How to reduce game generated Sims?

@Galactrix: The way you describe is the only way to deal with townies. Even if you use mods like my townieoverhaul_lessfame, it is still advisable to give townies a makeover instead of simply deleting them. The game just needs a lot of different townies, especially if you own all packs.

@Galactrix thank you so much for taking the time to explain that. While I wish we could truly customize our worlds, the info provided here has been a huge help!

@Galactrix

Sorry I didn't respond sooner, I wasn't notified that you'd answered me!! So annoying.

But anyway ....

Holy Cow! Thank you!! So much is explained now! And I had started doing that myself, fixing the townies so they'd look better, but there would keep being more and more everyday, and I'd keep deleting them, and thinking ... there are good Sims sitting right here! Waiting to be used! lol

So.... I'm sorry to ask one more thing, but you said you redid everyone until you had a nice looking studio crew, but you'd previously mentioned that the game won't use a sim to be an employee if any of your other sims know them. So how did you time that? I assume you waited to see everyone who showed up to work, and then worked on them quickly, because you could already tell that they worked there.

I'm asking this because I have two stores in the game, and the employees are so awful! and I kept deleting them, thinking, well, someday the game will pick someone decent from the pool of sims I have, right? You've explained that No, it won't, the game will spawn another new one instead. So, if I keep track of the random stupid looking employees who come in to work, and then fix those particular sims, will they continue to work at the store, and look decent, despite the fact that I've changed them? (And I'm sure that you know I'm not talking about the ones you can specifically hire)

And I'm making sure I understand correctly that if one of my played sims makes friends with them, but doesn't have them move in with them, they won't stop working there? (And I understand the 20% unemployment issue and that one might randomly get fired because of that) I just want to make sure that I don't spend forever fixing townies just to have them turned into another useless sim sitting in the pool just because I introduce my sim to them, you know?

And I wanted to say that I do the same thing with the townie sims with the same last name, it's so funny how many there are like that, and there is often a family resemblance. :smile: Your story of the brother and sister is so cute!