Why is 90% of all auto-generated townies Japanese with blonde hair?? «12...Next Go

Beardedgeek

Seriously? Still, this long after City Living came out?? I went into Manage Households and virtually all random households were, as always, blonde Japanese Sims. And the rest were heavily overweight middle eastern women.

It's already been reported as a bug several times and nothing has been done, so I assume this is a "feature"... but WHY? It seems to me the randomization process is just borked but nobody cares??

ChadSims2

City Living destroyed townie generating wish there was a way to completely turn off townie spawning.

izecson

I remember the game spawned quite a bit of nice looking sims with just a base game installed, with a city living most townies spawned pear shaped overweight dark skinned blonde with either watanabe or srinivasan in their last name. But I found a workaround in MCCC to let it pull from gallery sim to spawn townies if youre not opposed to that.

texxx78

izecson wrote: »

I remember the game spawned quite a bit of nice looking sims with just a base game installed, with a city living most townies spawned pear shaped overweight dark skinned blonde with either watanabe or srinivasan in their last name. But I found a workaround in MCCC to let it pull from gallery sim to spawn townies if youre not opposed to that.

I'm not using Mc dresser and I didn't opted to pull from the gallery, but since I'm using Mccc townies are dressing much better

ListentoToppDogg

No idea, but they need to do something about it.

Vagenius

I just wish they'd give us the option to turn the generating of townies off. I keep all the premade sims that come with the game in my library as unplayed and I wish they would just use unplayed households to fill jobs at bars etc. I would rather see Don Lothario working at a bar or restaurant than Riko Yamomoto, a blonde haired Asian girl that decides to wear the worst collection of cc she can put together for her oddly shaped body and hideous facial features.

gimmiemoreblair

I don't mind the random townies spawning, but when they have the cc I downloaded on them it just looks really bad. Especially cc that I don't have a mesh to and then I have to go into CAS and fix them. Thats the only annoying part to me.

Cinebar

See this is where I don't understand when people keep requesting for diverse Sims or enthic groups. O.K. great, but they aren't. They all turn into Europeans with other names that possibly don't fit their enthic group of who they are to represent. And then I have to pretend they dyed their hair, and they are very western by not generating with particular facial features which (no matter who wants to argue it), are not indicative to their race. Just slapping a name on a Sim isn't my idea of diversity. Or just a skin color. Like building a Sim and changing the skin tone to black or brown and telling me the Sim is of a specific enthic group. No, either have real diverse Sims or stop generating pretend ones. Also, as far as diversity I see this on the gallery all the time. People build a white Sim then paint it brown, no, sorry, either give the Sim the facial features it would have or stop trying to paint all white Sim brown or black. And they want diversity of cultures...sorry, just dressing in a special outfit isn't my idea of diversity, these Sims should come with thier own traditions, ideas, beliefs and actions and not just a Sim with a name slapped on them, with western habits, and dyed hair or dyed skin.

catitude5

Cinebar wrote: »

See this is where I don't understand when people keep requesting for diverse Sims or enthic groups. O.K. great, but they aren't. They all turn into Europeans with other names that possibly don't fit their enthic group of who they are to represent. And then I have to pretend they dyed their hair, and they are very western by not generating with particular facial features which (no matter who wants to argue it), are not indicative to their race. Just slapping a name on a Sim isn't my idea of diversity. Or just a skin color. Like building a Sim and changing the skin tone to black or brown and telling me the Sim is of a specific enthic group. No, either have real diverse Sims or stop generating pretend ones. Also, as far as diversity I see this on the gallery all the time. People build a white Sim then paint it brown, no, sorry, either give the Sim the facial features it would have or stop trying to paint all white Sim brown or black. And they want diversity of cultures...sorry, just dressing in a special outfit isn't my idea of diversity, these Sims should come with thier own traditions, ideas, beliefs and actions and not just a Sim with a name slapped on them, with western habits, and dyed hair or dyed skin.

Just have what speaks to you. People don't have to fit into a box, I have to have so many of this or that type of person. It's your world people, have whatever you want.

Sk8rblaze

catitude5 wrote: »

Cinebar wrote: »

See this is where I don't understand when people keep requesting for diverse Sims or enthic groups. O.K. great, but they aren't. They all turn into Europeans with other names that possibly don't fit their enthic group of who they are to represent. And then I have to pretend they dyed their hair, and they are very western by not generating with particular facial features which (no matter who wants to argue it), are not indicative to their race. Just slapping a name on a Sim isn't my idea of diversity. Or just a skin color. Like building a Sim and changing the skin tone to black or brown and telling me the Sim is of a specific enthic group. No, either have real diverse Sims or stop generating pretend ones. Also, as far as diversity I see this on the gallery all the time. People build a white Sim then paint it brown, no, sorry, either give the Sim the facial features it would have or stop trying to paint all white Sim brown or black. And they want diversity of cultures...sorry, just dressing in a special outfit isn't my idea of diversity, these Sims should come with thier own traditions, ideas, beliefs and actions and not just a Sim with a name slapped on them, with western habits, and dyed hair or dyed skin.

Just have what speaks to you. People don't have to fit into a box, I have to have so many of this or that type of person. It's your world people, have whatever you want.

It's difficult to have whatever I want when the game is constantly making these choices without my input.

Really, they need more Q&A on live mode in general. It feels like the most neglected part of The Sims 4, which is sad considering it should be the largest. I still can't believe they designed a system as boring and repetitive as whims and then have it disabled by default instead of re-purposing it into something better. Aspirations, the unfortunate main grindy repetitive system of TS4, still has not had improvements that it should have to make it more open-ended and fun with each generation/Sim.

GenerationSimmer

I just spended two hours for downloading en creating the right townies, because the townies are really bad in my game.
They all have the same face, are also Japanese...
And their clothing choice is really really weird. And I mean things like wearing a croptop as a raincoat.

I really hope this will be fixed one day....

anorakblue

I agree, townie generation is definitely skewed and it doesn't encourage townie families to be created. They either need to improve their algorithm for townie creation or make it far easier to add your own townies without the use of mods. It should be pulled from your gallery/downloaded households.

catitude5

Sk8rblaze wrote: »

catitude5 wrote: »

Cinebar wrote: »

See this is where I don't understand when people keep requesting for diverse Sims or enthic groups. O.K. great, but they aren't. They all turn into Europeans with other names that possibly don't fit their enthic group of who they are to represent. And then I have to pretend they dyed their hair, and they are very western by not generating with particular facial features which (no matter who wants to argue it), are not indicative to their race. Just slapping a name on a Sim isn't my idea of diversity. Or just a skin color. Like building a Sim and changing the skin tone to black or brown and telling me the Sim is of a specific enthic group. No, either have real diverse Sims or stop generating pretend ones. Also, as far as diversity I see this on the gallery all the time. People build a white Sim then paint it brown, no, sorry, either give the Sim the facial features it would have or stop trying to paint all white Sim brown or black. And they want diversity of cultures...sorry, just dressing in a special outfit isn't my idea of diversity, these Sims should come with thier own traditions, ideas, beliefs and actions and not just a Sim with a name slapped on them, with western habits, and dyed hair or dyed skin.

Just have what speaks to you. People don't have to fit into a box, I have to have so many of this or that type of person. It's your world people, have whatever you want.

It's difficult to have whatever I want when the game is constantly making these choices without my input.

Really, they need more Q&A on live mode in general. It feels like the most neglected part of The Sims 4, which is sad considering it should be the largest. I still can't believe they designed a system as boring and repetitive as whims and then have it disabled by default instead of re-purposing it into something better. Aspirations, the unfortunate main grindy repetitive system of TS4, still has not had improvements that it should have to make it more open-ended and fun with each generation/Sim.

I delete the generated ones every day. I don't want them in my game. I used to try to fix them up in cas, but it's no use. The game just keeps generating new ones, so out they go as fast as they come in.

CaityTrina

It's a bug they haven't solved. That and then they wear a million accessories since vampires. I end up deleting similar named, horribly dressed ones every so often. And tweaking some so every townie isn't a pear

DoloresGrey

or dark with ginger-red ish hair

logion

I do not know why this hasn't been fixed, You can so clearly see it when other people are playing, for example the sim Supply's super sim Let's Play, he has so many City Living sims in his save now.

I am using mods to deal with this, I am downloading sims from the gallery and putting them in unplayed households, then I have MC Command Center, population set to 0 for everyone and then I am using NPC Control by Paulson. By doing this the game generates much less sims and uses existing ones instead from your unplayed households. So I have sims that I have downloaded from the gallery showing up on the street and as workers instead of generated city living sims.

drakharis

CaityTrina wrote: »

It's a bug they haven't solved. That and then they wear a million accessories since vampires. I end up deleting similar named, horribly dressed ones every so often. And tweaking some so every townie isn't a pear

I want more variety too with names and how they look. The game finds take the nicest looking stuff be it CC or stuff from the game and combines it in the worst way possible

Sk8rblaze

catitude5 wrote: »

Sk8rblaze wrote: »

catitude5 wrote: »

Cinebar wrote: »

See this is where I don't understand when people keep requesting for diverse Sims or enthic groups. O.K. great, but they aren't. They all turn into Europeans with other names that possibly don't fit their enthic group of who they are to represent. And then I have to pretend they dyed their hair, and they are very western by not generating with particular facial features which (no matter who wants to argue it), are not indicative to their race. Just slapping a name on a Sim isn't my idea of diversity. Or just a skin color. Like building a Sim and changing the skin tone to black or brown and telling me the Sim is of a specific enthic group. No, either have real diverse Sims or stop generating pretend ones. Also, as far as diversity I see this on the gallery all the time. People build a white Sim then paint it brown, no, sorry, either give the Sim the facial features it would have or stop trying to paint all white Sim brown or black. And they want diversity of cultures...sorry, just dressing in a special outfit isn't my idea of diversity, these Sims should come with thier own traditions, ideas, beliefs and actions and not just a Sim with a name slapped on them, with western habits, and dyed hair or dyed skin.

Just have what speaks to you. People don't have to fit into a box, I have to have so many of this or that type of person. It's your world people, have whatever you want.

It's difficult to have whatever I want when the game is constantly making these choices without my input.

Really, they need more Q&A on live mode in general. It feels like the most neglected part of The Sims 4, which is sad considering it should be the largest. I still can't believe they designed a system as boring and repetitive as whims and then have it disabled by default instead of re-purposing it into something better. Aspirations, the unfortunate main grindy repetitive system of TS4, still has not had improvements that it should have to make it more open-ended and fun with each generation/Sim.

I delete the generated ones every day. I don't want them in my game. I used to try to fix them up in cas, but it's no use. The game just keeps generating new ones, so out they go as fast as they come in.

I do the same thing. It gets redundant though when I just want to play the game, and even if I do delete them, they come right back. I know mods exist to customize/fix this issue, but I don't believe mods should be a necessity to fix a game's problem.

AlbaWaterhouse

ChadSims2 wrote: »

City Living destroyed townie generating wish there was a way to completely turn off townie spawning.

Honestly, this is one of my most wanted features.

nerdfashion

Here's how I fix it...
1. I go to manage worlds.
2. I go to manage households,
3. I hit that sweet, sweet delete button.

Edit: Not to mention their eggplant body shape... *shudder*

Plumbeeb

> @ChadSims2 said:
> City Living destroyed townie generating wish there was a way to completely turn off townie spawning.

I agree and I hope it's a feature they patch in at some point. I like my gameplay to consist of pre-made Sims already in the world or Sims from the pack trailers.

Oldeseadogge

You forgot the word 'old'. Most of the townies my game generates are elders. Have seen reports from other players that are havng the same issue.

AlbaWaterhouse

nerdfashion wrote: »

Here's how I fix it...
1. I go to manage worlds.
2. I go to manage households,
3. I hit that sweet, sweet delete button.

The problem with this is that new ones will be generated, no matter what.

catitude5

Sk8rblaze wrote: »

catitude5 wrote: »

Sk8rblaze wrote: »

catitude5 wrote: »

Cinebar wrote: »

See this is where I don't understand when people keep requesting for diverse Sims or enthic groups. O.K. great, but they aren't. They all turn into Europeans with other names that possibly don't fit their enthic group of who they are to represent. And then I have to pretend they dyed their hair, and they are very western by not generating with particular facial features which (no matter who wants to argue it), are not indicative to their race. Just slapping a name on a Sim isn't my idea of diversity. Or just a skin color. Like building a Sim and changing the skin tone to black or brown and telling me the Sim is of a specific enthic group. No, either have real diverse Sims or stop generating pretend ones. Also, as far as diversity I see this on the gallery all the time. People build a white Sim then paint it brown, no, sorry, either give the Sim the facial features it would have or stop trying to paint all white Sim brown or black. And they want diversity of cultures...sorry, just dressing in a special outfit isn't my idea of diversity, these Sims should come with thier own traditions, ideas, beliefs and actions and not just a Sim with a name slapped on them, with western habits, and dyed hair or dyed skin.

Just have what speaks to you. People don't have to fit into a box, I have to have so many of this or that type of person. It's your world people, have whatever you want.

It's difficult to have whatever I want when the game is constantly making these choices without my input.

Really, they need more Q&A on live mode in general. It feels like the most neglected part of The Sims 4, which is sad considering it should be the largest. I still can't believe they designed a system as boring and repetitive as whims and then have it disabled by default instead of re-purposing it into something better. Aspirations, the unfortunate main grindy repetitive system of TS4, still has not had improvements that it should have to make it more open-ended and fun with each generation/Sim.

I delete the generated ones every day. I don't want them in my game. I used to try to fix them up in cas, but it's no use. The game just keeps generating new ones, so out they go as fast as they come in.

I do the same thing. It gets redundant though when I just want to play the game, and even if I do delete them, they come right back. I know mods exist to customize/fix this issue, but I don't believe mods should be a necessity to fix a game's problem.

I'm hoping that in sims5 we can either make our own townies or maybe have a list we can pick from instead of the game generating these ugly things.

catitude5

AlbaWaterhouse wrote: »

nerdfashion wrote: »

Here's how I fix it...
1. I go to manage worlds.
2. I go to manage households,
3. I hit that sweet, sweet delete button.

The problem with this is that new ones will be generated, no matter what.

I tried fixing them, and the game just makes more. Why doesn't it use the ones we fixed?

rienremi

I want different looking Sims, I don't want just extremly beatiful sims, but a variety like in real Life. That's my problem with the gallery that every one looks like a Beauty contestant.