Manually deleting all characters?
Ancient Sim:
For those of you asking (Brynne & Motoki, I think), Quaxi does actually tell you how to delete characters in the version 49 thread in the Q & A forum, but anyway here's how it's done:
Bring the character up in Sim Description and highlight them, then click on "Window" at the top left, then Resource Actions. Click on Delete Character in the BOTTOM box (Plugin) and follow the instructions. Takes a few seconds and it wipes out the entire character - they disappear from the game, everyone's relationship panel and all their memories go, including invisible ones. Total and utter annihilation and completely painless!
Be careful with this, though. No doubt it will be improved upon, but I had a big glitch with it today. One of my Sims had constant error messages about "Missing neighbor for data access", whatever that means and it spread to her husband after a short while. All I could do was delete her, but it happened when she came back. Even moving the family to a new house didn't stop it. I had to start all over again and delete small groups until I isolated the problem family - I knew straightaway because when I tried to load their lot the game crashed. Once I put them back, everything was fine. Going by the error message, I can only assume she was talking to one of them on a community lot or something and it's caused a problem.
I did manage to spawn the Tombstone of L&D in between error messages and was able to get her to die of old age, but because of the errors the Reaper only appeared for a few seconds. She had no tombstone, no inheritance, and no one had any memory of her death, although she did appear as dead in their family panels. I got her son to resurrect her, but she still had the error messages, which was when I realised I'd have to start all over again. The strangest thing was the message I got when she was resurrected. Instead of her name appearing, it said "*Social - Talk - Chat has been resurrected", which sounded even more as if she'd been talking to one of the deleted people when they disappeared from the game.
I deleted 40 characters in one go in my game, but I am now going to stick to removing a few at a time. I could get this error again because I have no idea who has been talking to who on downtown lots, but that's a risk I'm prepared to take because the tool is so useful. I have so many houses I never play because the inhabitants bore me to tears and this is a painless way of disposing of them. I decided to get rid of the two toddlers Don Lothario had to two women in the same house by virtue of LizzLove's waterbed, because it just didn't seem right when his other children are either elders or almost elders, but in the end I had to delete their mothers as well. I just couldn't bear to look at the empty cots, the highchairs in the kitchen and the little toys dotted here and there. I felt like a murderer, killing two innocent little girls who could have grown-up together and been best friends.
Finally, one thing to remember is that although all memories pertaining to the deleted Sim are removed, secondary memories aren't - for instance, if they had their first woo-hoo with that Sim, that memory will disappear and the first woo-hoo memory will come again the next time they woo-hoo, so you would need to add a first woo-hoo memory to the next Sim they woo-hooed with if they've woo-hooed more than once. Similarly, if prior to the woo-hoo (or instead of a woo-hoo), they fell in love with that Sim and this resulted in them having "Two Loves at Once", they would keep the "Two Loves at Once" memory even if now they only had the one love, so that would need deleting also. Hope this all makes sense. (And no, there aren't too many woo-hoos in this paragraph, you can never have too many woo-hoos).
Brynne:
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, Ancient! I have some characters that "bore me to tears" as well, and I've been dying to get rid of them. I also have a few families I'd like to prune. And, no, I don't mean Don Lothario's family, lol! He's keeping all 9 toddlers whether he likes it or not!
So the children, toddlers, and babies shouldn't be as troublesome to delete then, right? I don't recall seeing children on any of the downtown lots I "frequent". And they certainly would have no woohoo memories! ::)
Ancient Sim:
Quote from: Brynne on 2005 October 17, 05:17:42
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, Ancient! I have some characters that "bore me to tears" as well, and I've been dying to get rid of them. I also have a few families I'd like to prune. And, no, I don't mean Don Lothario's family, lol! He's keeping all 9 toddlers whether he likes it or not!
So the children, toddlers, and babies shouldn't be as troublesome to delete then, right? I don't recall seeing children on any of the downtown lots I "frequent". And they certainly would have no woohoo memories! ::)
Well, most children, toddlers & babies wouldn't have woo-hoo memories, no. However, Don Lothario's children, toddlers & babies probably do - hundreds of invisible ones courtesty of their father.
And now I feel so bloody AWFUL about those toddlers I think I am going to have to put my back-up in yet again and bring them back. In fact, as one of the mothers is an elder and the other is 2 days off, maybe I will kill them off, then prolong Don's life with a full bottle of elixir (3 days left on his second run of elderhood) and let him raise them. He should be OK as long as he pops-off before they hit their teens.
Give me a vote - should I bring them back or not? And if so, should they stay with their mothers (who are in love with half the neighbourhood and each other because of the waterbeds ... and they're not even Romance Sims), or should Don bring them up.
And Don has NINE toddlers in your game? Is this in addition to older children or has he only got toddlers so far? How many mothers are involved? I am going to have to resurrect him again, I think. I just can't play that neighbourhood without him in it. He's an absolute scream since NL came out. He walks around Downtown goosing everyone he fancies and starting fights with those he doesn't (and even those he does in some cases). He argues like crazy with Lilith Dreamer, but they still fancy each other. No, can't let Don go (nor Lilith either, for that matter).
MissDoh:
Well Hook you probably did not create the EP2 NPC since I did not and I don't seem to have a problem with mixed LTW/aspiration. there might be something wrong with forcing it, I don't know yet, I will do one last test tomorrow which will be create all sections, delete characters, add them all except for EP2 NPC and I will see if I have mix LTW/aspirations or not. If not well I will not create those EP2 NPC again and will let the game do it on its own.
The last neighborhood I created I did not add anything at the start, deleted all the characters, add a downtown section, create a custom University neighborhood (I was sad to see the Sim State University townie and NPC are used as default) and so far I had no problem with LTW/aspiration.
Brynne:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 October 17, 05:27:36
And Don has NINE toddlers in your game? Is this in addition to older children or has he only got toddlers so far? How many mothers are involved? I am going to have to resurrect him again, I think. I just can't play that neighbourhood without him in it. He's an absolute scream since NL came out. He walks around Downtown goosing everyone he fancies and starting fights with those he doesn't (and even those he does in some cases). He argues like crazy with Lilith Dreamer, but they still fancy each other. No, can't let Don go (nor Lilith either, for that matter).
Yes, nine children. And they are his only children. Welcome to fatherhood, Don! They are all the offspring of Joe and Bella. I enjoy Justin and his two younger sisters (all three are Joe-Bella offspring), so I wanted some more Goth-Bayfields to play. Joe's married to someone else, so marrying Bella isn't an option at this point. I have considered that, though. They have strong chemistry. But I digress...I wanted to pick and choose which kids to take, so Bella just kept popping those puppies out until I found the two I wanted. Joe adopted those two (there were 11 toddlers in all) and I couldn't just kill or delete the other 9 because, well, did you see their pics? lol! So I decided to spring 'em all on Don.
I vote for Don to raise your two toddlers. He really is a good dad! He might not get much romantic action for quite some time, however, but in your game it won't be as extreme as it is in mine. I have a picture of Don on the toilet, surrounded by toddlers. He can't get a moment's peace! Very funny situation.
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