moving to new town

[Greyark]

Hi, just wondering if someone knows if I move a family to a new town and then want to go back to the old town to move another family to the same town, would that work?

[puzzlezaddict]

Without mods, this won't work. The EA-standard way, when your sims move towns through the phone, the old town and most of its data get deleted. You might still see some stranded bits of info, for example sims left over in the relationship panel, but there's not enough left to recover the sims left behind.

If you want to move multiple households to a new town, you'll want to use NRaas Traveler or Porter. With Traveler, you can travel one set of sims to the new town on vacation and then go through the procedure to change hometowns, as described here:

https://www.nraas.net/Traveler-FAQ#Is-it-possible-to-switch-homeworlds-permanently

You'll find other info about managing the old world in that FAQ as well, but the short version is, you can use MasterController to bring other sims to the new town while your sims are living there, or you can travel back to the old town (with no sims on board) and choose another household to play, then go through the Change Hometown process with them too. The first way is simpler, but sims lose their possessions along the way.

If you don't want any connection to the old world, like you're fine starting a new save but want to preserve multiple houesholds, you can use NRaas Porter to pack the households together. Then quit to desktop, load a new save, and unpack the sims. (They'll initially end up in random houses, so you may want to use MasterController to reassign them.)

This preserves all relationships among the sims that have been packed together, although if two sims are related only through other dead sims, be sure to grab the dead sims' urns and put them in a live sim's inventory first so that the dead sims' info gets transferred too.

[Greyark]

Thank you so much for the reply. This is fantastic. I have a lot of Nraas mods so will definitely go and get the porter. I really appreciate your excellent reply.