Mod The Sims - Clean And Empty Stealth Hood Templates

Jawusa

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#76

25th Nov 2015 at 8:34 PM

@PatronusCharms It's possible to hide the townies as well.
Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin GAMES\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Double Deluxe\Base\TSData\Res\UserData and rename the 'Neighborhoods' folder to something else. (e.g 'NeighborhoodsDisabled'). This will prevent the game adding Goopy and the rest to your neighborhoods.

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Josefa_B

Test Subject

#77

29th Jan 2016 at 8:15 PM

Hi! This is awesome, but it doesn't work for me, i tried it twice and followed all the steps... do you know why?

Jawusa

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#78

29th Jan 2016 at 8:29 PM

@Josefa_B
Make sure that you remove the original files before putting my templates in. Otherwise, the game still has access to it and also try deleting cache files which are found in the Documents/The Sims 2 folder. Both of these issues seem to be common here.

Catalogue of Custom Neighborhoods for TS2
All Hood Building Group neighborhoods are available here
Want to get rid of EA's sims in neighborhoods? Check out my Clean and Empty Steatlh Hoods and Clean and Empty Neighborhood Templates
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Josefa_B

Test Subject

#79

29th Jan 2016 at 10:18 PM Last edited by Josefa_B : 31st Jan 2016 at 2:31 AM.

Quote: Originally posted by Jawusa

@Josefa_B
Make sure that you remove the original files before putting my templates in. Otherwise, the game still has access to it and also try deleting cache files which are found in the Documents/The Sims 2 folder. Both of these issues seem to be common here.

Did both, but nothing. The families are still there whenever I create a new hood.

EDIT: I don'tknow what did i change, but it worked! Yei! :D

Jawusa

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#80

3rd Feb 2016 at 6:39 PM

@Josefa_B I'm glad it works for you now.

Catalogue of Custom Neighborhoods for TS2
All Hood Building Group neighborhoods are available here
Want to get rid of EA's sims in neighborhoods? Check out my Clean and Empty Steatlh Hoods and Clean and Empty Neighborhood Templates
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miros1

Lab Assistant

#81

9th Mar 2016 at 12:07 AM

I've had no problems with deleting the Hobby Leaders from their Characters folder and leaving the Maxis stealth neighborhood otherwise intact, but I've heard that people have had problems getting the Good and Evil witches to regenerate correctly. Apparently, whichever appears first at a community lot takes possession of both stealth lots. Has anyone else had this experience? Do your Magic stealth lots come with both witches to avoid this?

Jaz/Nim/17

Test Subject

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#82

9th Mar 2016 at 7:17 PM

You're awesome. I used to use the clean templates from MATY, which worked fine until I decided to move my game to a different computer, and then everything went haywire-three copies of each "bin" family! But then I took those templates out, put yours in, loaded up a fresh game and voila! You saved my Sims.

Jawusa

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#83

10th Mar 2016 at 5:59 PM

@miros1 I've fixed this issue. These templates come with no sims at all. So anytime you're on a community lot and an evil or good witch appears, the game will generate a new/fixed witch NPC.
By the way, it's also possible that a male head witch can be spawn. Have you ever seen male head witches? EA's defaults witches are always female...

@Jaz/Nim/17 I'm glad you chose to use my templates instead and that everything's working well for you now.
Happy Simming!

Catalogue of Custom Neighborhoods for TS2
All Hood Building Group neighborhoods are available here
Want to get rid of EA's sims in neighborhoods? Check out my Clean and Empty Steatlh Hoods and Clean and Empty Neighborhood Templates
My Simblr

Rosebine

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#84

10th Mar 2016 at 9:14 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Jawusa

...By the way, it's also possible that a male head witch can be spawn. Have you ever seen male head witches? EA's defaults witches are always female...

personaly, I've had more warlock than witches spawned..and elder ones, mostly.

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edinfresno

Test Subject

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#85

26th Apr 2016 at 3:22 PM

Nice! Thanks!

FefaWhoever

Test Subject

#86

27th May 2016 at 5:14 AM

Hey! I just recently installed The sims 2 again and I'd like to do this! But I have a question. I have almost every expansion that there is, but I just installed The sims 2 deluxe, Uni, OFB and Seasons so far. Can I just download the Seasons version now without having any problem if I decide to install the other eps later?

Jawusa

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#87

1st Jun 2016 at 12:39 PM

@FefaWhoever
That shouldn't cause a problem.
But if you install a new EP, make sure that you download the empty stealth hood template for that EP.

Good luck and thanks for downloading!

Catalogue of Custom Neighborhoods for TS2
All Hood Building Group neighborhoods are available here
Want to get rid of EA's sims in neighborhoods? Check out my Clean and Empty Steatlh Hoods and Clean and Empty Neighborhood Templates
My Simblr

FefaWhoever

Test Subject

#88

12th Jun 2016 at 9:57 PM

Thanks!

Gotcha, Thank you so much!! I've been playing with them for a while and they're great

LaBlue314

Lab Assistant

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#89

23rd Jun 2016 at 6:32 AM

I just wanted to say thank you very much for this.

simshout

Lab Assistant

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#90

27th Jul 2016 at 9:19 PM

Thanks <3

Laridian

Test Subject

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#91

23rd Aug 2016 at 7:06 PM

Thank you! Can't wait to try this out.

Pebblerocker

Field Researcher

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#92

3rd Sep 2016 at 3:31 AM

Thanks!

Finaleia

Lab Assistant

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#93

20th Sep 2016 at 1:24 AM

Thank you, this was desperately needed as I wanted to start a prosperity challenge with an empty Sim bin. Really appreciate it!

simguru1player

Lab Assistant

#94

7th Oct 2016 at 8:32 PM

Hello there. All of these work - so far - apart from the Pets P001 stealth hood. Despite being 'empty', this is still managing to spawn the Crittur and Roseland families - plus a number of strays! I have tried re-installing, disabling the P001 stealth hood, but to no avail. I am on Windows 7 64 bit with all EP's and SP's. Cannot work out why the game is still spawning the Pets characters...

Jawusa

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#95

9th Oct 2016 at 8:53 PM

@simguru1player
That sounds like that the Pets stealth hood is already attached to the neighborhood. These templates only affect new neighborhoods, created after the installation of these templates.
Try creating a new neighborhood with the empty templates and have a look at the family bin. Let me know the results then.

Catalogue of Custom Neighborhoods for TS2
All Hood Building Group neighborhoods are available here
Want to get rid of EA's sims in neighborhoods? Check out my Clean and Empty Steatlh Hoods and Clean and Empty Neighborhood Templates
My Simblr

LadyGray01

Field Researcher

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#96

4th Nov 2016 at 7:23 PM

Thank you! I'm tired of seeing the same people.

Pideli

Top Secret Researcher

#97

5th Dec 2016 at 11:59 AM

NOTE to Windows 7 users! I first couldn't get it to work even though I followed all these instructions, but just as I was about to write an angry comment, I saw this: http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Game_gui...an_neighborhood - Read at the bottom of the page for what you also need to do! You need to delete a folder from VirtualStore.

And now it works like a charm!!! Thank you for this upload. :D

Airelda

Field Researcher

#98

27th Jan 2017 at 10:20 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Pideli

NOTE to Windows 7 users! I first couldn't get it to work even though I followed all these instructions, but just as I was about to write an angry comment, I saw this: http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Game_gui...an_neighborhood - Read at the bottom of the page for what you also need to do! You need to delete a folder from VirtualStore.

And now it works like a charm!!! Thank you for this upload. :D

Pideli or anyone else who knows, please share information about deleting a folder from VirtualStore. I followed Pideli's link but I cannot make head nor tail of the instructions.

I feel I have the same problem as Pideli - I am trying to have empty neighbourhoods in Windows 10. I followed every step carefully but I am still getting townies, even with new empty templates installed and hacks installed.

If someone could please shine a light on the "Virtual Store" issue raised by Pideli I would be most grateful

Pebblerocker

Field Researcher

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#99

15th Jun 2017 at 8:21 AM

Thanks!

alchemist

Instructor

#100

6th Oct 2017 at 7:36 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Airelda

If someone could please shine a light on the "Virtual Store" issue raised by Pideli I would be most grateful

I can't quite follow those instructions, either. It's okay up to "you see a file called Virtual Store, open it", but after that it doesn't apply any more:
"First, set up you as the owner of the folder and set it to "read only"/write protected. Second, delete the EA Folder in there. "

There is no EA Folder in the "Virtual Store" folder.

Well, I'll try my luck as it is and hope that I'll get a nice, empty neighbourhood for once. Thank you very much for creating these!

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