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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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.
I'm pretty sure you have to combine that with a mod.
I'm not doing this myself, but Pleasant Sims has a video (called something like "Play the World: How I Play Rotationally") and in it she says that the for-pay version of NPCC works to prevent new townie generation and use HER townies for everything. (I'm using MC Command Center's tray import feature, because my biggest concern is less people in bathing trunks, boots, and a paper bag on their head for every NPC role. This works if you set it to a high percent and have a lot of Sims in your library, but it doesn't preserve households, traits, or skills, which sound like they're important to you.) Since it's for-pay, I really hesitate to recommend it without trying it, but you can probably find her YouTube video from my description. That's not the whole gist of her video, so you might have to skip past the rotational play bit to get to it.
