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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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.
Unfortunately, the trick with MCCC doesn't work either. I deleted all the single Sims from my save again and tagged them all in the gallery with #mccc_include.
As soon as I delete NoRandom, the game creates random sims which are not from my library in the same household around my mccc_include sims, turning them into families. Now you have to imagine: Families should be not tagged so that individual Sims are not torn out of their families. But if you were to do that now, a family father, for example, would be torn out of his family in order to be used for an NPC job and would then get a new wife and child at the same time.
This is so terribly badly programmed.
