Mods for Custom Hood Players / Makers
A while ago I shared a video of my must have mods for playing custom hoods in The Sims 2. I decided to make a Tumblr post with all of the links now, just so you can get to the mods easier. These mods are not mandatory but they'll improve the experience of playing a custom hood in TS2 big time!
Watch this video to learn how to get rid of invading townies and stealth hood families!
Anti-Redundancy: It keeps the game from generating NPCs that aren't needed. The game usually creates 3 NPCs for each NPC category, so 3 maids, 3 drivers, etc. If the hood already has at least one NPC from a specific type, the game won't create other 2.
No Townie Regen: Stops the creation of new townies. The ones that already exist won't be affected, but no new townie will be generated.
No Townie Neighbours: Townies won't rent apartments.
Townie No Memory Loss: Townies won't lose memories when they move in. This is useful for custom hoods with customized townies.
No Stray Respawns: Stops the game from generating new stray pets.
No NPC Revert: When creating custom NPCs, we can give them any outfit we want, but the game will automatically give them their classic NPC uniform. This mod stops that. Useful for themed custom hoods, like a horror hood where the Social Bunny is a creepy doll or something.
No Rod Humble: Well I guess this one is pretty self explanatory.
No Greeting NPCs: No more visits from the garden club members or the gypsy.
Four NPC Expurgators: This bans the Unsavory Charlatan, the Penguin, the Skunk and the Good/Bad Witches from appearing on lots.
No Wolves: Stops the game from generating wolves, including the leader of the pack.
No Hobby Stalkers: Random Sims will not longer invade your Sims' properties to invite them for a "secret hobby lot". That's creep!
No Bunny: Kills the Social Bunny. Useful for more realistic hoods.
Marriage Post-Mortem: Keeps couples married in the family tree even after death.
No Vacation Locals/Tourists Regen: For custom vacation hoods. It stops the game from generating locals or tourists townies.
No dormie regen: For custom universities. Stops the game from generating new dormies.
No Secret Society Respawning: For custom universities. Stops the game from generating new secret society members.
There Can Be Only One Professor: The game will generate or keep solely one professor per major.
Hood Checker: This is a must have tool for hood makers. It helps you get rid of corruption, buggy relationships, references or memories in your hoods before making them available for download.
Infant face genetics: This gives infant face genetics to Sims created by you, meaning their little babies will have unique faces instead of the classic one. Such a cool feature to have in a custom hood!
Custom sliders: Yes, all of them! A must when creating unique Sims for custom hoods.
Custom Animated Neighborhood Previews: This is a tool so we can create our own neighborhood little videos in the "Choose a Neighborhood to Play" screen or something lol!
InSIMenator: My number one controller mod. Crazy useful when creating the hood, settling the families and stuff.
SimPE: Perhaps THE tool for custom hood makers. A lot can be customized with SimPE, including Sims' sexualities, skills, relationships, MEMORIES, family ties, star signs, jobs, college, tokens, even the hood's map now!
Restore Default Names for Sims in Subneighbohoods: Okay so honestly til this day I'm not sure about what this does, but it is probably useful, so here it is.
This mods are not mandatory. They won't make sense for everybody! But I still think you should get them, specially if you're playing a themed hood, or a hood made by me - where everything was fully customized - so there's my list. Any related mod I missed? Please let me know! <3