First, let's start with the story progression of the game. It is absolutely terrible. You would be lucky if your Sim's brother and sister had kids on their own, let alone get married! There was no...story behind the neighborhood, and no drama occurring around your Sims. You had to make it all happen, and no one's got time for that! I present to you, the incredible, the amazing game changing mod, TWALLAN'S STORY PROGRESSION MOD! This mod does absolutely everything you could EVER imagine! It changes the entire dynamics of the game itself. Sims now cause their own drama such as getting married, having children out of wedlock, breaking up, being the town gigolo or bike (you have to download the story progression personalities module), going on dates, etc. You have to try it yourself! Click on the button below to the direct link to the download page! (All the additional modules are available where the base mod is!)
As for the smaller modifications, I use Awesomemod. This is also a core mod that implements its own version of story progression, but I personally like Twallan's better, it's so much more detailed! Any who, Instead of downloading Awesomemod all by itself, I use the 'configuration tool' and manually select what I want to change in my game. I disable EVERYTHING, except under 'CAS&Sim Creation Features', I enable 'No Vanilla Pudding' and 'Randomized Spawned Voices'. I will explain what the 'No Vanilla Pudding' feature does, and why that is one of the only things I enable. Click on the button below to the direct link to the download page! (Configuration tool is in the same place as the download link! If you choose to configure the mod, you need to download the original file plus the configured file and put them in the mods folder!)