@shanls96 Yes, you need to have import tray on if you want MCCC to be involved in the process. Otherwise the game is going to do it all randomly. MCCC doesn't actually generate sims at all, the game does, the setting to use the tray is just a feature that keeps the game from doing wacky stuff with the randomization.
And yes, "tray" is your gallery. It's a terminology for the gallery that comes from previous sims games.
And lastly, yes, it's beneficial to have a good amount of households in your gallery if you are going to turn that setting on, otherwise it's not going to do much. Thus, you will want to either make a lot of sims yourself, or download a lot, or a combination of the two.
You absolutely do not need to use that particular setting though. It's not necessary for MCCC to function for everything else it does.
hate to be a pain but im really struggling to get the mod working to populate the town efficiently
waited a sim week and checked in my 'manage households' to see what households have been generated and it seems they have taken the names from the tray etc but generated a load of single household ghosts?
-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.
@shanls96, don't know what to tell you regarding a "bunch of homeless ghosts"....that's very weird, and not what MCCC does in my game. A week is not really a lot of time, but a bunch of ghosts is not what should happen either. Just some questions I thought of that could help get to the bottom of it:
Are you sure you started a NEW save file?
Maybe share your mc config file and we can see what settings you might not have set appropriately?
Do you have other mods as well that weren't updated recently...maybe some other mod is killing off the sims being created?
You do also need to be more patient, 1 week is not much time. MCCC does not run all of it's routines every night. Additionally, you need to make sure you are taking your Sims places...not just staying at home and going to work. The game, not MCCC, makes NEW sims. MCCC just names and dresses them if you set it to do so. Other than walk-by's and co-workers the game isnt going to be running routines to generate new sims when you just stay home, so if you aren't getting your sims out to a variety of lot types you won't see as much activity happening regarding new sim generation.
You'll note that across all 66 households there are only like 1 or 2 ghosts in there. Ghosts should not be visible in the households view, in general. (MCCC does let you make ghosts visible when you need to do something with them...but there's no reason to normally have them visible except when you need to manage them to add to households or what not).
Alot of service sims and specially made sims also default to not being visible in the household view, so those aren't showing in my shots. I wonder, did you go and make all the not-visible households visible just so you could monitor things more closely? That's way too much effort for me...I just set MCCC up to do it's job, and stopped worrying about it...and as you can see, it did fine.
Also, at the 'end of 5 weeks' since the game started, I'm at about 60% housing usage. So that part takes time.
wow your game looks amazingly full I’m so jealous! I may need to try reinstalling the mod and altering the settings from scratch.. I don’t have many other mods that could be conflicting and all my other mods are up to do :/ such a weird issue...
is there any chance you could share your exact settings from the mod that I could just alter in my config file? Or is that not allowed?
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