How often do new townies spawn?

"Jordyn78988;c-16593119" wrote:

"TravisBlackfox;c-16592946" wrote:
Ok forgive me because I'm a dork, but if I click the heart on the bottom they move into my households? Does that mean they won't ever get deleted? What if I left them where they are in the other slot? I'd like to move a lot of these people into homes or apartments, but the money thing is so annoying :( Plus the strays. I love a few of them that are always a joy to see roaming around like that mayor cat and this cute dog with a sweater named Joey. If I put them in my households does that mean they won't ever go back outside again?

What do you mean by "the money thing?" You can use the freerealestate on cheat so that you can move them without it costing money.

Ah I did not know that! I'll have to try! Thanks!

Clicking the heart does not mean you have to play that household ever. All it does is protect that household from getting deleted. I don't know how the already established families are effected. I always clicked on all the households I don't want deleted, just to be on the safe side.

"agustd;c-16586324" wrote:
They spawn whenever you visit a public lot.

I'm not sure if it's the same for every player, but my game generates about 4-6 new sims whenever I visit a public venue despite my bin being full of townies I created myself or downloaded :| Wish there was a way to stop it.

There doesn't seem to be any solution but to constantly delete the new sims, I do that.

Are you sure it's just community lots? I thought there was a thread about they spawn each time a Sim goes through any loading screen. (Like visiting neighbors etc.) Or the festivals or whatever.

"Cupid;c-16586444" wrote:
I use this mod to basically stop townie generation. It hasn't been updated for seasons so there are some quirks, and for some reason it doesn't seem to work properly if you put it into a sub-folder.. but it's doing a good enough job for me.

Of course, if you don't have a large enough pool of homeless sims for the game to use, it will continue to generate them as needed, regardless.

Do you mean that the mod isn't going to work properly if you don't have enough homeless sims in your game already? I think my pool is around 100 at the moment, with the limit set to 150.

"agustd;c-16586738" wrote:

"Cupid;c-16586444" wrote:
I use this mod to basically stop townie generation. It hasn't been updated for seasons so there are some quirks, and for some reason it doesn't seem to work properly if you put it into a sub-folder.. but it's doing a good enough job for me.

Of course, if you don't have a large enough pool of homeless sims for the game to use, it will continue to generate them as needed, regardless.

Do you mean that the mod isn't going to work properly if you don't have enough homeless sims in your game already? I think my pool is around 100 at the moment, with the limit set to 150.

Yeah, there needs to be enough that the game can work with. Then the mod will make sure that only those sims get used instead of the game creating more on the spot. I use about 50 homeless, unemployed sims in my game and with the mod it rarely generates any more than that. And since I don't have them favorited, they don't count towards that limit.

"Cupid;c-16586849" wrote:

"agustd;c-16586738" wrote:

"Cupid;c-16586444" wrote:
I use this mod to basically stop townie generation. It hasn't been updated for seasons so there are some quirks, and for some reason it doesn't seem to work properly if you put it into a sub-folder.. but it's doing a good enough job for me.

Of course, if you don't have a large enough pool of homeless sims for the game to use, it will continue to generate them as needed, regardless.

Do you mean that the mod isn't going to work properly if you don't have enough homeless sims in your game already? I think my pool is around 100 at the moment, with the limit set to 150.

Yeah, there needs to be enough that the game can work with. Then the mod will make sure that only those sims get used instead of the game creating more on the spot. I use about 50 homeless, unemployed sims in my game and with the mod it rarely generates any more than that. And since I don't have them favorited, they don't count towards that limit.

Thanks! Guess I'll get the mod then. I really don't need an army of game generated townies who look the same.

@TravisBlackfox "Not in world" just means they don't live in a house. Go to manage households and add them to your households by clicking the heart under their family picture. Sims added to your households won't be culled. You can also move them into a house if you want. :)

Not sure about strays since I don't have cats and dogs. Do they show up in manage households? I would hope they work the same way.

For anyone who wants to get rid of hidden strays and ghosts I recommend getting MCCC. It allows you to control how many unnecessary sims your game spawns and you're able to delete them.

@calaprfy - nothing would make me happier. I enjoy the Asian/Middle Eastern Townies in my game but would I don't want all Townies to be of the same descent - I want a good mix of everyone to make the genetics fun to play with :)!

Way too often, ugh.