Transfering sims to new neighborhoods?
~Iris~:
Hello. I remember reading something about this a while back (just don't remember where) and want to know if it is possible to move sims from one neighborhood (say Pleasantview) to another (Veronaville or custom). If so, how would I go about doing this? Thanks.
morgan:
I believe you have to move your family out of their house so they are in the bin, and I believe they are listed as potential in all the neighbourhoods.
Errm.....I'm probably not making myself very clear there.
Sleepycat:
you can move their lot to the occupied lot bin and it will then be available in the occupied lotbin in the other hoods but moving sims between hoods is a very bad thing to do because Maxis/EA didn't do it right - you end up with a lot of junk character files that end up causing all kinds of problems.
as an example
if you have 5 sims on the lot you wish to move and those 5 sims have met 5 sims each (dosen't matter if they are the same 5 sims) you will end up with 25 junk character files in the new hood...
If you packaged the occupied lot to a file and install it with clean installer you can clean it out of the tag along character files and then you can use SimPE to clean up the memories of your sims. It's a pain in the butt but it's the only safe way to move sims between hoods.
BeosBoxBoy:
Iris - as other mention above, you would need to export the lot with sims still on it to a file by clicking the * on the pop-up for the lot in the neighbourhood view.
This file would then be located in the PackagedLots folder:
My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\PackagedLots
when you export a lot with Sims on it, the memories are not properly terminated or deleted by the game. You would need SimPE to resolve this problem, the method is detailed in this sticky:
How do I delete the memories of a Sim?
It isn't easy or fool-proof, and has lots of room for human error to creep in and spoil the fun.
ancienthighway:
Wouldn't using SimPE to extract the sim, then BS to package it wipe memories? You could always use CAS and InSim to set family relationships back to what they were.
Follow this tutorial.
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