Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Occasionally (10% - 49%)What is your current game version number? 1.51.77.1020What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Bad RandomizerSteps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Don't knowWhat happens when the bug occurs? Things become repetitiv cause the randomizer seems offWhat do you expect to see? More varietyHave you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure Collection Thread for things that happen too often for one specific thing. I have too many abductions I have no abductions I have too many Twins I have no twins I have only boys I have only girls No Aliens phone/come over when using Satellit dish Same Sims is winning the Accolades over and over Off-springs of occults always occults Vacation worlds have only special Sims NPCs If you see anything that's too many times for the same thing, complain here.

Ok, Since there's too many threads now that either say: I have too many abductions I have no abductions I have too many Twins I have no twins I have only boys I have only girls No Aliens phone/come over when using Satellit dish etc I decided to make this thread where you can post all your complaints. I don't know if it's a bug or if people are just unlucky or if the randomizer gets stuck but I don't think there's much use of having 20 posts about it. So please, complain here. I'll be moving thread into this one.

My randomization problem is in townie household structure. When I go to one of the parks, the game spawns townie family households, but always the same structure of household: a Young Adult female (usually dark-skinned) with a Teen daughter and a Child son. Never different genders, never a second parent. A result is that the whole town becomes imbalanced in gender in any given age group. I've reported this problem earlier, but it's worth listing here as it seems to be a randomization issue.

I have posted about this twice in the guru thread, 1 time on a gurus page, and 2 times in the tech. issues forum and now a fellow simmer has directed me to this forum. I have no mods in my game. I have not used the fertility thing.Up to the point when I had my first set of twins my births were 50/50. Since having my first set of twins my randomizer seems stuck.I am now up to 18 sets of twin boys and 3 single births that are girls. That is 36 boys / 3 girls and the ONLY way I can get those girls/single births is when the household is up to 7 and baby makes 8.Now I fully understand the concept of 50/50 chance but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this is well out of the realm of chance. I am now left with the choice of continuing to have nearly nothing but twin boys or stop having babies and use the adoption instead. If I use adoption then what is the point of genetics?I don't expect a guru to say, "Here is your fix" BUT at least acknowledge that this is NOT working as intended and will be on the list of things to look into.I'm not asking for miracles, just common decency in customer service.***Edit to update info:I abandoned my legacy family and started over, the new family has had a single birth/boy. I'm not worried about getting boys/girls I just don't want to get stuck with so many twins again 🙂 **fingers crossed**

I'm in a new game and I cannot find a live space creature to save my life. I've collected dozens of the dead ones, but the live ones elude my grasp. I've gone on space missions and searched craters at the scientist career and on Sixam. Since this seems to be the place to whine about it, here I am.

@ladybreid Moved to bug reporting and added

[COLLECTION THREAD] The official Bad Randomizer Complaining Thread

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ladybreid
Seasoned Ace
11 years ago
I have posted about this twice in the guru thread, 1 time on a gurus page, and 2 times in the tech. issues forum and now a fellow simmer has directed me to this forum.

I have no mods in my game. I have not used the fertility thing.

Up to the point when I had my first set of twins my births were 50/50. Since having my first set of twins my randomizer seems stuck.
I am now up to 18 sets of twin boys and 3 single births that are girls. That is 36 boys / 3 girls and the ONLY way I can get those girls/single births is when the household is up to 7 and baby makes 8.

Now I fully understand the concept of 50/50 chance but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this is well out of the realm of chance. I am now left with the choice of continuing to have nearly nothing but twin boys or stop having babies and use the adoption instead. If I use adoption then what is the point of genetics?

I don't expect a guru to say, "Here is your fix" BUT at least acknowledge that this is NOT working as intended and will be on the list of things to look into.

I'm not asking for miracles, just common decency in customer service.
***Edit to update info:
I abandoned my legacy family and started over, the new family has had a single birth/boy. I'm not worried about getting boys/girls I just don't want to get stuck with so many twins again 🙂 **fingers crossed**
crinrict
Hero+
11 years ago
@ladybreid Moved to bug reporting and added
ladybreid
Seasoned Ace
11 years ago
Thanks for moving this but still not having much luck 😕mileysad:
crinrict
Hero+
11 years ago
I've put it on the list and now it is up to EA to find and fix. Not much more I can do.
ladybreid
Seasoned Ace
11 years ago
Thank you!!
pretty sure I love you now :D
at least I know it's on a list. Just for added info I rolled a new family and they had a single birth/boy so hopefully it was only stuck with the one house, keeping my fingers crossed.
Anonymous
11 years ago
It's not a solution, but if you want to fight the boy overhang, you can use a cheat that allows sending a Sim to the char generator, where you can alter Gender and Name. But the baby has to get out of the crib first.
ladybreid
Seasoned Ace
11 years ago
I thought about that but have heard it messes up relationships.
At this point even without a solution if someone from EA/maxis would at leat say they are looking into it I'd be happy. Waiting this long with no response from them really plums me off. I'm getting sick of cruddy customer service.
crinrict
Hero+
11 years ago
The EA devs are not here. Try twitter if you want an answer from them.
iamaprincess
11 years ago
Im still having this issue as well. I hope they make a patch for it soon. I either have all boys in a family or if I switch to a different save game I have all girls. Really annoying some diversity would be great.
Anonymous
11 years ago
I've been having this problem since I bought sims 4 back in September. My sim is just trying to have a second child and it almost always is twins. Can we fix this please??