Deleting Townies

I use the NPC Control mod by Paulson. It stops random townies from spawning in my game and also it allows management of the NPC jobs as well. I can set what ever sims I like to be bartenders or any of the other NPC roles. It's one of the most valued mods that I have in my game and I highly recommend it. Also I don't find overly complicated to figure out the settings. It has improved my Sims 4 playing experience by so much.

I just delete them and add in my own sims. If you want a certain sim to be a bartender, cheat in some mixology skills. The game will often still just generate some anyways, despite my best efforts, but I'll just keep deleting the ones I don't like but some I actually don't mind and I let them stay. :)

It's a losing battle without NPC Control. I do not use it myself, because it always conflicted with something, either other mods or the GTW careers. But if townie control is your top priority, then this is the one mod.

Alternately what I sometimes do is using MCCC to copy over the appearance, outfit and traits of one of my own sims, then pretend the bartender /DJ etc. is this particular sim (I picked this tactic up from the Sims 2 community, where it's done with SimPE). Of course that method isn't optimal if the original sim is also present at the venue. But I also have generic service androids whose faces work well for this purpose.

I dislike the random generated Sims so much, but the game makes them faster than I can delete them. I make over some of them, like butlers and dormmates. The others I ignore as long as they aren't truly horrible, those get deleted immediately.

I really wish we had an option to choose our own service Sims, without having to use a mod for it.

I do use MCCC, and it helps, but I am too lazy to dig in deep to figure out how to get the most of it.

@APotts, and all others who are troubled by EA's garbage ideas of townies.

MCCC can be set to force the Game to Only use sims from your tray folder for townies it requires.
Then you also can use NPCC to set the jobs for them in a more sensible way.
And the real "Must Have" is one of the fashion police mods that stop all the dumb accessorising of even our own played sims since a recent update.

OR, you could make an account at a virtual world system like Will Wright did and forget about this franchise.

I use the option under MCCC Population Control to force the game to only draw townies from my tray exactly how I created them (albeit, I've noticed occasionally, they are spawning either as occults, or in much darker skintones). If I want specific Sims to have an NPC role, I use Copy/Paste under the MCCC setting after clicking on an existing NPC to replace an existing Sim with another.

And even that doesn't help. I've ended up with the MAC cosmetics added to female Sims that, otherwise, are exactly how I created them; and that there's the whole situational outfit thing.

"shorty943p;c-17686767" wrote:
@APotts, and all others who are troubled by EA's garbage ideas of townies.

MCCC can be set to force the Game to Only use sims from your tray folder for townies it requires.
Then you also can use NPCC to set the jobs for them in a more sensible way.
And the real "Must Have" is one of the fashion police mods that stop all the dumb accessorising of even our own played sims since a recent update.

OR, you could make an account at a virtual world system like Will Wright did and forget about this franchise.

I sort of use the tray, but since I don't want any duplicates running around I only use it during makeovers to paste one sim at a time, then I pull the sim into CAS and tweak them, so they are similar but still different... If that makes sense, but thanks for the suggestion. I suppose I need to make a bunch of new Sims to keep on the side in my tray.

I used to delete them but found that the game just generates even uglier ones when it needs to fill roles. Townies that are made over seem to stick around longer (as in they don't get culled) if the game has already assigned them something to do in the world.

The one thing is though if you go down the makeover path, without mods, you'll never stop having to edit sims. Once in a while the game will generate a new librarian, as if all the ones you've edited weren't enough. And I found myself having to remake djs in particular so often until I got a mod to stop that mess. The game made those old djs I edited into unemployed townies for some reason. So there's that.

Oh, someone on this forum let me know of a feature that I've overlooked for years in CAS which is a button (the die inside a photo) that let's you swap out a townie's appearance for a random sim from the gallery, which is convenient if you need a quick sim that at least has all of their outfits together. Best thing about it is that the new sim maintains whatever role the game has given them. Be it a roommate, bartender, etc. So you've got a new sim with better aesthetics, and the same role.

Also, in terms of mods, I have a couple of bienchen's mods that effect the spawning of situational sims. For example I have three dj townies who I've made over. One of bee's mods stops the generation of other djs so I'll only see one of those three working at the nightclub ever.

I don't know if any of this helps, but I can say that my main save has gotten to the point were I can recognize certain townies, know what they do for a living and have not needed to initiate any major makeovers in a while. That is unless I have a sim move into a dorm, where the game spawns plenty-a messes.

I keep meaning to use the Sim Spawn Overhaul mod, but I haven't been in a mood to play lately.
I have used MCCC tray import function in the past, but didn't really like it. I suppose I should just download sims for it and not have it use my own sims.

"HopeyStarr;c-17687170" wrote:
That is unless I have a sim move into a dorm, where the game spawns plenty-a messes.

I actually have the most fun making these ones over. I ended up using 8 of them as playable sims in the end :D