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A townie walks in a buys something. That item goes into their inventory. At some point, that townies inventory is gonna be way way full.

I see a possible exploding game from townie backpacks too full, kinda like too many memories.... You think?

The Prima Guide says that only the last 3 items they buy are in their inventory.  I haven't tested this out in theory though.

The possibility of a townie backback emptier has been considered, but it is not believed to be a pressing issue at this time, given that a single sim would have to accumulate some 30000 inventory tokens before something went wrong.

... which is total crap.  I've checked inventories a few times and there have been several pages of things in there.  Not the usual stuff some townies have to give as gifts, but foods and other things they've bought which I remember selling to them.

Well the Prima Guide can only go by what Maxis tells them as they don't actually play the game before they write up the book. 

Well if Jm says it is not an issue at this point, I believe him.  :)

Will take a long time before 1 townie can even accumulate 30,000 items.

So the question is, can you delete them safely?

I've got only one townie left in the main 'hood. She seems to keep only the last 3 items of whatever she bought. Her memory panel in SimPE also shows 3 items only. All my sims currently only own home businesses though. I've been keeping the businesses alive by selling stuffs to the NPCs that came with NL too, and they also appear to only keep 3 items. :-\

How can someone report pages of itemsi n inventories and someone report only three stay?? I have no doubt that both are reporting exactly what their game is doing. The question is how can Maxis fuck it up sooo badly??? And hence, I'm kinda worried about what happens later on with townies after OFB has been played for months. This could be bad.

Same here.  Just married a long-time townie who has bought probably up to 100 items and when she moved in, she only had two cakes and a cell phone (aka, the last three items she bought).

By the way, Squinge over at insimenator.com did a mod that stop Sims from adding thing into their inventory and best of all, they won't spend the money for what they buy and it will not intefeer with the business making money.

It can be found here:  http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=8418

Ooh, thanks for the link, MissDoh.  I've been looking for something like this.  I like having my playable Sims as shoppers but hate that they don't get refunded in full (or at all, in the case of food).  That Squinge is becoming my new best friend.  ;D