"Sharee;c-16165479" wrote:
"catitude5;c-16164461" wrote:
"Neia;c-16164176" wrote:
@Sharee
If the game is creating new Sims, it needs them, it's the way it's programmed. When you go to the vet for example, it looks for Sims that match some filter (like having a pet). If there isn't any, it will create one. Sometimes the filters are a bit more complex (traits, age, at work or not, played or not, etc), so you may lack some specific types of households, that the new EP needs.
It needs to use the townies we already have. We don't need a hundred townies. That's nuts.
Exactly.
I spent hours giving my townies pets, and the game still generates them. I don't need these sims. i really do not.
Initially I thought the "maximum sim count" was the population cap and essentially you would get to decide when the game would start to cull sims, so if you'd choose the 100 sims option but created 100 sims of your own and marked them all as favorites, then the game would basically stop any culling (because it can't cull favorite households) and stop random townie generations (because the population was already at its max). But I guess it was too good to be true. This option is basically useless and the name it has doesn't really help to understand what it actually does. Why not just let us favorite any households we want without having to choose how many can be favorited, it doesn't make much sense if in the end it's our choice anyway so why do we even need to set a limit? Basically the only useful thing about all of this is the favorite households feature, which is great if it works how it should, but culling and constant townie generation is still there and it's still annoying. For the life of me I can't understand why they just don't give us an option to turn it off. I can understand the game generating sims to fill jobs like a DJ, bartender, pizza guy, etc. and then either delete them or dump them in a pool of their own so they can be used next time, but why the heck does it need to force random townies to appear on our games? Oh well, guess I'll keep using mods then.
