Cleaning a hood or starting from scratch?
seelindarun:
No, you can let your daughter play (or play together) in the old 'hood, as well. Any new ones that you make after installing the clean templates will stay pristine, assuming you install them properly, and collect all the relevant noregen hacks. You can prevent the spawning of social townies in a new 'hood by making your own (5 for each group), before building or placing any apartments. However, if you build huge high-rises with 15 units each, you'll inevitably spawn more. Just don't do that.
You may be able to coax your daughter by simply starting a second 'hood with new sims, maybe she'll develop a new attachment. ;)
kittykat:
Ooo,
Well I think I'm starting with a new hood then.
Time to gather up all that I need, thanks!!
Sleepycat:
Quote from: kittykat on 2009 October 02, 17:59:51
I do have characters in my hood I would like to keep though, is there a way to transport them from my current hood to a new clean one?
1, Package them on their lot.
2, install them into the throw away hood using clean installer (making sure you only install the family and the lot - no one that isn't living on the lot)
3, use Simpe or Pescado's Lot debugger (ffsdebugger) to clean up their memories (or use both).
4, re-package them on their lot.
5, install in your new hood.
I do this all the time. If you want any of the Maxis/EAxis pre-made households. I have them all (from all the pre-made hoods, including the Uni students as teens) packaged up (cleaned & safe to use) at Crazy Town. I have two versions of them - with & without plastic surgery (plastic surgery made genetic).
http://www.the-isz.com/theisz/index.php?showforum=91 (note site will be down on 10/7/09 due to upgrading)
DrNerd:
There are also any number of default face template replacement mods you can download and install to replace the EA fug for Townies and NPCs that the game generates, whether you're using clean templates or not.
hedgekat:
Also you can use a hack like Insimenator and possibly others to change the appearance of Maxis sims in game. With InSim the hourglass temporal controller has a makeover feature that you can use to either change their appearance like a mirror or give them plastic surgery. Only thing you can't change is eye color.
You might not need five members of each social group unless you plan to have all five levels of apartments. In my four year old neighborhood I have five social townies total none of which ever get inside an apartment. I make all my apartments to have only four units, which I immediately populate with playable sims. I move one family in, click on the apartment and exit back to neighborhood even before the agreement is signed. Then next family is moved in, etc until all units are rented. I currently have three apartment buildings, one in the main hood and one in each of two subhoods. Notownieregen kept others from spawning. I play with no townies at all and use TwoJeffs visitor controller to set all my lots to not allow townies to appear.
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