Hi! I recently started a new game in Belladona Cove! I installed the clean template before beggining, and everything seemed normal until I noticed some sims are duplicating/cloning themselves?
It seems that it happens fairly often from some other threads I've read, with some solutions. I checked on SimPE and looks like every duplicate is considered a different sim by the game?
Checking on SimPE I noticed a lot of duplicates are from the garden club, for example. Also all duplicates seem to be townies.
As the title says, I was wondering if I could simply change the duplicate sims names in either SimPE or in-game with some mod, along with their clothes so it stops looking like the same sim. Would it be safe? What's the best way to go about it?
Thanks in advance!

If the duplicates are indeed different Sims, yes, it would be safe to change their names.

I'm gonna do that (and another backup just in case), thank you!