"HopeyStarr;c-17956339" wrote:
A mod created by SHUSHU restricts sims to their home world, including lots, the downside is that a lot of townies may be generated to fill walkby/employee/service roles around the world. But thanks to this mod I could say goodbye to (as I like to call) "Nancy Landgraabs" jogging around the world. There are a few exceptions to sims not staying in their resident worlds though. Like for festivals and stuff.
Kuttoe has so kindly updated this mod to make it compatible with the recent patch. If you're still interested/open to mods check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54534808
I've hesitated to mod my game so far. I have a few of @83bienchen 's simpler mods, and I've been very happy with them, but until tonight, that's as far as I've been willing to go.
I gave Kuttoe's revision of SHUSHU's mod a try, and so far I've been happy with it. I started a new test save to check it out, and here's what I've noticed so far:
- I put my Sim into a house in Newcrest. The walk-bys and joggers were townies, but they were actually fairly interesting characters. I didn't mind seeing them. They also sometimes turn up in other worlds when my Sim travels there.
- My Sim encountered only "locals" when I traveled to lots in various worlds. He saw the BFFs at the gym in Willow Creek, had a drink with Don Lothario and Dina Caliente in Oasis Springs, and ran into various Windenburgers at The Hare and Hound cafe. A few random townies spawned in most of those locations. One was an alien, and that was cool.
- Windenburg's population is large enough that the game didn't see the need to generate any additional townies.
- Pepper's Pub in Britechester was filled with students, both familiar characters like the Pleasant sisters and "townie" students.
- The crowd at the Gnome's Arms in Henford-on-Bagley were locals, along with two or three new townies and a couple of the walk-bys I'd seen in Newcrest.
- I put a spa on one of the Newcrest lots, and Sims from various worlds visited it. That's exactly what I hoped would happen.
- I built another house in Newcrest and added one of the households I had in my Gallery. I saw the members of that household jogging and walking in Newcrest.
- One of them invited my Sim to the Humor & Hijinks Festival. There were Sims from various worlds there.
In short, the mod works like I hoped it would. I'd give it a green Plumbob.
