High School Spawning Issues (And Beyond)

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I am having issues getting sims/NPC's to spawn at event and business lots. Currently, it is the high school I am struggling most with. When my teen goes to high school, the only sims to spawn are the cafeteria worker and the classroom 1 teacher. No other students, no principal, no classroom 2 teacher, no janitor. I tried removing my mods, deleting the onlinethumbnailcache file from my Sims 4 file and then repairing and starting a new save to test it, and I was able to get the lot to spawn sims. But then when I tried to spawn in my Legacy Save it still wasn't working there and I REALLY do not want to start a new save. I JUST immigrated all my most important sims over to a new save because my old, 6-7 year old save was corrupted and disintegrating from the bug that comes with the R-Rent pack. So this "Legacy Save" is only 2 weeks old. If I have to start again over I don't think I could do it right now. Please help!

I've been able to work around the "not spawning" issue with other situations this week, such as employees not spawning at owned restaurants, owners and vets not showing up at the pet hospital etc by making the family who owns the lot go there and turning the business on manually from there. But I don't know how to do this with a high school. Nobody owns a high school.

A few technical notes:

-I started having NPC/Employee spawning issues before the big update, so I don't think it's update-related.

-I use MCCC and "Hire Certain Sims" but otherwise I have no other mods.

-I originally noticed the spawning issues with an "owned" restaurant by a sim household I had marked as un-played.

Thank you in advance.

crinrict · Answer

Hi Ferntella&nbsp;
The vet/retail is a known bug and has a thread here: [CD] [GTW] Retail worker/vets don't spawn for business as customer/Can't buy | EA Forums - 5044322&nbsp;
As for the rest, do you overstuff your households (&lt; 8 Sims) ?

ferntella · Answer

Upon looking at the bug link you've shared, I don't see that anyone else is experiencing an issue with the high school. But I do see the vet issue.

No, I don't even have a mod that would allow me to overstuff households. I only have the mods I listed above, "MCCC" which allows me to cheat skills and relationship levels, etc, and "Hire Any Sims", which allows me to assign waiter and chef traits for restaurants.

Ever since my old legacy save died I have taken precautions with my new save. I keep the homes of all un-played households empty of furniture, I delete all game-generated NPC's that aren't serving a purpose (such as mailmen or vendors, etc), and I haven't created the cap-amount of R-Rental units allowed by the games restrictions. Hopefully it is not over-zealousness to protect my game that is keeping the game from allowing sims to spawn at my high school? I believe I have enough un-played teens to fill the school.

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