Please use this thread going forward: Townies in worlds spawn with Asian names | EA Forums - 5038734
The same thing has been happening in my game since installing Snowy Escape. I love all the diverse names, but it seems that every time a new pack that introduces such names comes out, they completely dominate the townie pool. Currently, with Snowy Escape installed, almost every randomly-generated townie has a Japanese name. Indian and Pacific Islander names still appear, but in much smaller numbers, and townies with Moroccan names are nearly non-existent now. It's also a bit disappointing that the only way to get townies with Spanish names to spawn is to play in Selvadorada. It'd be really nice if we could see an even balance of all of these names.
Side note, I'm also noticing the aforementioned trend with Japanese townies almost always spawning with pale/cool skintones. There's another noticeable trend as well, that being how they almost always seem to have red or blonde hair as opposed to dark hair. Seriously, I'd say at least 90% of them at any given time have red of blonde hair. I have a thread on this.
OMG, thank you I thought I was the only one with Japanese NPC popping all the time. Not to mention the fact they don't look like Japanese AT ALL with their blond hair and super pale skin (purple) or very dark.
I "fixed" the issue by using the MCCC (new townies are taken from ma galley and not randomly generated) but it is a pity that we have to use a mod to fix the issue. EA/Maxis should really work on that, it is very annoying.
Me too, got Vintage glamour and snowy escape at the same time and all my butlers are Japanese.
All my Spellcasters that randomly generated in ROM, all have Asian names
