Game Help:Issues Regarding NPCs

The Dangers Of Certain NPCs

You may know some of the townies and non-playable characters (NPCs) available in the Sims 2, but playing with some of them is considered to be dangerous and a threat to the game (your neighborhood itself and the game as a whole, including installation files), though, some are just considered to be annoying and others are actually safe to play and add to households.

Dangerous NPCs

The dangerous NPCs are NPCs that, if played with & have anything changed about them, may threaten the safety of your entire game. They should never be played with and/or added to a household. The following list consists of NPCs that are considered to be dangerous. Each NPC is listed below with the reason to why they are NOT safe & are dangerous when interacted with in any other way than what the game intends to. You may also want to consult the article on avoiding neighborhood corruption first for more details about how interactions with certain NPCs will effect your neighborhood & your Sims 2 game installation files. Interacting with these NPCs:

• By using the options allowed by the game in normal game play without cheating, AND
• By setting your objects.package files to read-only status,

Are considered safer & should not effect the integrity of your game.

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NPCs that are not safe to play as and/or to add to your household because they have incomplete user data:

• Boss
• Driver (e.g. Taxi; Limousine; School Bus; Carpool; Ambulance; Pilot; etc.)
• Food Table Judge
• Repoman
• Social Bunny

NPCs that are not safe to play as and/or to add to your household because they are objects in your game's object.package file:

• Bigfoot Bigfoot (NPC)

This does not apply to the bigfoot character found on the secret mountain vacation lot, as they are cloned from this object template. The clone is an active Sim with playable character data.

• Bird
• Father Time
• Genie
• Good Witch Cat
• Grim Reaper
• Hula Zombie
• Ideal Plantsim
• Mrs. CrumpleBottom
• Penguin
• Pollination Technician

Not to be confused with Pollination Technician #9 Smith from Strangetown. Pollination Technician #9 Smith is an active Sim with playable character data.

• Remote Control Car
• Robot
• Rod Humble
• Santa Claus
• Skunk
• Skunk Skin
• Spectral Assistant
• TemplateDog
• Therapist (Shrink)
• Toddler New Year
• Witch Doctor (Shaman)

NPCs that are believed not safe to play as and/or add to your household:

• Food Stand Chef
• Ghost Captain
• Hair Stylist
• Social Worker

In the event she's spawned through the Gypsy as a blind date, delete her with move-objects just in case. Do not interact with the Social Worker.

• Tour Guide
• Villain (Unsavory Charlatan)

NPCs With Annoying Actions/Behavior

This list consists of NPCs that possess annoying hard-coded behavior but are safe to play as and/or add to your household:

• Evil Mascot (Cow?)
• Cheerleader
• Grand Vampire/Vampiress
• Gypsy Matchmaker

Safe but will continue with spit-polish behavior.

• Mascot (Llama?)
• Nanny

Safe but will continue with insane behavior.

• Professor

Believed safe but Drama Professor will continue with flirt behavior.

• Streaker

NPCs Who Are Considered Safe

This list consists of all NPCs that are safe to play with and/or add to your household:

• Barista
• Bartender
• Bigfoot (playable version from secret forest vacation lot)

Not to be confused with Bigfoot Bigfoot (NPC), which is an object as listed above.

• Burglar
• Butler
• Cash Register Clerk
• Chef/Cook

Not to be confused with a food stand chef, who is an NPC object.

• Chinese Delivery Person
• Coach
• Delivery Person
• Dining Podium Host
• Exterminator
• Firefighter
• Gardener
• Headmaster
• Landlord
• Maid
• Mail Carrier
• Masseuse
• Newspaper Delivery Person
• Obedience (Pet) Trainer
• Pizza Delivery Person
• Police Officer
• Repairman
• Server/Waiter

Disclaimer

These three lists are still incomplete and more will be added to them in the future.