Need help with getting Sims into the world...

1. You can use a cheat to change the amount of money your Sim has. (You can use this at any time.) The Sim must be on a home lot (the lot can either have a house or not, it doesn't matter); press the shift Ctrl and C buttons at the same time to open up the cheat window then type:
testingcheats true
Enter
Money *any amount*
Enter
Esc

2. You can add Sims to your world a couple of ways
a. When in Manage World mode choose Create New Household to Move In from the bottom right corner, after you save the household you will return to Manage Worlds and see Moving With *insert name here*. Click the red x to cancel the move and the Sims will now be part of your world. To play them, you will need to move them into a lot otherwise, they will be "townies" that you see walking around or at work or on retail lots.

b. The other way is to click on Manage Households up on the top right corner in Manage World mode. Now you can see all of your played (My Households) and unplayed (Other Households) Sims. You can go into CAS for any house from here and add or delete Sims as you please. If you want to delete an entire family and replace them with all new Sims you may. You can also transfer Sims that live in one household to another household and rotate them in and out of the world.

Hope that makes sense!

you can use the "freerealestate on" cheat to be able to move them into any lot for free, without having to enter the household first.

when a household is labeled "not in world", it doesn't mean they won't appear in your game. It just means they don't have a house. Any household that you can see in "manage worlds" whether they have a home or not will be eligible to appear in your game.

The household is now under "my households" and is also "not in world". It worked!!

I started the moving process with a Sim. in the bottom left corner I clicked the X and they disappeared. They should still be in my world now, yes?

I also tried to rotate Sims in and out of the world. The lot became empty after doing so and upon looking at the two sims I tried swapping, thye had swapped household names, but it said neither was in the world.

@JurassicKing
1. Yes, that Sim is part of your world as a townie. You should run into them while out and about. If you want to play them, you will have to move them onto a lot. Otherwise, they are an unplayed townie. They should be in Manage Households under the Other Households tab.

2. To move a Sim into a neighborhood, they must be associated with a lot. Say Bob Vance lives in Willow Creek and you want to combine households with townie Phyllis Lapin. You can merge the two households in Manage Households. If you move Bob into Phyllis' family he will lose his lot and the Household name will be Lapin. However, if you move Phyllis in with Bob, they both will appear on his lot and the Household name will be Vance.

*You can change the last name of the household by typing over the current name and hitting the enter key. If you do not hit enter the change will not save.
***In CAS their names will still show as Bob Vance and Phyllis Lupin unless you change their names.

"Cupid;c-16428037" wrote:
you can use the "freerealestate on" cheat to be able to move them into any lot for free, without having to enter the household first.

when a household is labeled "not in world", it doesn't mean they won't appear in your game. It just means they don't have a house. Any household that you can see in "manage worlds" whether they have a home or not will be eligible to appear in your game.

I gotcha! That really helps. Thank you so much!

"Bananas_45;c-16427930" wrote:
1. You can use a cheat to change the amount of money your Sim has. (You can use this at any time.) The Sim must be on a home lot (the lot can either have a house or not, it doesn't matter); press the shift Ctrl and C buttons at the same time to open up the cheat window then type:
testingcheats true
Enter
Money *any amount*
Enter
Esc

2. You can add Sims to your world a couple of ways
a. When in Manage World mode choose Create New Household to Move In from the bottom right corner, after you save the household you will return to Manage Worlds and see Moving With *insert name here*. Click the red x to cancel the move and the Sims will now be part of your world. To play them, you will need to move them into a lot otherwise, they will be "townies" that you see walking around or at work or on retail lots.

b. The other way is to click on Manage Households up on the top right corner in Manage World mode. Now you can see all of your played (My Households) and unplayed (Other Households) Sims. You can go into CAS for any house from here and add or delete Sims as you please. If you want to delete an entire family and replace them with all new Sims you may. You can also transfer Sims that live in one household to another household and rotate them in and out of the world.

Hope that makes sense!

I actually tried doing what you said, clicking ont he X and the Sim did not even appear in Not in World. I filtered it to ONLY show these Sims, but he wasn't there.

They usually end up in the "other households" tab when you do that. They might be there.

I checked that tab and sure enough, they are not there.

Well, there's no reason why that shouldn't be working, but you can always just move them into a house after you create them and then evict them. It should accomplish the same thing.