Prevent Sim Generation
Dear community, I have only had the game since November and I would actually have a lot of fun with this game, but there is one thing that really annoys me since the very day: the automatic sim ge...
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Thank you very much for your answer.
Well, my problem is, I want the game to stop generating sims for the NPC roles. I have ~300 households in my save game. I want the game to make use of these. I also have them all set to unplayed and only play with one household. So that leaves ~299 left over. But the game doesn't do it.
At the moment, I can only decide that the game will throw more Sims at me that I don't want in my world or that I will use NoRandom and many places will be empty and unoccupied (e.g. the gym or the wellness centre).
And that is the most frustrating point for me. There are so many mods for this game, but nobody seems to mind that you can only choose between the two extremes mentioned?
Edit:
Ohhhhhhhhh, I just reread your initial post, and...
I currently have 199 homeless single households in the "My Households" category and several multi-person households in the "Other Households" category.
Yeah, if they're under "My Households" they're considered "played." Have you tried unclicking the heart to mark them as being other households?
But that sounds really stupid, doesn't it? There is an extra category between played and unplayed with the green crystal and My Households and Other Households. So should I move all the Sims I don't want to play into the Other Households?
Do they keep their careers there if you have assigned them any or are only NPC jobs possible there?I'll definitely give it a try and hope that this may have been my mistake in trying to understand the game xD
Yeah, if you mark them unplayed they act like regular Maxis townies, like the Goth family who never changes jobs (barring the Neighborhood Stories feature), etc. They age, but they don't get married or promoted or have more kids or move without MCCC story progression, etc.
Unfortunately, your tip didn't help. The game still doesn't take my Sims for the NPC jobs, even though I put them all in other households. The places remain empty.
