After Story progression became part of the game, I have found that all houses are filled with random townies. The worst is when Morgyn suddenly lives in Forgotten Hollow and L.Faba lives in Mt. Komorebi. It irritates me boundlessly :s In my game, I discovered that Marcus Flex (who has a peripheral role in my story) had suddenly gotten married and lived with a strange guy in StrangerVille and had a child with Lana McKinnon (who by the way had moved to Henford-on-Bagley ).I spent an entire day recreating my game in an old hidden game and deselected Story Progression as soon as I went into the game and before I went into a family. Still, all the houses are filled with townies.I think you could opt out of the automatic filling of empty houses before, but I can not find the setting anywhere.Does anyone know a solution?

I miss the option to keep the houses empty until I'm ready to move in my sim too. The only solution I can think of is to make the houses rentals until you're ready to move in your sims.It's like the earbuds now, instantly forced into your sim's inventory. At least before I could say no and the game didn't force them on my sim. In my vocabulary no means no, but in the sims no means force it on your sims no matter how much you don't want it.

"DragonAge_300905;c-18149746" wrote:I miss the option to keep the houses empty until I'm ready to move in my sim too. The only solution I can think of is to make the houses rentals until you're ready to move in your sims.It's like the earbuds now, instantly forced into your sim's inventory. At least before I could say no and the game didn't force them on my sim. In my vocabulary no means no, but in the sims no means force it on your sims no matter how much you don't want it.I have my Sim place those earbuds somewhere in the house so I can delete them- 200 simoleons for passing Go!But yeah, it's annoying.

You didn't mention if you are open to using mods. MCCC has a setting which can be used to stop anyone from moving into houses and another for apartments. I hate having townies in my homes so I use it all the time.

"MonaSolstraale;d-1001410" wrote:After Story progression became part of the game, I have found that all houses are filled with random townies. The worst is when Morgyn suddenly lives in Forgotten Hollow and L.Faba lives in Mt. Komorebi. It irritates me boundlessly :s In my game, I discovered that Marcus Flex (who has a peripheral role in my story) had suddenly gotten married and lived with a strange guy in StrangerVille and had a child with Lana McKinnon (who by the way had moved to Henford-on-Bagley ).I spent an entire day recreating my game in an old hidden game and deselected Story Progression as soon as I went into the game and before I went into a family. Still, all the houses are filled with townies.I think you could opt out of the automatic filling of empty houses before, but I can not find the setting anywhere.Does anyone know a solution?Go to Neighborhood Stories on the Unplayed households tab.Make sure that "Move in" and "Move out" are turned off.I have Move out disabled globally, and Move in disabled for the Sages and Clement frost, and it works for me.

I'm pretty sure MCCC moves sims around. Even though I have neighbourhood stories completely turned off, i'm still finding sims i've recently moved out moving to empty homes elsewhere.

Automatic filling of empty houses

17 Replies

DragonAge_300905
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I miss the option to keep the houses empty until I'm ready to move in my sim too. The only solution I can think of is to make the houses rentals until you're ready to move in your sims.

It's like the earbuds now, instantly forced into your sim's inventory. At least before I could say no and the game didn't force them on my sim. In my vocabulary no means no, but in the sims no means force it on your sims no matter how much you don't want it.
User_577435777
3 years ago
"DragonAge_300905;c-18149746" wrote:
I miss the option to keep the houses empty until I'm ready to move in my sim too. The only solution I can think of is to make the houses rentals until you're ready to move in your sims.

It's like the earbuds now, instantly forced into your sim's inventory. At least before I could say no and the game didn't force them on my sim. In my vocabulary no means no, but in the sims no means force it on your sims no matter how much you don't want it.

I have my Sim place those earbuds somewhere in the house so I can delete them- 200 simoleons for passing Go!

But yeah, it's annoying.
medlar65
New Scout
3 years ago
You didn't mention if you are open to using mods. MCCC has a setting which can be used to stop anyone from moving into houses and another for apartments. I hate having townies in my homes so I use it all the time.
DaWaterRat
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
"MonaSolstraale;d-1001410" wrote:
After Story progression became part of the game, I have found that all houses are filled with random townies. The worst is when Morgyn suddenly lives in Forgotten Hollow and L.Faba lives in Mt. Komorebi. It irritates me boundlessly :s

In my game, I discovered that Marcus Flex (who has a peripheral role in my story) had suddenly gotten married and lived with a strange guy in StrangerVille and had a child with Lana McKinnon (who by the way had moved to Henford-on-Bagley ).
I spent an entire day recreating my game in an old hidden game and deselected Story Progression as soon as I went into the game and before I went into a family. Still, all the houses are filled with townies.
I think you could opt out of the automatic filling of empty houses before, but I can not find the setting anywhere.

Does anyone know a solution?

Go to Neighborhood Stories on the Unplayed households tab.

Make sure that "Move in" and "Move out" are turned off.

I have Move out disabled globally, and Move in disabled for the Sages and Clement frost, and it works for me.
Brd709
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I'm pretty sure MCCC moves sims around. Even though I have neighbourhood stories completely turned off, i'm still finding sims i've recently moved out moving to empty homes elsewhere.
JanuaryGarnet08
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
"Brd709;c-18149886" wrote:
I'm pretty sure MCCC moves sims around. Even though I have neighbourhood stories completely turned off, i'm still finding sims i've recently moved out moving to empty homes elsewhere.

It does and you can turn it off there too. You can also list the house in build mode as 0 beds and sims won’t move in. You can also untick the fill empty houses box in gameplay settings, and as someone mentioned turn off move in/out on Neighborhood Stories. Also NS can be turned on and off on individual households. So like in most of my saves, I will turn it on for both my sims and other sims globally but then take time to turn it off for the sages from ROM and the premades from Vampires or any other household I want control over. In fact you could do this in a new game and then label it as a master save file and then it would be all set up how you like it. Then you could just save as and rename it for whatever story you like.
PenguinFoop
3 years ago
I personally like having the houses fill randomly. But in the case of Marcus, you said he's married, living with one person and has a baby with someone else. Is he married to either of those two? If so, which one? This is interesting story material, in my opinion.
mightyspritesims
Legend
3 years ago
What @DaWaterRat said. Now that you can disable moving into empty houses using Neighborhood Stories, the old checkbox in Gameplay Settings was redundant and that's why it doesn't exist anymore. Go into your Household Manager and disable "Move In" for everyone, both under My Households and Other Households, and empty houses should stay empty.
@DragonAge_300905 and @pj9871 hopefully this will help you too
GalacticGal
Legend
3 years ago
"DragonAge_300905;c-18149746" wrote:
I miss the option to keep the houses empty until I'm ready to move in my sim too. The only solution I can think of is to make the houses rentals until you're ready to move in your sims.

It's like the earbuds now, instantly forced into your sim's inventory. At least before I could say no and the game didn't force them on my sim. In my vocabulary no means no, but in the sims no means force it on your sims no matter how much you don't want it.

You could also make certain in your My Library that it doesn't have bedrooms and bathrooms listed. For extra certainty, I remove the steps from any entry way. I generally have my lots raised. ;)
DragonAge_300905
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Thank you @mightysprite and @GalacticGal I usually let the sims stay when they move in because their houses are broke. It's usually the Knoz family if I make 2 bedrooms and Calab in one bedroom. I get tired of every new game fixing their houses. I use the rental option when I build it for my sim to move in later. If only they would move into the empty pre-built houses but they like the ones I build instead.