Controlling Your Population - Questions on Deleting Sims
Theo:
Quote from: Orikes on 2006 August 22, 17:24:07
I also know to never delete a sim, and knowing is half the battle.
Before I knew it, I had "inadvertently" deleted all the Bluewater characters...
Before that it was the freakey dead family in Downtown...
And before that were all the Flamencos Caliente, Newbies, et al...
Now my sims lost all their recessive genes, and occasionally lose some of their want slots ::)
At least they have a good reason to go on outings. ;D
jsalemi:
Quote from: Theo on 2006 August 22, 16:29:59
joe, I'm just curious: can you open your neighborhood file, and tell how many 3IDR resources are listed?
My neighborhood has 496 total characters (~200 playables), and the 3IDR resources never stop inflating in numbers, even when no new sims are born (a seldom occurring event, I concede). Just now it reached over 10000 3IDR files.
My Pleasantview has 741 sim descriptions (about 150 playables, last I checked, 4th generation), and 5050 3IDRs. Strangetown has 454 sim descriptions (2nd generation well along) and 3201 3IDRs. I have no idea what the relationship between the two is, but they do seem out of proportion. Maybe a new 3IDR is created everytime a sim's thumbnail changes?
Theo:
I think the proportion may be in the amount of clothing the sims own, as most of the 3IDR's are references to clothing packages.
If I remember correctly, in the first version of the Sims 2 if you moved a family, their wardrobe would be emptied; that was fixed afterwards, and I think these resources represent no more than the wardrobes of all the families in a neighborhood.
jsalemi:
Yea, that makes sense. And with fortune sims always wanting to buy new clothes, it would go up faster than the # of sims. :)
Theo:
Erm, I make them buy new clothes for no particular reason ;)
But the main point is that there is the need for something that would cleanup all unwanted clothes from the sims wardrobes, now that the first patches disabled the only cleanup procedure available.
I also noticed that after deleting some clothing packages that were in use by sims, the 3IDR resource count lowers, so I'll try disabling all clothing packages and see if that helps :-\
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