@annamarvel
Yup, I definitely have the problem with randomly generated families having children who look NOTHING like the parents as well. If it's a single parent-child household, like the one family you described, sometimes I'll rationalize it as adoption or the kid just resembling the absent parent. When the mother and father are BOTH present and the children STILL look nothing like EITHER of them, that's when I start to wonder if the genetics system for random households is broken. For example, you started off pretty strong with that one family at the top (assuming they're related and not just a household of unrelated Sims). The teenage daughter looks close enough like her parents, but then you get to the son. Where did he get red hair? Now, I know that red hair is a recessive trait that can skip generations, but still...
Why IS the game so completely obsessed with CL clothing (and Vampires clothing/hair for me)? I have every EP, GP, and SP. There are countless articles of clothing for the randomizer to choose from and it STILL defaults to mostly CL clothing (and Vampires clothing for me). As you can see from the Faust family, names really don't play into what clothing the townies spawn in. She has a non-CL name and is STILL wearing a CL top. And some of the CL-named townies don't seem to be wearing CL clothing. They do, however, definitely have the red/blonde hair trend seen in the vast majority of townies with Japanese and Middle Eastern names.
