I have an idea on how to stop spawning sims from other worlds into Mt Komorebi, Sulani, and other irl country-based destinations, as well as how to improve NPC generation: Ethnicities.
When the game spawns a new NPC, instead of randomizing everything, it would pick a random ethnicity and then randomize within that ethnicity. For example, if it randomized African American, the sim would have dark pigmentation and Afro-textured hair. Or, if it randomized Puerto Rican, the sim would have tan skin, dark hair/eyes, and a Hispanic name. This would also prevent combinations that would be unrealistic IRL, such as dark skin, red hair, and a Japanese name.
In addition, it would choose which sims spawn in which worlds based on what country the world is based on and which sims live there. For example, if the game needed sims to fill a lot in Mt. Komorebi, it would choose from sims who live in Mt. Komorebi and NPCs of Japanese ethnicity.
What do you think? Is there anything else you would add?
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If you use mods:
https://lotharihoe.tumblr.com/post/622921247655919616/sso-sim-spawn-overhaul-download-google-drive
This mod won't stop out of world spawning COMPLETELY (except for walkbys on residential lots and a select few venue types), but it will make it so the game prefers sims from that world so that you see them more often. It can get a little... empty when you're in a super small world but it helps.
Not saying that EA should do better about spawning Sims the fit the neighborhood better, but I don't think labeling Sims as specific ethnicities is it.
Plus, there are Americans who do move to Asian countries. So there being some non-Japanese looking Sims in Mt. Komorebi isn't unrealistic either.
jokes aside, devs could just limit the people from a world to just roam on the world they're in, whoever it is, whoever you put. the sims themselves have no real ethnicities and trying to make this idea canon on the game would be a big mistake & controversy fuel.
I do completely agree that the Sims that live in the world should be seen more around town and I've always wanted a selection of townies unique to each world as we really should not see Sims often in other worlds unless its a vacation lot which they refuse to give us.
Personality,depth,humor,consequences,lore,customization.
like i dont want sims to have to be of certain ethnicity if they appear in world cause especially mount k i use as tourist spot etc. (also like occults just wanna be all around really)
i would however like if we got townie toggles so random townie generation could be disabled and game would stop creating endless amount of nonsense sims and just keep households you already have unless you delete those
(in which case obviously game would not keep them in your households)
(this would be the first and biggest step towards making game townies in any way controllable and thousand times more fun to play with)
then we could have better households management where we could choose worlds or neighborhoods sims are able to spawn autonomously (while not being played or invited) in
say for example you clicked goths household and there was this"worlds" tab with menu "which worlds is this household allowed to spawn in autonomously"
and you could just tick off the worlds you dont want them to spawn in
and naturally if say no one was allowed to spawn in forgotten hollow no one would except for household you are playing that decided to go there
unless you specifically hired npcs which would also be nice to be able to assign per world like
"if you hire maid in this world its gonna be one of these 3 sims you have chosen/randomized for position"
not like
"oh nancy landgraab decided to suddenly lower herself as maid of your house and judith is out there tending to your garden"
also there should be something to allow or disallow occults in every world so realism players could just tick them off their worlds and we could actually enjoy our occults without them getting nerfed all the time
in fact when you combine all these you could finally have worlds that only have occults or historical sims or certain ethnicity or whatever and it would be awesome
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I think it's cool to have a mixed heritage.
I guess that's a fair point. My dad is Hispanic, so I have his last name, but I look just like my mom, who's Caucasian.