I’ve noticed my towns have been looking empty — only a few townies and then realized that the welcome wagons and playable walk bys don’t come either.

I’m sure there’s some mod causing this but I’m not sure what would cause it. I have visitor controller, and it specifically allows playables.

I have a ton of mods and I think 50/50 would be a nightmare since I’d have to do so many abd then wait for a long time to see if playables showed up. So if anyone else has had the problem I’d love to know if you figured out what was the culprit.

I've never had this problem at all, and the only cause I can think of is some sort of mod, or if you've disabled certain templates, notably the N001 template.

Firstly, you could try generating a new 'The Sims 2' folder. I imagine you may know, but for people that don't know; go into Documents/EA GAMES and you should see a folder called 'The Sims 2.' Rename it, I just simply add an extra letter with an underscore. Load the game, and it will take longer as it's making new files.

If your game is fixed in this 'new file,' then yes, the culprit would be a mod and you'll have to do a 50/50 in a test hood. If it's still there, underlining issues could be the cause, such as something amiss in the installation files.

I hope this helps you, if not I hope someone more knowledgeable does.

Hmmmm I didn’t disable the N001 template, but I did put a new on in to stop Pleasantview townies from showing up. I bet I did something wrong when I put the new N001 in.

It is far more likely to be a mod than some other piece of CC, so I'd do a 50/50 just on the mods before attempting one on all your CC. Also, if this problem has only appeared recently, it's probably been caused by some recently added mod. So try removing those before doing a 50/50 on you mods. More than once I've fixed a problem by removing the most recently added mod.

It's possible that playables who've been given Simlogical prisoner tags that were never removed later could stop them from showing up on community lots if they still had that tag in their inventory as others have done that and I plan to and will make sure to remove the tags from everybody as spring arrives and only take them away from my active household in the winter.

If anyone cares to know, it was a bad neighborhood file. I fixed it by putting the original one back in.

This belongs in help. Glad you got it fixed though.