Please give us a townie pool feature
I wanted to bring up an ongoing issue that many long-time players experience: the lack of control over how townies are generated and populated in the world. While the MC Command Center (MCCC) mod off...
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Townie generation can be a real problem on console. I'd love to be able to toggle it off altogether. Even on my next gen Xbox Series X, which is pretty fast with a huge memory and loads of available capacity it can cause a massive lag and even crash if I don't keep an eye on those new Townies. I reported after adding For Rent that suddenly I was getting excessive new Townies appearing. If a console player has a lag I always tell them to clear some of them.
I used to do a game cleanup every Sunday and go right through Other Households deleting some, I started doing that after Cottage Living because of the extra Townies. By comparison since adding For Rent on it's release, I now need to do that daily. The other day I moved Penny Pzazz into a new apartment, for about 15 minutes of gameplay I playtested it because she's only a background character. I sent her to a food stall and I got about 6 new Townies after such a short playing time. I deleted all of them.
I get to know which Townies fill essential roles, so I know the postman, vets and bar staff, I know the gym instructors and the yoga teachers and spa staff. I'm careful to avoid deleting those. These new Townies being generated are just random and without roles. They are also generated with all accessories which was reported and tracked as a bug. So that adds to my annoyance. I don't want to see an elder in a bikini top and gloves with a multitude of piercings, socks and flip flops.
So I really really want a toggle. I have more than enough Sims to populate my worlds. On console we don't have the benefits of MCCC.
