Manually deleting all characters?
uaintjak:
So...I only have the basic Sims 2 installed. Eventually I plan on getting University, and eventually after that, I plan on getting Nightlife. When I started my new neighborhood, I didn't want any Townies or anything - just the basic NPCs that you need. So of course I used the "delete all characters" command.
The problem is, I want to play this neighborhood forever, and I don't want lots of extra clutter. So when I install University, of course I'll install the "no dormie regeneration" hack - but I won't be able to use the "delete all characters" command because that would kill my neighborhood sims that I play.
So...let's assume I buy University, install it, and before ever sending a sim to University, I open up SimPE and manually delete all the character files that don't belong to my own, playable characters, and the critiical NPCs (the Reaper, etc). This will in effect achieve what I want, correct? (No extraneous characters cluttering up the neighborhood). The game will automatically generate the critical sims it needs (like it did for the maid, the driver, the nanny, etc), correct? So I'll still have professors and secret society members and all that - without a big fiery ball etc etc. Does all this sound right, or am I missing something?
Motoki:
Honestly, I don't know if I'd mess with it until and unless Quaxi does that full deletion of characters and all accompanying data feature in SimPE. There's just a lot to mess with and it can get really messy.
If you absolutely must do it, then hook up the university town to your main town and immediately exit and do the deed before those townies and such have any chance to interact with anyone.
I'm also not even sure if you can have secret society members without townies/dormies. If you delete them all and then have no regen, I'm not convinced the game will regenerate them.
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, I deleted all characters with uni, and although simPE shows two or three recreated dormies, they never show up on lots at all! And if you're going to do it manually, I'd suggest that first you check their relationships as some of them seem to start the game with relationships to each other or the mascots etc., in which case, you'd need to delete those memories from those NPCs memory files.
AllenABQ:
Quote from: uaintjak on 2005 October 14, 19:25:26
So...I only have the basic Sims 2 installed. Eventually I plan on getting University, and eventually after that, I plan on getting Nightlife. When I started my new neighborhood, I didn't want any Townies or anything - just the basic NPCs that you need. So of course I used the "delete all characters" command.
The problem is, I want to play this neighborhood forever, and I don't want lots of extra clutter. So when I install University, of course I'll install the "no dormie regeneration" hack - but I won't be able to use the "delete all characters" command because that would kill my neighborhood sims that I play.
So...let's assume I buy University, install it, and before ever sending a sim to University, I open up SimPE and manually delete all the character files that don't belong to my own, playable characters, and the critiical NPCs (the Reaper, etc). This will in effect achieve what I want, correct? (No extraneous characters cluttering up the neighborhood). The game will automatically generate the critical sims it needs (like it did for the maid, the driver, the nanny, etc), correct? So I'll still have professors and secret society members and all that - without a big fiery ball etc etc. Does all this sound right, or am I missing something?
Although I've never used the function myself, the NPC/Townie Maker that is available under the boolprop debug mode has an option to "Kill all Townies". I'm assuming it simply gives all townies dead tokens, but I'm not sure. It's unlikely that it deletes them, but you might fire up a separate neighborhood and give it a try. Students show up in the regular townie family hive so when you get University its an option for getting rid of them.
ZephyrZodiac:
What I did wonder, though, is if you remove your saved games to the desktop before installing Uni, then run deleteallcharacters before copying your folders back in, whether that might work. You'd have to be prepared for a lot of pauses while the game generates new NPCs etc., though.
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