babacon88 wrote: ↑

March 3rd, 2021, 11:31 am

Is there anyway I can mark a sim or so when the purge happens the other sims would get deleted instead?

Unfortunately no.

Sara_Darkees wrote: ↑

March 3rd, 2021, 6:36 pm

Instead of a Register, I use a Retuner to adjust the number of NPCs. You will find the required string in the XML list, and next there will be something like Sims3. Gameplay.Services. This list will contain all the possible npc in the game, and under each category there is another subcategory. So search somewhere in there until you find the string responsible for their number. I also don't like it when someone goes missing from my town. But for this to work, you need to first adjust all the settings of the Retuner, and only then add the Register to the game.

I didn't mention this because there's no guarantee that Retuner's settings will be applied before Register does it's clean up. They both happen around the same time and it may be random which happens first. The OP can try it but it may or may not work. A tuning mod is more reliable in this case.

Chain_Reaction wrote: ↑

March 3rd, 2021, 7:51 pm

I didn't mention this because there's no guarantee that Retuner's settings will be applied before Register does it's clean up.

The Register is triggered immediately after loading the game. That's why need to first configure the necessary values through the Retuner, and then add the Register to the game. At least, this is the scheme that works in all my games. Although, I've always wondered which settings would win if even under this scheme both of these mods would specify different values. Will there be a conflict?

Sara_Darkees, I think what Chain was saying was that Register isn't applying its own values, it's reading them as they already exist. So if it does its cleanup run before Retuner's settings have loaded, it will be using the game's own default values even though Retuner will later apply new values.

I seem to remember something about Retuner loading after everything else precisely so it can pick up the settings from any other tuning mods. So it "wins," in that its settings are applied over the top and not adjusted afterwards. So there's no conflict, exactly, just one value or set of values overrides any others.