What do you do with Townies? «1234...Next Go

phantasmkiss

Not the Townies that came with the game, but the ones that are automatically generated. You know. Those Townies.
What do you usually do with them?

elanorbreton

Ignore them

I ignore them most of them time, but occasionally go in and delete them all.

Onverser

I have mods that take care of them

It's so much nicer to not have them and have my world populated with the sims I put in it.

MDianaSims

Justine Keaton?

I usually ignore or delete them. But I like the Justine Keaton option

Mareah

Delete them

I havent done anything about them yet but i think i will go ahead and delete them since they dont interest me one bit.

Sharonia

I have mods that take care of them

I use NPC Control to keep them from spawning in my game.

phantasmkiss

Give them makeovers

I go through the bin, sort the homeless, and cas.fulleditmode them. Mean/Evil traits get swapped with Good, to ensure their new trait prevents lingering effects of the old one. Sims with the same last name get put in a household and I give them relationships. Sometimes I just delete the heck out of them, but they always come back. Makeovers seem to work the best for me in the long term.

RavenSpit

Kill them

They are my evil sims favorite victims, not just for killing though, also for tormenting with mischievious actions and such, they're just too easy to dislike...besides that I ignore them.
I also delete all premades and other housed NPC sims and have "fill empty houses" off, I just want MY sims to have homes.

Rouensims

Other

Sometimes I ignore them. Sometimes I delete them if they’re mean to my played Sims. Sometimes my Sims befriend them. Sometimes my Sims fall in love with them and marry them. Sometimes I fall in love with them myself and play them. Sometimes, if they’re truly awe inspiring, I photograph them for the Townie Fashion Police thread.

Here is a picture of a townie I wound up playing (the male) falling in love with another townie, whom he later married and I also wound up playing.



Townies Happily Ever After!

PlayerSinger2010

I have mods that take care of them

MCCC usually does what it wants with them. Sometimes I'll befreind them though.

Flap

Delete them

I have my own townies on households bin to populate the game so I usually delete all random generated ones. Sometimes the game generates an interesting random Sim that I'll keep.

Kimmer

Marry/Befriend them

I also ignore a lot of them, but my Sims will often befriend them and sometimes marry them. One of my favorite Sims is a townie that my Sim married. There are gems among townies.

Camkat

Other

I ignore most of them but some of them might become friends with my own sims. When I need more space for my own sims though, they are the first ones I'll delete.

Faberries

Give them makeovers

Most of the time i give them makeovers. I sometimes try to make up a story in my head while changing them, which can be super fun with the larger households :)

CAPTAIN_NXR7

Other

Sometimes I ignore them, sometimes I delete them...sometimes they 'happen' to...simply die.

Daephene

Other

Several, but not all, of the above.

Every so often I go through Manage Households and delete several that are not aesthetically pleasing, but I've never deleted all of them.

The other day I spotted one that looked like hipster Waldo (of the Where's Waldo books) so I changed his name to Waldo and saved him into my households so he doesn't get culled.

At the beginning of this current save I brought a few into my families, but then I started doing that with only the Maxis made sims rather than the randoms.

I don't have the patience to go into all of their households and make them over, but I occasionally will use my sims in the Stylist career to change their outfits.

I rarely kill sims intentionally, and when I do it's for a story so it's usually a premade or born in game sim. But if I use them to fill the relationship count for a serial romantic I will age them up manually alongside their former lovers and move them into my retirement village when they're old enough so they will eventually die of old age, since I only have aging on for the active household.

And I do a lot of ignoring.

Lustianicia

Other

I often seem to answer these polls without fully reading the post... lol I didn't realize we were specifically talking about townies that are generated, as opposed to the ones that come with the game.

I ignore them, personally. I don't associate with them unless my Sim has a specific task to do so (like in the detective or doctor career). Otherwise, I leave them alone and don't interact with them at all. If they move into any houses I've built, I usually let them live there until I specifically want to do something with the house they're living in. Then I move them out. I generally just keep all townies in the "in world" category. I don't really feel any need to kill or delete them. Just leave them be.

EnkiSchmidt

Other

Most of them I ignore, but if they spawn as police co-workers they disrupt my setting and get deleted right on the spot.

A rare few manage to catch my eye and write themselves into the story. Sometimes it's the outfits they spawn in or a specific interaction they do with my played sims. Those townies get makeovers and also get played on occasion.

Kathykins

I have mods that take care of them

Should have answered "other", really. I some times give them make-overs, some times just delete them (cba to kill them in game), for the most part they are ignored, unless I give them makeovers and/or they become friends of my sims. Actually, some generated sims ended up being my favourites after adding them to my families.

APotts

Other

All of the above.

Alwe1507

Other

I permit them to take the required job / service positions.

I do not integrate them.

FraTac

Give them makeovers

I give them makeovers if they are too ugly (this happens quite often lol) or ignore them if they look ok.

pammiechick

I have mods that take care of them

MCCC puts in my Sims for townies. I now love my worlds!

Missmagoo2

Give them makeovers

If my sim is interacting with them (friends, coworkers, etc.) I'll give them a makeover. If they're just a random sim passing by, I ignore them.
If I'm starting from scratch, I delete everyone and use MCCC to import my tray of custom sims.

AngeliqueAdelaide

Delete them

Mods keep them from spawning at most part, but those few who do get deleted. I have tried to give them makeovers, but 99% of the time they are just too ugly to handle.

TheSpotted_C

Give them makeovers

Mostly give them makeovers but all of the above.