Asian townies

"AlwaysAsking;c-16854105" wrote:

"SimTresa;c-16852726" wrote:

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.

LOL!! That's so funny! 3 generations?! And yes, I did the same thing once, put a townie into my family to fix her. But anyway, good, I'm glad I'm not crazy :)

Yes. I don't think she has even aged. But it is funny. And it's going to be 4, since my current scientist's oldest child is a teen.

This is the reason why my sims don't even bother interacting with townies anymore.
(Venkataramans, Venkataramans everywhere.)

Another thing about this that bugs me is that literally every. single. townie spawns with CL clothing and it's not pretty. About 90% of my females wear the SAME asian style t-shirt thing and the long skirt in the brightest possible colors. It's annoying and doesn't fit, and I feel like it's pointless to edit all of them when I know the game is going to spawn new ones anyway as soon as I continue. :lol:

I'm all for diverse sims, but these "diverse" sims are all the same and that's the OPPOSITE of diverse. :joy: It's getting hard to take these ethnic salads seriously when they are a little bit of everything. They look white or racially ambiguous, wear ethnic looking clothes with bright, clashing colors and all have unfitting names like Maki Tanaka or Fatima Al Kader. They just don't feel like real people. It's such a mess, really.
But hey, at least the devs tried :lol:

"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...

At least I am not the only one who edits townies!!! Yay!!! I'm not alone!! I love to create absolute diversity with my characters. I download a lot of clothes, hair and shoes. I love to have the perfect outfit for my rebellious teens or hot snobby moms for example. I have a club called Hot snobby moms. I'm working on the leader of the snobby moms to be a trendsetter and have her groupies copy what she wears. And as soon as i get them to copy her look, i change it up again. Kinda like mean girls all grown up and still mean....

My town is like little Mumbai or something. Every single random towny has a japanese or indian name and look. This same thing happened after City Living and then Pets came out and it got more diverse but after installing Get Famous its back to being a suburb of Tokyo.

"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.

I'm soooo happy! I finally got the new MCC update and it's a great one. Now it has an option to make all automatically generated townies to come from your library and it really works! I have a ton of sims in my library so it should be OK for a while! No more weird townies with bad fashion sense yay

"February11;c-16844146" wrote:

"aaronrulz;c-15392233" wrote:

"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.

There's a good Scottish name!
I do the same thing, and some of the outfits they show up in are horrendous!

That's my RL wife's name (Heather)- (She's of Irish descent).

Of course her last name "Chikamori" tends to raise eyebrows. She went to a Japanese Culture class at university and ended up shocking the rest of the class during roll-call; not expecting her to have a Japanese last name (due to marriage). Yeah, there are things like AMWF marriages. That could be the result of what you could consider some of the non-Asian looking Sims...unless they really don't look half/half... My kids are half Caucasian/half Asian. And two of them are boys which means that they carry on the family name. And when genes get diluted...you get the picture.

Would you believe he's 1/4 Japanese?

http://kore.am/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/chadmichaelmurray.jpg

THEN...there's adoption.


https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/HTCbAUubOBa072Po0YndZhglaEQ=/800x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PFUOM2Y4GV2GYJ2FABYNHI4LJA.jpg

So basically you got two choices when it comes to non-Asian looking townies with Asian sounding names. You can either go to fixing the problem by changing names or fixing up the townie to look Asian...or you can just make up a back-story for them and go about your business. I tend to do the latter - it's less onerous.

Oh...and just for good measure. Here's a hafu. Japanese father/Irish American mother.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/0haruki1.jpg
Don't look too Asian: do he?

https://media1.tenor.com/images/cf8346db163e86845c8d6d758a54252a/tenor.gif?itemid=7914551
Mind blown yet?

I never noticed the blond japanese, but what really annoys me is the amount of townies with the same name. Does anyone else have that?

Has anyone notice that it seems like there are two name pools the game draws from? Like the "base" one and one from CL that seems to be the default for game created townies? I'm having a lot of Asian and Arabic names and zero English but if I take any sim into Cas and randomized their first name and last name just ONCE, they always get an English name.

I found a saves from 2015 on a USB and while I was looking through it to see if I wanted to save any of my then played sims I realised the huge difference in sims looks and names. They looked more natural, aka black sims with actual dark hair and there were even white sims which I dont get anymore unless I edit the townies in Cas, they also all had English names in the 2015 save.

So I'm sure there is an extra naming pool, the base one used for Cas and then if you have CL, another that named the townies the game creates. Does anyone else see/ experience this?

"JackOnYourBack;c-16911619" wrote:
Has anyone notice that it seems like there are two name pools the game draws from? Like the "base" one and one from CL that seems to be the default for game created townies? I'm having a lot of Asian and Arabic names and zero English but if I take any sim into Cas and randomized their first name and last name just ONCE, they always get an English name.

I found a saves from 2015 on a USB and while I was looking through it to see if I wanted to save any of my then played sims I realised the huge difference in sims looks and names. They looked more natural, aka black sims with actual dark hair and there were even white sims which I dont get anymore unless I edit the townies in Cas, they also all had English names in the 2015 save.

So I'm sure there is an extra naming pool, the base one used for Cas and then if you have CL, another that named the townies the game creates. Does anyone else see/ experience this?

You are right, CL added new names to the code, which are in a different branch than the original ones. That is why they don’t have an effect in CAS. Personally, I was never a fan of the new names so I modded them out. Now all NPC get their names from the same naming pool.