Making NPCs/Townies Form a Household?

About the only way, I've heard of is by moving them in temporarily and then moving them all out as a group...after setting up their relationships in NRAAS Master Controller so that they all don't split up...and move off. There's cheat ways of doing it, like sliding up the relationship meter with the mouse so that you're always friends with them but I don't think that's what you were wanting to do.

I made some of the NPCs live in the park using NRaas and it became like a household, but i forgot how exactly i did it and i dont know if the relationships stay the same. I guess you can move them to an actual house after that, too. I am gonna check that save again and try to figure it out then come back to you with a clearer answer, hopefully.

ETA: I just checked. click any lot or house you want to add sims to, then master control, add sim. I assume the relationships will stay the same.

Click on the wall of any house you want them to move in, either occupied or empty, then NRaas > Master Controller > Add Sim (first command) > *filter*. As filter you can use "Type of Sim (And)" > Homeless Non Service if you have lots of sims in town. If you use Story Progression, make sure there are enough beds in the house.

The relationship levels are accessible in NRaas > Master Controller > Intermediate. You can set them for all sims in the house at once, at least in relation to one sim, if you feel particularly lazy.

Ahh thank you so much @fmil and @Turjan :mrgreen:

I would temporarily move them into the active household as Nikkei_Simmer suggested. The reason for this is once you move them into your active household the game 'views' them as 'played with' and that excludes them from having the ability to leave your town of their own free-will or by game choice. Also, they will not lose their current relationship with your Sim (even if you didn't move them in).

However, this can also be accomplished with using NRaas' Story Progression mod, but it seems much simpler to just move them in and then move them out than to have to set-up castes for them to stay in game.

Er sorry, but there is no need for NRaas StoryProgression users to delve into castes to prevent a household from splitting up or moving out as a unit. That's what Household Options are for. Or Sim Options, if one doesn't want to lock down the entire household. But even without those, resident sims do not ever get removed from a world when SP is in play unless the player makes a great effort to allow emigration. The most that can happen once they actually are town residents is that they might move into other available residences in town.

If the goal is to avoid NRaas SP entirely, then I could see the value in making the sims in this new household unit temporarily active first although that strategy doesn't really work reliably for all players on EA's version of story progression nor for those who do not use any form of story progression at all.

No resident will ever* leave town with NRaas SP in place on default settings. No castes involved.

One thing that should be mentioned though, as the original post deals with homeless sims that seem to be beloved, is that NRaas SP will rigorously delete all homeless sims if default settings are in place, even if the initial cleanup request is denied. For this reason, it's important to go to NRaas > Story Progression > General Settings > Household Settings > Manage Homeless and change the setting there from "true" to "false".


*There are very few cases where this can happen, like no beds left in the whole town or a really high debt tab, but in all those cases, you will get ample warning before it's too late.

"mw1525;c-17565532" wrote:
I use EA's SP and have never had an issue of my 'added' Sims being moved out of any of my games...ever!

I know you mentioned it, but just so that the OP doesn't miss the tidbit: This statement is only true for sims you have actively played. Any neighbors you love, the girlfriend of your family's son, your love interests etc. can and will be killed or deleted by EA SP at any moment, if you didn't mark those sims as "EA-protected" by actively playing them. It's often a self-escalating process that will leave the town mostly devoid of any life. So, if you have the processor power to spare, NRaas SP is definitely the easier way to achieve that goal.

I've got NRaas SP installed and don't used the EA one, so should be all good. Thanks everyone, ya'll are legends for all the advice :mrgreen:

Thanks @Nikkei_Simmer :mrgreen: