Forum Discussion
5 years ago
"DivinylsFan;c-17439450" wrote:
NPCs are Non-Player Characters. They are like, the mailman, the repairman, the maid, the pizza delivery person, the gardener, the nanny.
Townies are the sims who are floating around town and don't live anywhere, and they might be the same at the start of everyone's game, or they might be the one's that are generated by the game as you play, different in everyone's game.
Pre-made characters however, are sims such as Nina Caliente, Don Lothario, the Goths .. who are residents and have lives (if you go in their house and play them).
Back in the days of The Sims 2, to play a legacy, your sim that you created and put on a lot and play, would only be allowed to marry or move in a townie or an NPC. Part of the fun was seeing how other people's game ended up by marrying or moving in the same NPC or townie. Favourite townies included Goopy because he had a big nose, Samantha Bruty had big lips ... there was a Brandi someone, who was different to the resident Brandi Broke. One of the popular NPC's was Kalynn Langerak, she was one of the maids, and there was Mr. Big ... It was a challenge to play like this because it meant that you couldn't control that sim until they were married or moved into the household, and so that made it interesting and tricky. Part of the fascination was the lucky dip in what their personality, aspirations, money and things they had in their inventory were - except for the one's a lot of people had already tried, you knew from reading their stories. Also was how ugly or attractive (in the eyes of the beholder) their children would be, and the difference it made to give them a make-over. A lot of people ended up actually really enjoying having Goopy in the family, some said he was a good father.
Anyway, so when you're saying you don't like your sims to interact with the NPC Don Lothario, or any of the other residents ... they are pre-mades.
I know that and I’m sure others do too, but it just adds to the conversation anyways because the OP was the one who used the term NPC but listed pre-mades.