I've extended my tutorial on populating worlds somewhat so that creators can see a good breakdown of how many Sims they might need in a functioning world. There is now a second page in the guide that lists the minimum and maximum number of co-workers needed per career, as well as the number of service NPCs and townies they might need. This is handy for planning a balanced population when the world begins.
Part One:
CAW Population: Populating Worlds in Create-a-World
Part Two:
CAW Population: Balancing Your Population
As always, anyone is welcome to edit any mistakes they see in these, and also to add their own tutorials to the site, which now has a regularly updating Facebook page:
Pasimfic Wiki on Facebook.
EDIT: I may have missed one or two of the more obscure service Sims. I'm checking now.
Kiwi_tea
Comments
There's so much planing to do to populate worlds correctly. This will be very helpful. I've planned to go back and revisit my worlds I've completed so far. I always felt like they weren't quite finished without a population. Thank you, you've saved me a ton of work.
The Sims Creators' Consortium
I'm sure it will help a lot of people.