When do new families move in?

[FlamingoKicker]

I have lots of empty lots but the game doesn't seem to want to move new sims into the houses.  My sims meet new acquaintances at work or at school but shouldn't the game pop those sims into one of these empty houses and make them full-fledged members of town?

All it does is occasionally move existing sims around from houses to houses (except the ones I have made Sacred...thanks for that...was going mad with the game uprooting my favorite families).

Also, on a slightly different note:   Sims now accomplish wishes but the icons don't disappear.  For instance, they have a desire to Fish and I save that into one of their Wish slots.  Then they go fishing and they get the points but the icon doesn't go away so I can put a new wish in it's place.

[coconnor]

Also, on a slightly different note:   Sims now accomplish wishes but the icons don't disappear.  For instance, they have a desire to Fish and I save that into one of their Wish slots.  Then they go fishing and they get the points but the icon doesn't go away so I can put a new wish in it's place.

With debug commands enabled (in the AwesomeMod config file), type "resetallwants" into the console command line box (brought up by pressing Ctrl + Shift + C).

[J. M. Pescado]

Based on what he describes, he might be using EAxis Storymode, which does none of those things.

[dilitru]

This may sound kinda obvious, but are you sure that you have cheap houses with beds and a fridge? Without those thing Sims will not inhabit the house. Make sure it's cheap (below 15k is the best) so that starting families can move in.