I didn't have many custom families in my world, so I often met random townies at public lots. I decided to fill all the empty houses and lots with households I created myself and downloaded some from the gallery, to increase the chances of seeing a familiar face. Every single lot is now inhabited by mostly new, non-original sims.
I sent my Sim to the nightclub, to see if it had any effect. Yay, hardly any random townies! In fact, it looked like all the Dragon Age companions came out to have a drink and dance. My Sim met Leliana, danced with Sten, had an unpleasant conversation with Anders, cracked some jokes with Oghren and ordered a drink for Alistair. So far, so good. Nice to see someone I know.
Next night, my Sim felt like going out again, so I headed to the nightclub. Looks like those Dragon Age people really enjoyed the night before, because they were there again in full force. Sim had a good time, but was a bit disappointed she didn't meet anyone new.
Then it looked like the Dragon Age peeps made the nightclub their own. Whether I came there during the morning, afternoon, evening or night, always the same people. Tried to mix it up by going to the bar, but the bar is always filled with random townies and Vladimir Putin. Decided to visit the lounge, but that one's filled with old people. I hardly see any other custom people in other public lots.
I noticed my Sim had gained some weight, so I sent her to the gym for a workout. She was running on a treadmill when I saw Alistair, in his tight boxers, walk into the place. This is my chance! If he's going to do a workout now, he won't be in the nightclub! Took the cab to the club, and guess what? Alistair is dancing right there. And Sten, Oghren etc. enter the building soon after.
I tried to move the Companions to another lot, tried changing the lounge into a nightclub to see if the other nightclub simply had an irresistable effect on them (nope, they still showed up), I even evicted them to put them in the "not in the world" map, hoping the chances of them appearing would be lower. Nope, nope, nope. My only option would be to delete them, but most of them are friends with my Sim (duh, hard to not become friends when you see eachother so often). Though I am curious to see who'll occupy the nightclubs next when they are gone :p
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tl;dr: Do you ever see the same sims in specific places over and over again?
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If they are the sims I have created, as in your example, I like this a lot.
Yep; Nancy, Geoffrey, Bob, and Mortimer go to every single lot that my Sim goes. It means that they take up those four slots that my Sim could have seen somebody new. She doesn't meet them, I just send her to the lots so I can Sim watch. It's not much fun when it's the same Sims at every single lot.
I have 40 single Sims living in 5 "townie" houses that I created. I never see them anywhere, kind of disappointing. I just see the EA pre-mades that I evicted to make room for my own Sims.
It's my theory the community lots aren't resetting themselves because I have the same problem but it's my own played Sims at the gym still there though I have went back and actually played them since then. I fear these are merely copies left on community lots like the bug in the Apartment Life EP for TS2, when you evicted townies etc. to get the apartment you wanted the game left copies of Sims behind. I really think the community lots aren't resetting sometimes.
Try sending them to the lots and see if the game will start switching them out. I only have this problem on a few lots, not all, So that was my concern that maybe particular community lots aren't resetting. I mean they are already there when I get there, not like others are describing showing up after they get there. My problem is they are already there. I don't think they ever left in several Sim weeks.
I don't think it's the lots not resetting. I had my sim go to every community lot. At some lots it was only the same group of sims were there or they would come there. At others it would be one or two of that group then some EA generated townies. I have about 25 - 30 sims in the townie bin I either haven't seen or have only seen once.
Excel visual: 38.media.tumblr.com/d42531eb6e5237191d5921b1b99171eb/tumblr_ndfy0uLNgS1s873l7o1_1280.png (I can't post links yet, copy paste into browser, hope it works)
The amount of times sims showed up per household:
Fenris 4/4
Anders 4/4
Varric 3/4
Aveline 2/4
Summer 3/4
Liberty 1/4
Zoe 3/4
J Huntington 1/4
Gavin 1/4
Beth 2/4
Snoop Dogg 2/4
Luke 1/4
Alvin 2/4
Rebecca 2/4
Schama 1/4
Snow White 1/4
Anna 1/4
Philip 1/4
Random single townies (not counting mixologists):
Maxim 3/4
Esmee 2/4
Iris 2/4
Marjolein 2/4
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Now that the Origins companions have been deleted, 4 of the Dragon Age 2 sims are enjoying the spotlight. (tbh, Anders was present a lot too before I purged the Origins people). There's hardly any variation in the people that show up and I don't think that's supposed to happen. Even the randomly generated townies are mostly the same. There are so many more sims in my 2 worlds, but I never see them. If it wasn't such a chore, I'd do this 'scientific experiment' (lol) at the other venues too, but I think this is pretty clear, since the Origins characters were hogging up all the space before their deletion. I think it's easier (and creepier) to meet new sims by just walking to their houses and knocking on their doors than to visit public lots. "Hello, I had a vision that the sim of my dreams lives here, mind if I chill at your place for a while?"
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And sims you've met/are friends with showing up more often is stupid. It defeats the purpose of going out and meeting new people if you keep seeing the same sims at that place. Keep in mind that I've never run into those sims at other venues, just the nightclub.
This is me... sort of. My sims do occasionally run into other sims that I created, but not very often
I agree.
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It's also such a drag to delete those townies every now and then, one by one.