Names

[holisox]

i don't know if this has been posted on here before, but i've been thinking about the sims we're not playing with...when they have kids i hope they won't name them something strange like goopy

[yummybunny]

They said that on TS2, their names were based off names of people on the development team.  So Goopy was someone's first name, and his last name came from someone else.  They may do this for the townies too in this game.  It's shocking, like who's name is Goopy, but he may be foreign or something.

[CountryGal4132]

I don't mind the strange names as long as there are some normal ones as well.  If there's a good mix then it won't really bother me.

[Majick]

I think the stranger names are pretty cool.  Although, I tend to use the Tombstone of L&D to change it, lol

Like with my Summerstonde family, Mufafa or whatever his name was (Generation 2's husband) I renamed Michael lol

[SimsCandy_Sims_4LIFE]

yea the names didn't bother me..as long as I didn't kiss..woohoo or married none of them...lol...and most of the computers were ugly..lol..they need to make sum good looking sims..if I ever married one...lol

[Majick]

I like to make Sims, than go onto a lot and turn them into townies.  So that I have good looking townies in my 'hoods.

I'll make 2-3 sims at a time, then make them townies.  Go back, make 2-3 more sims, and repeat.  That way I get a TON of good-looking Townies for my sims to befriend/kiss/marry, etc.

[SimsCandy_Sims_4LIFE]

me tooo..I really wished that they had an extra nighborhood for th game..cuz I can make my own town full goodluckn townies..but yea..I do the same that you do majik

[SimsCandy_Sims_4LIFE]

but you know wat I hated..creating more people as townies...and building their homes like I really gone play with themm..I usually put a phone and a computer in their house and that's it..but on the sims 3..Ima be more serious...since we can visit everyone house...I can't wait now

[yummybunny]

What I would do, since I always played TS2 on my old computer:  I would use The Summoner.  It summons all sims you'd made...townies, created sims in houses, NPCs, and Sim Bin sims.  I would just make potential mates, then when it's time for my sim to marry, summon them, build up the relationship, summon them again, and you know...until I can finally propose to them.

It makes good stories...it helps...making certain sims come whenever you want them to. That's how you don't have to wait for certain townies to walk by or see them on a community lot just to meet them so you can talk to them.

My new computer is much better.  My TS2 is almost like a seamless neighborhood it loads the game in less than a minute and about 15-20 seconds to load a community lot.  I usually don't mind going places to try to meet certain sims or too lazy to even go out my house anymore.  But I still use the summoner...it is useful for making great stories.

[The Adam Diamond]

The main problem with the townies with the weird names is that they're based off of pleasantview templates, so you'll always get the same sims in whatever neighbourhood you make. (I used empty templates to avoid this in the sims 2)

If neighourhoods are seamless (I don't mean the lots, I mean the actualy whole neighbourhoods) which I highly doubt they will (see my neighbourhood boundaries thread, that nobody seemed to take interest in, even though I thought I touched on a complelling subject) then they need to make it so that all sims aren't from templates, or at least not the same template, or there will be copies of the same sim all around the sims world.

But that's just whythere's always a goopy in the neighbourhood. If they don't use templates (which i'm sure they will do) they either need to cut goopy out, or create a wider range of names. (I solve dthat problem too, there's a number of name modifications on the sims too, which expand the amount of names the game can choose from for townies)