Empty a game completely?

"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.