Fill Empty Lots Change
From the patch notes: "We have tidied up the Game Options menu a little by removing the Fill In Empty Lots option. This particular option has been superseded with Neighborhood Stories and the “Move...
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"DesertSimmer1971;c-18102878" wrote:"VeeDub;c-18102806" wrote:"DesertSimmer1971;c-18102731" wrote:
@DaWaterRat that still does not stop random sims from moving into the houses even if you turn the neighborhood stories off completely. So it makes no sense why they removed the fill empty lots option
I have Neighborhood Stories turned off completely and no random sims have ever moved into houses in my game. The instructions given by @DaWaterRat would do the exactly same thing because you'd be turning that part OFF if you do use some parts of NS.
What mods and settings are you also using. Vanilla games without the unchecking the fill empty lots would fill up with random sims would take every empty house in the game.
Before Neighborhood Stories came along I had the "fill empty lots" option turned off, so I never had to deal with random sims moving in anywhere. After Neighborhood Stories came along I didn't change any of my other settings, but I did use some mods to turn off the phone calls (those had nothing to do with move-ins; I just didn't want the calls).
After NS was updated to include many more settings and options I turned the whole thing off because I have no interest in any of them being enabled in my game. When the update came in which the old "fill empty lots" option was then removed because it was taken over by NS, I didn't change anything I was doing before, and I still have no random sims moving in (which is as I want it to be).
