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