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Better Townie System
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Players love to customize their Sims and this doesn´t stop at townies. This is why the culling as well as the overpopulation with EA-Townies are huge problems for many players. Since Get to Work some of these townies don´t even show up in the Townie Catalogue so they can neither be deleted nor costumized.
That´s why we*´re pleading for more options for the current Townie System:
1. Fix the culling. We don´t want to have our carefully created townies all deleted without warning as soon as we reach the mysterious population limit. Please give us a warning that we are about to reach the limit so that we can manually delete unwanted townies to avoid loosing all of them.
(The culling also need fixing with regard to family trees. There could be a notice that the game is about to cull Sims of the family tree and that not allowing for it can harm your game´s performance. Even better, these Sims could be culled after a while except of the information and thumbnail that are necessary for the family tree so that these remain intact.)
2. Fix the overpopulation with EA-Townies. Give players information on which kind of Townies the game needs and how many of them. This should contain age, gender and role. It would be super cool if we could assign the roles of barkeeper, librarian, etc. manually in Manage Worlds.
3. Let us modify all townies. I don´t see the reason why some Sims don´t show up in the townie pool since GTW. I understand this for a currently active suspect, but not for the others. It would be great if players could decide in Settings whether these townies should be culled directly after the case is closed. For those who decide to keep them, these townies should show in the Townie Catalogue and the current suspect should be marked as such so that he or she will not be accidentally deleted by the player via Manage Worlds.
Thank you, @SimGuruBChick @SimGuruGraham, for considering these ideas. We should not be forced to rely on Mods to fix these problems, especially as these would have to be updated with each and every single EA Patch.
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*= the Sim fans from the German Sim Forum, see the full thread here: http://www.simforum.de/showthread.php?t=193572.
That´s why we*´re pleading for more options for the current Townie System:
1. Fix the culling. We don´t want to have our carefully created townies all deleted without warning as soon as we reach the mysterious population limit. Please give us a warning that we are about to reach the limit so that we can manually delete unwanted townies to avoid loosing all of them.
(The culling also need fixing with regard to family trees. There could be a notice that the game is about to cull Sims of the family tree and that not allowing for it can harm your game´s performance. Even better, these Sims could be culled after a while except of the information and thumbnail that are necessary for the family tree so that these remain intact.)
2. Fix the overpopulation with EA-Townies. Give players information on which kind of Townies the game needs and how many of them. This should contain age, gender and role. It would be super cool if we could assign the roles of barkeeper, librarian, etc. manually in Manage Worlds.
3. Let us modify all townies. I don´t see the reason why some Sims don´t show up in the townie pool since GTW. I understand this for a currently active suspect, but not for the others. It would be great if players could decide in Settings whether these townies should be culled directly after the case is closed. For those who decide to keep them, these townies should show in the Townie Catalogue and the current suspect should be marked as such so that he or she will not be accidentally deleted by the player via Manage Worlds.
Thank you, @SimGuruBChick @SimGuruGraham, for considering these ideas. We should not be forced to rely on Mods to fix these problems, especially as these would have to be updated with each and every single EA Patch.
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*= the Sim fans from the German Sim Forum, see the full thread here: http://www.simforum.de/showthread.php?t=193572.
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