Asian townies
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...
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"SimTresa;c-16852726" wrote:"AlwaysAsking;c-16852721" wrote:"FKM100;c-15407844" wrote:
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...
Hi! Maybe you can answer a question for me? Sometimes there will be someone walking around in my town that is so terrible looking that I honestly stop the game and go to manage worlds to fix or delete them, but then I can't find them in the "other households" edit area. There are times that I don't care, but sometimes they are tooooo awful. Am I crazy? Or not looking in the right place? Shouldn't everybody be there? Actually, now that I think about it, sometimes they are actual NPCs, not just townies, and I can't find them there. I feel like I'm missing some vital piece of information, lol
If you're crazy, then so am I. I can think of at least two townies right off the top of my head whom I couldn't find in the households list. Ended up having one move in with my Sim so I could fix her outfit. Not only does the other one not show up, she's apparently an immortal. Has been the receptionist at the science lab for at least three generations.
I gather that there are certain special NPCs who don't show up in household management - they are usually the ones who hold positions in the active careers that came with Get To Work (there's a name for them, but I forget what it is). I'm not really sure why they don't appear, but I think it is probably so that we cannot delete them (or alter their traits?). @rosemow explained this to me some time back - perhaps she can shed a bit more light on the issue. As far as I know, the only way to edit these sims is to have Testing Cheats enabled and then use the "edit in CAS" command, but I would be nervous of doing that, as for all I know it could mess up the sim permanently. If all you want to do is change their clothes and hair, though, you can do that with one of those walk-in-wardrobes that came with Get Together.
And yes, I too am finding that the townie problem has got even worse since Get Famous. At least 90% of my latest crop of townies are Asian or oriental and, like @Bubbz3388, more than half of the females are wearing that cropped halter top and long Asian skirt that came with CL. It's so annoying, especially when Get Famous has some really nice clothes that they could have worn instead. And the obesity has reached new heights - or should I say widths! Some of them are truly grotesque. Honestly, I've spent more time fixing townies than I have playing the game. It's got way beyond a joke now.
