Love these responses! This leads me to think that simply having a lot trait that prevents sims from showing up at a lot might be the way to go! Perhaps it's a lot trait called "locals only" and only works if the player chooses it. Ideally it would work for residential, commercial and rental lots!!! That way people who don't want this functionally could choose not to turn it on. The only drawback would potentially not having as many walk-bys if there were not enough sims in the world. Would you want to have the game use sims from manage households not in world? Or what about another optional trait called "residents only" which would prevent the game from generating walk bys from sims in manage households who are not in world. Would you mind if this reduced the number of walk bys? Personally I would love to have less walk-bys in general. It is far too easy to get my social need up when I am playing single sims without having to go to the bar or other commercial lot. Also, I pretend all sims the game generates do not exist so I wouldn't miss them walking around, although I get that some are needed to fill NPC roles and some people like them, so make it optional. I just wish we could manage not in world sims better, assign their roles etc, and one day be able to have our played sims work at NPC roles... that would be a game changer as well!! Thoughts?
