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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Can you guys please add a option though? Like I understand that certain roles need to be filled but why not add the option anyway & let the game use sims that are already in your game. Us console players desperately need that option cause the game will generate so many sims for no reason even though roles like Mail Carrier, etc are already filled. So to a certain point of view the game will eventually crash due to a overload. & I'm on the xbox series s. Thank you & have a good day
- @chillaxbruhz I do believe the random spawn in the game is cause lagging in the game, I have found if I delete them it help with my game and my computer don't sound like a motor running, I have already ran every test on my computer and it works perfect , I followed Radeon guide so my game don't lag anymore.
When your sims travel to strangerville or college area the game will start spawning in for the story, you can make townies yourself and also college townies also, that can help with limited all those random townies so much. I've created 8 college townies and other townies who work as vendors and it works perfect, I do keep so game created townies I like in my game but the new ones that come in they are deleted. - @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... Random townies are a necessity to man stalls, bars and so on.
They do not have anything to do with your game crashing. If you have a problem with that I suggest that you create a post with specifics in The Sims 4 | Forum | Technical Issues – PC | EA Answers HQ
