Hi everyone.My save is already full of sims I created : about 90 played sims, and something like 20-30 unplayed ones, some of them working in restaurants, the others are used by the game to work in spas, foodstands... I think it's totally fine when the game create a townie to work as a maid or a gardener. But why are sims constently generated without reason, only to be used as passerby, when I have so many sims available for that ? This issue is even worst with City Living : in one sims-hour, the game create something like 8 sims household (with only one sims in each of them).I would be nice to have an option to disable this generating of sims, when it's not really needed. I'd rather have less passerby but no sims to delete or edit (because randomly generated sims don't look good most of the time). The more sims are created, the less chance I have to see my own sims in community lots, and that's really sad when you spend time to create sims and families you like.I think it would also be nice to asign service role to a specific sims, to allow us to create our own NPC.(Sorry for my english, it's not my native language)

I agree with your post! My game is generating too many sims as well. My save is old, and it already has sufficient amount of sims, I would like to have less new sims spawning in the world. I also don't like too much townie generation, because I like to customize the sims in the neighborhood and give them a bit of a story in my mind to make interaction with them more interesting. There are too many new townies generating, I enjoy customizing them but it starts to feel like work because of how many of them are generated constantly.I like the idea of assigning service role to specific sims. I hope there will be additional settings to handle the population. I would like some of the population and story progression settings from mods MC command center and NRaas master controller to be implemented in the game for TS5.

I'm constantly editing townies to make them fit into my game better, but it feels like a wasted effort when more keep randomly spawning for no reason. I would like an option to stop this from happening too.

They've raised the culling limit which may be why you see more townies than before. You could try modding it lower so the townies are deleted more often, that would make the passer-bys mroe likely to be selected from the pool of your played/housed Sims.

Yup, the bane of my simming life! I hate it, with a passion! Shimrod does a mod on it but it's only for the base game, OR & City Living. Unfortunately, I love GTW & Dine Out so it's unless I want to give up on these games, then the mod doesn't work for me. The MCCommand Centre mod does help as well, but doesn't stop the generation completely, it's also quite in depth so it may seem a bit daunting if you've not used it before! The way I do it is I tend to have my cheats enabled and then edit the darn townies as I see them, so they aren't aliens with weird body shapes, crazy eyes and a sombrero with evening gloves! However this is time consuming and sometimes I just delete them completely on sight! But, it's a never ending task and it's really ruined the game for me. If my laptop could run TS3 better then I'd be back on that!

I also use a combination of shimrod's mod and the MC command center to stop the townie generating but I'm not sure if the latter is configured correctly. Maybe someone can tell me how to disable generation through the command center properly? I still have households generated, mostly single sims, but at least it's severely reduced. I'd still prefer an option for no generation at all, even if it would mean that places and positions would be empty.

Reduce the generating of townies

nellythekidd
9 years ago
I agree with your post! My game is generating too many sims as well. My save is old, and it already has sufficient amount of sims, I would like to have less new sims spawning in the world. I also don't like too much townie generation, because I like to customize the sims in the neighborhood and give them a bit of a story in my mind to make interaction with them more interesting. There are too many new townies generating, I enjoy customizing them but it starts to feel like work because of how many of them are generated constantly.

I like the idea of assigning service role to specific sims. I hope there will be additional settings to handle the population. I would like some of the population and story progression settings from mods MC command center and NRaas master controller to be implemented in the game for TS5.
icecoldfairy
9 years ago
I'm constantly editing townies to make them fit into my game better, but it feels like a wasted effort when more keep randomly spawning for no reason. I would like an option to stop this from happening too.
benjiu
9 years ago
They've raised the culling limit which may be why you see more townies than before. You could try modding it lower so the townies are deleted more often, that would make the passer-bys mroe likely to be selected from the pool of your played/housed Sims.
InFictionWeLive
8 years ago
Yup, the bane of my simming life! I hate it, with a passion! Shimrod does a mod on it but it's only for the base game, OR & City Living. Unfortunately, I love GTW & Dine Out so it's unless I want to give up on these games, then the mod doesn't work for me.
The MCCommand Centre mod does help as well, but doesn't stop the generation completely, it's also quite in depth so it may seem a bit daunting if you've not used it before! The way I do it is I tend to have my cheats enabled and then edit the darn townies as I see them, so they aren't aliens with weird body shapes, crazy eyes and a sombrero with evening gloves! However this is time consuming and sometimes I just delete them completely on sight! But, it's a never ending task and it's really ruined the game for me. If my laptop could run TS3 better then I'd be back on that!
EricaNovember
8 years ago
I also use a combination of shimrod's mod and the MC command center to stop the townie generating but I'm not sure if the latter is configured correctly. Maybe someone can tell me how to disable generation through the command center properly? I still have households generated, mostly single sims, but at least it's severely reduced. I'd still prefer an option for no generation at all, even if it would mean that places and positions would be empty.
AKLSimmer
8 years ago
I made a mod that stops townies from generating: modthesims.info/download.php?t=595445
Since I installed this mod, no new sims are ever generated in my main save file. However, to make sure no townies are generated, you'd have to manually assign those traits and careers to them so that they will fill those NPC roles, or you can do makeovers for the existing townies. Also, if you are using MCCC, you should still set max homeless to 0, otherwise MCCC will generate townies for you. (If you are not using MCCC then don't worry about it.)
Hope that helps!
webbstepplayer
7 years ago
I'm a little late in this conversation but I'm having the common concerns with the regeneration of Townies. Several of the comments mention mods, however, I'm not that tech savvy enough to know how to use them or where to go to get them. Any help for a non-tech person on resolving this issue? I've been playing the Sims for over 9 years and I've pushed past some of the issues the EA has put in the game but I'm like many others, I want to have a storyline with each of my Sims to keep my worlds interesting but some of these Townies.....
Rambley_Raccoon
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
I absolutely DESPISE this! I've created Sims to be NPCS,but I rarely ever get to see them because of all the useless townies spewed out constantly by the EA Townie Generator. While I planned my NPC Sims carefully and put a lot of love in creating them, The EA generated ones are just slapped together with no planning whatsoever. This REALLY bugs me because I want MY Sims to be seen,not EA-made ones that were slapped together and plunked into my game. It seems like "EA creates,EA controls and EA rules" instead of me doing the creating/controlling/ruling. I'd LOVED to have an option to turn off the Townie generator.
krunji
7 years ago
Hands down the worst thing about this game.

I have over 100 unplayed households. That should be more than enough for game to fill NPC roles, we don't even have that many of them. I delete every single game spawned townie with MCCC the second I see them. Poof, they're gone. Can't stand them. They all look the same, TS4 only has like 5 basic face models for random sims similarly to the pudding faces of TS3 so they're easy to spot.
AlbaWaterhouse
7 years ago
"Lady_Ballora;c-16591083" wrote:
I absolutely DESPISE this! I've created Sims to be NPCS,but I rarely ever get to see them because of all the useless townies spewed out constantly by the EA Townie Generator. While I planned my NPC Sims carefully and put a lot of love in creating them, The EA generated ones are just slapped together with no planning whatsoever. This REALLY bugs me because I want MY Sims to be seen,not EA-made ones that were slapped together and plunked into my game. It seems like "EA creates,EA controls and EA rules" instead of me doing the creating/controlling/ruling. I'd LOVED to have an option to turn off the Townie generator.

THIS!