Too Many Homeless Sims
Posted: March 13th, 2017, 1:02 am
While waiting for my son to come and repair my computer, I am playing on my laptop. It's not a gaming laptop, but it can handle the game OK so long as there isn't to much content. I only have the base game, Generations, and Ambitions installed, with some of my store content, but no SP's or store worlds except Hidden Springs. I'm using DE, Dreamer, ET, Go Here, MC with cheats, integration, and progression, Mover, No CD, Once Read, OW Porter, Portrait Panel, Register, Relativity, Retuner, Sleep Freedom, SP with career, extra, money, population, and relationship, Tagger, Woohooer with scoring, and Written Word, as well as a few mods from other sources. I'm playing in Twinbrook, with a stylist married to a sim in the business career.
I have my SP settings pretty much the same as I use normally, on my computer. But my town is totally overrun with homeless sims. I ran the population demographics with MC, and found that there are 378 households with 354 homeless sims and 71 residents. Most of these homeless sims are employed in the rabbithole careers, and there are are so many sims in every career, it's very difficult to find the rabbithole map tags when they're all at work. My sim in the business career has at least 10 coworkers, maybe more, with another 10 or more in the journalism career in the same building. The lag is so bad, my game is barely playable.
I saved my game and T/A'd the entire homelss non-service population, which definitely improved the situation, except that my stylist now has no coworkers at the salon. I know the game will take care of that, but I'm afraid it's also going to flood the town with homeless sims again.
I have never had this happen before. With only 2 EP's many of the settings I normally use aren't relevant, and this is only a quickie, temporary game, until my computer is working again, so I didn't go through all the settings as carefully and thoroughly as I do in my “real” games. Can someone please suggest what I might do to prevent this from happening again?
I have my SP settings pretty much the same as I use normally, on my computer. But my town is totally overrun with homeless sims. I ran the population demographics with MC, and found that there are 378 households with 354 homeless sims and 71 residents. Most of these homeless sims are employed in the rabbithole careers, and there are are so many sims in every career, it's very difficult to find the rabbithole map tags when they're all at work. My sim in the business career has at least 10 coworkers, maybe more, with another 10 or more in the journalism career in the same building. The lag is so bad, my game is barely playable.
I saved my game and T/A'd the entire homelss non-service population, which definitely improved the situation, except that my stylist now has no coworkers at the salon. I know the game will take care of that, but I'm afraid it's also going to flood the town with homeless sims again.
I have never had this happen before. With only 2 EP's many of the settings I normally use aren't relevant, and this is only a quickie, temporary game, until my computer is working again, so I didn't go through all the settings as carefully and thoroughly as I do in my “real” games. Can someone please suggest what I might do to prevent this from happening again?