Squiggly Lines of Doom!!
maxon:
Quote from: tunaisafish on 2006 February 06, 00:21:33
Quote from: maxon on 2006 February 06, 00:16:19
I can tell you exactly how many sims though - it's been the same each time and I've done it three times.
Hey, are you some kind of tease ?
Tell us! Tell us!
Really? Crikey, you're the first person who has ever wanted to know.
Well, ok, with the base game, University, Nightlife and the Xmas Pack installed:
263 files exactly (three times the same remember) are added to your Characters folder for one neighbourhood plus one University plus one Downtown. This is in a custom neighbourhood with NOTHING in it before I started - i.e. not Plesantview or other Maxis neighbourhood. SimPE will tell you 272, however, and this is because there are 9 universal characters which appear in every neighbourhood but do not appear as individual files in neighbourhood folders. I think these are:
Santa Klaus
Therapist
Unknown (Potato Head Man is the icon)
Grim Reaper
Toddler New Year
Father Time
Hula Zombie
Pollination Technician
Mrs Crumplebottom
Making a neighbourhood adds 87 characters and these are numbered 71-160 (with some numbers missing) - yay! I did make a note of the numbers. Plus there are 8 of the universals shown in SimPE (1st eight - obviously there are fewer of these if you don't have the Xmas Pack). All the names of the NPCs and townies are the same in every fresh neighbourhood unless you murder and/or rename the lot of them (which makes them distinctly unfresh).
Adding a university adds a further 98 files, 24 of which are professors and 50 of which are students. Names are 'random' and I think the file numbers are filled in up to 70, and then after 160. A further universal is added - Mrs Crumplebottom.
Adding a Downtown adds another 78 files. Obviously, Mrs C came with NL but she seems to get added with the University (look, ask Maxoid Tom). Names are random except for the Tricou family (my Tricou short story is called Tricou Treat BTW - sorry, I'm absurdly pleased with that for some reason). If you add another University, the game will generate another 50 students (the same with a third University). The game uses the same physical archetypes for the students so you end up with sets of physically matching students (same face, same hair, same clothes) but with different names.
Adding a second and third Downtown adds no further files. Deleting the test neighbourhood made over 2MB of space on my hard drive.
Is that enough? (There's more - oh yes)
Oh, that was a happy afternoon that was.
ZephyrZodiac:
NPCs and townies get different names with Strangetown and Veronaville. Downtownies' names are different too, as are dormies and SS members.
maxon:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 February 06, 01:04:42
NPCs and townies get different names with Strangetown and Veronaville. Downtownies' names are different too, as are dormies and SS members.
Yes, I did say it was an empty neighbourhood, not a Maxian one. I also said the Downtownie and student names were 'random'.
tunaisafish:
Well I might be the first to ask you, but I know I'm not the only one who is very grateful you posted this.
It's not just you who's the addict here :)
It's now a text file in my sims info folder. You did a good job there.
I know some of this has been discussed here before, but good to have it one file.
And there's more you say ?
This info will be good posted in 'The War Room'.
If you like that sort of thing, then "Maximizing personalities" will probably interest you too.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=323.0
Oh, about the names. Do you have Live.package ? From variousimmers.
This gives more names to choose from, but I didn't know that townies/downtownies/dormies pulled from different lists.
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 February 06, 00:05:35
I wnder what would happen if Maxis ever got in first and stuck the grim reaper at 0000!
I think that it skips NPCs if they come in first. It skipped Mortimer and went to John Burb, who was not the next on the list because there was the Grim Reaper and another NPC, but John Burb was the next playable character listed.
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