Asian townies

I add in my own townies from the gallery because the automatically generated townies always have the weirdest fashion sense.

I honestly think random townies need to be pulled from the Gallery, Spore-style, instead of just being randomly generated.
I keep getting young adults with grey hair, or worse, bright purple goatees and afros.

Of course, the problem with using the Gallery to fill NPC roles is that I'd end up with a town full of Channing Tatums and Kylie Jenners, but frankly that'd be a small price to pay. At least they wouldn't be ugly.

"Jprp83;906883" wrote:
This is probably just me nitpicking, but has anyone else noticed that, since CL, townies with japanese sounding names tend to be always blonde? I noticed that their other facial features usually match the japanese name. I think the devs meant to make their hair always black, but something went wrong. It happens too much in my game for it to be just a coincidence. It's not a huge deal, but....

I think it's a huge deal. It's annoying that the new generated sims, since CL was released, that all the names are of asian and middle eastern descent no matter what they look like. It's overkill, and as you have experienced, it often doesn't match. I go in to CAS to change their name. I recently had a blonde girl who had an asian named and changed it to Heather McDonald. haha, because she clearly was a blonde, white chick, not an asian.

Yeah I mostly edit most of my townies too using cad.fulleditmode. It's so time consuming and I'm not always inspired to create new sims. The devs should learn from the team who created Xcom 2: the game gets the soldiers from a character pool which the player can fully edit as they please. Only when the character pool runs out of soldiers the game starts creating random ones if necessary.

All my generated sims have Asian sounding names and almost none of them look Asian! I just keep deleting as many as possible and using cas.fulleditmode to change the names on the ones I have to keep, such as the maid, butlers, etc.

Hmm. Not a problem for me, I just figure that maybe they have one asian parent and one who isn't and takes after the second one. Or the sir-name comes from an asian great grand-ma-or-pa. Could be adoption as well.

I had at least three asian townies that were generated with blonde hair. And the game basically never generates white sims for me anymore, I have to sporadically "whitewash" a family or two to make it more balanced. Right now out of the 12 townie families in household management (not premade) only 3 are white. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing but it does seem a tad bit unrealistic when the game is based on america and europe and there's more morrocan and indian sims around than white ones :smiley:

I think the name and the sims generator are not linked in any way, so every combination of look and name is possible.

"EnkiSchmidt;15407612" wrote:
I think the name and the sims generator are not linked in any way, so every combination of look and name is possible.

I used to think that too, but since CL the townie generation seems a little less random. It's just that if you're gonna create a sim with a Japanese name, you might as well make them look Japanese! Oh well...

I am really enjoying the wider range of ethnic types appearing in the game since CL, but I too have found that the townie generation function doesn't always get things right. I have seen some really implausible combinations of name and ethnic appearance and yes, it does bother me.

Like some other players, I periodically go through all the NPC households in my game and edit them in CAS. I don't bother to use full edit mode, but I fix what I can to make the characters' appearance match their names (eg, change skin & hair color and features) and I change their clothes and body shape to something one would be more likely to find in RL. My game seems to have an inexplicable preference for certain clothing items (the maxi skirt is one of them) and these seem to show up all over the place, ad nauseam, regardless of suitability. Also, I have found lately that most of my townie women are impossibly fat, with enormous stomachs. I know that obesity is on the rise in RL, but this is going a bit too far...