So ever since the latest patch (on November 7) was released, Sims have been wearing these strange, all but ridiculous outfits at nightclubs. I immediately made a bug report about this; I didn't care much about these outfits being worn at festivals as there was an easy fix and I didn't visit festivals that much anyway, but to have these outfits be worn by our own Sims at nightclubs, I really did
not like that. So I was entirely sure that this was a bug - after all,
every Sim was forced to wear strange hats and glasses and they simply looked utterly ridiculous. However, I was then told that this was actually "by design." I don't mind townies walking around in strange clothes, but premades and our own Sims actually have outfits assigned to them in CAS, so WHY are they forced to wear these clothes? Why can't they just wear their assigned outfits instead of these ones, which I think I can say with certainty nobody asked for nor wants?
Here's the bug report on EA:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Weirdly-dress-NPCs-at-festivals-night-clubs-parties/td-p/6403878
I'm quite angered by the fact that these outfits are "by design," as I
DON'T want to see my own Sims walk around in such ridiculous clothes. I was told that since this isn't a bug, I should post my opinion about this in the feedback section. So my opinion here is: please, for the love of god, let Sims wear the outfits
we assigned for them at nightclubs but also any other venue, instead of these situational outfits with forced hats and glasses that look like circus wear. Why do we even have the option to assign outfits to our Sims if they aren't going to be used?
I'd much rather my Sim (the guy on the left) look like this...
...than this, which is what he initially showed up. I had to let my Sim ask to see his assigned party outfit to change it.
EDIT: A SimGuru has confirmed that this was not actually intentional, and they are currently working on a fix
where Sims show up in party outfits at nightclubs.ANOTHER LATE EDIT (sorry for being so horribly lazy with keeping this post up to date): The issue where Sims wore ridiculous outfits at nightclubs and parties was fixed in the last patch (Dec. 12); Sims should now be wearing their assigned party outfits. Romance festivals outfits also don't look as horrible anymore, but there are still Simmers not happy about the fact that their Sims' outfits are changed at all (for the Romance festival).
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It should NOT be a game feature or "by design" !
Please fix this!
This is what they did to my well-dressed, quiet but friendly, owner of a fine dining establishment! He would NEVER go out in public like that!
Leave MY sims alone!!
I absolutely agree with everything the OP has said. This "design" is unnecessary, ridicules and forced on players. This makes the party outfits mostly obsolete now. More options and more customization will always be a win for me, which I think most simmers will agree with.
I always wanted customized dress codes for venues in the sims. The way we can customize a dress code for our restaurants is what I want for all public venues (nightclub, lounges, bars, etc). If modders can make this possible for simmers with dress code mods, I cant see why paid professionals at EA can not do the same.
Please fix this. I am one of those simmers who cares a lot on how all my sims look in town. This game design feature is forcibly assaulting my eyes and my way of playing.
I just want to dress my sims the I want them to dress.
If you have MC Command Center, there's a setting to make sure Sims wear their normal everyday clothes at festivals. I haven't put MCC back into my game after the patch broke it so I'm not sure, but I sure hope that I can use MCC to change these outfits at nightclubs too. But like others have said, I'm very disappointed that we need modders at all to make our Sims look actually decent.
i've brought this up recently and was told that it was by design, that it was how NPCs always behaved when the game spawned them. well. all i can say is, i take my Sims to the same venue almost daily (storyline rules, ha) and never before this patch have i seen this ubiquitous hat-glasses combo on everyone. i don't understand why the game has to generate an extra outfit. it seems like more (unnecessary) work.
many of my unplayed households meet my active Sims there, so i certainly remember the outfits i chose for them. also, since i only own the base game and the Fitness SP, you can imagine it gets boring in there soon. i'd rather avoid a "how dare you wear the same feather hat as me?" fight.
thank you.
I cancel my preorder for the console version, because we won't be able to use mods. And I would like to have a sim game, where I CAN CHOOSE the way my sims are looking !!!
This is disgusting, honestly. If the devs love to have clowns in their game, fine. They can have them, but why I have to play it the same way ?
The festival glitch seemed to be just that - a glitch. Now it seems that not only were the festival outfits intentional, this feature will continue to spread throughout our games. I can't say I'm happy about this. I definitely agree with @lottevdbrug that this change should be reconsidered, and preferably reverted.
Once MCCC has been stabilized, it seems that I will be reinstalling it!
Festivals in my game seem to have most of the attendees wearing CC floral head decorations. It kinda looks ok for the romance festival, but for all the others its just silly.
(i would expect more strangeness at festivals than at pubs/clubs/etc., to be honest.)
i would prefer we would rather get the option to assign EVERY clothing type to a sim, including costumes they should wear, career outfits too
i don't get it
how on the one hand we have a highly praised CAS where the player can assign every piece of clothing to every other category, which is a huge leap in options from what TS3's CAS offered without mods
& the transgender patch brought even more options for the player to assign clothing
but
then on the other hand comes this CL festivals mess & indeed spreads like a disease now even in every game
this festival clothing scramble is probably my MAIN REASON why i didn't want to buy CL, because the look of sims in TS4 is one of the main remaining attractions in this game after so many limitations included
so no, i don't get it
but if the devs now just drop all of this & go even more into randomness with random clothing assignments on purpose - then this game becomes just unplayable
they remove with this "FEATURE" yet another reason for players to play TS4
i still suspect this is just a bug & the info that it's intentional game design is just a misinformation
the game was improved in some points with the patches
i hope for the sake of the remains of TS4's appeal this is just a misinformation & purely a bug the devs are so far unable to straighten out since a year, since CL
What struck me was that townies didn't seem to be affected as much as premades and my own Sims. I'm not sure if this is actually true, though. And yeah, I also noticed that Sims who showed up in these outfits at nightclubs/parties didn't lose said outfits. They showed up in the same hideous outfits at the gym later on. Ugh.
I can't imagine how after the whole deal with those darned festival outfits they still thought well hey surely they'll love to see the same ridiculous outfits at nightclubs and parties! I honestly can't believe how anyone could have thought that. Like @Rukola_Schaaf wrote, I also just cannot believe that this was actually intentional. I simply can't believe it. That's why I really hope for one of the SimGurus to clear things up, either here on the forums or on EA's site.
What I mind is the game trying to ursurp control and override my intentional decisions. Even if the devs were the most fashion-savy people on earth, I just don't want their preferences forced on my world. Hands off my sims, both playable and townies!
I could even tolerate original townies in game generated outfits..
BUT!! the sims I have marked as my own and have even PLAYED WITH are turning up in random outfits and that is just annoying >.<
I appreciate the work of the developers - always out to surprise and delight :) However, this one - PLEASE REVERT!
***I spent hours in CAS assigning outfits for a reason, I would appreciate if they could respect that.
definitely! as an example, i see the same group of not-in-world townies + self-created and housed Sims at The Blue Velvet every Sim day. my own unplayed Sims are affected, 99% of the time. new outfits every time they show up. maybe not completely different but something always changes. the townies, so far, have been spared. they still have their own clothes, as before the patch, both YA and adult ones.
and thank you, @Cinebar!
(edit: not bad. at least it's colour-coordinated. ha.)
Maxis: *extends the "feature" of townie situational outfit randomization*
we could ask for a new interaction: "ask about horrid outfit."
(edit: whyyy.)
Hahahaha oh god... it's tragic, is what it is. Tragic. That new interaction thing had me laugh out loud, though.
@Cinebar Thank you! You have no idea how much I had to contain myself while writing this post lol. That's why I initially hoped that someone else who'd read the bug report would create this discussion, as I was afraid I'd word things waaayyy too strongly.