I don’t know if someone with knowledge of how to look at the coding would be able to check if playgrounds are set to only generate households with this type of family, i.e. a single mother with a female teen and male child? Because if the case is that this type of lot will only generate this type of household then that’s not only quite boring but also rather problematic for players with mainly base game.
I took a peek at some of my old saves and even though there were a lot fewer multi-sim households among the unplayed randomly generated townies than I remember (by far the majority still consisted of single sim households), there was a lot more variation than what I’m seeing now 🤔🤷🏻♀️
Thank you so much for sharing your findings! Sorry for the late reply as I’ve been unwell for the past days🥲. Finally I have a bit of energy to reply and also endure the bugged reply function here🤣. Been having the issue almost every time I’m replying to anyone here, regardless of how long my post is. My workaround was to copy my reply, refresh the page and paste it again to send. Sometimes it works but sometimes not, so when it’s not, I will just try to reply on another day🥲.
I was worried at first when I noticed the lack of variety in randomly generated households but couldn’t find any recent reports about it, so I thought it was my game issues or it was by design for people with base game only🥲. At least now I’m relieved to know that regarding randomly generated child sim’s family when visiting playground or park, maybe it was by design, and in need of feedback🤔. As I have been playing on the save before the playground lot was introduced, so the kids only have park to visit, and it only generated the single mother with teen female and child male type of household.
But for other types of household, I still cannot guess how it works, since last time when I deleted everything except the premade households, in hopes of the game will generate a new sets for me, it just generated single sim households, and that single mom, female teen and male child type of household when i visited the park🥲. At the time I was a bit tired so couldn’t test more, but now I have a gameplay idea on how to keep my test interesting, so I will start a new save file again, since there’s another different issue that I need to test.
Come to think of it, on why I couldn’t find much about others experiences regarding the randomly generated townies, maybe it was that usually people will just play with sims that they made, and some packs do introduce new premade households, so they don’t feel the lack of variety on the randoms. As I myself only started to notice the lack of variety when I have lesser premades, as they have merged with each other throughout the generations, and need to rely on the randoms to continue the legacy😅.
I will continue to update my findings here, in case other people got curious too. Or if anyone else have old abandoned saves that are unmodded, or at least no related mods that control the sims population, I’ll gladly appreciate if you can share what kind of multi-sims households randomly generated that you have😊 (as you mentioned that your older saves have more variety, so maybe recent various updates have changed something for newer saves). I only realized the existence of starting a new game does not erase your previous world early this year, excluding a few save files that was used to test this issue, I only have 4 other saves but 3 of them was modded🫠.
