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JackOnYourBack
Seasoned Ace
23 days ago

More white skin please...

Since the updates that have changed and added more dark skintones there are so few fair ones, and out of them even fewer are "normal" looking caucasian skin tones, the others are unnatural looking or asian (nothing wrong with asian).

Can we please have some more light/ fair skin tones (with pink and peach undertones - but more yellow undertones skins for asian sims would be nice too, some variation) so not all generated townies are dark?

Almost all premade sims that come in the packs after the update are dark skin (nothing wrong with that), but it highlight the huge difference in choice between the amount of dark skintones and light ones.
The few caucasian premade sims that come with newer packs are basically all the same skintone, but all dark ones have variety. 

I only get black, middle eastern, indian, latin, south-east asian etc looking sims generated, with a couple of asian skintoned sims thrown in there. Out of 100 generated sims, I might get a caucasian sim, but most likely not even then, because they will have the asian eyes and/ or the yellow toned skin, but at least they will be blond. (God forbid a readhead, haven seen one in... I don't know how long.)

I'd honestly just want some diversity. More white skin tones so I can get caucasian townies generated as well, and I have some choice when I'm in CAS and I want to make a white sim.
Either added skin colours (I'd prefer that), or weight the amount of times certain skintones are used to even it out even just a little bit, so I get some diversity please. 

I'd love to see some sims that look like me and people around me really, not that I really care about IRL in Sims. But since that is a driving force behind mostly anything about this itteration of Sims, I feel like me as a white person, is getting lost when it comes to "representation". Both in colour but also in culture. Culture does not just equal dark-skinned person, even though (some/most(?)) Americans might think so.

Where are the white skin tones? Please add more hair and eye colours as well. Also fix the naming pool while you're at it.
I play the game in English (not my native language), and I would assume to see some names to fit that setting, just like I would playing any game in any language. Just like it was in previous sims games.

If I played TS2 in English, the sims names would be in English (shocker). 

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  • Also skin tone swatch placements should be light to dark but some of them are wrong when u mix parents because children get middle they can look off, so swatches should be placed correct, like why these parents get that colored child…

     

  • HollownessDevour's avatar
    HollownessDevour
    Seasoned Ace
    22 days ago

    Yes, I feel the swatch placements are not exactly light to dark as well. Which as you display shows false results for genetics. I mean if there was a darker skin tone from a grandparent or something that be fine, but I figure that is not the case here.

  • cebmarin's avatar
    cebmarin
    Seasoned Ace
    21 days ago

    Unfortunately you cant get genes from granparents in sims 4

  • My main issue is that skin tone genetics (and all of the genetics, really) appear to be bugged. I believe it has to do with the undertone.

    For example, if a Sims with warm, light-colored skin has a baby with a Sims that has neutral, light-colored skin, it will often end up with extremely dark skin out of nowhere. It can be fun if this happens extremely rarely, but, at least in my game, it's nearly every single time. Genetics used to be one of my favorite parts of the game, and it feels broken now.

    As for the randomly generated townies and their names, I feel similarly. It can be fun for storytelling to have a Sim that doesn't appear ethnically Japanese to have a Japanese last name, for example, but it feels extremely disproportionate when I have several pale blonde Sims and deep-skinned Sims that have Japanese last names. I love diversity in the Sims and having a good mix of different cultures and appearances, but I want it to make sense. This just feels like a bug.

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