The more I learn, the more I realize what a noob I am...
dragoness:
Quote from: SaraMK on 2007 April 06, 18:43:31
Yes. Even if you always choose "custom" when creating a neighborhood and attaching sub-hoods, you will get hundreds of ugly Maxis sims dumped into your custom neighborhood.
Oh bleh. No more Marsha Broenig! No more Goopy! No matter what it takes! >:(
So just to be sure, even tho it seems kinda obvious... (I've been wrong before! :D) I want the stuff and instructions under EMPTY TEMPLATES, plus the stuff immediately above it under Seasons Update, right?
Quote from: SimulatedDork on 2007 April 06, 18:46:32
Is it better to DAC or to use a template?
Judging from what I've read, if you use DAC, they're all created and then deleted - but the deletion is messy, leaves bits of info all over the place, and those bits could (and will, according to most people) eventually mess everything up. If you clean out the template they're never created in the first place.
The longer you play a neighborhood the more likely it's going to eventually explode into bizarre behavior. But the more careful you are to eliminate these "rogue information" pieces, the longer your neighborhood will be safe.
...But then again I'm a noob so someone can feel free to correct me. ;D
SimulatedDork:
OK, so now time for me to get things straight:
1) Don't use DAC, because even after cleaning things up in SimPE, things may screw up in the long run. (Especially if, like me, you are going to create a hood you plan to play for a long time)
2) Use the empty templates found here to save time and possible burnination.
3) The empty templates don't have Maxis families or townies and are the best way to create a clean, custom hood now and for ever more?
dragoness:
Well I think you could clean it all up in SimPE, but there's no point if you can just prevent the mess from being created in the first place. Other than that, yes. :)
SimulatedDork:
The thing is, I plan to use an empty terrain for my sub-hoods. Will fugly townies/NPCs still be generated?
And on Jordi's thread here it says that deleting the Pets folder will stop Pet NPCs and Pets from being added to every 'hood. But I want strays and the NPC Pet Trainer.
Jordi also says on that post that creating subhoods without using the Maxis ones (in other words, custom subhoods) shouldn't spawn any unwanted minions.
Shivani:
Quote from: SimulatedDork on 2007 April 06, 19:28:59
The thing is, I plan to use an empty terrain for my sub-hoods. Will fugly townies/NPCs still be generated?
Doesn't matter. If you do NOT have the empty templates for the subhoods, the fugly Eaxis townies will get carried over. Use the empty templates.
And any townie/NPC/whatever generated by the game will be fugly if you have not replaced the facial template files.
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