I am having the exact same issue. I'm really surprised this hasn't been fixed yet because it's a pretty major issue in my opinion. It's very really jarring not to have any female children or teens walking around, and the complete absense of any fathers. I've been starting to generate my own townie families to even things out, but I really shouldn't have to do that. It's a lot of effort for what would probably be an easy fix on EA's part.
I have noticed the dark hair/skin tendencies in this particular family type too. Here's a screenshot. I'm using some CC (but no mods) and I've gone and edited most of their clothing and hair (because townies have awful fashion sense) and the sons in the family have mostly aged up since I've been playing, but it's still very obvious what's going on here.
I'll also note that I started out with a single young adult female sim for the legacy challenge.
@Brimmely wrote:I am having the exact same issue. I'm really surprised this hasn't been fixed yet because it's a pretty major issue in my opinion. It's very really jarring not to have any female children or teens walking around, and the complete absense of any fathers. I've been starting to generate my own townie families to even things out, but I really shouldn't have to do that. It's a lot of effort for what would probably be an easy fix on EA's part.
I have noticed the dark hair/skin tendencies in this particular family type too. Here's a screenshot. I'm using some CC (but no mods) and I've gone and edited most of their clothing and hair (because townies have awful fashion sense) and the sons in the family have mostly aged up since I've been playing, but it's still very obvious what's going on here.
I'll also note that I started out with a single young adult female sim for the legacy challenge.
I personally wouldn't say that it would be an easy fix. Bug fixing is rarely easy, and I suspect that what they're trying to do with the random generation is very complicated, which makes it all the harder to fix. Trust me, I've done programming, and often you find that even things that would seem simple at first tend to get complicated.
That said, I do sympathise with your frustration. Best of luck getting this fixed soon.
(Sorry I don't have any more info on this issue)
