Curious' Townie Pool - Custom and Default Replacement

For celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Sims 2, here is my very own Townie Pool Replacement!*cue the confetti*🥳

Edit: 17 February, 2025
If you're reading this in the future, you can ignore this section and go down to the Overview! TL;DR: Grab a file that has 'Updated'.


Overview
Like others that have been playing this game for a long, long 20 years (or there about), I was getting tired of seeing the same townies over and over again. About a year ago, I learned about custom townie pools and how it's possible to make of your own. I discovered Delijume's and Queen of France's works, as well as others over on Tumblr, and thought it was super cool and creative to be able to do that. I wanted to do that and so, after a good couple of months of work, I have!

These townies are to my own preferences while also having as much genetic variety as possible:

• All age groups are included from elders to children.
• Within each age group, all skin tones, all hair colors, and all eye colors are used in (hopefully) nonrepeating instances to give as much variety possible. Which means:
• Sim A will have skin tone 1, hair color 1, and eye color 1, while sim B will have skin tone 1, hair color 2, and eye color 1. So on and so forth. The point is that while a female adult may have the same colors are a male child, they are not within each others 'grouping' i.e. different age and gender. It's not perfect, but I tried my best.

Basic Information
This was created with the Ultimate Collection! Plenty of the sims are wearing hairs and clothes from various expansion and stuff packs.

Each sim was made with the intention of creating a group fleshed out characters. Whether they stay as townies in your game or integrate into playable households, they all have everything a sim needs!

Where applicable, each sim has a unique:

• Aspiration
• Turn on's and turn off's
• Sexual orientation
• Body type
• Glasses and/or jewelry
• Randomized skills
• Appropriate hobbies
• Appropriate life time wishes
• Possbile college degree
• Career
• Differing amounts of days left before they age up

If you choose to install one of the default versions, the names I gave each sim will stay the same. If you choose to install one of the custom versions, the names I gave each sim will be randomized.

If you choose a custom version and you don't mind the changed names, you're good to go! The only thing that will be noticeable is that all sims have a bio. Their original name will most likely be in there but you can change it to match. If you would prefer to have the original names that I gave, you will either need to have some sort of mod that lets you change a sims name in game, or you can use SimPE to change them back.

All sims that were made for this project were:

• Created in bodyshop
• Created using the "Pooklet Method"
• Created using default replacement face presets
• Possibly tweaked using custom sliders

Every sim was created as an adult before I changed them to the appropriate age so that I could guarantee they didn't look too odd. While every sim was made as stated above, I also went in to make sure that all sims had smaller eyes across the board. I was never really a fan of how large the eyes are normally in game.


Meet the Townies
Each sim's image shows both what their entire outfit is as well as a close up of their faces from three angles so that you have a better idea of their genetics. Their full names are at the top, even though some are sort of hard to see with the black text and if they have darker hair, my bad.



Installation
There are 4 versions that are available for download.

• "FULL - Custom Version" includes 8 elders, 32 adults, 16 teens, and 16 kids for a total of 72 sims that are 36 females and 36 males.
• "LITE - Custom Version" includes 4 elders, 16 adults, 8 teens, and 8 kids for a total of 36 sims that are 18 females and 18 males.
• "N001 - FULL Default Version" is a default replacement which includes the same 72 sims as above.
• "N001 - LITE Default Version" is a default replacement which includes the same 36 sims as above.
• The custom versions require Open for Business. If you do not have that expansion pack, the only two available to you are the defaults.

Once you have chosen a download, read on to see where to install.

• For a "Custom" townie pool, place the folder named "FULL" or "LITE" into:
  Program Files (x86) > EA Games > The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection > Best of Business > EP3 > TSData > Res > NeighborhoodTemplate
• For a "Default Replacement" townie pool, place the folder named "N001" into:
  Program Files (x86) > EA Games > The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection > Double Deluxe > Base > TSData > Res > UserData > Neighborhoods
• If you do not have the Ultimate Collection but do have Open for Buisness, and you are getting the custom version, you need to direct to the latest expansion pack you have, then go to TSData > Res > NeighborhoodTemplate.

You can only have one N001 default hood in your game! If you follow the directory above, and find there is already an N001, that is where the usual townies like Ivy Copur and Abhijeet Deppiesse are spawning from. Backup the N001 that is there and then remove it to replace with this download. You can technically download both custom versions, however, if both are attached to the same hood, half of the sims will be redundant. If you do want both, ensure only one is attached to a single hood.

I encourage you to create an empty test hood to add these sims to before adding to any hoods of your own. It's good to just be able to see the added sims and decide if you truly want them.

Where to find the sims

• The "Custom" hoods are for subhoods that can be added to an initialized game while in your main hood overview. Select the icon in the top left that says "Add a shopping district". There, the custom hood should be found with an image showing which version you have. Once you add the district to your main hood, you can delete the now empty subhood. It will not remove the townies as they are now attached to the main hood.
• The "Default" hood is for brand new uninitialized hoods. This means that if you have never opened this hood, these townies will spawn during that loading screen that says 'creating weather' and 'creating magic', etc. If you already have a hood you've been playing with and try to add this midgame, it won't work. Try the custom version instead!

Recommended Mods
Mootilda's Fix Subhood Selection
LazyDuchess's Age Correct
A name changer mod like Last Name Copier or simPE.
Different townie name mods like Better Townie Naming or TS1 to TS2 replacements
Some sort of lifespan mod like Let Kids be Kids or 1 day = 1 year

Credits:
Delijume for the inspiration and helping along the way. Anytime I had a question, you were there to answer.
xfivexfivex for DR face templates "Butterflies and Hurricanes".
DeedeeSims for non-DR face templates of Beccabear’s "Masquerade".
simNopke for custom sliders.
randomgenerators.com for helping me create interesting and fun names for all these sims.