Where are all the townies?
Franc Kaos:
Quote from: Regina on 2009 July 05, 17:56:18
You can delete just the NPCs from a neighborhood. With awesomemod installed, run help in the cheat command line and it will show the proper syntax (you may need to enable testing cheats for this--I don't remember for sure), which is something akin to destroyallnpcs but I can't remember it exactly. Just keep in mind, though, that some of these NPCs could be partners at your Sims' work places that they have developed relationships with and the game will generate replacements. NPCs are everywhere in TS3. They aren't just service workers any more, and it really increases their numbers.
Thanks for the help, I'd seen the destroyallnpcs but have been worried about using it, but I've a feeling this 'Npc' family is starting to bork the game world anyway. One of my sims has just befriended an npc and any interaction with this npc grinds the system down, with a message that can't fully display, but looks to be full of ... ... ...'s - I get the impression it's trying to display all his family members.
This game is so enjoyable and annoying in equal measures, but I'll try it tonight and see how I get on.
Franc Kaos ~
'Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?' 'William Blake'
Anach:
I thought I should try this in an attempt to clear up my save issues. However, I get a fail each time, even if I bump up family funds to 500k on all homeless bums. I have 6 homeless families and 59 NPCs homeless. Each time I runstoryaction on them, it says "FAIL" and tells me the action could not be vailidated.
Anything more I can try here?
caitlyn:
Quote from: Franc Kaos on 2009 July 06, 09:51:49
Thanks for the help, I'd seen the destroyallnpcs but have been worried about using it, but I've a feeling this 'Npc' family is starting to bork the game world anyway. One of my sims has just befriended an npc and any interaction with this npc grinds the system down, with a message that can't fully display, but looks to be full of ... ... ...'s - I get the impression it's trying to display all his family members.
The "star people" are a bug that happened several versions of awesomemod ago. I just got rid of one yesterday. They have nothing to do with NPC's specifically. Mine was a townie. If you look in another thread for "Baby Name from Hell" (I can't remember where it is off the top of my head), you'll see talk about it.
Zazazu:
Quote from: Anach on 2009 July 08, 15:39:24
I thought I should try this in an attempt to clear up my save issues. However, I get a fail each time, even if I bump up family funds to 500k on all homeless bums. I have 6 homeless families and 59 NPCs homeless. Each time I runstoryaction on them, it says "FAIL" and tells me the action could not be vailidated.
Anything more I can try here?
Make sure there are enough beds in available homes for your families. A shocking number of homes in both neighborhoods only have one double bed, meaning that families over 2 members might not have any valid choices regardless of funds.
Silverdrake:
I'm not getting it to work, either, but I'm sure I'm missing something. The homeless families have plenty of money, and most of the houses in town are empty, with plenty of beds. I had taken the IS mod out, and the game decided to evict almost all the townies :o
Do you do the runstoryaction from the Edit Town screen? Do you put the family name after the command? (neither works for me!) I do have Testingcheatsenabled.
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