Sort-Of Tutorial Rambling: Sims 2 Sims without last names
I'm debating whether I should keep using last names for my sims or just ditch them all. With so many newcomers in Lake Lulla, I've been thinking about this a lot, and - although some of my sims, particularly the mi-Avira line and some of the RPG crossovers, do have last names that are significant to them - I've been secretly annoyed by the need for them since I started playing the Nuidya. Nineteen years ago, nearly.
Using SimPE, it is entirely possible to have a sim with no last name. I just never used that, because I didn't want to break anything. But I've been doing some experimenting over the last few months, and my findings are: Sims 2 does not require last names. Household names, maybe. But not last names. Not once they're out of CAS.
Just like, if you make pets on their own in CAS and don't add a last name, the household will be given the temporary name "Pets" - if a sim with no last name moves out of a household, the new family in the bin will automatically be given the name of the household they left. It doesn't break anything in the slightest! The blank last name field is passed to offspring, the same way it is for pets' litters, and it even works with mods like the Last Name Copier.
I'm loving this discovery, and I think it would add a lot more to my gameplay if I zapped the clan lineage aspect, which has bugged me for the past few generations of LL.










