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What's The Point..... ?
elanorbreton
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..... of filling up other homes?
Up until now, I have always set up my new games with a pile of sims living in about 75% of the houses and apartments around all of the worlds to make it seem like my played sims are living in a thriving community. But I suddenly thought, is there any point to that?
It seems like the unplayed others sitting in the household bin do not get deleted, only added to by the game generator, so is there a point to moving some of them into homes? Apart from maybe one or two that you might want to visit during play?
I'm now starting to think that maybe majority of the Lot spaces in the worlds could be taken up with interesting community places to visit and just have a few empty homes for your sims family to move into as they grow. Does anyone play like that and does it make a difference?
Up until now, I have always set up my new games with a pile of sims living in about 75% of the houses and apartments around all of the worlds to make it seem like my played sims are living in a thriving community. But I suddenly thought, is there any point to that?
It seems like the unplayed others sitting in the household bin do not get deleted, only added to by the game generator, so is there a point to moving some of them into homes? Apart from maybe one or two that you might want to visit during play?
I'm now starting to think that maybe majority of the Lot spaces in the worlds could be taken up with interesting community places to visit and just have a few empty homes for your sims family to move into as they grow. Does anyone play like that and does it make a difference?
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The few times I've had a really populated save.. One I downloaded and a celebrity save that I just kept adding on too... I would have problems with lag or odd glitches when I actually stopped messing with the families and decided to play. I've since deleted or thinned those saves out.
I do like the freedom of being able to drop in restaurants, businesses or anything I want and not be concerned that I won't have a lot to put them on.
I noticed if another sim has a party of sorts set up your active sim can actually attend if you arrive before the party starts. Same with venues.
Had my sims children go visit their grandparents to spend the weekend of sorts while their parents were at home.
Also decided to change up things with a challenge with a sim that spent time at her friends home for about two sim weeks til she was able to save up some money to move into an apartment.
That's definitely not correct
Anyway, there's lots of reasons why one might choose to house sims. For starters you can't visit them unless they have homes, which can make finding them difficult if you haven't met them yet. It allows me to easily edit the households that I'm not going to play (as in their jobs, funds, etc.) It's also supposed to prevent them from being used for certain roles (the opposite of what the statement above implies) but that doesn't apply to a modded game.
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One big flaw in the plan though... finding enough interesting and nicely designed community Lots to add
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I could be wrong as well, but I seem to remember Sims Not In World being able to work in restaurants. But sometimes they would get culled and not show up. If that was the only Chef, for instance, your restaurant wouldn't be functional. The work around for this was to put them in a house, but mark the household Unplayed before you went back out of Manage Households. That would keep them working, but really unlikely to be culled. Again, all from memory. Although I'm not sure if the culling of restaurant workers is even happening, anymore.
The prevention for Sim having certain job roles, tho, is making them Played. I see housed Sims working in NPC roles all the time if they are Unplayed. To mark them Played/Unplayed, go into Manage Households. In every household portrait, there will be a Plumbob icon in the upper left corner. If it's green they're Played. Clicking on it will turn it greyed out, for Unplayed, and vice versa.
But I do have saved games, yes plural, where I have either one household only or rotate between a small number of 3-4, usually part of the same family. In those saved games, where I don't delete the premades I don't really bother adding new households that I will not play or not part of the rotation. But if I delete all of the premades I prefer to add extra households into houses along with my played one even though I don't play them, so my household has someone to befriend and visit and even shop for potential spouces. I don't spend a lot of time decorating or furnishing their houses or lots as I either use the furnished houses already in game or download from the gallery.
This is something that MCCC allows to happen as one of its sort of hidden features, in an attempt to reduce townie generation. But in an unmodded game, it's not supposed to happen and if you house any of your restaurant staff they would immediately lose their jobs.
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