Can I stop my world from auto-populating?

"lovebypondside;14165009" wrote:
I'm dealing with this issue myself! I have the MC Command Center mod and I set my max homeless to 60 - filled my Not In World with 60 sims and STILL I have new sims generating. Anyone familiar with this mod know what I might have done wrong?

The game might still have some creation it has to do above what's there, to fill certain roles.

"luthienrising;14165060" wrote:

"lovebypondside;14165009" wrote:
I'm dealing with this issue myself! I have the MC Command Center mod and I set my max homeless to 60 - filled my Not In World with 60 sims and STILL I have new sims generating. Anyone familiar with this mod know what I might have done wrong?

The game might still have some creation it has to do above what's there, to fill certain roles.

I understood that certain NPCs might be needed for like mailmen or GTW professions. I haven't been to any of the GTW lots since I re-installed the mod.

It have found pulls from the sims *I* made for bartenders/gym trainers/librarians (for the most part) -- then there are still just generated townies just blowin' down the street in their half-tees and green fedora hats and guyliner. :|

I've been to the spa a few times since and half the spa employees are sims I made and then half are randoms.

So, I'm confused.

"JoAnne65;14164830" wrote:
I must say this is really disappointing for me as well. I would so much love to create all the households in my world myself, aging off and off I go. But everytime I see new, ugly sims passing by I never asked for. I understand it's nice for people who don't want to create their entire town themselves, but I'd love the option.
Well, they added options to Sims 3, who knows they'll add this one to Sims 4. Hope so.

I am forever fixing up townies... I don't mind that they exist. I just can't bear to look at them the way they get generated.

Like why would you wear short pants, leggings, socks and open toed shoes... Whyyyy?!?
And who wears a sombrero with long fancy gloves and an evening gown... So gross.

I delete some every time I play. Yes every single time...

I also use MC Command Centre... And I love it.

Also I'm assuming you know this, but other people may not...

You have to set Use Custom Population to true, when I first started using the command centre it was off by default. Not sure how it is now.

Sorry for the hijack, as you were people. As you were.

"drake_mccarty;14164662" wrote:
No the creation of non-played sims occurs everytime you go through a loading screen, including when you load into your household to play them. There could be a mod to stop this, but I haven't seen one that does that.

Thank you. I have always said the generation of new townies had nothing at all to do with the head count reaching 180 (not in my game) and now I know it is when I send Sims through a loading screen. That is so lame. But thank you for confirmimg my own theory. It seems to me they get culled and new ones generated in my game whether I had reached the head count or not. So, this theory makes more sense doesn't it?

ETA: My Sims have never stayed home in any of these games, I may send one Sim through a dozen loading screens before they ever go back home. Wow, no wonder I never have the same townies and they are gone and replaced faster than my head spins.

One last MC Command Center tip for the population module.

You can set the elder population to zero. This won't stop your sims from getting old, but it will stop the game from creating single family elders.

I've had this conversation before, I hate that they start out elderly and then die...
That's a terrible life and I wouldn't wish it on any little pixel.

"Cinebar;14166860" wrote:

"drake_mccarty;14164662" wrote:
No the creation of non-played sims occurs everytime you go through a loading screen, including when you load into your household to play them. There could be a mod to stop this, but I haven't seen one that does that.

Thank you. I have always said the generation of new townies had nothing at all to do with the head count reaching 180 (not in my game) and now I know it is when I send Sims through a loading screen. That is so lame. But thank you for confirmimg my own theory. It seems to me they get culled and new ones generated in my game whether I had reached the head count or not. So, this theory makes more sense doesn't it?

ETA: My Sims have never stayed home in any of these games, I may send one Sim through a dozen loading screens before they ever go back home. Wow, no wonder I never have the same townies and they are gone and replaced faster than my head spins.

I think it's a pretty bad game design. The game should pull townies from the unplayed bin instead of generating new sims entirely. A good design would stop the creation of sims all together once the population cap has been reached. That would solve the culling problem, but probably would affect performance on lower end machines with the game having to actually remember the sims exist.

So I know this is an old post but I found it while trying to fix this problem so maybe it will help out a future googler...

I'm not a fan of mods because in the past they've messed up my game so what I did was go in to manage households and "spruce up" the auto generated townies. Unplayed households>not in world is where I found the most of them. If you select the household you have the option to edit the household in create a sim and there you can change everything about them except skin color. For the sims I didn't have relationships with I just deleted them and inserted cool sims I liked that I found on the gallery. Downloading new sims instead of making them saved a lot of time. For the sims that I deleted I made sure one new sim had the exact same ambition/traits in case this was a factor. Of course I did all of this under the assumption that the game generated new sims because of need and not just to be annoying. I also added a few more "out of world" sims to each household for good measure; congrats random single guy, you're now a father of three! I did this to every auto generated family and I haven't seen the generation of any undesirables since!

Also, if you're playing with a restaurant this is a cool way to get your sims to hire their friends. You might want to do this first before redoing your NPCs because having less of them makes it easier to randomly get the sim you want on the hire screen. You can choose to buff up the target sims stats for the position you want them for first (I wanted my sims bff to be her chef so first I went to the friends house and tortured her by making her cook gourmet meals for hours on end) make sure the target sim doesn't have a job and that you don't want to actively play them (I found that playing as them fires them from the job) evict the sim you want from their house and leave them "not in world". It might take a few days but they will eventually show up for hire (it will be quicker if you delete the other NPCs, which is why I recommend doing this before beautifying the neighborhood). Once hired you can move the sim back in to their home and they will still be the same as they were before you did this. Again, the only problem I found was when I actively played the sim she got fired, but I don't play her so this wasn't a problem for me. I just like her in town so my sim can go over and visit. Once this is done the game, after a few load screens, should auto populate back to the levels it needs to fill all the roles. Then you can go about fixing them up so you never have to run in to random tube socks wearing uglies again! (Unless you want to)

I don't think u can stop their generation unless you have a mod. But, you can delete them in manage households. Be aware however that some townies sims are mailmen, gardeners, pizza delivery and if u have Get to work they are co workers, prisoners, suspects, etc. But I guess they will be regenerated. However if you have made friends with coworkers you might want to keep them, rather than delete them.

I'm dealing with this issue myself! I have the MC Command Center mod and I set my max homeless to 60 - filled my Not In World with 60 sims and STILL I have new sims generating. Anyone familiar with this mod know what I might have done wrong?