Basically make sure you have no Queen bed anywhere in the house.
Just put 2 single beds side by side in the bedroom instead.
Zois seem to only “Do it” on queen beds.
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No, only the aging. For accidents, you need to go on each individual zoi and use the immortal zoi cheat
First off, yes that’s a total drag. I rotate a lot between my zois per save file and I can barely keep up with all the pregnant zois (+ if we’re not there for the birth, they’ll definitely mess up the names -.- ). Unfortunately, there isn’t an “official” workaround yet. What Comes To My Mind: Before you leave the family to play with another, uncheck the “interested in romantic relationships” option in CAZ. Could work but I haven’t tried it myself.
The Aging Off cheat doesn’t prevent them from dying of accidents, low needs or whatever.
Thank you both!
@Samuriko this is crazy 
I would never had thought of deleting the Queen size beds. This is a workaround at least but I would really hope they give us the option to decide ourselves if the NPC families progress or not.
At the moment it anyway feels half baked for both playstyles:
@HeinziDerHeld Can you do that? Or do you mean with the “CustomZoi” Cheat? I hope they would then not loose the relationship with their partner while not playing this household.
And the names… yes… this is really completely off and unfortunately there is not even a cheat to change the name afterwards. Some have names which I do not even know how to pronounce.
Other than the 2 single beds, I don’t know of any. I have not tried @HeinziDerHeld solution, as I am quite happy to split the beds if it’s an issue.
Really good to know! Thanks @Samuriko I will try that in my current rotational save.
@EllaEstella If you go into CAZ with the zoi you’re actively playing (bottom right corner), you can click on the edit icon next to the zoi’s gender. Here you have the ability to disable romantic relationships for the zoi. I made a screenshot for you in case you haven’t seen this before:
I hadn’t heard of @Samuriko’s solution but that sounds really easy too. I’ll definitely try that asap. Thanks!
Thanks @HeinziDerHeld I normally always used the dresser or the CustomZoi Cheat to change appearance while in game. I thought the preferences would be only available with the cheat, but you´re right.
Only not sure if this could mess up the current relationship while not active as they would not be interested in their partner anymore.
No, the preferences are also available without the cheat by just going into CAZ
Just a quick update question on this one: is selling the double beds before leaving the household to play another one still the only reliable birth control?
Or has something changed in the meantime and somebody has discovered a better & reliable way?
If I understand correct we are about to get a proper way to control this with the next update or at least this is how I would understand what Kjun is saying in this update video at 1:28 [08.14.26] Focusing on the Little Things (Updated)
@Minthyuyu Really? First time I hear about this cheat. Where did you find it on the Krafton website?
@Minthyuyu Thank you! Interesting… Question being if this removes an existing pregnancy or if this really disables the Zoi to even get pregnant at all. And strange that there is no cheat to undo it. Normally you would put the cheat on before you leave and then remove the cheat when you are actively playing the Zoi again. Not that they then never can get pregnant at all 
Has somebody tested this already? Would be interesting to know.
Good question. I sadly didn’t test it myself. I only found it on the website. It might actually just remove the current pregnancy, but I’m not sure, sorry :(.
I was about to test it but then the tought to not be able to remove it scared me away 
So I sold the double bed again
But I was not aware of this cheat. So thank you! Maybe somebody who has tested this can tell us.
That’s more than understandable. If I get the chance to play, I’ll test it out and post it. I’m really curious as well. But removing the bed might be the best contraceptive method for now 
I’ve used this cheat a couple of times during the first “baby boom” bug phase and it only erases the current pregnancy of the selected zoi. Unfortunately, it doesn’t prevent future pregnancies at all =/
Thanks a lot for bringing clarity to this
. Then we can only hope for a future patch. Until then it’s “You have to sleep on the couch again, honey. Sorry”
I really hope the baby boom issues will be gone once and for all one fine day xD I can’t handle another generation of my families expanding up to a point where I have to use online name generators -.-
