Firstly, I have all expansions up to AL. I have Pescado's hacks for no townie regen, no stray regen, no Secret Society respawn and his anti-redundancy hack. I'm creating a new neighborhood using the default templates with one shopping district, one downtown, one uni hood and two vacation hoods. I've not "played" the hoods at all. I'm just building houses and decorating the hoods. No custom sims have been created. When I checked the Character folder, it lists 635 character files
. I opened the neighborhood in SimPe and it only shows 60 sims and they're all stray pets. The remaining 575 are all labeled "unknown". Also when I open the neighborhood, SimPe spits out a warning that duplicate sims have been found and could cause gameplay problems. The duplicate sims SimPe is referring to are the "unknowns" who all have the same Guid (0x00000000) and inst (0x0000). When I open the Character Folder with Clean Installer, it shows no duplicates and every sim has a name. What in blue blazes are all these character files? It takes forever to load the neighborhood, because the game has to read all those files. I was advised on another forum site to just delete the character files, but I an hesitant to do that because it can cause the neighborhood to go all wonky and crash the game. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to stop this Eaxis nonsense and get rid of all those extra character files clogging up my game.