Turns out I was trying to do an impossible thing, it does'nt work, you'd need to get a new gen of sims from who you already have in town.
But wonder how much of the premades you can cram together in storybrook county
Okay, taking your post in good faith, this is a matter that has already been discussed on the EA forum here:
Is Storybrook County safe? | EA Forums - 912674
But to elaborate, do you remember a girl called Gitte2001? Flemish girl who could be a touch blunt at times? You lost to her once at penalty kicks but got your revenge over Gnubb 😉
Well, as she pointed out way back in 2016 (the legendary "Toaster" incident of 1st July 2016), it all depends on what you have to play it on, first and foremost. You can cram as many premades as you wish - doesn't necessarily mean the game will run well, or for long.
So the real question to ask is whether your current computer can take it?
Again, we come to Gitte2001 (don't worry readers, won't say her name a third time in case it works like Cartman saying Biggie Smalls into a mirror at Halloween ...), who in discussion with Igazor (who was with NRaas at that time but has since vanished to do other things), on 13th November 2017 on the EA forum, saw the latter state that if one wished to run all eleven EPs, you are looking at the following:
A minimum Quad-core i5 2.4GHz processor and a minimum 6GB RAM (8 better if on Windows 10 onwards), with a graphics card of a minimum NVidia GTX 960M level.
Now for the bombshell - a computer like that today would be laughably obsolete. Sure, it could run Sims 3, but would you want it to?
Look at it this way ... a top of the range i5 processor back in 2017 was a quad-core. A top of the range i5 processor today is a quattuord core. What once was four cores for the blue riband for processing is now fourteen. That let's you know just how far computers have advanced in power in just eight years, before we even start talking about how much memory and graphic cards have come on.
(Oh, and no one uses hard disk drives anymore, but much faster (and stable) SSDs, which helps too.)
This is usually the point where naysayers say 'that has no effect on a 2009 game!' Well, if you want to know the truth of that old yarn, just ask your dad about when he was a kid and played on a 8-bit Spectrum or a Commodore 64 or whatever. Ask him about how it compares to when he plays those games on emulators on modern 64-bit computers today, and how it is possible to make all those old 8-bit programs like Jetpac and Manic Miner run at very silly speeds (eg. 100 times normal!), because they're on far more powerful machines.
(And by the way, Sims 3 was written for 32-bit machines ...)
Any computer is just a device performing multiple mathematical operations, and the more modern it is, the greater the ease with which it can process far simpler older stuff, even if written in spaghetti code. So the real question is, how modern is your machine? The more modern it is, the more adventurous you can be with older software, within reason, and the more forgiving you will find play with the largest worlds with the most filled lots in them such as Storybrook.
(As an aside, one good rule of thumb for any computer if it can run EA 's own Isla Paradiso without screaming for mercy, you should be okay with anything else, although treat any fan made 2048 x 2048 world with initial caution - bigger isn't always better).
