Custom neighborhood help, please

[Akharra]

I want to start a new neighborhood with an attached University and no downtown. Do I attach the university first and then do "deleteallcharacters"?  I figure the answer is obviously yes, but I thought I had better be sure before I get started. Any other information about starting a new 'hood would be appreciated. I am trying to avoid BFBVFS! Thank you!

Edit   I do have all critical fixes!

[lindaetterlee]

are you wanting to delete all the uni townies?

[Akharra]

yes! I want only my characters in the game. Except for npc's of course.

[Renatus]

Yes. You always attach sub-neighborhoods before you do deleteallcharacters, otherwise the townies/dormies/downtownies aren't yet generated to be deleted. Keep in mind that the NPCs will be deleted as well and will re-generate as needed; this means a bit of lag every time one needs to appear (such as maids, professors, and such).

[Akharra]

Thank you very much for your help.

[angelyne]

I forgot to do just that and had to start my neighbourhood again ir order to get rid of the butt ugly dormies.  I read a couple of post saying that that the townies weren't all that bad, so I've decided to give it a chance.  I was wondering if it's fairly safe to attach the downtown neighbourdhood and then immediately go to SimsPE and selectively delete the downtownies(?) I don't want, before any memories are generated.  Can that cause a BFBVFS meltdown?

[reggikko]

Remember to have both NoTownieRegen AND NoDormieRegen in. I did this is my custom hood, along with creating my own townies and dormies. It took some time, but I am happy with the results. I wish there was a way to custom make NPC's, though. For now, I plan on teleporting, plastic surgery-ing, and making over the NPC's.

[Akharra]

Ooops! I forgot "nodormieregen"! Will get it right now. Thank you very, very much!

[witch]

Check out AllenABQ & Motoki for new facial templates - no fish lips etc, they are packages you can put in yr download folder and remove if you wish. That way your npcs might not be so ugly. Probably in Peasantry.