Hi guys,

Thank you gazania and miros1 for your replies!
I did go about investigating and trying to find a solution myself to the missing sims problem, and only didn’t post earlier as I didn’t want to double post.

So my questions were:
1) Can I get the missing sims back? If so, how so?

Basically I got them back by deleteing the glitched neighbourhood and re-installing from my most recent back-up before I installed uni and nightlife and the missing sims were still in this neighbourhood.

I also installed SimPE which I hadn’t previously used before and used it to export / package a few of my favourite sims (including the one that had gone missing) into my SavedSims folder and so they appear in the Sim Bin in CAS now.

From my research which basically involved a lot of scouring of threads on MATY and MTS – once a sim disappears because of a glitched neighbourhood – theres little you can do to get them back. That’s why it’s always good to back up your game.

2) Can I get rid of townies and NPC's not needed in this neighbourhood without restarting from scratch?

Not too sure – from what I’ve read once a Sim exists and interacts with other sims – memories are created and thus deleting them from the game is a VERY BAD IDEA as it confuses the game with “unknown” sims and associated memories.

So in other words if you establish a neighbourhood with NPC’s a townies spawning freely once they are there, they can not be deleted.

3) Could you recommend which hacks/mods might decrease townie/NPC spawnage for Night Life?

So I went to:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/
And followed this thread:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,10798.0.html
Which can also be located by using a search engine and searching for “Sims 2 Clean Neighbourhood Templates”

And went here:
 
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/samples/ffs/index.php?dir=nl%2Fhacks%2F

and downloaded and installed:
•   Anti redundancy
•   No townie regen
•   No stray respawn
•   No SS respawn* [You can get these 4 hacks from the FFS Hack Directory]
•   No dormie regen* [You can only get this one from the DC]

As recommended in the thread. I’ve started a new neighbourhood now totally Townie free and with minimal NPC’s. It’s grand.

4) Once a neighbourhood is glitched is it fixable? Or should I just re-install with my back-ups?

I’d still like to know the answer to this one. From everywhere I read – on here and other sims sites once a neighbourhood starts becoming really over-populated and glitchy it’s pretty well un-fixable and it’s best to restart it from an earlier back-up or restart an new neighbourhood completely.

Thanks again for the replies.
I hope this info helps others with overly-populated glitched neighbourhoods.

Cheers
kio

Hey there!

Someone replied yaaaaaay!!! *hugs*

My fav scene = when Dorothy first meets the scarecrow or the horse of a different colour.
My fav character would be the scarecrow.

Anyhoo nice to meet you and see you around the site!

  kio

Hi there,

Long time simmer and lurker - newish poster here.
So I've had a look around to try and fix this one myself - but before I proceed just wondering if you guys have any advice or wisdom you could pass on.

Basically I have a well populated custom neighbourhood - like 40+ families and then I recently installed University and Night Life and then a few glitches popped up - for example on a custom 1-tile house the NPC gardener respawned repeatedly.

Then I go to play an old family - my original self sim (all maxis content on her) who was preggo with her 1st bub too and the house is totally empty! For sale infact. The furniture is still all there and even some other sims who were visiting at the time are still there but my sim = GONE! It's not quite the $Subject glitch because I went to other sims and checked there memories and her thumbnail can still be seen. But then other whole familes are missing but thier home and family portrait are still accessible.

So my problem is missing sims.
My theory is my new install of uni and night life generated too many NPC's and townies and I've reached / gone over the neighbourhoods population limit causing glitches.

So my questions are:
1) Can I get the missing sims back? If so, how so?
2) Can I get rid of townies and NPC's not needed in this neighbourhood without restarting from scratch?

From what I've read J M Pescado has some fixes at MATY that decrease townies and NPC's

3) Could you recommend which hacks/mods might decrease townie/NPC spawnage for Night Life?
4) Once a neighbourhood is glitched is it fixable? Or should I just re-install with my back-ups?

Sorry for the book of a post and
Many many thanks in advance!

  kio

Hi Everybody,

I've been lurking about here and MTS for ages but haven't previously posted.
I'm a serial down-loader and cereal lurker (guard your coco-pops) and obviously a sim-a-holic.
And I reach out to the community now for pretty selfish reasons - I may have killed my neighbourhood! 
So I implore you - if your reading this and know a thing or two about over-filled neighbourhoods that start glitching please reply to my post in the help section... if you help me fix my game I promise you will get a big internet hug from me*

Now shameless begging aside, let me introduce myself.
kio's my name which is an acronym for my original log-in and real life name kelly_in_oz.
My name is really Kelly and I'm really in Oz. Being Australia.
But to me Oz is also a reference to one of my favourite books/movies/concepts of all time as well. The wizard of oz.
I <3 old movies. I love new movies too. I love my two Cavelier King Charles Spaniels - Rupert and Tilly.

So yeah, nice to meet you!

Sincerely,
kio

*May or may not be re-deemable in reality