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I know there is a cheat to turn playable characters into townies.  Did it come with OFB? I can't find the syntax for it anywhere.  What do I need to type in?

There is a tutorial for this on this forum, found here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,4090.0.html

That's far too complicated.  All I want to do is make a few sims into townies so they'll be available in the employee pool (since they have useful skills) but won't take up room in my neighborhood.  I have the OFB patch.  I'm not deleting anybody.  I thought I had read about a cheat to turn sims into townies, but I'm not interested if it requires downloading a hack.

I think Inge's Shrub allows you to make townies out of sims, you'll find the latest version here (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.net/smf/index.php?topic=2757.0).  Alternatively, I think you can change which family a sim is in using SimPE but I'm not certain how to do it exactly since I haven't used it in a long time.

Aha!  It was the NPC and Townie Generator I was looking for.  I couldn't find it because I didn't realize it was a boolprop item, and I'm not very good at skimming tutorials so I got distracted by the deleting and the hacks.  But thanks! Eventually I figured it out.  It's probably a good idea to ask, is there any reason I should not use this particular cheat?

Because cheats can mess up your game? Or is that mods? I keep forgetting. Immy, do you remember?

Hax r bad!! Woolprop makes game go 'splodie!

Daephene, the cheat will not mess up your game. Most of the hacks on this site will make your game less likely to explode, and the rest will improve it in various ways. There are other hacks not of this site, even, that work quite nicely. It sounds like you've been listening to people on the Sims 2 BBS. This is not recommended.

No, I use a few hacks from here, it's just that I don't want very many.  I don't like having many downloads in general, because of load time and the complications of figuring out compatibiltity every time I get a new EP or downlaod a patch.

I actually trust it less as a cheat than I would if it were by Pescado or something, cause I was one of the people with the swarm of uni bugs so my faith in Maxis to make something that works isn't that strong.  I fought the "boolprop is evil" on the bbs during the pre-patch uni days, because it could effectively be used to fix the missed final exam bug, but I still like to hear from someone who has used it for a particular purpose first. I discovered a feature on the Tombstone of L&D called "Age Baby" which in fact does nothing of the sort and randomly created sims I didn't want on my lot, so I have learned not to assume that it will do what the pie menu says.

Incidentally is there a hack or cheat out there that will make my babies age if they don't get to a birthday cake before 6pm? Sometimes it takes over 12 hours, because the parents jump out of the action and just hold the kid instead.  I think forcing an error on the baby and resetting worked, but I'm not entiely sure it didn't just reach the point where the interaction randomly worked on its own.

use the baby controller!

If a baby seems to be stuck in an age transition, you can try getting the adult to put it down on the floor (not in a crib!).
This usually works for me, the adult will pick it up again, and bang its head on the ceiling to turn it into a toddler.

Unless something has changed with OFB you can use the tombstone of L & D AGE BABY cheat. All caps, the other two age baby cheats import townies into your family. Make sure your baby is not tired, hungry, or in need of a diaper change and is not in a highchair or crib when you age them.

I'll try those, thanks!  I noticed there were three Age Baby cheats, but I think the baby was in the crib when I tried them, so that must be why the only one that actually ages the baby didn't work.  I might try the floor first though, as it's less complicated if it works.  Though most of my sims are having birthday parties these days so I can get party pictures for their albums, it's nice not to have to use the cake every single time.

I would just use the Family Tree in Insimenator and Remove As Townie.