If I were to kill all the townies...
SimsDiva:
Quote from: seelindarun on 2007 June 10, 22:14:48
And don't forget to re-randomise the sim generator, or your new townies may suffer from firstborn syndrome. From one who has learned from experience... ::)
What is "firstborn syndrome"? I've never come across that phrase before.
FuzzyLove:
thanks for clearing that up for me saramk. I'm off to try and get new interesting townies, yay!! haha. I assume the new townie(s) will also have a random job as well as a random appearance and name?
SaraMK:
Quote from: FuzzyLove on 2007 June 11, 02:53:45
thanks for clearing that up for me saramk. I'm off to try and get new interesting townies, yay!! haha. I assume the new townie(s) will also have a random job as well as a random appearance and name?
Yes, as well as random interests, turn ons/off, personality, and so on.
J. M. Pescado:
Well, actually, the townie won't have a random personality, usually. Due to the Firstborn Effect, basically 90% of generated townies will be Aries, as they will likely generate before you're aware that you need to rerandomize, and by then it's too late.
Invisigoth:
I was so sick of my billions of ugly, horrible, annoying townies, so I used Jordi's unbelievably amazing tutorial:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=2e6c484c75aa0a6de1e7fbb0a27191ca&topic=5861.0
It should link you to all of the necessary info as you read through it, but if you still need some help PM me, I didn't do this too long ago so it's all still pretty fresh in my mind. There's a link in there to clean templates for Maxis created 'hoods including Pleasantview, so you can keep the buildings but be rid of the icky townies. I also highly recommend picking out a new set of face templates (it will tell you how to do that in Jordi's tutorial as well), and of course put in the new templates BEFORE you spawn new townies or they won't use the new templates. I ended up with 44 total NPCs in my base 'hood, which is a pretty big drop from the 300 I was sporting before. When you put in subhoods that number will rise.
With the new faces they're all normal looking enough to be potential mates for my playables! Others have already mentioned rerandomizing before spawning new townies, and that applies to this method as well. I wound up with townies that were all significantly different from the ones I was used to playing with (no more ugly guys named Goopy wearing kilts!)
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