Unofficial AL Patch - Assorted Fixes
Owaiz:
i pmed Hysterical Paroxysm of modthesism2 about this and she said
"597 is not any sort of game-bogging slowness and you end up with something over 400 NPCs in Belladonna Cove - even without ever having loaded a lot, if you have all EPs. This has been discussed in previous threads - the game can easily handle over a thousand character files with no issue. The problem is with changes to the engine itself."
Psysix:
~600 is definitely by no means a "bad" case, though it is a pretty big amount. My instructions are more to diagnose and catch the issue if it (and most likely is) happening, before it gets out of hand. As far as I can tell, amount will always increase, well into the thousands.
Alex:
Pleasantview is my most populated 'hood, with all avaliable subhoods (bar LFT and ALT universities) and is currently at somewhere in the region of 700 sims (Have not touched since installing AL, which adds about another 126 I think. No CAS sims either, and very few babies have been born so far). 800 and something sims is a reasonable amount and won't cause any significant slowdown. My barely populated neighborhoods run very similarly to my most populated, bar a small difference in loading times and a reduction in lag if you have only one of each NPC.
But anyway, the game will add 800 or so sims by default (with all eps), which, although undesirable, is normal and not really a VBT. The thing that will cause problems is redundant, sim character file clutter, which can corrupt your hood. And of course, the lag caused by the game continuously generating new sims. Simply having 500 sims in the folder won't cause any major harm though.
I do get the feeling that a lot of people who are just counting the character files for the first time are seeing large numbers and freaking out. And why bother checking? Just download the damn fix! Preempt it instead of actually letting the game generate more clutter.
cynconzola:
How about 2000 plus? Are we talking problems here yet?
Where do I find the fix? I had the one for bv, but since then have a new hard drive and have lost all my fixes. Sorry, don't remember where I got it. Will the one from bv work on this one?
cyn
Psysix:
In all honesty, the amount depends on how powerful your computer is and how many you feel alright with having. I had almost 1300 before I plugged the issue. I thought about actually letting it get to 1500 before putting in the hack just to inflate my neighborhood some for the hell of it. Hell, my only scare about it was the amount of hard drive space it was going to gradually eat since I am a tad limited at the moment. The one thing though is if you have a thriving neighborhood most of the townies end up being redundant as you have enough playable sims to make community lots feel really populated and varied. At which point constant new townies would be flat-out annoying.
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