Has it always been like this or is this a newer issue ? I think these Sims first occurred with GTW and were mostly used for the careers.
Did you ever see such stealth Sims in uniform before ?
It's always been like this for me, but I've only had Get to Work since last month and the game didn't generate any stealth sims until the first time I played a detective career sim a couple of weeks ago.
At the time, the game had just culled a bunch of townies, so the next time I visited the community lots, there were a lot of vacant NPC jobs like bartenders, and I've noticed that the game likes to pick the newest created sims to fill those jobs roles - hence a bunch of "stealth" sims got assigned those job roles.
I first noticed when visiting the spa that some random guy I'd never seen before was by a massage table wearing everyday clothes. I checked manage households and he didn't exist.
Then I took my sim to a dance party and the bartender was some woman wearing ugly everyday clothing instead of the bartender outfit. I checked manage households and she didn't exist.
After reading the stealth sims bug post, I started to understand who these sims were and why they didn't appear under manage households for me to easily delete or change. I actively monitor all NPCs names that exist in manage households so I easily recognise these stealth sims when they appear now.
As I mentioned before, the jobs I've specifically noticed that have issues with stealth sims not wearing uniforms when they show up for work:
Massage therapist/reflexologist
Mixologist (bartender)
Yoga Instructor
I also have stealth sims that are currently working as:
Gym trainer (works ok because they just wear sportswear and stealth sims have that)
Restaurant staff including host, waiter and chef (they all wear restaurant uniforms OK, but that's probably because those are specifically assigned for each restaurant)
Ok. So to me it sounds like those shouldn't be assigned to those roles as they were supposed to be generated for the GTW roles.
I'll add this
@crinrict wrote:
Ok. So to me it sounds like those shouldn't be assigned to those roles as they were supposed to be generated for the GTW roles.
I'll add this
Hi, I've noticed some additional related stuff regarding stealth sims – they seem to have issues wearing any general costumes/uniforms and not just NPC job uniforms, so I'm not sure preventing them from being assigned job roles would fix these two additional observations:-
(In both of these cases I confirmed that these were stealth sims that did not appear in Manage Households, but still exist in my game eg you can make friends with them)
Criminal suspect - I had a stealth sim actually be caught by my detective for committing a crime, but when they arrived at the station, the stealth sim was not wearing the orange criminal jumpsuit, they were in everyday clothes. Other regular manage household sims who I've caught before and become a suspect to interrogate do wear the orange jumpsuit after an arrest.
GeekCon Cosplayer – a known stealth sim appeared as a visitor at the GeekCon festival, and I could select him and "Take a selfie with cosplayer" even though they were just wearing regular everyday clothes. They seem to be unable to display cosplay costumes they are supposedly wearing.
I don't mind that they can have jobs and visit festivals, but they should be able to wear appropriate clothing and not have some weird bug forcing them to wear everyday clothing all the time.
Yeah, something.
I would assume they should be deleted from the game after they are no longer needed for the roles they were created for.
Thank you for the additional info
