Reduce the generating of townies

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!