Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? n/a What expansio...
Fixed an issue that caused weighting for names, clothing, facial features, and skin tones to skew heavily in specific directions if City Living or Island Living were installed.
Fixed in Patch 1.55.105
This is now the second fix for this and the thread is getting a bit old
If you're still having issues with NEW Sims (your existing ones won't be affected by the fix), please create a new thread.
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in?English How often does the bug occur?Occasionally (10% - 49%) What is your current game version number?1.52.100.1020 What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed?All expansions, Parenthood, Vampires, Outdoor Retreat, and no stuff packs. Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves?Look at names of new townies automatically generated for Sulani. What happens when the bug occurs?The same handful of names are used too often among townies. Somewhere from 1/3 to 1/2 of new generated townies have the same first name as previously existing ones, the most noticeable being three men named Rua. I've also seen at least two each of Nâwai, Fuifui, and Fetia. What do you expect to see?More variety in first names for Sulani townies. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods?Not now. I've removed them. Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system?Neutral/Not Sure
Confirmed repeats I could find. All are adults or young adults. I haven't seen any other ages affected by this, but this file is only ~9 in-game weeks old and hasn't generated many elders or toddler-teen sims yet. This happened before installing mods, while the mods were active, and after I removed them.
Note: This is my first bug report here, so apologies if I did anything wrong.
There has been a mod over at ModTheSims to address this issue since July 2018. It is not a fix as the route cause is still there. It just reduces the amount of these diverse names that the game can select from to begin with.
According to Dorsal Axe over on the forums, the issue is due to the diverse names being specifically categorised under templates whereas the default game names are not. Since the existing names have no template name the game ignores the list and uses the first specified list it gets to which is the Japanese name list.
So it seems to fix this issue the team at EA will need to create a "default" template and make the game aware of it. Apparently the issue has now expanded to the Island Living names as well.
Here is a link to Dorsal Axe's post in the mod thread> [Removed by CM]
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