Tips for restarting to avoid slowdown?
Regina:
Once a neighborhood is wiped clean, the service workers don't generally cause too many problems (unless, of course, you have 50 of one type suddenly generated). As a rule, no more than three of any one type of service worker will be generated at one time within your game with the exception of the Barrista problem. One exception to this is if you use a hack, like the NPC maker (which hasn't been updated for NL last I checked) and if you create say four of each type of NPC worker and move one of them in, the game will go ahead and generate a replacement and keep the number static at four intead of the default three.
I've also noticed that quite frequenty when my sim families in previously wiped neighborhood call a repairman they end up with the same repairman as long as they live in that house rather than the game generating a new one. Now if you keep all your sims' houses close together within the neighborhood they're also much more likely to end up with the same newspaper and mail carriers.
One of the upsides is, you'll never have service workers generated that you don't need. If your sims don't start fires there'll be no firemen. If your house is never burglarized there'll never be cops. If your sims all do their own cleaning, there'll never be maids, etc., etc., etc. This alone can keep somewhere around 30 to 40 extra character files from entering your game. (Pre-NL I noticed that in neighborhoods that were wiped clean, burglaries seemed to never happen and in neighborhoods where I had created four burglars with the NPC-maker, crime was rampant. Since installing NL it doesn't seem to matter. My Legacy family was started in a clean neighborhood, gen 2 is halfway through adulthood, and they already know two burglars!)
At any rate, deleting all the characters at the outset, using the no townie regen mod and making your own Townies has got to make a neighborhood last quite a bit longer because you have so much more control.
cwykes:
Quote from: miramis on 2005 September 15, 02:16:37
Don't download any lots with Sims, they bring along all their invisible aquaintances (I tested this last night on a lot with clean installer, there were 83 junk sims that would have gone with the packaged lot!!)
If you use cleaninstaller, can't you clear out the junk sims before you put the lot in your game? Is it then OK?
re Nannies - someone on my usual board has a "scary" nanny problem.
http://thesims.ea.com/us/index.html?frame_src_content=%2Fbbs%2Fmessages.php%3F%26threadID%3D1e1944f2a13aec4010f2ce0351eb8824%26directoryID%3D341
" Oh help! Not only do I have two nannies and can't make them leave, the older one was tired so she got into my sims' bed in her underwear and is now roaming around the house in her underwear. I'm pretty sure she wears a girdle and she'll traumatize the toddler, the kids going to grow up to be a sociopath if he has to keep seeing this. She's sure scaring me. Yikes! How do get rid of her!"
Motoki:
My nannies also have a tendency to move themselves into the house uninvited (they don't count as part of the household, they just never leave!). It seems to be some bug with the nannymobile preventing them from leaving so they just stay instead. They stop doing any work, if they ever did in the first place, and you get to see them roaming around in their orthpaedic underwear lol!
I actual rather like and have even made bedrooms for them when that happens. At least this way, I never have to worry about leaving the kids alone and having the social worker come. :P
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, at present I have no burglars at all since I'm in College town and none of my students are ready to graduate yet, but if any do appear, they will be turned into babies pretty smartish!
I tried experimenting with one of the cheerleaders, but I decided to try toddler, as in college if you turn dormies into babies the suddenly appear through portals and lie on the ground. anyway, Audrey the cheerleader has started crawling into houses and can't be zapped with the NPC zapper, so I have to keep deleting her! But she was annoying me so much, although I ban all cheerleaders etc., she always had to be indvidually zapped, as do two of the professors who keep turning up, and one coach! Some are definitely unbannable!
bluecatvon:
Quote from: miramis on 2005 September 15, 02:16:37
To avoid bloating..
Get Pescado's Barista fix if you have Uni - it will stop the game generating new ones nearly every visit.
i can't find it. what's the name? is it the no npc spam sort of name?
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