Everything about auto-generated townies is godawful. here are my settings: { "DisableOutfitChange": 1, "DisableShifts. The unofficial subreddit for all things Sims 4!It gets rid of homeless sims. I do love that they try to add diversity to the randomly generated townies as well but they always end up ugly anyways. If anyone would like to know which mod this is exactly that I used here is the link:Non-playable characters (NPCs) are characters that cannot be played by the player from the game's start. On homeless sims, if these are of concern generally, we can control not having homeless Role Sims by not providing role giving objects in town like. OchitaSora • Long Time Player • 1 yr. Download the reduced townies mod and install it. Mod-wise, I have Life's Tragedies, Life's Drama, Extreme Violence, a lot of KawaiiStacie's mods, Wicked Whims(eve female body mesh, and noirdarksims male body mesh, along with the kijiko body replacement thingies, Wicked Perversions, Basemental Drugs, NoAutonomousHomework, and the latest public. since the patch, townies have been either a single young adult or a single elder. Hmm you might try getting Zerbu's More Cas Presets (I think currently V2) which adds more body & facial presets, they should be enabled for randoms by default, so it might help getting rid of your original problem. it's not possible to stop townie generation, as the game will always need to spawn more to fill specific roles, whenever Sims die or are culled if the population limit for the save file (850+) is reached. SionnachDorcha • 2 yr. The setting is located under “population settings”, and what it does is take sims from your tray or library to populate the town. Be careful to not include defaults and NO EA lashes mod or townies can appear without a face, but it's easy to fix too. You don't need to change the settings. 0 coins. Bartenders alone, there are over 90 of them, since every world has a bar, and lounges, and anywhere else with a bar object like nightclub, arts centre or restaurant. Most NPCs (also known by the community as “Townies”) that are randomly created by the game will pull content to create said NPCs from any and all content that is available to the game; including custom content unless it has coded “flags” inside the custom content saying: “don’t use this on NPCs”. It just keeps on and on and on. Select the option to make them whatever type of townie you want (there are a lot, look for the option that says 'make me. I don't want to piss on your parade, but although npcc and mccc is gold for keeping the townies in check to a certain degree (you can force the game to pick the spawning sims from your library and/or the gallery, for instance), no mod is currently able to stop the spawning altogether, even if all the jobs positions are already filled. I saw those settings but I rarely download sims, so I ignored them. P Club Here & Find out more about V. 584K subscribers in the thesims community. Minimize the number of townies being generated, possible to almost stop townie generation. In my current save I’m onto the second generation and I see LOADS of sims that have aged up, whether it be. In this video I will be showing ya'll how to Disallow CC for Randoms! Sis. ago. This means that, for example, Sims will no longer tend to put on various costumes (in surroundings where they don’t fit). She's one of my favourite sims from this challenge <3. Access to all updates of the mod. I assume the same thing is happening. I used MCCC and turn sim culling off not change the maximum amount of sims. There’s a few setting you’ll have to play around with but it works wonders for me. See full list on bestgamingtips. Bubblystrings. as for stopping them from spawning, there is no way to do this entirely. It stops the game from generating random townies and also let’s you control the other NPC in the game. Mod The Sims. ) If you do these three things, hopefully you should stop seeing random families moving into your town! Good luck! Before doing this you can click on an NPC and select NPCC and Assign NPC Job. Plenty of my own sims have jobs as vendors, bartenders and so on but it still generates more which is frustrating. You can access this by clicking on City Hall -> Nraas -> Story Progression. Just in case if you're using Windows 10 and you've done all the right steps, but the default townies still show up, the information at the bottom of this page may help you out. Please be…With the above packs installed the game has a setting to generate a minimum of 40 Japanese townies, 14 Islander townies, 10 Indian townies and 10 Moroccan townies. #2 16th Aug 2011 at 5:48 PM. , so I shifted to one-sim households only. ) If you do these three things, hopefully you should stop seeing random families moving into your town! Good luck!Before doing this you can click on an NPC and select NPCC and Assign NPC Job. Save those changes and quit the game. No, it doesn't affect hairstyles. . In reverse the other Menu Remove NPC Job will remove any job they have right now. ago. I just now deleted 11 of them from my household. KaikoMikkusu • 7 yr. 16 and 1. 2. " The game will still generate townies, but will only breed your sims, if you want the towns to be filled with legacies. This happens when you stop the random generation and the game is out of sims to pick. Works like a charm. You can’t stop townies because the game requires certain townies and NPCs. Install NRaas Register. This mod will stop other NPCs from moving into your town. Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Free Time, Apartment Life. Sports. If you don't use the townies-as. I thought they both prevent AL townie spawns. Reply. I have seen like 2 badly dressed, randomly generated townies in my save since using it. The only option I can think of is to create all the sims you want and move them in before. Finally press escape to get out of the box, left click the sim, and click on modify in. $3 Tier. Can we please have an option to allow in-game households to be checked for usage in a scenario before random generation?If you want to keep them, but change their appearance, personality or name, etc. The only way around the ugly townies is to let the game generate them, and then slowly edit each one in Manage World's. MC Command Center won’t stop them from generating as those townies fulfill maid, babysitting, and other NPC positions. MCCC doesn't stop townies from spawning, but it always will try to use existing ones instead, be them game-generated ones, importing from Tray, and so on. Hmm you might try getting Zerbu's More Cas Presets (I think currently V2) which adds more body & facial presets, they should be enabled for randoms by default, so it might help getting rid of your original problem. Home Regions also fixes an issue where townies would all be assigned to a small number of Worlds. The No Random Townies mod from Zero is helpful, but id also recommend checking out Keep Sims in Their Home Region by kuttoe. Making a Sims 4 Save File. In The Sims 2, they even have aspirations and,. I've attached pictures, but the only way to describe it is an invisible face texture, with hair and teeth but no face. To turn off automatic marriages only for played households, click on a computer, go into MC Pregnancy/Marriage Sim Selection/Bypass Played Households and Enable that. These sims belong to the "Service Household". ElleFab • 4 yr. They're actually presets extracted from game's premade sims, there's really a LOT of them. Not sure if MCCC gives them the needed traits or whatever, but I haven’t ever made any Sims for specific jobs and it still seems to work out anyway. Here are the screenshots of my settings as of December 2021 to give you an idea of how I set mine up. Is it a copy of the same townie or a new one? Sorry if my question is dumb. Lol I meant that the pics came from r/Sims4 of course, and I also got some from my awesome twitter followers. it works like regular numbers, smaller = less and higher = more. They are full-fledged Sims with jobs, skills, and personalities. Komorebi. fulleditmode". There's a spring green room full of exercise equipment, etc, etc. once entered, play the household you'd like to edit (the townies house) and play their family. Are you 18 years of age or older? Yes, I am 18 or older. And even through that tutorial, you shouldn't delete sims that are close to sims already in the neighborhood, such as relatives. It's not even the fact that if the sims die. theres an option to import only sims from your gallery. It took me awhile but between fixing townies myself, scouring the Gallery for suitable Sims and using the MCCC tray import settings, I rarely see a game generated Sim unless it is for a service role. Hi loves! Welcome back to another video. I'll also just create sims in CAS that are intended as townies. thanks!Whenever I remove the celebrity level of these Other Household sims, it just generates even more sims. 4. Yup. S2 is pretty good about making sure townies are replaced. The problem I have with the previous version is empty battu (aside from the default Hondo, Kyo, etc. 0 being all random generated and 100 being your personal sims only. With the above packs installed the game has a setting to generate a minimum of 40 Japanese townies, 14 Islander townies, 10 Indian townies and 10 Moroccan. My understanding is that they believed that it would be easier on the game to fake story progression by just generating townies when needed. Un-heart them, & you've got a new npc-townie household. 57 - Every day after work, Tate comes home, spends time with Beth and then cradles and talks to Alphinas growing bump, reading stories to the baby and pampering his wife. But I’ve never broken up. I usually just pop into household management from time to time and delete any Sims I didn't make. It wouldn't be so bad if townie generation didn't work so poorly with CC. When you do that, though, do not: - send townies/NPCs to the sim bin and delete them. This mod addresses an issue experienced by players with Snowy Escape, City Living or Island Living where the worlds would gradually get overpopulated with sims having Japanese, Moroccan, Islander or Indian names. (The "Allow Immigration" setting should stay on "True". kxaltli • 1 yr. Note that it still won't stop generating new townies completely. Also makes the free computer buyable. Sooooo sorry for the longest wait yet. then add the household to a lot and evict them IMMEDIATELY. Breed Out the Ugly Challenge/Growing Together Storytime - Part 4 (I'm amazed how much this storyline has blown up! :D - Enjoy!) 1 / 20. But I made mod for stop the game spawn new random townie from community lot job, neighbourhood stories, or from career. Just move in one of my sims, steal all their money, and then delete them and move back to my original household. 2023: Mod compatible with 1. Is there any way to stop that? comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a CommentIn game options under 'gameplay' there is a 'fill empty homes' tick box. Example: The Sim 4_BCKUP Load the game - this will automatically create a new The Sims 4 folder in your documents. So far I am loving it. Hopefully it will reach a peak soon and start using more of. Improved Anti-Humble – Stops Rod Humble from generating and giving your Sims a brand new computer for free. Can we please have an option to allow in-game households to be checked for usage in a scenario before random generation?I was just wondering if there is any mod to stop the game from generating new townies and keeping only the ones that were shipped with the worlds, like these for Sunset Valley (in the pics). I haven't tested this but it might help. And even through that tutorial, you shouldn't delete sims that are close to sims already in the neighborhood, such as relatives. The game isn't generating townies from the moved-in and lot bin sims in the Pleasantview template, only the townies. Reply CrystalFlame360 •The random townies will still spawn, though. GreyN7 • 1 yr. 2. As for population control, you'll want to get mods that stop townie and NPC regeneration. In the sims settings there's an option to disable auto-fill households. That I can't think how to help you with right. I think NPC mod has something to do with it, as well as MCCC. Turn on immigration, because it is off by default. Just in case, once the game is generating townies/NPCs/ etc, the. Try this. I think what you're seeing is a coincidence; you've already seen all/most of. For example the Komorebi townies all have a hidden trait that marks them as being locals of that region. & it's been the. The main task of the mod is to prevent generation of a new NPC, forcing the game for various roles and careers (maid, postman, etc. even in register you limit the pool to 0, it will always generate at least 1. 0 coins. Notownieregen will not stop Social Townies from being generated, it only stops normal townies. Then, type cas. To be honest I have never played with any of the pre made families. by Shoosh Malooka in Sims 2Sign in / Register. Zero's Sims 4 Mods is creating content you must be 18+ to view. But to stop townies from generating, make sure you do the following: Click on any Sim in your game and choose “NPCC,” then select “Settings. Hi loves! Welcome back to another video. . . From Manage Worlds, click the manage families icon in the upper right, then you can click the icon to set up Neighborhood Stories for each of your families and other families. Welcome back Queen's 👸🏾 & Kings! 🤴🏾 I'm back at it again with another tutorial. ago. So I assume for now aside from nationality resttictions RNG machine can fix itself at some point. creating Sims 4 CC. I'm still seeing a bunch of sasquatches walking around town and as of now, I'd just delete them from the game with MCCC because having to disable the body hair one by. This makes them not respond to flirtations and unable to date them. by SimsBySky. Here's a great set to get you started. Might take a bit to take effect. Sims 2Starting from $6. As far as I know there's no way to prevent that. but no Goopy& CO. With Home Regions installed, Sims will generate evenly across all Worlds. May 15, 2018. creating mods for The Sims 4. I know I can manually go in and modify in CAS but I just wish they'd generate with some variety on their own, lol. Townies are. ago. Blue-DiamondSimsForum on Contact. For a couple years, it seemed like a fifth of the sims my game generated had the last name Yamaguchi. cfg file that came with the download instead of in-game with commands. When the game imports Sims from your library, it will assign any age to the Sim that it needs - so don’t be alarmed to see your elders wandering around as young adults. Meanwhile none of my boys born in game or randomly generated townies have facial hair. Seriously, the game generates a lot of townies and you don't want some clones walking around (or maybe you do, I don't know). If you don't use the townies-as-apartment-dwellers mod, they are a different type of townie altogether (a social group townie) and there is no. if they're deleted, new ones will spawn to fill the roles. by NeutralWarlock246 in Sims 2Business, Economics, and Finance. Be nice to be able to control this and be able to interact the sims you have made and/or loaded into the game rather than the game dumping random gen sims. In my game it appears to be stopped completely except for the creation of individual sims who are Service Sims like the Maids, Gardeners for the parks, Pizza Purveyors, the Fishermen and Mailman. There are two main types of NPC; ones that through relationships. If you have 6 sims in the career, the game won't generate any new ones. 0 just added a new feature to turn off random townies and only add sims from your private gallery. Go to Manage Worlds and then to Manage Households and check the recently new generated household/NPCs with CAS. Although be careful. It's on ModTheSims and I think it's called Reduced Townie Generation. Turn off the adoptions. You can delete all the NPC families and they won't respawn. If you put down a bar with the lot trait "Vampire Nexus" it will generate vampires- I usually put a vampire bar over on the Fledermaus lot. It basically stops the game from generating random townies. But the game has quickly respawned new ones and it’s the same thing 🙃 wasn’t able to find nicer looking ones fast enough in the gallery. You need empty templates so the townies don't get made in the first place and then the no regen hacks to prevent new ones spawning once the neighbourhood is running. Or just let us set them up somehow. #3 12th Nov 2010 at 3:40 AM. I adjust the settings so that Sims can get pregnant up until about 7 days before becoming an elder. If you're out on the street after 8 pm to around 2 am there's a chance new vampires will spawn. For custom townies, you might need Inge's Teleporter Shrub or Cat, which you can download here. I have ~300 households in my save game. Hi guys! Welcome to another video!As of recently, the mod is no longer available on Mod the Sims, Paulson has now set up his own website. 4. Premium Powerups Explore Gaming. It stops ALL random sim generation. Modifying them in cas would have just taken way too long, so I deleted them all. Settings>Import Tray Percent. "Hello, I'm having a bit of a problem with game-generated townies (and my own sims when I try to age them up or down). But I made mod for stop the game spawn new random townie from community lot job, neighbourhood stories, or from career. Site Map >; Modding and Creation >; Sims 4 Creation >; Modding Discussion >; Would it be impossible to limit how many townies the game generates? > Discussion on file formats, research and other modding information pertaining to the Sims 4. so it will only spawn sims you created or downloaded. But social townies only get generated anyway in the scenario that you don't have enough social townies of the appropriate class to be your apartment neighbours. (though it is almost equal to creating them yourself). Changing the immigration gauge will stop any new sims moving in to houses. An unofficial subreddit devoted to discussing and sharing all things related to The Sims 4! Advertisement Coins. I absolutely despise them. Bring up Sims 4 Studio, batch fix and disallow for random. by animated in Sims 2Assign Sims to role immediately when you start a save, before the game generates its own (or gives other roles to the ones you have in world if you use a mod to stop the randoms). When I jump into cas to create a sim the boxes listing romantic orientation are both unchecked without me touching anything. But you can tend to get duplicates that way. I have ~300 households in my save game. [deleted] • 3 yr. Seriously, the game generates a lot of townies and you don't want some clones walking around (or maybe you do, I don't know). so if you want no homeless Sims to move into flats, you shouldn't be using the maximum, but 0 instead. The sim who entered the house is a randomly generated "townie" sim who is not known to any of my other sims. When you click on the computer, go to MCCC -> MC Population -> Moving Settings -> Maximum Homeless, and set the value to 0. I can second this, you can use MCCC to determine that the new townies will he generated from your library. If they are just townies and random sims, then you might have not disabled your townies from Plesantview. In my game it appears to be stopped completely except for the creation of individual sims who are Service Sims like the Maids, Gardeners for the parks, Pizza Purveyors, the Fishermen and Mailman. The neighbours in apartments are treated differently in game than the regular townies. 70 pt. CryptoI've been using CJ's mod to prevent the game from spawning AL townies, but I'm going to switch to Midge's right now because I don't actually have any townies in my game. 2. I think MCCC has some kind of functions to throttle it, but there isn't a way to turn it off. I'm still seeing random townies with chest and back hair. my favourite method is using townie packs from the gallery. Premium Powerups Explore. The game is pretty heavy handed with townie generation and. 34) for The Sims 4. I’ve never had a problem with positions getting filled. Mods can affect how and when new ones appear. Under “Sim Settings” make sure to click “Do Not Generate New Sims. Rebalanced Townie Generation by Enkidu. Well, that is useful. 1. I messed with mc command center settings last night, and you can do this by filling the houses with your sims and putting the setting to "marry in-house sims only. 🧡I also recommend using Zero’s “Assign NPC Jobs” to assign your own sims as vendors for a cool vibe🐹👍I also use their “No Random Townies” mod to stop the spawning of EA’s random townies and NPC. I'd delete the hairstyle but I don't know where to even find it. I edit paparazzis, mixologists, and even paper carrier kids. But there is a setting in MCCC where you can spawn sims from your gallery as service sims, bar patrons etc. WCIF a way to stop creating random sims. I’m not entirely sure if that’s all you do, though. s4e3. Haven't been able to find a mod for it sadly. Then go to the computer -> MCCC -> MC Population -> Populating settings -> Run Dresser -> Enable. I still get 4-5 new npc households after playing for some time. Zero's Sims 4 Mods. I don't know what it is about Sims 4, but even the randomly generated Sims from previous games would have interesting fashion sense, sure, but they'd still look fine overall. I used the beach wedding lot pre-made by the sims team but freakin Vlad the vampire and Eliza Pancakes crashed my wedding and another random townie showed up to make sand castles. They should make each npc type have a tag and then. . This ring is the absolute bane of my existence. the game will generate townies when needed, and if you have suppressed spawning enough will call on NPCs (including ones you shouldn't interact with much, like restaurant chefs). download MCCC and go into population settings, i think it’s the “allow homeless move in” one. Hi loves! Welcome back to another video. If you want to get rid of those just delete them in Manage Household, they're not fuctional for the game, they're just dead weight. Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Free Time, Apartment Life. I tried fiddling with the NPC and Townie Maker (NaTM) from boolprop and the problem seems to be that the townie generation it’s default set to male only. Mccc now. ago. So in my game my townies like to spawn in the ugliest outfits, or outfits that don’t fit them at all. However, as for custom CC, if you have Master controller, you can just click on any sim and edit him/her in CAS just like you do with your active sims. This is an annoying known issue, but not strictly a bug as far as I'm aware. go to options -> gameplay and untick "fill empty homes". , then you could open the cheat console (box) by pressing control + shift + c at the same time. for special roles, when no existing ones are suitable for what is needed. Hi everyone! Today I wanted to show you all an amazing mod that helps you control the sims that spawn in your game by region, AKA, interchangeably between mu. it's easy and you don't even need a mod for it. It won’t remove it from your townies, but it’ll stop any new townies from generating with it. When they spawn in they'll come with new random outfits and they won't come with skin details, their ages and occults will change, and the same sims can spawn back in in the next generation depending on how many sims are in your gallery. Well my guess is that the poor generation of townies was a mistake or oversight and that culling was originally put in place so the game didn't get bloated while generating all these new sims all the time. EA has a limit to the amount of sims it will load per lot. West-Vacation-3239. For example the Komorebi townies all have a hidden trait that marks them as being locals of that region. Change your Import Tray Settings. ago. its like every townie has it. ^ this OP. The NPC sims will not move into your town. There are many mods for. 102. I have seen like 2 badly dressed, randomly generated townies in my save since using it. I filled my game with enough sims that I created/edited so they would be the ones showing up on the community lots instead of randomly generated sims. You can stop this by playing various townie sims briefly and having them join the career. 190. If you want a big bulk of them you can generate 50 with cheats. ★★★ Novice. Join for free. While you can move a person in without mods, making him a townie again needs a mod. The game is pretty heavy handed with townie generation and. NRaas > SP > Town Options > Career: Allow Find Job. Rename your sims 4 folder in documents. Default replacements will only affect newly created sims, so yes, you will have to get rid of your current townies and NPCs to regenerate new sims using your custom skins. Can't remember if that worked or not! Now I don't bother with the townies at all; just clear out (delete) the oldest ones out periodically. 30 – 1. I’ll see if I can find it. But stopping 99% is still better than stopping 0%. You need to click every bar etc. The easy way to never see an ugly townie again. Yeah that sounds like a good plan. Having this mod will allow the game to generate NPCs, but doesn't allow it to generate townies. New comments cannot be posted. The Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion Pack introduces a new world of Henford-on-Bagley with 4 premade households and 7 NPC townies! This Expansion Pack continues the same route of pre-existing relationships and sentiments that were first introduced with Snowy Escape Expansion Pack. " The game will still generate townies, but will only breed your sims, if you want the towns to be filled with legacies. Zero's Sims 4 Mods is creating content you must be 18+ to view. 19 males and 14 females. Make the sim you want to change go to the dresser and plan their outfits and voila! you can edit their appearance and body shape in the dresser. In the sims settings there's an option to disable auto-fill households. Now that I'm a few generations into my save, the random townies that the game generates are ruining my experience of the game. So anyway, with all those settings I find that I’m not overloaded with babies and marriages. 2020-09-04 17:27:55. . Down below you’ll get to meet the. Everywhere I go are random ugly sims with no backstory and terrible outfits. @ Mangaroo I have that Mod by Pescado, but can not find it but do this mod get place within your download folder or else. With Home Regions installed, Sims will generate evenly across all Worlds. Unfortunately there isn’t really a 1 for 1 numbers system on this regarding ageing. Block Sims based on age or gender in specific places. The unofficial subreddit for all things Sims 4! Coins. ”. NP it's on the computer MCC menu in MC population>Population settings>Import Tray Settings. This will be C:\Program Files\EA Games\The Sims 2\ by default. That's one thing I liked about the townies and NPCs that were created by the game developers. MATY should have what you're looking for. This prevents the default townies from being created. I assume the same thing is happening. Stop the game generating social class townies . I got sick of it and started deleting every Yamaguchi that crossed my path, but the game just kept generating more. : r/thesims. Possible conflicts: This mod is an override of a game file that also. ) with your sims? Are they wearing wacky outfits and have odd hair. Quote: Originally posted by mangaroo. Actually makes me excited when I see new townies lolThe latest update is now live for The Sims 4 which includes bug fixes, Gallery updates, and more. all NPCs have full autonomy, regardless of what your played household autonomy is set to. There is an option to remove Sims from roles on the mailbox, but won't work for all roles. Now copy your saves and mods folder from The Sims 4_BCKUP to The Sims 4. Install NRaas Register. I just let the game generate all the sims it needs minimum. I have story progression turned off so new Sims aren't moving into lots, it's new. The outfits and makeup especially of the base game ones are hella outdated and look ridiculous, with all the. Veronaville would only have the Montys, the Capps, the Summerdreams, and any NPCs/Townies those premades happen to know) or if premade neighborhood come packaged with their own associated townies and must be. So as it says in the title I am looking for a mod that will get rid of Random Townies or Reduce them from Spawning. ago. 3. Try the Life Tragedies Mod!Add a Comment. trueThe "generate random NPC" would not be necessary if it the game was properly designed. Please, call me 'mmaa', saves time. Forum Resident. The only way to get rid of them is to replace the AL stealth hood with an empty - not a clean; clean means corruption free, empty means empty - template, or rename the folder containing the stealth hood so that the game doesn't. Please describe the patch or change you made. Basically when the game needs a sim to fill a role it will take the sim from your library So I deleted all the townies in my game that the game generated because they’re all either ugly or old. Modifying them in cas would have just taken way too long, so I deleted them all. much like in real life, as some people will never be able to go abroad, be it for time or money reasons, or both, while some others will have the opportunity and means to travel all over. Reduced Townie Generating (V10 1. I don’t know why but the eyeball ring is the most egregious act of degeneracy in this starter pack. I prefer to make so only other people's sims appear as townies , so my own sims don't. fulleditmode Shift click on random sims and click "Modify in CAS" Once there, click on gender. I have a soft spot for Thorne Bailey. I don't disagree it should be an option just not one that comes automatically on. I started with 8 sims, 4 females, 4 males. Introduced in Hot Date, Townies are Sims that are similar to playable Sims, except that they don't live in any of the households. I. I agree it would benefit from a button to enable/disable generation of townies. So that leaves ~299 left over. you can however limit this with MCCC, so existing townies will be used as often as possible. Yandere Simulator Sims 4 series!! In this episode, I throw a pool party that ends in tragedy, hang out with my Best Friend's boyfriend, & get ride of more "R. In this video I'll walk you through all the steps you need to make sure your townies won't walk around in crazy custom content outfits. The Sims 4: Technical Issues – PC: Too many townies. Eventually I just went into manage worlds and purged all but the hottest two. (The "Allow Immigration" setting should stay on "True". for special roles, when no existing ones are suitable for what is needed. Click on that, then select "Batch Fixes".