Doppleganger Sim
Hi all, So one of my Sims was out in Uptown, San Myshuno which is where she lives with her family. Then all of a sudden there was a Sim nearby leading a protest, but it was the exact same Sim. The...
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@caitobr7 I've seen something like this in my game as well. I created a household (1 Sim + 1 cat) and moved them into an empty house so my Sim could have them as NPC neighbors. Shortly afterwards I saw two copies of the same neighbor at a park in Brindleton Bay! When I looked them up in Manage Households there was one copy in the house where I placed her and another copy that was homeless (i.e. "not in the world"). I'm certain that I did not place this household twice so my only guess is that this was just a small glitch that occurred as I was placing the household. Rather than delete the duplicate Sim I just made some minor changes to her in CAS and kept both Sims in my game. I'm sure I've seen some older threads with this same issue, I'll see if I can locate any of them.
Edit: OK here is one of them:
@suzushka Lol, "doppelganger" was the same word I used when this same thing happened in my game a few months back xD
@RandomBuzziness I wish this would be listed as a bug then. I don't play most of my Sims in such a way that I would want a random clone of them appearing.☹️
Hi @SheriGR 🙌 In my case I have placed dozens of Library households in various game saves and this glitch (or whatever it was) has only happened once. As far as I know the game does not pull households from your Library when it needs new NPC townies. I know that there is a pool of pre-made townies (like Alex Moyer) it can use and I think all the rest are generated randomly. I'm pretty sure the game just hiccuped as I was placing the household and added two copies of that Sim instead of just one. I chose not to create a Bug Report because this issue would be extremely hard to reproduce and troubleshoot. Plus in my case I was using CC and mods, and though I think it's highly unlikely that they caused the doppelganger Sim to appear, I cannot rule it out either.
