Are you aiming to having your hood go for multiple generations? eight seems like a really small gene pool, but I could see how you wouldn't want many more households than that.

That sounds quite easy. Only thing that concerns me is the name change. I thought you weren't supposed to change a sims first name? I would not be using their genetics.
Also is it safe to do that to sims such as taxi drivers and the social worker?

Oh, I hadn't thought about that - I think possibly not but I'll test it. The thing about Social Workers and Drivers is that they are not universals but you can't interact with them (or shouldn't force interaction with them). However, their files are unique to the neighbourhood. Drivers do have names (so I'm guessing that's not a problem since they can have different names obviously. They also have memories). Social Workers, of course, don't (have either as a matter of fact). My sim destined for social work hasn't left college yet (and I've not finished the career). Similarly, my taxi driver sims are still not employed as drivers so I haven't tried that out. There is an issue with renaming ordinary sims but I can't remember the details. It's not too big an issue anyway and renaming ordinary NPCs and townies is not a problem.

Edit: just checked. Social Workers do have memories in fact (which is a good sign - it means their files are normally written to by the game). I have also cloned over my only social worker in Little Carping (hadn't realised I'd got that far) but haven't renamed that one. Ah well, well no signs of problems so far though as we know that isn't evidence. Also doesn't show anything in the Hood Checker but Moo couldn't design it to pick up everything. I'll have to have a poke about in the files and see what I can see. I'm much less skilled with code than Moo though.

Jo in your closed neighborhood how does the sewing lady generate cash for materials? When you sit down to sew or use any of the free time craft stations the game bascially deducts the cost of the materials from household funds. If everything is barter how are you generating cash for materials or things like furniture?

Good spot. I did give them all some cash to start with. With new sewing projects, that is part of the price. I haven't played that hood in awhile but I think an outfit is about $200? The logs are worth $100 each. The neighbour wanting the outfit would give them the logs, which will cover what she spent to make it. Becks wood tree chopping: http://www.affinitysims.com/IPB/fil...llen-pine-tree/ There are various tress over at Affinity sims. Only issue I have found is sometimes the sound goes wonky. Then on top of the wood they will give her some fish or whatever they have in their inventory that feels like a fair exchange. They also help each other by passing around items like baby cribs.
Plumb Bob Keep now has a weaving workbench and sims can make furniture on it. I've only used it my medieval hood so far but it would suit my hippies to. Only thing it takes that game an hour to load. :/ I'm going out tonight so I think I'll load it up then.

Edit: I loaded up the sims folder with this hood and remembered I also have her sew curtains and sell them back to the air so she can practice her sewing as she isn't at Gold badge level yet. I do the same for any other skill that takes money to practice. That also makes them a little bit of money for things. It's very difficult to have no cash at all.

using "kill all townies" is supposed to make them starve to death, but all it does is teleport them and spam your game with "Bye, See ya, Gotta Go" messages, and lags them. I don't reccomend it. Just use a clean template

If you close them in a 4 wall room with no doors they die in seconds

If u deleted all the townies, who delivers your mail, paper, grocery, pizza etc. whos the nanny? Who checks you out at the store? Im currently in the process of deleting all the sims 2 townies in sims PE and with the bat box, but now im wondering if i should save some or just delete them all? I have almost 1000 sims and my game has really slowed down. I deleted 100 and it seems to have speed up and less lags, so id like to delete as many as i can without curruption

Only sims on the same lot as your playable effects how the game runs.

If you are not very careful in deleting sims you can ruin your hood.

The safest way to kill off townies is...
1. Get the "Laganaphyllis Simnovorii" otherwise known as the "Cowplant" .
2. Get Teleporting Cat http://www.drealm.info/simlogical/s...Teleporters.htm
3. Teleport the townie to your lot and use the cat to make them selectable and have them eat the cake.

No more townies and this is the safest in-game way to do it.

Those - the paper girl/boy, the pizza deliverer, the nanny, etc - they are not townies but NPC's and the game generates them as and when needed. So all of them will be brand new.

Those are not townies, those are NPC's. When you play an empty clean hood the game will pause slightly and make the needed NPC, these will all be original new sims not the regular ones, so no more Dagma the mail lady, it will be a brand new sim. You don't have to have mail or paper or a nanny if you don't want them either. Set the visitor controller to ban them. My stores are all run and staffed by playable sims, so who checks you out at the till? Your friend from down the road most likely. No NPC needed. My nanny when and if I finally get one will be a playable. This method is called an integrated or a self sufficient hood where you use none or only a tiny handful of NPC's. Right now friends watch children although I am about to set up a daycare and toddlers can go there. You can do just about anything with this game with a few mods.

....okay so a lot of mods.