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I recently downloaded and have been playing with SarahMK's clean templates for custom hoods. I really enjoy townie-free hoods and sub-hoods. Kudos to Argon and Sarah for making these for us less awesome folks. I have a quick question for anyone using these. Yes, this probably belongs with the thread where the templates are, but that thread is really bloated as it is.  :P My question is this, whenever I load a new hood and go into it for the first time I have hundreds of tree stumps or hundreds of those pink trees all over the neighborhood. WTF?  And it takes some time to go around and delete all of them. I don't mind it very much as I love having Townie free neighborhoods. My only question is... Does this mean these newly created hoods are corrupted? I really don't want a BFBVFS.  :P



Edit: I am assuming the game is spawning them as a replacement for the characters .

o.O I'd seriously love to hear the reasoning behind that conclusion.
It's almost as good as "Moar RAM caused moar twinz".

I doubt this is related to the clean templates. I think it might be related to other known weird tree problems.

To Gwill,  :P My assumption is based on the fact that I did not have this problem before, until I began using the clean templates. And we all know how this game likes to spawn odd things.... like tourist guides and such? I have no hack conflicts. I was asking if someone else had noticed the same thing, not to be poked with a stick, thank you.

To EllaTrue, yes, I have had problems with the roaming maple tree, too. To tell you the truth, it bugs the shit out of me to see them out in the middle of the street when they were  placed BEHIND a house. Another glitch from a company that specializes in glitches.

I use the "deleteAllCharacter" cheat at a neighbourhood mode to remove all sims out of such neighbourhood.
I'm unsure if it takes some editting in the neighbourhood package files, also?

Anyway, I separate Maxis neighbourhoods from new neighbourhoods now.

DeleteallCharacters does a half-assed job of actually doing what it claims to do. It leaves behind bits and pieces of the previous characters in the neighborhood file which will crap up your neighborhood in due time. More details can be found through the search option. Using empty templates gets around this problem so your neighborhoods can explode from entirely unrelated problems.  ;)

So, what are the criteria for an empty neighbourhood template?

It has the terrain, houses, and no sims of any type. :)  There's a bunch already made in Peasantry; you can find them scattered throughout this thread. (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,4306.0.html)

jsalemi,

Thanks... :)