@Grandmothergamer: You can safely move EA sims from house to house within the world. You cannot delete them. You cannot put them in the library bin and then back into the world. In short, you cannot replace them. You can age them up until they are ghosts. But then you have to deal with the gravestones, which is why I asked my question about gravestones and graveyards, in the reply above, because some sims are not worth a redo.
Since you are already playing with testingcheatsenabled true, it is easy to change traits. Just shift click on a sim and the menu pops up making it possible to change traits.
You can also choose edit sim from that menu and you are taken to CAS. Change the face and head any way you want, change the hair, change the clothes, change the makeup. DO NOT change body sliders, muscle sliders, skin tone, favorites, traits, lifetime wish, star sign, names or anything else like that in CAS.
In the game, you can use rewards to change lifetime wishes and favorites. You can use plastic surgery at the hospital to change body sliders. You can also use rewards to buy the machine that changes sims from fat to thin, no muscle to muscle, etc.
I'm going from house to house and changing every single sim to my satisfaction, or aging them until they are ghosts if that seems like too much work. Once I get done redoing all of them, I'll make multiple copies of my changed world, so that I can always restart it, later down the line. It is a lot of work, but apparently the only solution available to us, if we don't want to play EA sims as they come "right out of the box."
I don't think your preference for a beautiful world makes you a shallow person. I also like a sim world with non-uglies. Some of the EA sims are way uglier than any person you'll ever meet. And some are not just ugly, but so badly proportioned that they are freakish. I wouldn't enjoy watching a movie or TV show with people looking like that. I also don't enjoy watching sims who look like that. This game is supposed to be entertainment, not a blatant statement about political correctness. I will make my world the way I want it. It doesn't have to reflect real life. If that was the case, my self sim would have to be old. No thank you. If I play a self sim, that sim will look like what I was at my very best, not what I see in the mirror today.
I know you didn't ask the other question of me, but I just want to mention that no non-EA CC is really "safe." Some hairs have caused no end to trouble in this game, even corrupting things. So do proceed with caution. The other problem is that some hair is really high poly. If it spreads throughout your world, too many high poly hairs can slow down the game. And CC hair will be chosen by the game for random sims. So just be aware of that.
Have fun getting your world beautiful. I have to get back to redoing mine. :) Now if I could just figure out how to get gravestones to stay in the graveyard ...
