After installing the Master Controller mod, I noticed that there were a busload of people who were homeless. One of them happened to be the girlfriend (now-ex) of one of my sims. The "Try for Baby" option was always greyed out due to too many people being in that Sim's household. So I followed her home and she disappeared inside of a supermarket.
After seeing a few other people do this and checking it out in City Hall, I got a bunch of homes and apartments from the exchange and made them community lots. Do you guys think that the "homeless" sims will make it their home?
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But you can use MasterController's Add Sim to add them to a house, empty or otherwise, and try to make them full-fledged residents. You might want to do a MC > Sim > Basic > Family Tree on them first to see if they have any relatives who should be moved in at the same time -- sometimes entire families are homeless.
But the game will keep spawning new NPCs as it thinks it needs them. Overwatch can remove the homeless from your town each night and Register can be used to specify who gets placed into the role and service slots if you want that level of control. (those are two other NRaas mods)
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I made an apartment from scratch and I went to see my next door neighbor and the call box had almost 100 names on it. All where homeless Sims.
Right -- there is something in the game called an "NPC household" that your otherwise homeless sims belong to. Again, those are your town's role and service sims which would include babysitters, newspaper deliverers, bartenders, cash register attendants, non-resident Showtime performers, stray animals, etc. If you have Apartments, the game will start stowing them there but you can't visit such an apartment as it's off limits to the player. And there really shouldn't be a living room with 100 sims milling about waiting until it's time to go to work.
But what you can do, if you find an NPC that you like, is use NRaas MC to move them into a proper home and NRaas Register to disengage them from their role/service assignment so they can be a regular full-fledged sim.
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I visit often with my regular household, and they've accustomed to the change rather nicely. Sometimes one of my sims will go over there and make dinner for everyone. There are so many in there that it's like a party every night.
Just kidding, of course such sims are provided by the game solely for the amusement and convenience of the ones you actually play and EA never really intended for us to mess around with them as some of us like to do.
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Yes - I noticed after I opened the Chateau La Di-dah Nectary in my town that the game assigned Sims - playable Sims I had placed in a home with their kids from my bin - on the register, and that they essentially NEVER LEAVE. Makes it hard to invite them places. First it was the one Sim, and last time I played it had changed to being his longtime boyfriend/now hubby.
For service Sims, NPC apartments at least give them the illusion of a place to stay. I once struck up a romantic relationship with the town burglar, who lived in one of the fake apartments in my building, after he broke into my Sim's deluxe art deco penthouse.
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