I noticed the very same thing. It worked fine for me in windowed mode, though.

The first file (E002) gets rid of the 89 pre-made sims that are dumped into every single one of your hoods after loading them for the first time when you've installed AL. E001 instead is the empty neighborhood of Belladonna Cove. If you're never going to play there you only need to replace the E002 file.

Yup, that sounds reasonable enough to me. It's good to know I probably won't have that problem in my next neighborhood any more. (I only recreated all of my playables in a new hood five weeks ago, I don't feel like creating a new hood AGAIN at the moment ... *LOL*)

I doubt this is a problem with the empty templates. I noticed the very same thing even without them. Several NPCs showed up as club members, such as the burglar, some custom dormies, some professors and even the cook from Downtown. I have very few townies in my game - maybe five "real" townies and about eight dormies? The rest are all playables, maybe that's why the game even allows NPCs to wander around the club lots? *wonders*

That's right - they are all-or-nothing. This is why I change my playables' genetics who have default skins or eyes when I change my defaults. I always download non-default versions of skintones and eyes as well, and when I switch default I use SimPE to change their genetics so the non-default versions.

I do the same thing once in a while when my current defaults become boring for my taste. I always use the following method:

1. Download the non-default versions of the skins you're currently using as defaults. Open all four of them in SimPE (one after the other), choose "Skintone XML" and copy & paste the string under "familystring (dtSingle)" into an empty text file. (Of course you should write down what color belongs to what string)
2. Open your neighborhood and click on "Sim Description". Choose one of the sims you're about to change in the list.
3. Click on "More" >> "Open Sim DNA". Under "Skintone" and "Skintone Range" you'll see long strings with many zeroes and a number between 1 and 4. 1 is the lightest tone, 4 the darkest. Overwrite these strings with the strings you copied in 1.
4. Click "Commit" and save. Now choose "More" >> "Open character file".
5. Click on "Age Data" and select the row "skintone". Replace the string with the corresponding new string as well. Commit and save.
6. Repeat that for all the sims you're about to change.
7. After replacing your defaults all of these changed sims will have to use the mirror once so they display their old skintones. Otherwise they'll run around with faces of your new defaults, but they'll keep their old bodies.

Yep, I haven't been able to delete any make-up since installing BV. Deleting clothes works, though ... I guess you'll have to delete those lipsticks in Body Shop instead!

What type of graphics card do you have? Mine is an ATI Radeon HD 2600, and I've got the very same problem. I've tried it both under Vista and XP, and with both ATI and Omega drivers. My TVs and computer screens still stay black, no matter what I change.

There's a similar thread in a German sims forum, and all the people posting there have the same graphics card (that Radeon 2600), so my guess would be it's the graphics card's fault!

If your replacement faces are as gorgeous as your Pollination and Ideal Plantsim then I'm dying to see them ...

Liz, they're awesome! I've never had plantsims before, but that yummy guy makes me want some pretty bad ...

That's perfectly normal - downtownies don't use custom face templates or hair, but always the Maxis ones. If you want downtownies you should create regular townies and transform them into downtonies with the teleporter shrub!

You can do that in the main hood as well - but beware, downtownies don't use custom face templates, so your downtownies will get the normal Maxis faces ...

That sounds like you need Pescado's marriage bug fix:

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/nl/test/marriagebugfix.zip

I've had that very thing happen to me as well - other than that I haven't seen any vacation townies in my normal neighborhood ... I thought this may be my fault because I used the clean templates for BV and generated new vacation townies, even though they seem to be made correctly (they know the correct greeting and show up when I click on the NPC maker and say "Show vacation townies" >> "<location>"). I think it's quite interesting that I'm not the only one with this problem ...

If you've got lots of locals in your game you don't need any tourists, I think. Tourists are supposed to add realism to the vacation spots, I think - you can make friends with them, beat them up or whatever your sims like to do when they're on vacation. Since you can do the same thing with the locals there's really no need for them in my opinion. Since I installed the new notownieregen hack my vacation hoods are quite abandoned though - this is why I created five tourists for my own game ...

Uhm, yes. I posted that several times already, in this thread as well as in others ...

Yes, that should work!

You are THE Awesomeness - and my life-saver. Thank you SO much! I think it's time to start a new (empty) neighborhood where I can make all the vacation sims myself ...

I just noticed that J.M. Pescado updated his notownieregen hack for no more spawning of excessive vacation sims - does your version do the same thing?

You could sign up for the QA forum in the SimPE forum - if you're granted access there you'll be able to download the latest BV-compatible SimPE version. I successfully deleted 2 more than 200 sims (most of them redundant vacation locals and unlinked dead sims) with that QA version, so in my opinion it's safe to use!

*LOL* That "NPC and townie gun" is the object that used to be the "NPC and townie tree". It's a debug object you can spawn when you enter the cheat "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true", then Shift-click on your sim and say "Spawn" >> "NPC and townie creator". In former EPs a tree appeared next to your sim, now it's a clone of the repoman's gun. You can create new NPCs and townies by clicking on that object, and there's one option "Make into vacation sim" which doesn't seem to work properly, though. Not that I had expected any different from EAxis ...

Are you sure? When I click on "Make into vacation sim" there are four options - "Asia", "Mountains", "Tropics" and "Tourist", if I remember correctly. I'm sure I clicked on "Asia" (that's were my test-family was staying), and that ex-townie still didn't know the Asian bow ...

I tried this with CAS-sims who were transformed into townies previously. I made them into vacation sims using the NPC and townie gun, but they didn't know their proper dances and greetings. They were in the vacation locals pool, though, because my sims on vacation were able to invite them to a party in their vacation home. Maybe someone will come up with an updated version of Inge's teleporter shrub with a new (working) option "Make into vacation sims"?

As soon as you move your playable sims into a hotel the game should spawn new tourist townies who will fill the other empty rooms, just like dormies are generated to fill the vacant dorm rooms.

Yes, I have all anti-redundancy-hacks like notownieregen, nostrayrespawn and antiredundancy. I look for updates every day, so I'm sure I was using the newest versions. The same thing happened to IAmTheRad here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,4306.msg263650.html#msg263650

I agree with him, I think tourist townies are coded differently than normal townies, that's why notownieregen doesn't affect them.

By the way - when I use christianlov's clothing rack to change the appearance of my neighbors vacation locals and tourists appear under "Sims" where playable sims are usually found. The clothing rack has other options like "NPCs", "downtownies" and "townies", but they don't appear there - this is why I think that vacation sims belong to an entirely new "species"!

EDIT: I just noticed that I'm not using "nodormieregen" because I never play in university. So I'm not using ALL of the anti-redundancy hacks, but most of them. 

Thanks for finding that out! I kept wondering what object that weird number was referring to ... It's obviously too hard for EAxis to assign a little icon to the corresponding want ...

At first, my game spawned the 48 new tourist townies when I was entering a community vacation lot for the first time. When I played another empty vacation hood later they were spawned when the hotel was loaded for the first time. It probably differs WHEN those tourists are spawned, but the game will do so eventually.

Sure, they're necessary, but 9 or 10 of them? In my opinion 3 or 5 should have been enough ...

It will help if you don't want the total Maxis-townie spam. The game will spawn new vacation townies on its own though. In my game I got 9 or 10 new local townies per vacation hood, and 48 tourist townies additionally. Once notownieregen is updated to work on those new types of townies that shouldn't be the case anymore, though.