All sims which have fitness skill can spawn at the gym. The problem is the game has a habbit always to spawn the same sims (Mermaids, Landgraab, Fengs) It help a lot if you delete these sims or use a mod which take care of this problem. (MCC should have a setting for or Lotharihoe Sim Spawn Overhaul if you want it a little more extrem)
@aodohertyIt seems like Paka'a Uha and Darrel Charm show up at the gym every time I'm there and neither of them has the active trait. What @daikoyu said; any Sim with the fitness skill might show up.
@aodoherty I'm not sure why but I also rarely see any of my max. Fitness (level 10) Sims spawn at a gym. Whenever I've checked NPCs at the gym (by using MCCC) it seems like their Fitness level is usually between 4 and 7. I know I've been able to prevent certain Sims, like Eliza Pancakes, Darrel Charm, Paka'a Uha, etc., from spawning at gyms if I cheat their Fitness skill back down to 1. I've also been able to make other NPCs appear regularly at gyms by cheating their Fitness skill to 4. It doesn't seem to matter whether or not they have the Active trait, I can basically control which NPCs spawn at gyms by cheating Fitness skills up or down. This is how it seems to work in my game anyway & I am basing this just from casual observation rather than any actual analysis of the game code. Even so, whenever I send my Sims to a gym, I generally just see the NPCs I want to see and none of them that I don't want to see.
I know this doesn't really answer the original question about why Sims with max. Fitness skills don't seem to spawn at gyms, except to say that this also appears to be happening in my game.
I'll ask around a bit & see if I can learn any more about this.
EDIT: Ok, I did some asking and it sounds like it might be a tuning issue where the game is not set up to spawn Sims after they have reached the maximum Fitness skill level. It doesn't sound like it's fixable outside of using mods.
@aodoherty Nah, Darrel is hot-headed, a snob, and a bookworm. (I have a soft spot for Darrel.) Paka'a is a goofball, a music lover, and a child of the ocean. (My Sims seem to marry Paka'a a lot, rotfl.) They both spawn in every gym and constantly jog by our houses in all worlds, lol.
My unplayed Sims with a high fitness level sometimes spawn at the gym. It's not like the vet where every unplayed Sim I have shows up with their pets! I can't lock doors to pets in rotational saves because if a single pet has to go to the vet, when I switch into another household the pet will be locked out of their house because they ALL went to the vet.
But I digress. The active trait isn't required.
Also, my Sims with level 10 fitness do spawn at the gym sometimes. I make a lot of them do the Body Builder aspiration.
MCC have another setting that take care that you don’t always see the same townies it was under population. Its not the library setting is another setting there which only have a true or false setting. If I use MCC my MCC is in german because of my game language. I just guess now that it called so in English population -> Misc. Setting -> Random Visitor. (Uff, the last time I used MCC was 2017. The new menu it something)
Update: Another Method would be to use GetTogehter and use the club system there. I use this system in Vanilla, and it work great. My Gym-Rats, Wellness-Rats always have a club gathering if i go there.
Yeah, I was going to say, my Sims with level 10 fitness spawn in the gym in Windenburg all the time, but they're all in the Powerhouse club! so that's probably why.
@RandomBuzzinessThanks for the good info. Yes I think it could be the tuning issue too. Also I can see my other sims in Del Sol Valley lounge as they are celebrities. They are spawning often but not in the gym. Yesterday, I saw one of my main households, and I was very happy to see him. I asked him to mentor in fitness skill to Angela Pelasant. It was the first time I saw my main sim but he has no active trait.
@xochiquetzl_xkvn There are always always Geoffrey Landgraab, Nancy Landgraab, Bjersen? couple are jogging every morning around my house. It's hard to see Summer Holiday with active trait now. Paka'a, Darrel, Becca, Brant and Brent couple, Nalani? are always at gym in my game. Mostly Don Lothario, Marcus Flex, Lilith Vatore, Becca are spawning as a gym trainer. :D
@daikoyuThanks. I actually don't use MCCC. I know the club gathering feature but I wanted to see them without club gathering. But I will try this way. 🙂
