Populate a whole town

It won't do it 'instantly'. Turn on the settings to pull sims from your gallery when the game makes new sims, and over time it will fully populate, but it's something that happens over the course of many sim days, not instantly. This setting is under MC Population->Populating Settings->Import Tray Settings

Adjust the settings for MC Population->Moving Settings->Open Houses to keep from having 'every actual home filled'. If you want it so that NO homeless sims get moved in automatically, Disable Allow Homeless Move-In instead.

I started a brand new save after the Import Tray option was added to MCCC last week and it took maybe a week or so of in game time before there was a really healthy number of households in the game, but it generated enough right away that my Sims weren't alone in the world. Now, 3 weeks in, the worlds have about half the houses populated (and I have it set to allow all except 1 house to get used) and there are another 84 households "currently not in world". What's really nice about those 84 households is that they are diverse, dress well...and don't have either ridiculous or repetitive names.

awesome okay thank you so much it makes more sense now!

I’m going to give it a go tomorrow, I should start by downloading some really unique sims from the gallery :D

"LaBlue0314;c-16863097" wrote:
I goofed up, and set my pregnancy setting for 2 children, thinking it was two total for a family, but no, it was per pregnancy. Yikes! I had a total population boom in the first batch of babies being born.

That is so funny!

@shanls96, it will only bring in a sim from the tray if no other sim in the world has the same name. So this will mostly prevent duplicates. If you have it set to have sim names change upon marriage it could start bringing in duplicates as the originals get married and get new names though. I haven't quite figured out if it happens or not, but based upon the feature description...sounds like it would.

I'm 5 weeks into a new save where I had it populate the entire world from my gallery and have yet to notice any duplicates, so either way it's not a huge concern if you have a healthy number of sims in your gallery (I have a few hundred).

Something you might also be interested is there is another mod, that forces your game to use homeless sims already in your game, instead of creating new sims. It is the NPC Control Mod
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=604590

"LaBlue0314;c-16865297" wrote:
-1 means there is no limit. If you put in any other number you will be stopping it at that number. I would just leave this one alone if you are wanting the game to generate new sims. Don't forget the game does generate new sim for when there is a need for different roles such as mailman, mixologist.

Now as far as turning on the import from Trey, if turned on it will move in sims you have in your library unless they share the same name. At least that was what I was told. I haven't started using this feature yet, because I have all the sims I want, and not really any in my library anyways. :)

Do you have aging turned on? If you don't then things kind of stay where it is at for the most part, as far as new babies being produced.

On the MCCC page, there is a tab that says Documentation, click on it, and go down to the one that talks about Population. Another good one to read up would be the one dealing with Pregnancy. It also goes into more details on Pregnancy and Marriage settings as well.

Yes, when first getting started with MCCC it can be extremely confusing and stressful, at least it was for me.

LOL That would be a disaster for me. I have two game saves. One is my Ancestral game save, and I have people from their time zone in My Library until I'm ready to place them. Can you imagine them showing up in my futuristic game save? Yikes!

I think I'll populate the town, which so far hasn't been necessary, doing it manually. ;)

@Stormkeep your settings worked perfectly!! Thank you so much!!

alright cool got it!

thank you a lot :)

But be verrry careful when populating using MCCC. I goofed up, and set my pregnancy setting for 2 children, thinking it was two total for a family, but no, it was per pregnancy. Yikes! I had a total population boom in the first batch of babies being born. I ended up pulling that file to the side, instead of deleting it, because there are sims and lots that I don't want to delete.

so do I need to set import from tray on? sorry is the tray my gallery yeah?

also I imagine it would be beneficial to download sims from the online gallery so that the world can be populated well? :)

I’m new to using MCCC so sorry if I seem really confused it’s just such a big mod to understand