800 characters in my neighborhood!

[LouieLoui]

After digging some more to try and find out what's going on in my game, I ran across this post at the Sims official site.  http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=item.189,root.1,item.43,item.104,item.41,item.127,item.23&threadID=cb151505c1575dfa4fc5ab43f80dcba9&directoryID=189&startRow=1

I checked my neighborhood where I had been playing, and thus sent one of my families on vacation to all three places (one they were forced to go a second time as the shuttle screwed up and made them go on vacation again right after they returned home).  Sure enough, I have almost 800 characters in that neighborhood.  The others have around 200-400 give or take.  

So now I'm definitely wondering if this is the problem given it had been running completely fine until yesterday.

[Sam the T-man]

Yikes! :shock: On the plus side though, I've been reading through the thread on MATY that was linked to that post, and from what I gather on there, Pescado's working on a fix for that. Hopefully it won't be too long

[Jyl22075]

I have over 800 characters in my neighborhood as well. Is it safe to delete some of the extra tour guides?

[Sam the T-man]

There's a sticky in BV Help about this - MissDoh has very nicely offered to keep us updated on the progress of this fix

[Mihura]

Hi all

I'm just come back from the game. I have played with an old neighborhood with a lot of stories and characters. 1 vacation (Twikki Island) for now and 1899 characters. With a little tour (only 1st day) in 3 Lakes and there is now 1904 characters. Arf 5 new characters ?
It's maybe because they haven't visited all the lots and haven't met all npc, I don't know...

If this mass of npc block the game in any case, I hope too there will be a fix.

[Tomkat]

Geez, thats so unnecessary!  I freak out a little with every EP and all the 100s of new NPCs that come with them... so I use the "clean neighbourhood" method, along with MATY's hack to stop them spawning.  This is why I dont mind getting EPs later on (BV releases online tomorrow where I live).

I might wait until next week before getting it, just so all the fixes are available.  
Why the developers insist on bombarding us with so many of their freaks and misfits is beyond comprehension.

[ancienthighway]

The fix has been made.  Follow the link in MissDoh's thread.

[Annette1955]

I was suprised and dismayed to find I have 846 sims in my Strangetown. As this is a relatively new game there are only 3 born in game children and one CAS sim made to test BV. 24 are tour guides, but even so there are an awful lot of Maxian sims running around somewhere!
Apparently this number is not the kiss of death it was pre NL, so with the MATY fix in place I shall just continue on. Maybe one day my hood will last long enough to give Vidcund grandchildren.  Though probably not lol

[tragedymcneil]

before bv i had over 1000 characters, and by the time i was about to install bv i probably had 1500 since last time i check was a month or two ago and my game ran perfectly before and after i installed bv.