Put a "Stop Generating Random Townies" Button in the settings
Random townies in the sims are very annoying, i don't like ugly sims and it keeps crashing my game.
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@chillaxbruhz
Yea, that's been a problem for a VERY long time. It's kindof a bug, more like a "design flaw" in the game.
Problem is, it's not easily fixed. Mods have tried. Illegal mods like NPCC tried but it's severely broken.
Zero has a "no random" mod that works pretty well, but it takes a lot of work to utilize. It stops ALL random sim generation. Problem is, you NEED these sims to play. Like the acting career, with this mod, you never get Directors generated and that makes it impossible to play.
He has another mod that allows you to choose existing sims for those roles, but you have to do that for ALL roles, mailmen, maids, butlers, bartenders, producers, repomen, paps, firemen... etc etc... there are a hundred roles. It takes a lot of work to set it up.
That's what I'm doing right now. I have a "template" save that I use to start new games. I'm using his mods to create my own sims for ALL of those roles and saving it into my starter template save. I have over 30 service sims created so far...
Yea, that's been a problem for a VERY long time. It's kindof a bug, more like a "design flaw" in the game.
Problem is, it's not easily fixed. Mods have tried. Illegal mods like NPCC tried but it's severely broken.
Zero has a "no random" mod that works pretty well, but it takes a lot of work to utilize. It stops ALL random sim generation. Problem is, you NEED these sims to play. Like the acting career, with this mod, you never get Directors generated and that makes it impossible to play.
He has another mod that allows you to choose existing sims for those roles, but you have to do that for ALL roles, mailmen, maids, butlers, bartenders, producers, repomen, paps, firemen... etc etc... there are a hundred roles. It takes a lot of work to set it up.
That's what I'm doing right now. I have a "template" save that I use to start new games. I'm using his mods to create my own sims for ALL of those roles and saving it into my starter template save. I have over 30 service sims created so far...
Do you know the name of the second mod by Zero you mentioned? The one where you assign jobs for existing sims. thanks
It should be Assign NPCs Roles but I don’t know if he active update this mods (or if it needed) Zero is a modder which generally not always clear if the mods still works after an update.
Yeah, I'm having MCCC pull townies from my tray, and every now and then I go out to the gallery and download more cute townies. They're pulled in at random ages and with random traits and careers, but I was just trying to avoid the horrible RNG outfits.
The thing is, yeah, the game needs these random NPCs wandering around your game. If you go to a bar, it generates (or pulls from my tray) a mixologist and a "barfly" to be someone who hangs around in bars a lot and also pulls in your townies (Mortimer Goth, Bob Pancakes, your played Sims from other households, etc.). Also yeah, the Get Famous acting career needs a lot--directors, makeup, costume, camera... Also librarians, etc.
Sadly, if you marry an NPC mixologist they will be unemployed. I understand things like librarian, as that's not a playable career, but... I fear I cheated the mixologist back to the career level I thought matched her NPC career.
I'm on Xbox Series S as well and I play with ageing off.
I was having issues too with absolutely loads of townies being generated after cottage living, I know they were addressing that but I feel that it does still happen in CoL worlds.
I cull NPCs regularly and try and avoid the ones that I know from my retail stores, bars, stalls, etc. The other day I thought I'd accidentally deleted the Crumplebottoms though but luckily I hadn't.
I agree it would benefit from a button to enable/disable generation of townies. That way we could have more control over the townies we have. If we had a set number and saw the same ones all the time. It might make them feel like more a part of the game instead of a random annoyance in some cases. When it adds so many new ones it's often stranger after stranger. I try and keep a core group of them but randoms are constantly arriving.
