do you think

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Yeah when I start with the game I'm going to make some families myself and see them unfold; I would play with one family for about an hour and then another hour play the other family I created, and just keep repeating it and rotating, so I do not feel like I've been left out from something interesting happening.

But you can map tag your sims, hopefully you can do that to the many families and generations of families you create because then you really wouldnt feel left out or you are lost about something that happen because you werent focused on the family. So with the tags at least you can follow and get a better understanding of what your sims are up too, and I like that, because I think it would be very confusing if they didnt include that in the game.

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I do believe the townies of course will age and progress on their own. In the Sims 2, you had the townies that would work at certain places behind the counter and there were really no backstories to them, so I assume this time if you want you can follow that townie and control them and get an understanding of their family and what not. Unless you delete them from the game.