Does this happen to anyone else?After I got Snowy Escape when my Sim started a new active career as a detective and he went to work all his co-workers were Japanese, they all had Japanese names. Everyone. Also on another save when my Sim went to hospital to give birth all the hospital workers were Japanese, again.I have nothing against it, I love Snowy Escape and Japanese culture and I have no problem about it, but it seems odd that it has this effect outside Mt. Komorebi. I don't use any mods, my game is 100% vanilla and my game language is Finnish. I'd just like to know if anyone else has had this happening in their game? Maybe it's only in Finnish version? Or maybe it effects only on Get To Work lots, because it seems only happening on those lots that are hidden on GTW? It doesn't effect on the saves that I've already started the active careers and my Sims already have co-workers or if they've been to hospital already, it only effects when a Sim goes to hospital to give birth the first time or starts a new active career.

It happened to me as well, before Snowy Escape all of my Co workers are in Sulanese(Sulanian?) name.

I think it's just a bug with how the game generates townies, every single townie that generates in my game is a Sulani sim which I suppose makes sense in Sulani but not everywhere else.

"Kimmer;d-984636" wrote:Does this happen to anyone else?After I got Snowy Escape when my Sim started a new active career as a detective and he went to work all his co-workers were Japanese, they all had Japanese names. Everyone. Also on another save when my Sim went to hospital to give birth all the hospital workers were Japanese, again.I have nothing against it, I love Snowy Escape and Japanese culture and I have no problem about it, but it seems odd that it has this effect outside Mt. Komorebi. I don't use any mods, my game is 100% vanilla and my game language is Finnish. I'd just like to know if anyone else has had this happening in their game? Maybe it's only in Finnish version? Or maybe it effects only on Get To Work lots, because it seems only happening on those lots that are hidden on GTW? It doesn't effect on the saves that I've already started the active careers and my Sims already have co-workers or if they've been to hospital already, it only effects when a Sim goes to hospital to give birth the first time or starts a new active career. Whenever a new culture is introduced (example City Living) we stop getting diversity in our games. When City Living came out all the townies got Middle Eastern names. When we got mermaids and Sulani I got a majority of Polynesian names. It's been a "bug" prevalent for a while. We shouldn't have to add in name generators for diversity or go to the names of our townies and change them just to add in diversity.

I think the game is probably reading which culture has lowest representation among your townies, though it does tend to go overboard. It wants the townies to have double use, which I do like. When I first got Jungle Adventure (quite a while after it’s initial release) all of my sim’s college roommates had Selvadoradan names. I have since installed Island Living and Snowy Esape and when I generated a new group of university students in a new save they were all from Komorebi, Sulani and San Myshuno.

"drakharis;c-17743403" wrote:"Kimmer;d-984636" wrote:Does this happen to anyone else?After I got Snowy Escape when my Sim started a new active career as a detective and he went to work all his co-workers were Japanese, they all had Japanese names. Everyone. Also on another save when my Sim went to hospital to give birth all the hospital workers were Japanese, again.I have nothing against it, I love Snowy Escape and Japanese culture and I have no problem about it, but it seems odd that it has this effect outside Mt. Komorebi. I don't use any mods, my game is 100% vanilla and my game language is Finnish. I'd just like to know if anyone else has had this happening in their game? Maybe it's only in Finnish version? Or maybe it effects only on Get To Work lots, because it seems only happening on those lots that are hidden on GTW? It doesn't effect on the saves that I've already started the active careers and my Sims already have co-workers or if they've been to hospital already, it only effects when a Sim goes to hospital to give birth the first time or starts a new active career. Whenever a new culture is introduced (example City Living) we stop getting diversity in our games. When City Living came out all the townies got Middle Eastern names. When we got mermaids and Sulani I got a majority of Polynesian names. It's been a "bug" prevalent for a while. We shouldn't have to add in name generators for diversity or go to the names of our townies and change them just to add in diversity. I was going to say this but I'm afraid it will offend somebody, but yes everytime we got cultures pack the game stopped being diverse and in term of name or facial structure of townie sims

All co-workers on active career are Japanese

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Kimmer_one
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
My Sim just started University. All his dorm mates are Japanese. Looks like my game is fully Japanese now. Konnichiwa. :grin:
SEREFRAS
Legend
5 years ago
I've been wanting to go back to playing my sims with the University. Is the Discover University fixed?
asimbsim
5 years ago
Yep, my sim has just become a spellcaster and gone to university - the whole of the witching world in Magic HQ, and most of his dorm mates are Japanese.
SheriSim
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Kimmer;d-984636" wrote:
Does this happen to anyone else?
After I got Snowy Escape when my Sim started a new active career as a detective and he went to work all his co-workers were Japanese, they all had Japanese names. Everyone.
Also on another save when my Sim went to hospital to give birth all the hospital workers were Japanese, again.
I have nothing against it, I love Snowy Escape and Japanese culture and I have no problem about it, but it seems odd that it has this effect outside Mt. Komorebi.
I don't use any mods, my game is 100% vanilla and my game language is Finnish. I'd just like to know if anyone else has had this happening in their game? Maybe it's only in Finnish version? Or maybe it effects only on Get To Work lots, because it seems only happening on those lots that are hidden on GTW?
It doesn't effect on the saves that I've already started the active careers and my Sims already have co-workers or if they've been to hospital already, it only effects when a Sim goes to hospital to give birth the first time or starts a new active career.

If you don’t mind taking the time, you might try going into manage household getting rid of some of the workers in the hospital, police department or science lab, and try putting some of your own sims in the game, ( NPC households, make sure you Mark them unplayed) and they may take some of the spots that you got rid of. It’s worth a try.
DonroaAkashu
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I found this old bug report for a similar issue, that was fixed in a patch recently. The advise is to create a new bug report, and be detailed about the issue.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-NPC-Households-have-Same-Structure-Appearance-Name-Patch-1/m-p/9716392/highlight/true#M160329

I know the bug forum is ill-structured and that it is unclear from official sources how to report issues; but AHQ Bug section is where bug reports about gameplay is made.
Nekia33painter
5 years ago
Has anyone ever been able to randomize a Sulani name. It has never happened to me before. I usually have to end up going on the internet to find them.
halloweenchild1
5 years ago
At least your sims have co-workers, I seem to have encountered a bug which prevents the game from generating townies to fill job roles. Outside of creating townies with the "story" feature and hoping they get put into the right job, I'm at a loss on what to do. :-/

Edit: The abundance of Japanese names reminds me of when City Living was released, and how there was a massive influx of sims with Japanese or Middle-Eastern sounding names (while none of them looked remotely Japanese or Middle-Eastern), then there was an influx of Sulani sounding names (which again, none of them looked like they were from Sulani). Makes me wonder if the values for names was changed to give a more "authentic" feel to the townie generation, which I suppose is fine if you live in Mt.Komorebi, but if you live in the more Western towns, I can certainly see how immersion-breaking it is.
RouenSims
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Nekia33painter;c-17748063" wrote:
Has anyone ever been able to randomize a Sulani name. It has never happened to me before. I usually have to end up going on the internet to find them.

No, I have trouble getting non-Western names in the randomizer. It’s all Brandee and Branden, lol.
lucombre
Seasoned Ace
6 hours ago
Five years later, this is still an issue. I love having Japanese/diverse sims in my game but I want a range of diversity and not just a single ethnicity!

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