So... After all I decided to go brutally - I backed up the whole hood and started deleting without an aid of any special tools. First I deleted some 250 sims with the same minute of creation. When I loaded the game, nothing important seemed to be missing, but now I could actually see them! Whooo, that was dreadfull! In front of my unfortunate house there were rows of people! All old and wearing something red... were those really repairmen? They looked more like nanies.

Anyways... I shut down again and now I deleted some 70 more, created in a minute before those 250 were. I left only one - it was larger file than the others so I didn't touch it. Back in the game, there were only 4 extra NPC now. One delivery boy and three of those old red guys. I left the house, moved family out, destroyed the lot, placed the new one and moved in. I checked just briefly... only built the new house and played for a while: seems to be working allright.

So I guess this is a way too. Risky, perhaps, but I have still my backup and I was positive no one interacted with that herd. Thanks for hints anyway...

BTW, do you happen to know: if those delivery persons keep appearing every day in front of my door and then they wonder off to reapear the other day again... are they generated like new characters, or do they just "take turns?"

Exactly. That's how I understand it now. I will have to fix the problem and then do the cleaning up. I have Uni only and I just used official patch. So, can someone hint me how to correct the repairman problem?

(Sheesh, I DIDN'T even want to hire any, but good ole Mama who has the best mechanical skill in the family, kept on getting electrocuted on that stupid thrash compactor and when I insisted, she was killed! Reaper was a nice guy to deal with and I could keep her alive, but I sort of lost nerves and hired a professional. Here's what I get for being so soft!)

Okay, okay... so I probably need some missing portal bug fix and then I will try deleting with SimPE. I quess it would be unwise to simply manually erase all character files dated with that same fatefull day? Even if I copied them somewhere else for backup? (Just asking!) I think since no actual repairman arrived, there certainly should be no memory of him.

BTW, how about that delivery persona hanging around my door? Official patch won't handle this, or will it? Not that I mind that much, but he/she keeps on reading my newspaper and leaving it at undesirable places.

Wife of Mokuren Sim

Ouch! That's right! I already had the problem there with stuck delivery person, who kept reappearing and I could never get the delivery. And now I hired a repairman! Oh yes, he was to come "first thing in the morning" but somehow... I think it wasn't THAT early and he should have been there by now. So it must be it.

Geeez... so if I get it right, now I have some 335 repairmen somewhere in void? So what exactly should I do?

Wife of Mokuren Sim

I know this all has been probably already discussed, so I'm sorry if I repeat some old stuff, but please, I need some quick summary.

I was following some of that talk about overpopulated neighbourhoods and so I checked my own. I have 816 character files, and 335 characters appeared out of the blue in one single day! (In two single minutes, to be correct). I suspect it has something to do with that unfortunate Sim, whom I sent to University, put into a lot and then tried to play with the rest of her family, only to find out that I couldn't, because it slowed down. Now... could someone please explain the following:

1. How could this happen? (Like what's that 335 new files about)
2. Are they permanent? (Quite afraid they are... after what I've heard so far)
3. What can I do? (I went so far as actually downloading SimPE, but I haven't touched it yet)

You know, people, I'm starting to feel very uneasy about this, since I've never ever considered a possibility of losing any hoods. I am very fond of my Sims and I tend to keep most of them immortal while having some others just for "breeding", because I really enjoy bringing up children. Now I feel really mistreated, cause yeah - I share one hood with my partner and we may have some good 150 Sims or perhaps a bit more - but isn't that still far from 816? Even if I count in all those ugly townies and dormies and whoever they are.

I'm looking for some solution that will do the least possible damage. Not much enthusiastic about using too much patches or hacks. Thanks to whoever will help.

Wife of Mokuren Sim

Oh thanks, thanks alot! My three poor Sims just made their semester. I should have tried the patch right away and not ask stupid questions, but well... when I read the list of benefits, the final exam bug seemed to be not included.

Now I'm just being annoyed with that censore grid that reappeared, but I quess nudity patch will disable it again.

So thanks again!

Wife of the Mokuren Sim

Thanks, we will try.
Pity it cures the sudden death syndrome during pregnancy... thought it was quite realistic.

Okay, just to make sure I'm not misunderstood...

I haven't used any patches yet. I have university for quite some time now and it never happened before. What exactly happened:

From one of my houses, Sim applied for university. She left the house. I continued playing her familly house. Then I went to the university neighborhood and moved the girl into her own house there. This lot was already occupied several times before. This time, there was still one girl left. I added this new girl. Then I went back to play her familly house and it was slowed down to the point of being unplayable (1 minute of simtime equaled to several realtime minutes). Frustrated, I got back to this new girl in the university, I added her brother to the same lot and tried to play. It went fine. Until final exams, when all three sims missed them, althought I was sure I sent them in time. I found out that after sending them, they kept reappearing after an hour or so, even if I sent them again and again.

Now. I know this problem's been talked before and there was some patch or hack for this but I can't find any! So what can I do?


The Wife of Mokuren Sim

Hello!

Sorry for bringing this old stuff again, but I find myself quite at loss...
This bug appeared all of sudden in one of my university households (had no problems like that before) and keeps... well, bugging me.
I was searching for a patch made by Twojeffs, but seems all links are broken and the file is nowhere to be found. I noticed Twojeffs said this bug was made 'obsolete' by Uni, but cannot make any sense out of it. What am I supposed to do?
Hope I do not sound too demented, I mean - I'm not a native English speaker, so perhaps I'm just missing some critical point there...