too many character files
Regina:
Just FYI because you don't like building houses: it's perfectly fine to download empty houses from the Exchange or websites. These don't bring character files with them. Sometimes I'm just not in the mood to build a house so I download empties once in a while. :)
Oddysey:
Quote from: LynnMar on 2005 October 13, 22:31:46
yes, they are all from actual sims, stangetown is the only town I play. I have had some of these characters since UNI.
Yeowch then. That's a lot of playing hours. What files do you want to get rid of, exactly? Townies, or playable sims? It's probably not a good idea to mess with files that are linked genetically to living sims, however distant, and your average neighborhood has "only" around 150 to 200 townies and NPCs. So unless for some reason you have massive numbers of NPCs, you don't have a lot of options unless you have a LOT of sims that you created but now never play. If they're all organically integrated into your neighborhood, you're better off doing frequent backups and keeping an eye out for problems.
Maximum stable population with all fixes, pre-NL, is around 1200 according to JMP and TJ. According to MaxoidTom, NL upped the number of sims/iterations that the system could handle, so you may very well be safe. But if there's any dead wood in the neighborhood, i.e., townies you don't want or need (and with that many sims, that's probably all of them) or sims unconnected relationship-wise to any sims you want to keep, it might be worth trimming it.
sanmonroe:
If you are really set on saving your hood, here is a list of what you need to do for each char file you want to remove.
http://ambertation.de/simpeforum/viewtopic.php?t=1731
Or send quaxi a bribe and beg for a utility
Motoki:
Quote from: Misty on 2005 October 13, 22:38:28
Just FYI because you don't like building houses: it's perfectly fine to download empty houses from the Exchange or websites. These don't bring character files with them. Sometimes I'm just not in the mood to build a house so I download empties once in a while. :)
Actually, if you use Sims2pack Clean installer you can even ditch all the character files and just get the house if you just check off the lot part and uncheck the rest. :)
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, I deleted loads of townies from Pleasantview, but what I've done is each time I close the game, I think, what family shall I play next, then use SimPE to delete all reference in their memories to any of the deleted sims. Just in case there was a problem, I didn't actually delete the files, I moved them from the N0001 folder to a folder on the desktop, so I could restore a problem if necessary. And the game still works ok (or did last time I played.) I also at the same time got rid of a lot of spam memories that had occurred before I installed JMs fixes.
I turned the burglars into babies, and they don't seem to regenerate, and no burglaries! (Not advisable with the nanny, though!)
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