Moving to a new neighborhood? Hi Can I make a family move to another neighbourhood? ie one I create myself...
Yes, you can. But once you move a family all family members will lose friends, and all awards aspiration and job. if change neighborhoods lose job as well. So YES but only if u REALLY want to!:surprised:
You can make a family move to another neighborhood, but they have to take their entire house lot with them. And when they move, they will lose their connection (relationships) to the former neighborhood. To move a family (very popular with people moving the Goth family to Strangetown to look for Bella), you go to the Move to Lots and Houses bin button. Click the lot you want to move to the other neighborhood and click it to move it to the occupied house bin. (A dialog should open asking you if you are sure you want to move that lot. Click yes to to complete the move to the bin.) (Page 9 and 10 of your game manual talks about this in more detail.) Then go to the neighborhood you want that house to occupy. Highlight the occupied house in the bin, then place it where you want it in the neighborhood. Voila! Family moved! They are now free to start making friends in the new neighborhood.
I tried this. I moved several of my favorite families to a custom neighborhood. They lost ties with anyone who DID NOT move to the new neighborhood. Anyone who moved with them kept the ties.
That's not quite true: What happens is that it APPEARS to keep ties. However, what ACTUALLY happens is that it creates a spam of cloned character "stubs" that clog up your neighborhood character folder and cause your game to misbehave eventually. Furthermore, sims won't recognize their relatives at all. This is because the sims aren't actually related to each other, they're related to their character stubs, which are duplicated. So if you have families A, B, C, and D, and you move them one by one to a new neighborhood, every relative of every member of A, B, C, and D will be replicated either in full or as a stub for every family moved. If your entire neighborhood is interrelated, you have just effectively increased the number of sims in your neighborhood by that exponential quantity. Very Bad. Never do this.
They will maintain the relationships within the people who have moved, but not with anyone left in the old neighborhood.
He probably has a point about this being bad, because after about a month of heavy gameplay this neighborhood crashed, and wound up deleting it and going back to the old nieghborhood, anyway. And, yes, he warned me back then, too.
darn I had a long post regarding this and lost it. Blah Anyway, What JMP says is absolutely true, as always. I tried to do the above method once and took a peek at the resulting neighbourhood file. What a MESS!!. What happens when you transfer families is that every single sim they ever were in contact with will included in the transfer. So if, for example 15 of your sims know the nanny, so you will have 15 copies of a ghost nanny. Your sim's memory will be choked with dangling memories. It's just a nasty nasty mess. The only way that I know of to transfer some characters cleanly, is to delete every single memory that has to do with non family-members and then package the file. Even then, some ghost file are sometimes included. So I clean them out with clean pack installer and import the family to a new game. Then I clean out their memories again, and export them again until I no longer get extra characters I don't want. Considering what a PITA that is, I don't do it very often. What was Maxis thinking??? They really need to look into this problem. The worse part is that unless you actually take a look at your neighbourhood file with SimPE, you'll never realize the extent of the mess this creates, and you won't understand why your game crashes down the line.
i did contact Ea about The Sims and asked them why they relesed it when it wasent finished, and they told me it was finished... i just hate it when somthing inportant is missing in a game, i wish they would get their finger out and do it right for ones....
They probably didn't think people would want to move basically half the homes in their neighborhood to another neighborhood. So they (probably) didn't think this was such a big deal.
