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Ozlem80's avatar
3 years ago

Is there a way to prevent empty (townie) houses?

My favorite way of playing this game is via legacy challenges however there is a thorn in my side which ends up wrecking the fun a little, it's the random emptying of townie houses as time goes by. UGH! this kills me, it's so time-consuming fixing this.

I hit a stage in my challenge, usually 7-8 gen deep, where I have to start cleaning up all the neighborhoods. Lots of single children living in houses by themselves or single townies living in 6+ bedroom homes, or townies who want to wear all the things while all having the same greyish clay skin tone, but, because of autonomy aging/death/moving there are also a stack of homes that are empty of furniture which prevents new townies moving in. So, for every one of them I need to get into the plot, go into build mode, demolish, open library, replonk the furnished option down. If it was one or two it would be annoying but when you're dealing with a dozen plus homes, it's just so tedious. 

Is there a way to disable this happening to un-played household homes? or a mod that will stop them moving with furniture or dying and having the furniture go?

If not.

How do you tackle this? What do you do to make it less boring/frustrating??

Any tips will be greatly appreciated.

5 Replies

  • @Ozlem80 you could turn off Neighbourhood Stories maybe? I don't play legacy, I'm on Console but I know I turned it off in my game to stop changes to unplayed households.
  • valohim666's avatar
    valohim666
    3 years ago

    To expand a little on what @simsplayer818 said, you could go into Manage Households and adjust specific settings for neighborhood stories. "Move In" and "Move Out" options are available there, and you could enable or disable them as needed. If you play on a computer version of the game, the mod MCCC also has various options for sims moving in and out that might be worth looking into. Personally I feel that MCCC works much better than any of the vanilla options in the game, though to be fair since my PC version is several years old (and very outdated at this point) I can't really comment on how MCCC would work with the neighborhood stories.

  • daikoyu's avatar
    daikoyu
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    Move In and Move Out should not empty the house/apartment. I checked in my game and if a household move the furniture are still there. Only dead remove all furniture and I think this is to blame for you empty houses/apartments. Which is of course stupid if you have aging on and all sims dies in their home lot.

    You could use the gallery and just replace the home with a new one? If you use the hashtag: *playtested* you get houses which are normally functional. (If you are console player avoids houses which are build with T.O.O.L the cause problems (low fps, lag and all other funny things)

  • I have been searching for an answer to this question as well and it sucks that not even this thread has an answer. I want to build a cool say file overtime but I can’t do that if everything delete itself.

  • @Ozlem80 I search in the Gallery for "Name of Lot Original" and you can usually grab an unmodified version to plop down in it's place. On my Gallery page I have a ton of those as backups for my own game.