I've been having oddness when exploring space
Sometimes it goes off without a hitch, they're gone for the entire exploration and the story pop-ups.... pop up. But for a while now I've been having Sims explore space and the rocket immediately returns and the Sim steps out. Sometimes the story pop-ups do appear, while I've got that Sim doing other things in the house. It's very strange. If I don't give the Sim anything to do they just stand in front of the rocket ship decked out in their space suit ad nauseum. Just today I sent Mom and Dad each on explore space (I have 3 rocket ships) at the same time.
Mom immediately returned, got the safely returned notice, and I spent 5 minutes answering pop-ups for 2 different stories while she cared for the twins. Dad was gone the whole time of the exploration. It seems totally random.
~Tyger <3