Whenever I make a new custom neighborhood-like for a BACC-I keep getting all the Pleasentview townies. How can I get my game to generate new ones, without using a hack?
If you don't want to use mods or clean templates (which I do recommend since it's a one time thing and not something that has to be done every time), simply create a new neighborhood and in the neighborhood screen open the cheat window and type in deleteallcharacters. Then create a sim, place them in the neighborhood and use them (and boolprop) to generate new townies, downtownies and npcs through the mailbox shift-click menu.
I've seen it claimed this can bork your game but I've used this method ever since I started playing in 2005 and have never had an issue.
Deleteallcharacters doesn't work properly since BV. It leaves junk hanging around. It is not a good way of getting townies if the player has BV or above. It is much safer to create a "killing lot" and use a teleporter to summon townies and kill them off, then build a nice little cemetery for them to haunt.
I was actually hoping I could ask someone about this. When you say "make a killing lot", do you mean for every townie in the neighborhood? Or just the sims in the family bin? What about downtownies? Or should I use a clean template for the sub-neighborhoods, instead?
I wanted to submit a question about it, but it's already been brought up several times and I'm... still confused :X I've always just created my neighborhoods and then deleted everything in the Characters folder (because I was told that this was safer than using deleteallcharacters) but now I'm starting to wonder if some of my glitches aren't because I'm doing it wrong XD
Before I did the clean neighbourhood thing, I would kill everyone. All the townies, all the downtownies, the ones in the family bin. I'd use the insim summoner, add them to the lot using the family tree, then kill them off.
I've seen it claimed this can bork your game but I've used this method ever since I started playing in 2005 and have never had an issue.
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I wanted to submit a question about it, but it's already been brought up several times and I'm... still confused :X I've always just created my neighborhoods and then deleted everything in the Characters folder (because I was told that this was safer than using deleteallcharacters) but now I'm starting to wonder if some of my glitches aren't because I'm doing it wrong XD
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