Amjoie, I play the game as intended but I do play epic aging. So my hoods age but slower. I have EA Story Progression on, I have always used EA's sp and for some reason I don't seem to get the problems people seem to complain about it. None of my hoods are run over with Vamps or old aged sims although Vamps do have a good bit of the numbers i do have households i never play with a Vamp in the household and all the rest human. I will say celebs is a bigger problem, but in one hood where just about everyone is a celeb now, they all act the same as if no one was. Even the popparazzi are not annoying as they were when there was just a few. They may show up at my sims house maybe a couple times a week, stay for an hour - get tired and leave. So it does balance itself out eventually. I NEVER delete any sims - dead or alive - that is actually one of the quickest way to implode a hood - especially EA sims as they are hardwired into the game and will fragment in the programming like shattering glass and will eventually make that hood unplayable. You can send dead sims to the Netherworld if you play the household they are attached to - it's a long process though - but they will be vanquished from the game permanently without creating problems down the line or you can just ignor them and some - mainly game generated will eventually be moved onto to the Netherworld. The only ones that won't generally are the ones attached to an ep when it comes out, but eventually they will rarely come out and about as time passes.
