Empty a game completely?

I stopped by primarily to see what your post was about. I have to say, no I don't delete Sims. I've only just begun to edit the neighborhoods. I created a template of sorts, so that should I need to restart my saves again, it won't take hours or even days to get things going again. Back in Sims2, I finally got brave enough to create my own neighborhood and I built the houses myself. Then I populated it with families I created in CAS. But, I've never really had the urge to delete the Townies.

An alternative, since the genetics of the auto-gen sims are so borked, I guess would be to delete all sims, then just download random sims from the gallery to populate the world...

In some saves I do this... especially larger ones where I plan to rotate households. Since the total number of sims can add to problems I usually wipe them if there is a reason too. Then I go in and weed out townies too now and then.

I delete everyone. I don't like any of the premades. Plus I have this weird thing about seeing the same sims in my game existing in other peoples' games and stories, etc, so I just get rid of them and put my own in. For me it just makes my game feel more personalized, I guess.

"Beardedgeek;d-939726" wrote:
This game I downloaded specific Sims (mainly all the Sims from Maxis packs and demos plus a few others) and filled the game with.
The next game I was thinking of doing the opposite: Delete every. single. sim. before starting.

...Well almost. You can't delete the Goths. That would be... horrible.

Anyone else playing this way? I assume I will have to go and edit a lot of households because well... Albino Japanese people with identical names will be created.

I've got a current save with this strategy. I only left the two ghost pets from Brindleton Bay but deleted everyone else (yes, including the Goths!). I put in some of my own Sims that I've played in the past and were in my Library, and downloaded some interesting looking families from the Gallery and put them into houses. I gave them all jobs just so they wouldn't get employed as mixologists or food cart sellers (I really want a Self-Employed designation!), and grabbed a bunch of singles from the Gallery to help fill some of those spots (leaving them in Not In World unless one of my Sims gets romantically involved). I'm still getting some of the weird townie generation, but most of them have been for Selvadorada so they've got more of a South American influence. (I wish there was a way to keep the Selvadoradans out of the home worlds but I guess they need a vacation themselves.) I just go in and to the occasional CAS tuneup, or delete if they're really horrendous. Next I need to move a few of my households to more suitable houses (maybe see what I can find on the Gallery in terms of Midcentury Modern) and do a bit more house filling; my worlds are still way too empty.

My plan is basically:
Leave the ghost couple in the mansion. Leave the Goths. Leave Vlad (the game will generate another master vampire otherwise). Delete everyone else and except for my main Sim everybody will be randomly downloaded from the gallery.

Thou mustest NOT delete Bob Pancakes. It is forbidden.

"Beardedgeek;d-939726" wrote:
This game I downloaded specific Sims (mainly all the Sims from Maxis packs and demos plus a few others) and filled the game with.
The next game I was thinking of doing the opposite: Delete every. single. sim. before starting.

...Well almost. You can't delete the Goths. That would be... horrible.

Anyone else playing this way? I assume I will have to go and edit a lot of households because well... Albino Japanese people with identical names will be created.

I've never deleted my Sims, but I've deleted all the buildings and gave myself a save file that is completely empty. I use that whenever I need a fresh start.

I usually delete everyone and then download two young adult, two teen and two kid townie families to be the townies of the neighborhood....since City Living the only Sims my game seems to generate are Asian looking Sims and while I enjoy the diversity I don't want all the townies to be Asian.

I only do to a very limited extent. At this point, I have gotten rid of a few premade sims that I don't like.
Lots are limited in this game, so I am in the process of merging a few households, especially those consisting of one person.
If I reach the maximum number of sims, I will get rid of some premade sims so I can proceed making my own (or downloading from gallery).

I like having a bustling city, so I would have no reason to mass delete sims, unless I had an adequate amount of sims to replace them.