Question about "deleteallcharacters"

[jennsonfire]

I've been reading up on using the "deleteallcharacters" cheat to make a clean new neighborhood. I have all the expansion packs, and no stuff packs, and I know about the MATY instructions on making a new clean neighborhood

Comments

[lady_borg]

Nothing, I did it once...and nothing happened to me.

[jennsonfire]

Did you do it before or after OFB? Apparently having OFB and doing this will make your game explode, or something equally as horrible.

[itlandm_sims]

I did this to a new neighborhood shortly after I had installed Seasons. (I have all the other EPs too, but no stuff packs.) At the time I had not heard about any complicated procedures, so I just used the deleteallcharacters code, then regenerated townies with boolprop. Hasn't seen any explosions, but the downtownies that are regenerated are exactly like the standard downtownies, despite my new default faces templates. At least I can't see any difference. I have no plan of playing the Ottomas, which are severely bugged and quite possibly will cause the neighborhood to explode, but then again they do so even without deleteallcharacters.

[jennsonfire]

The Ottomas are bugged? How?

[justpushplay]

Why do people say the Ottomas family is bugged? I mean, yeah, the kids show their parent as being a dog, but isn't that just Maxis being goofy?

I've never experienced any problems, besides a severely ugly baby, with the Ottomas family, and half of their 893859028 children are in college now.

[itlandm_sims]

According to Pescado at MATY, the random parent is only a symptom of some underlying code error. I am sure it takes a long time before it causes greater problems in most cases, otherwise Maxis would have discovered it during testing.

[jakeish]

I use deleteallcharacters whenever I make a new neighborhood. I've never had any problems.

[ari_]

if you don't do the SimPE step, blank wants and fears may happen.

[jennsonfire]

That;s the worst that can happen? That doesn't seem so bad. I'm assuming they'll just scroll by eventually.

Annoying, but not a gamebreaker, I'm assuming. Unless it gets to the point where EVERY want and fear is blank, then I might be a bit upset.

[ari_]

that can happen (tho usually, it's blank wants, but fears are there)

[jennsonfire]

Hmm, any idea how often it occurs? I might just wait for the Seasons SimPE if it's a huge problem.

[marblebutterfly]

I've used deleteallcharacters with every expansion & stuff pack installed and it's never given me any problems.