Cleaning up Characters?
J. M. Pescado:
The "everyone on one lot" merge is a relatively clean method of moving neighborhoods, but it can go horribly pear-shaped if you miss anyone, and is best not attempted on a neighborhood that is actually played. It does nothing to explain why you have *3000* character files, however, which means some irresponsible practice you've performed has caused it.
cwykes:
glad you said that Pes, cos the "everyone on one lot" merge sounded pretty safe to me. That's what I did to move the Green family to another hood.
Only you can decide whether you are going to spend a huge amount of time cleaning up files in the hood you are playing now or start over. You are talking days, cos I've been there done that and I hadn't done too much damaget o mine. I have to tell you I did more damage cleaning up than there was in the first place the first time I did it. Second try went better. Deleted 2 - the electric boogaloo is the way to go. Good luck if you do it. Why not burn your current hood to CD/DVD and start over? See how you feel about it after playing that for a couple of days.... Most people have a lot of fun when they start over.
Keep an eye on that thread - maybe Riverblossom Hills will get added sometime.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: cwykes on 2007 October 04, 12:31:08
glad you said that Pes, cos the "everyone on one lot" merge sounded pretty safe to me. That's what I did to move the Green family to another hood.
The everyone on one lot merge works, but you have to make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that this is an isolated branch. Also, the process is believed to irreversibly destroy the source neighborhood, so once you blast off, there's no going back short of reloading a backup. If done incorrectly, your target neighborhood is also trashed. It is a rather risky process, all told. Done RIGHT, it works. The problem is, it's very easy to do it wrong.
Kigan:
Is there a tutorial of some kind online about how to do that merge the correct way? I'm just going to throw that out there because, right now, I don't have time to search for it. I can search later, but I figure it doesn't hurt to ask. I'm guessing the way has some form of transporting gravestones and ghosts(still dead) as well? I figure that if it didn't, there would still be loose ends left hanging.
I just ask because if there is a tutorial, it at least lets me work to prepare the new neighborhood for when I can extract my favorite sims in SimPE and start new.
Invisigoth:
Quote from: Kigan on 2007 October 04, 23:53:59
Is there a tutorial of some kind online about how to do that merge the correct way? I'm just going to throw that out there because, right now, I don't have time to search for it. I can search later, but I figure it doesn't hurt to ask. I'm guessing the way has some form of transporting gravestones and ghosts(still dead) as well? I figure that if it didn't, there would still be loose ends left hanging.
I just ask because if there is a tutorial, it at least lets me work to prepare the new neighborhood for when I can extract my favorite sims in SimPE and start new.
Did you click on the link that Xuriel posted? The first words in that thread are
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There is now a tutorial that anyone can follow to create a merged neighborhood.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=4480.0
And seriously, stop asking for stuff before you look for it yourself. You've got to understand that we get tons of posters asking the same shit over and over again because they didn't bother to search. It's rude and we get sick of it very quickly. What you are asking us to do is to put aside whatever we are doing to help you when you are too lazy to help yourself. Beyond that, telling us that you haven't even bothered to search yet is unacceptable. You don't have the time? Next time you ask for help I don't think I'll have the time to post a reply.
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