What do you do with Townies?

I also ignore a lot of them, but my Sims will often befriend them and sometimes marry them. One of my favorite Sims is a townie that my Sim married. There are gems among townies.

I ignore most of them but some of them might become friends with my own sims. When I need more space for my own sims though, they are the first ones I'll delete.

Most of the time i give them makeovers. I sometimes try to make up a story in my head while changing them, which can be super fun with the larger households :)

Sometimes I ignore them, sometimes I delete them...sometimes they 'happen' to...simply die.

Several, but not all, of the above.

Every so often I go through Manage Households and delete several that are not aesthetically pleasing, but I've never deleted all of them.

The other day I spotted one that looked like hipster Waldo (of the Where's Waldo books) so I changed his name to Waldo and saved him into my households so he doesn't get culled.

At the beginning of this current save I brought a few into my families, but then I started doing that with only the Maxis made sims rather than the randoms.

I don't have the patience to go into all of their households and make them over, but I occasionally will use my sims in the Stylist career to change their outfits.

I rarely kill sims intentionally, and when I do it's for a story so it's usually a premade or born in game sim. But if I use them to fill the relationship count for a serial romantic I will age them up manually alongside their former lovers and move them into my retirement village when they're old enough so they will eventually die of old age, since I only have aging on for the active household.

And I do a lot of ignoring.

I often seem to answer these polls without fully reading the post... lol I didn't realize we were specifically talking about townies that are generated, as opposed to the ones that come with the game.

I ignore them, personally. I don't associate with them unless my Sim has a specific task to do so (like in the detective or doctor career). Otherwise, I leave them alone and don't interact with them at all. If they move into any houses I've built, I usually let them live there until I specifically want to do something with the house they're living in. Then I move them out. I generally just keep all townies in the "in world" category. I don't really feel any need to kill or delete them. Just leave them be.

Most of them I ignore, but if they spawn as police co-workers they disrupt my setting and get deleted right on the spot.

A rare few manage to catch my eye and write themselves into the story. Sometimes it's the outfits they spawn in or a specific interaction they do with my played sims. Those townies get makeovers and also get played on occasion.

Should have answered "other", really. I some times give them make-overs, some times just delete them (cba to kill them in game), for the most part they are ignored, unless I give them makeovers and/or they become friends of my sims. Actually, some generated sims ended up being my favourites after adding them to my families.

All of the above. >:)

I permit them to take the required job / service positions.

I do not integrate them.