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7 years ago
"Cinebar;c-16715901" wrote:
Though there is no cap really on how many Sims you can place in any neighborhood, you might want to remember (if coming from TS4) TS2 Sims have memories for everyone they met, and everything they buy. This includes all the 400+ townies that the EPs add and the base game.
On lower end pcs you may notice some lag or slow to scroll when your Sims and all the others have visited owned business lots, because even townies retain the stuff they buy in their inventory. Unlike TS4 if you playedthosethese townie Sims you would find the stuff in inventory and all the memories other than first kiss/first woohoo. The game doesn't make them hold that memory, even if they were dating your Sim, when you make them playable later. Point, some people may see some lag or slow to scroll when their Sims they play visit many community lots and meet lots of Sims (they retain those memories) and or run a business and meet just about everyone who comes there, and or buys a lot of stuff at other Sims stores. This goes for townies, too. So, memories, and inventory for everyone in the game may be a good reason to hold down townies population on machines such as a laptop. And maybe not run as many owned businesses because townies keep those memories, too, and all the stuff they buy.
Legacy houses/lots hold all the data of every Sim that lived there, and though you can play a legacy generation after generation, just remember that lot has all the left over data of all the Sims there, and maybe one day you should move a family to a new, unplayed lot.
I have played TS4 but not enough to really get into it. I have no idea how the townie Sims work in that game. I never really left TS2. It's still my favorite out of all of the series. I play TS2 on a pretty good updated desktop. It has a great graphics card and tons of RAM. I never had any lag or graphics issues on the desktop and the game runs smooth even on most of the high settings. I have read in the Prima guide that the number of townies or NPC's that show up on a community lot depends on the processor speed of the computer. I have always had plenty of either show up on any given lot because I have a pretty powerful processor.
I didn't know that data of every Sim that has lived on a lot stays with the lot. I have several legacy lots that I have had lots of generations of Sims living in. Good idea about moving legacy Sims to another lot after so many genrations. I have not ever done that. I have one lot that is on it's 8th or so generation. So does that data count as part of the population? I guess it would for the most part considering that I have most of the Sims that have passed on still in the NH although long deceased. I just always thought that once a Sim passes the data from them deletes itself and the tombstone/urn is just for a reminder of a once living Sim.
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