Register and confusion
Posted: December 30th, 2016, 11:54 pm
Hi there! Register is my most recently-installed Nraas mod and I've never quite understood it well enough to use it properly. I'm hoping someone will be able to shed some light on the issues I've been having, as well as help me to find a solution.
I initially installed Register because I wanted absolutely NO immigration in my game. I didn't want people moving in at all. This was due to the fact that families of sims were moving into my town autonomously and taking up all the good housing. After some experimentation I realised setting the "Immigration Gauge" in Story Progression to 1000 stopped this type of immigration, all for the price of a pesky notification about immigration pressure popping up a couple times a sim day (I'm still trying to find out how to stop this notification coming up! Does it have something to do with what stories I want to show up? If anyone knows, please let me know).
At the time I blindly installed Register not realising it was for role and service sims specifically. However, I am currently populating a world from scratch that has a specific story line and Register has become highly needed. The only sims that matter are the residents of the town, who are all sims I've made.
Before Register, the only people I saw out were residents of the town. Now, I see sims that obviously look randomised enough to be service sims out and about. I can't tell what their role is as they are in normal clothes, so I get quite puzzled trying to figure out if these sims are maids, police officers, etc. However, I can tell who paparazzi are, and they are 100% not needed as there is no celebrity system present in my town.
Furthermore, I'd like to create my own sims to be service and role sims, but in the sense that they join the NPC pool and are NOT residents of the town. The only exception is one of my own sims who I'd like to be a bartender. However, as I am playing in a rotation, when he becomes active how will he go about his job? Will he drop everything at a specific time and tend to the bar? How does this work?
So, this all being said, here are the general questions present in this post:
1. How can I stop role and service sims from walking around town? I just want them to tend to their role/service and then disappear into their hidden NPC household until they are needed again. The only sims I want to see out are residents of the town.
2. How do I stop paparazzi? There are no celebrities in town so they are not needed.
3. Is it possible to create my own NPCs (such as maids, babysitters, etc.) that are not residents of the town? This is just so my role/service sims look the way I want.
4. If my active sim is a bartender, how will they go about doing their job?
And a hidden question > (5.) Can teens be bartenders and still go to school?
Hopefully my questions aren't too demanding. I'm just a bit confused with Register, though I know it's a great mod that I now have usage for! I genuinely appreciate any advice and help given to me. Thanks!
I initially installed Register because I wanted absolutely NO immigration in my game. I didn't want people moving in at all. This was due to the fact that families of sims were moving into my town autonomously and taking up all the good housing. After some experimentation I realised setting the "Immigration Gauge" in Story Progression to 1000 stopped this type of immigration, all for the price of a pesky notification about immigration pressure popping up a couple times a sim day (I'm still trying to find out how to stop this notification coming up! Does it have something to do with what stories I want to show up? If anyone knows, please let me know).
At the time I blindly installed Register not realising it was for role and service sims specifically. However, I am currently populating a world from scratch that has a specific story line and Register has become highly needed. The only sims that matter are the residents of the town, who are all sims I've made.
Before Register, the only people I saw out were residents of the town. Now, I see sims that obviously look randomised enough to be service sims out and about. I can't tell what their role is as they are in normal clothes, so I get quite puzzled trying to figure out if these sims are maids, police officers, etc. However, I can tell who paparazzi are, and they are 100% not needed as there is no celebrity system present in my town.
Furthermore, I'd like to create my own sims to be service and role sims, but in the sense that they join the NPC pool and are NOT residents of the town. The only exception is one of my own sims who I'd like to be a bartender. However, as I am playing in a rotation, when he becomes active how will he go about his job? Will he drop everything at a specific time and tend to the bar? How does this work?
So, this all being said, here are the general questions present in this post:
1. How can I stop role and service sims from walking around town? I just want them to tend to their role/service and then disappear into their hidden NPC household until they are needed again. The only sims I want to see out are residents of the town.
2. How do I stop paparazzi? There are no celebrities in town so they are not needed.
3. Is it possible to create my own NPCs (such as maids, babysitters, etc.) that are not residents of the town? This is just so my role/service sims look the way I want.
4. If my active sim is a bartender, how will they go about doing their job?
And a hidden question > (5.) Can teens be bartenders and still go to school?
Hopefully my questions aren't too demanding. I'm just a bit confused with Register, though I know it's a great mod that I now have usage for! I genuinely appreciate any advice and help given to me. Thanks!