Befuddled Newbie
Arina:
With pre-made families you don't want, or ugly townies, it might be easier to start a new hood than to remove them from your present one. I don't know if you've seen it but there's a good tutorial here on how to make all those pre-made families not come with your new neighbourhoods, and how to customise your townies.
However, my hoods don't normally last long because I find something new I want to implement from the start :P I think I'm just about done with things like that now, though, so maybe this one will last more than 4 generations. XD So in your case it might be easier to get face template replacements and delete the townies you don't want (but properly, through the deleting tutorial), it just depends on your neighbourhood(s) and the size and age.
Eleonora:
I recommend you start using the empty templates by SaraMK, found in peasantry.
They prevent your game from spawning the same old townies, too many NPC's, strays, unwanted families, etc. Very useful.
kuronue:
the most important rule of simming:
Never, EVER touch ANYTHING if you don't know what it does.
the ONLY exception is anything that appears in a vanilla (non-hacked) game with no cheat codes turned on. And then, use sparingly.
RTFM for the win!
Zazazu:
Honestly, learn to play with the Maxis families for a bit, but then trash the neighborhoods and create your own custom ones. Make sure to use SaraMK's clean templates. There's a decent recent thread here with someone who was looking to create a custom hood and wanted advice.
In my opinion, having your own unique hood and playing it from the dark ages is a million times better than some icky crowded Maxis hood. Shameless plug here: see the linky in my signature? Check it out, as well as the links to other custom face templates listed there. Some of the Maxis defaults are really scary.
With SimPE, it's a great tool, but keep to just messing with aspiration, skill level, and personality point changes for a long time, and read up before attempting anything else. Always attempt new things with that program on a dedicated testing neighborhood, that way you don't accidentally bomb the main one you play.
SaraMK:
Another thing to avoid as much as possible is marrying or moving in NPC's such as college professors, college mascots, the private school headmaster, and few others. The problem with them is that even when they become playable sims, they keep some of their NPC code, and you will get odd things like a former mascot showing up on community lots in his mascot costume. This does not necessarily destroy the game, but it can be very annoying.
Some NPC's, such as maids, gardeners, delivery people, clerks, and bartenders, are safe to move in or marry.
Here's a great rule to follow: If a glitch occurs, leave the lot without saving. Especially if you think the glitch is caused by a hack or by using debug mode.
One more thing you should do as soon as possible is to go to the Program Files\EA Games directory and make all your objects.package files Read Only. Every once in a while the game will decide to corrupt these files, making your game unplayable.
And finally... if your game or Bodyshop stops loading or hangs on loading, it may help to delete Groups.cache which is located in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2
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