Recreating a town

[red_88]

I'm trying to recreate a town. I want to put in all my own citizens that I have created. I evicted all the old citizens and started to place my new sims, however they are really broke 
What's the easiest way to makeover this town without messing up the family I'm in charge of right now?

Also in case anyone is interested I'm trying to create ponyville and a lot of it's citizens. A

Any help/advice would be appreciated greatly!

[Janna]

I'm not an expert so I can't give you the advice you are seeking, especailly on creating a town.  So the only suggestion that I have is -- if you are using sim families that you created or are creating then make sure they have some money before you save them to the bin.  I save most of the families that I create for possible later usage.  By then they have built up some money. 
I also have created some single sims to use for mates for sims childen (when they reach YA) if they can't find any in the town.  I just make sure that before I save them to the bin they have earned around $10,000 and have the steel bladder.  It easy to get the money if you send them to China, bring back the books and sell them.

I like to create my own, that way I can pick the traits and careers for them, and sometimes, not often, change their looks, usually hair and eye color. Definitely pick out some decent clothing for them. 

Don't know if that is of any help to you.  Have you tried a search?   Lots of times I am to impatient to wait for an answer so I do a search first and find lots and lots if info that is helpful.   Not always, but it is still fun to read and learn new stuff. 

[red_88]

Thank you. The problem with that is I don't want to play as the other families, so taking them to china would be way more work. I'm going to try starting over and see how that works. Thank you though

[Schipperke]

Welcome to the forum, red.  From what you wrote, it sounds like the biggest problem you're having is the fact that your Sims don't have much money?  There are several cheats that can be used to give your Sims free real estate and to increase their funds.  If that would be helpful to you, I suggest you look at this page in the Guide. 

[shibamistress]

I do this a lot.  What I usually do is make my families, and then start to play them, but use cheats to give them more money, so I can move them into whatever house I want them in.

Then I move them around through the edit town function, and this way I can place them where I want them.  I also build/redecorate the houses as I want them before I even put the families in there.

Of course, since building/remodeling is my favorite thing, I'm often bored with my worlds after I get everyone placed, but that's ok, because then I can make a new town! 

I will say there is one problem I encounter when I'm doing this (which you may or may not).  If I evict too many townies before I place my families, the game will start filling up the empty houses.  I use mods from nrass to address this, but it was a bit frustrating to have to keep evicting and evicting before I got the mods.  (The game needs a certain amount of sims in the world, so if you're slow placing your families, it will put in Sims for you!)

[Ricalynn]

You have two threads with the exact same topic and the exact same post so I'm going to merge them together.   I'm also going to move them to the Miscellaneous Help board so that more members can see your thread and perhaps offer advice.