Here's two of my sims as the game generated them. Lance and Siya:
I went and took control of Lance and THIS is what he should look like out on the town.....
This is what Siya should look like:
And this is what they did to Frank this time....
Seriously.....how are we supposed to play with this and enjoy seeing our sims that WE worked hard on look like this???
Wait, they actually gave him make-up too? Also look at poor Caleb Vatore, looking so uncomfortable in those clothes. Poor Sims.
Lance? Well, I get why he's wearing makeup. He's my female impersonator sim, so he dresses up as female when he's singing. lol But he doesn't always dress that way. When not performing, he dresses as male.
My Sim was asked to go on a date at a nightclub today... I hesitantly accepted, bracing myself for the things I'd see there. But surprisingly, this time most of my Sims were actually spared! The only one who showed up in the classic hat + glasses outfit was Eliza Pancakes. The nightclub wasn't packed, exactly, as it was barely 8 PM lol, but the few party-goers I saw mostly looked fine.
Very strange.
Edit: Never mind. This abomination just walked through the door.
I honestly can't think of a situation where they thought that this was a good design to implement. I love this game, I really do, but MAN I'm so tired of having to rely on mod creators to undo the decisions that Maxis made. Normally I hesitate to throw around words like "lazy" when talking about game devs, but in this case, that's the only solution to the question of "How is this working as intended?" that I can think of.
Also, thanks to whoever pointed out that parties broke in the last patch too. That would explain why my sims just threw a terrible birthday party. I guess it's time for me to go back to hiding in build mode again until some of these gameplay bugs are fixed. I refuse to accept their excuse that sims showing up wearing crazy nonsense outfits is anything other than a bug!
I thought this was caused by a mod in my game! I went through my mods first before looking this up, haha My sims don't often go to clubs these days since I've got toddlers and pets now, so I wasn't aware that this was now by design.
I agree that it's unusual. If they had to put in the situational outfits mechanic, why not put them in their Party wear if not their Everyday? I always go through my townies to give them makeovers. It was tragic seeing so many of my townies crazily dressed. I forgive my aliens for looking ridiculous because those sweet intergalactic creatures don't know any better of our Earth ways, and I forgive my vampires since I like to assume they've been living under a rock so they're just trying to figure out what's "hip," but my humans that grew up in my game have no leeway. No excuses.
I also didn't mind festival outfits since the only times I'd ever go to the more "damaging" ones like the romance festival is if my sim is trying to make a love connection, or spice festival if they're trying to score free dinner. (I only really go to GeekCon or the Flea market when I have the chance to.)
But really, seeing everyone at the club coming in sober with the way they're dressed makes me concerned. I mean, several of my sims have the Insane trait, but a majority of them are mean snobs. They wouldn't be caught dead wearing... Whatever they're wearing.
I've been having a lot of bugs after the new patch and since the first question asked is always if I have mods I've taken them all out for now so I have to suffer without MCCC. I think that LittleMsSam might have a lot trait mod you can specify the outfit category sims wear but I could be wrong. I hope Deaderpool can add it to the other situational outfits in MCCC... once I can put it back in.
Nope, you are correct. She does have a mod that will specify the outfit for Sims to wear on the particular lot, which, off-topic to the topic at hand, I highly recommend. Was tired of getting no use out of party outfits, especially since they would be perfect for use at night clubs.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work on its own for NPCs with this new change. However, I think I did find a work around, if you do have LittleMsSam's Dress Code mod and MCCC.
For me, I have a night club that I have set with the Party outfit dress code through LittleMsSam's mod. My Sim comes in her party outfit, but the NPCs still come in random outfits. However, with MCCC, if I go to 'Modify Household in CAS' on any Sim, and just click the check mark to 'Play', when I get back in-game, it does switch everyone over to their party outfits. Unfortunately, I still do have to do it every time someone new shows up for them to switch over too.
I think the random outfits can be fun, but I can also see how it would get annoying after a while. Would be cool to see the random outfit become one of the lot trait dress code choices in LittleMsSam's mod, but not so much as the only option for the game itself.
Anyway, not sure if anyone already mentioned the work around in this thread (too lazy to read through all the pages), but it seems to work for me. It's a pain, but it's something until there's an official fix or an actual mod fix.
On a related note, Candy Behr has come in some pretty fun outfits for me during my testing
Also, here's the link to the Dress Code mod. Again, highly recommended, even outside of this issue Dress Code | Custom Lot Traits
I haven't commented on here for ages, but I had to come to add my voice to this issue. I take the time to create, dress, and even assign jobs to almost all of the Sims in my games. I certainly don't want to see all that time wasted by having those Sims show up in these ridiculous outfit combinations that no one in their right mind would wear. A little creative license is fine, but it's like they went out of their way to make these combos as ridiculous as possible. When it comes to my Sims, I am a control freak, and if I have no control I don't even want to play. May be time to go back to Sims 3.
i took a Sim to a bar today, and all NPCs showed up in their everyday clothes.
my favourite venue is The Blue Velvet (which i think is a nightclub) and i don't want my Sims to stop going there. so i said 🐸🐸🐸🐸 it, and sacrificed my... not wanting a TV there. i added one to meet the requirements, so as to change the venue type to "bar", and all Sims now spawn wearing their everyday outfits. so far.
(now, if i could only stop Grim from showing up every. single. day...)
i took a Sim to a bar today, and all NPCs showed up in their everyday clothes.
my favourite venue is The Blue Velvet (which i think is a nightclub) and i don't want my Sims to stop going there. so i said plum it, and sacrificed my... not wanting a TV there. i added one to meet the requirements, so as to change the venue type to "bar", and all Sims now spawn wearing their everyday outfits. so far.
(now, if i could only stop Grim from showing up every. single. day...)
FWIW, you can bury the tv underground and the bar will still function.
EA CREATOR NETWORK MEMBER — Want to be notified of patches, new Broken Mods threads, and urgent Sims 4 news? Follow me at https://www.patreon.com/luthienrising.
i took a Sim to a bar today, and all NPCs showed up in their everyday clothes.
my favourite venue is The Blue Velvet (which i think is a nightclub) and i don't want my Sims to stop going there. so i said plum it, and sacrificed my... not wanting a TV there. i added one to meet the requirements, so as to change the venue type to "bar", and all Sims now spawn wearing their everyday outfits. so far.
(now, if i could only stop Grim from showing up every. single. day...)
If you have MCCC, you can disable "Reaper Stalking." Not sure where that setting is, though... I think it's under MC Population somewhere!
My God. I knew that this was a problem and all this time I've been understanding that this was a bug yet to be patched. Now I'm just furious that it's apparently "by design" and isn't a bug. How awful... This ruins the game.
Hahaha, the fact that so many people thought it was a bug, shows how awful their decision was. I mean seriously, who is making all these decisions? Have they never played the Sims, or know what the games about. The sims should be a game where you can live out any life you desire in any way you want. Or play god and do what ever you want to the town and it's citizens. This game is turning out like a bad reality tv show i'm forced to watch. People should keep sending bug reports of this anyway. It will probably be a faster way of getting this 'design choice' removed.
@lottevdbrug"I'm not saying that I didn't care at all about that festival outfits glitch - I hated it, but with MCCC there was such an easy fix. You just go to situational outfits, and select everyday or party clothing for these festivals and you're done. "
Oh my gosh!!! I've been using MCCC forever, and I had no idea that was an option. THANK YOU!! I quit playing because of this glitch and now I can play again. MCCC doesn't cure everything, but at least it makes it bearable.......somewhat.
I've been having a lot of bugs after the new patch and since the first question asked is always if I have mods I've taken them all out for now so I have to suffer without MCCC. I think that LittleMsSam might have a lot trait mod you can specify the outfit category sims wear but I could be wrong. I hope Deaderpool can add it to the other situational outfits in MCCC... once I can put it back in.
Nope, you are correct. She does have a mod that will specify the outfit for Sims to wear on the particular lot, which, off-topic to the topic at hand, I highly recommend. Was tired of getting no use out of party outfits, especially since they would be perfect for use at night clubs.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work on its own for NPCs with this new change. However, I think I did find a work around, if you do have LittleMsSam's Dress Code mod and MCCC.
For me, I have a night club that I have set with the Party outfit dress code through LittleMsSam's mod. My Sim comes in her party outfit, but the NPCs still come in random outfits. However, with MCCC, if I go to 'Modify Household in CAS' on any Sim, and just click the check mark to 'Play', when I get back in-game, it does switch everyone over to their party outfits. Unfortunately, I still do have to do it every time someone new shows up for them to switch over too.
I think the random outfits can be fun, but I can also see how it would get annoying after a while. Would be cool to see the random outfit become one of the lot trait dress code choices in LittleMsSam's mod, but not so much as the only option for the game itself.
Anyway, not sure if anyone already mentioned the work around in this thread (too lazy to read through all the pages), but it seems to work for me. It's a pain, but it's something until there's an official fix or an actual mod fix.
On a related note, Candy Behr has come in some pretty fun outfits for me during my testing
Also, here's the link to the Dress Code mod. Again, highly recommended, even outside of this issue Dress Code | Custom Lot Traits
Is this mod working with the current patch? The last one I tried made my game lag. If it works I’ll just add casual clothing lot trait to all the clubs. Too bad it won’t do anything for dance parties though.
1. We have to endure the outfits the devs forced on OUR sims or
2. We are forced to use Mods.
How pathetic for an expensive so called triple A game.....
@MidnightAura
Thank god, this old notebook can run sims 2 ! So the money I would have spent for the console version of sims 4 with the DLCs, I save for the new PC. (It still will take a few months, but I'm looking forward to see my sims 3 again )
What this team clearly totally fails to understand, is that simmers want to control their game. That’s what this franchise is about even, that’s what sets it apart from other games. I’m convinced they’ll solve this particular issue, the backlash is unanimous. They can’t ignore it. But for the future I suggest each and every dev sticks a memo to their computer, saying: “Before doing anything, keep in mind they want to rule.”
I cannot understand the point of those random outfits, it's so annoying. The Custom Lot Traits of LittleMsSam is helpfull but it's not a solution : people are still coming in weard outfits in front of our clubs. I hope MC dresser will get to this quite soon ... ... or a EA patch maybe if we're not alone to grouse about it.
> @SoapSuds said: > Rainydayz179 wrote: » > > I've been having a lot of bugs after the new patch and since the first question asked is always if I have mods I've taken them all out for now so I have to suffer without MCCC. I think that LittleMsSam might have a lot trait mod you can specify the outfit category sims wear but I could be wrong. I hope Deaderpool can add it to the other situational outfits in MCCC... once I can put it back in. :'( > > > > > Nope, you are correct. She does have a mod that will specify the outfit for Sims to wear on the particular lot, which, off-topic to the topic at hand, I highly recommend. Was tired of getting no use out of party outfits, especially since they would be perfect for use at night clubs. > > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work on its own for NPCs with this new change. However, I think I did find a work around, if you do have LittleMsSam's Dress Code mod and MCCC. > > For me, I have a night club that I have set with the Party outfit dress code through LittleMsSam's mod. My Sim comes in her party outfit, but the NPCs still come in random outfits. However, with MCCC, if I go to 'Modify Household in CAS' on any Sim, and just click the check mark to 'Play', when I get back in-game, it does switch everyone over to their party outfits. Unfortunately, I still do have to do it every time someone new shows up for them to switch over too. > > I think the random outfits can be fun, but I can also see how it would get annoying after a while. Would be cool to see the random outfit become one of the lot trait dress code choices in LittleMsSam's mod, but not so much as the only option for the game itself. > > Anyway, not sure if anyone already mentioned the work around in this thread (too lazy to read through all the pages), but it seems to work for me. It's a pain, but it's something until there's an official fix or an actual mod fix. > > On a related note, Candy Behr has come in some pretty fun outfits for me during my testing > > > > > Also, here's the link to the Dress Code mod. Again, highly recommended, even outside of this issue > Dress Code | Custom Lot Traits
Thank you for this! I installed it, and it does a pretty good job of removing those nasty stupid outfits. Now if I could find something to keep those pets out of places like clubs and stuff, I'd be even more happy. But this mod works pretty well. Some get by, but seem to change within minutes of being in the venue. I like the little button the mod puts in your inventory so you can change sims that refuse to change. great find! Thanks!
i WHOLE heartedly agree. i have completely stopped sending my sims to nightclubs because of this. The outfits are hideous. My sims have personalities and characters according to their story lines that are reflected in their attire. So i guess the devs just figured we don't get to play how we want and they were going to over rule us with absurdities? i can't imagine what they were thinking with this.
Yes please, this is ruining my life. I play where EVERYTHING in the game is my own creation. No pre-made sims, houses, and eventually planning to replace all the venues as well. I have 216 total sims along with a mod that reduces townie generation, so I put a whole lot of effort into each and every one of my sim's outfits.
Honestly though I have more faith in modders than I do in Maxis when it comes to fixing stuff in their game. Oh wait, this doesn't need fixing since it's by design! I still don't know what made them think this was a good idea after confirming that the situation outfits in festivals were more of a bug. I mean really, because of that, it should've been obvious to them that situational outfits were a terrible idea, and then they thought to expand on this concept even more? This really makes me want to take a break until a mod is out that fixes this. I hate seeing my own sims and having my imaginations for them to be completely ruined. I didn't make them out to be clowns, and if I did then I would just do that myself. Let me have the control I'm supposed to have, and stop ruining my storylines by switching my sim's occupations to circus freaks.
Got linked to this thread from Twitter today. Sims should not be showing up with hats and accessories 100% of the time, we'll take a look at what's going on. Thanks for the reports.
Comments
Lance? Well, I get why he's wearing makeup. He's my female impersonator sim, so he dresses up as female when he's singing. lol But he doesn't always dress that way. When not performing, he dresses as male.
My Sim was asked to go on a date at a nightclub today... I hesitantly accepted, bracing myself for the things I'd see there. But surprisingly, this time most of my Sims were actually spared! The only one who showed up in the classic hat + glasses outfit was Eliza Pancakes. The nightclub wasn't packed, exactly, as it was barely 8 PM lol, but the few party-goers I saw mostly looked fine.
Edit: Never mind. This abomination just walked through the door.
Also, thanks to whoever pointed out that parties broke in the last patch too. That would explain why my sims just threw a terrible birthday party. I guess it's time for me to go back to hiding in build mode again until some of these gameplay bugs are fixed. I refuse to accept their excuse that sims showing up wearing crazy nonsense outfits is anything other than a bug!
You can find me on the gallery at MrsTomato1018!
You can find me on Twitter @MrsTomato1018!
I agree that it's unusual. If they had to put in the situational outfits mechanic, why not put them in their Party wear if not their Everyday? I always go through my townies to give them makeovers. It was tragic seeing so many of my townies crazily dressed. I forgive my aliens for looking ridiculous because those sweet intergalactic creatures don't know any better of our Earth ways, and I forgive my vampires since I like to assume they've been living under a rock so they're just trying to figure out what's "hip," but my humans that grew up in my game have no leeway. No excuses.
I also didn't mind festival outfits since the only times I'd ever go to the more "damaging" ones like the romance festival is if my sim is trying to make a love connection, or spice festival if they're trying to score free dinner. (I only really go to GeekCon or the Flea market when I have the chance to.)
But really, seeing everyone at the club coming in sober with the way they're dressed makes me concerned. I mean, several of my sims have the Insane trait, but a majority of them are mean snobs. They wouldn't be caught dead wearing... Whatever they're wearing.
I hope they look into this.
Twitter . Gallery . Simblr
🌌 Remember Me Until Tomorrow - Ongoing || 🔪 White Lies and Half Truths - Hiatus
Nope, you are correct. She does have a mod that will specify the outfit for Sims to wear on the particular lot, which, off-topic to the topic at hand, I highly recommend. Was tired of getting no use out of party outfits, especially since they would be perfect for use at night clubs.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work on its own for NPCs with this new change. However, I think I did find a work around, if you do have LittleMsSam's Dress Code mod and MCCC.
For me, I have a night club that I have set with the Party outfit dress code through LittleMsSam's mod. My Sim comes in her party outfit, but the NPCs still come in random outfits. However, with MCCC, if I go to 'Modify Household in CAS' on any Sim, and just click the check mark to 'Play', when I get back in-game, it does switch everyone over to their party outfits. Unfortunately, I still do have to do it every time someone new shows up for them to switch over too.
I think the random outfits can be fun, but I can also see how it would get annoying after a while. Would be cool to see the random outfit become one of the lot trait dress code choices in LittleMsSam's mod, but not so much as the only option for the game itself.
Anyway, not sure if anyone already mentioned the work around in this thread (too lazy to read through all the pages), but it seems to work for me. It's a pain, but it's something until there's an official fix or an actual mod fix.
On a related note, Candy Behr has come in some pretty fun outfits for me during my testing
Also, here's the link to the Dress Code mod. Again, highly recommended, even outside of this issue
Dress Code | Custom Lot Traits
my favourite venue is The Blue Velvet (which i think is a nightclub) and i don't want my Sims to stop going there. so i said 🐸🐸🐸🐸 it, and sacrificed my... not wanting a TV there. i added one to meet the requirements, so as to change the venue type to "bar", and all Sims now spawn wearing their everyday outfits. so far.
(now, if i could only stop Grim from showing up every. single. day...)
FWIW, you can bury the tv underground and the bar will still function.
If you have MCCC, you can disable "Reaper Stalking." Not sure where that setting is, though... I think it's under MC Population somewhere!
i do wonder what caused him to show up everywhere from one day to the next...
Oh my gosh!!! I've been using MCCC forever, and I had no idea that was an option. THANK YOU!! I quit playing because of this glitch and now I can play again. MCCC doesn't cure everything, but at least it makes it bearable.......somewhat.
Is this mod working with the current patch? The last one I tried made my game lag. If it works I’ll just add casual clothing lot trait to all the clubs. Too bad it won’t do anything for dance parties though.
Then we have Joaquin who actually does wear a hat, bracelet, earrings and loud attire dressed normal.
At the romance festival Don turned up in a costume.
So, it looks like there are two solutions :
1. We have to endure the outfits the devs forced on OUR sims or
2. We are forced to use Mods.
How pathetic for an expensive so called triple A game.....
@MidnightAura
Thank god, this old notebook can run sims 2 ! So the money I would have spent for the console version of sims 4 with the DLCs, I save for the new PC. (It still will take a few months, but I'm looking forward to see my sims 3 again
The Custom Lot Traits of LittleMsSam is helpfull but it's not a solution : people are still coming in weard outfits in front of our clubs.
I hope MC dresser will get to this quite soon ...
... or a EA patch maybe if we're not alone to grouse about it.
> Rainydayz179 wrote: »
>
> I've been having a lot of bugs after the new patch and since the first question asked is always if I have mods I've taken them all out for now so I have to suffer without MCCC. I think that LittleMsSam might have a lot trait mod you can specify the outfit category sims wear but I could be wrong. I hope Deaderpool can add it to the other situational outfits in MCCC... once I can put it back in. :'(
>
>
>
>
> Nope, you are correct. She does have a mod that will specify the outfit for Sims to wear on the particular lot, which, off-topic to the topic at hand, I highly recommend. Was tired of getting no use out of party outfits, especially since they would be perfect for use at night clubs.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work on its own for NPCs with this new change. However, I think I did find a work around, if you do have LittleMsSam's Dress Code mod and MCCC.
>
> For me, I have a night club that I have set with the Party outfit dress code through LittleMsSam's mod. My Sim comes in her party outfit, but the NPCs still come in random outfits. However, with MCCC, if I go to 'Modify Household in CAS' on any Sim, and just click the check mark to 'Play', when I get back in-game, it does switch everyone over to their party outfits. Unfortunately, I still do have to do it every time someone new shows up for them to switch over too.
>
> I think the random outfits can be fun, but I can also see how it would get annoying after a while. Would be cool to see the random outfit become one of the lot trait dress code choices in LittleMsSam's mod, but not so much as the only option for the game itself.
>
> Anyway, not sure if anyone already mentioned the work around in this thread (too lazy to read through all the pages), but it seems to work for me. It's a pain, but it's something until there's an official fix or an actual mod fix.
>
> On a related note, Candy Behr has come in some pretty fun outfits for me during my testing
>
>
>
>
> Also, here's the link to the Dress Code mod. Again, highly recommended, even outside of this issue
> Dress Code | Custom Lot Traits
Thank you for this! I installed it, and it does a pretty good job of removing those nasty stupid outfits. Now if I could find something to keep those pets out of places like clubs and stuff, I'd be even more happy. But this mod works pretty well. Some get by, but seem to change within minutes of being in the venue. I like the little button the mod puts in your inventory so you can change sims that refuse to change. great find! Thanks!
here's the blue haired in her actual party outfit
i am not sure if i made her myself or downloaded from the gallery
Honestly though I have more faith in modders than I do in Maxis when it comes to fixing stuff in their game. Oh wait, this doesn't need fixing since it's by design! I still don't know what made them think this was a good idea after confirming that the situation outfits in festivals were more of a bug. I mean really, because of that, it should've been obvious to them that situational outfits were a terrible idea, and then they thought to expand on this concept even more? This really makes me want to take a break until a mod is out that fixes this. I hate seeing my own sims and having my imaginations for them to be completely ruined. I didn't make them out to be clowns, and if I did then I would just do that myself. Let me have the control I'm supposed to have, and stop ruining my storylines by switching my sim's occupations to circus freaks.
@Rukola_Schaaf, i like her look. i have a blue-haired bartender in my game!