Asian townies

Most of my townies/randomly generated sims have Japanese names too for some reason. It wouldn't bother me if I could at least pretend the game is in Japan. But the thing is, it's just the same names over and over. In my current save I have already met THREE kids named Mariko and TWO named Ayaka. And basically those are the only kids in town, in case you wondered. Yay. I'm pretty sure most people have different names in Asia too, you know, it's not like an American or a European "thing". Most languages have hundreds and hundreds of names. This is just sad.
I don't get me started on the amount of choice you have with the CAS name generator...

They really need to fix this whole issue altogether even though I don’t turn auto age on or have empty homes filled in my game. I have seen in other people’s games that this happen, a lot of Japanese sounding names of sims constantly filling the city and etc! Also they need to not give the random generated sims all gray hair, that and they are always old aged sims. What’s up with that?

Im so glad im not the only one who is so annoyed by this!

My game is overrun with townies with Asian surnames. It seems to get worse the longer I play the game and I try to edit them while I can. I edit one another one spawns somewhere. I am tempted to do a complete overhaul.

Don't get me wrong - I love cultural diversity in my game, but if it's too much of one thing the diversity loses its meaning.

For me it’s not necessarily the ethnic names but the fact my game uses the same ones over and over.

Is there a way to have the game stop generating townies?

"Jprp83;d-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 don't have any with blond hair. But I do have a lot of Asian and Indian townies. In fact that's all the generated one's seem to be now. I think I will maybe have to mix it up a bit more. I've also noticed that some generated Sims have the same names as Sims already in the game. I had my Sim marry someone called Shingo Tanaki. After he'd died I noticed there was another Shingo in the game but with a different last name, but when I looked at his household the original name had been Tanaki but he'd remarried and now had his wife's surname. I know that obviously in the real world you can come across people with the same name, it's just not very helpful in a game like the Sims, as it starts to get really confusing.

I used the random name generator for my baby girl the other day in my Breed Out The Ugly challenge, and the first name it came up with was Lakshmi. The second name was Michael and the third was Isis :s Interesting choices :D

@SparklyBecca I've had three Shingos in my game and goodness knows how many Tanakis :neutral:

I haven't noticed any hair stuff because the majority of my townies all have these types of names. It's really kind of annoying. Since CL the townies are very ethnic with either clothing/names, their looks don't necessarily match. At one time I had three different Mariko Mori's running around. Awesome name, but a bit much.

@ParmaViolet87 Wow, so not just me then. It starts to get very confusing, especially if you're doing a challenge. It's not always easy to see who's related to who :/

What I did:
1. download English names for everyone from Mod the Sims
2. open it in Sims 4 Studio
3. open "tuning", there are categories that are then divided in different languages. First category is just the names that are generated in CAS and should be use for random townies (but aren't), then categories: Latin, Maroccan, Indian, Japanese and then one for Pets and Skeletons
4. Each category is not only divided in different languages but also to three other categories - female names, male names and surnames
5. Copy the biggest category female names (the first category) and past it in "female" categories in categories for the Latin, Maroccan, Indian and Japanese names
6. Repeat this with male names and surnames
7. Save it - now your NPCs will have different names than just few Japanese ones.

https://i.postimg.cc/zD7LvDtp/screenshot-1542737959.png

https://i.postimg.cc/BZ7qRjwW/screenshot-1542738050.png

https://i.postimg.cc/Z5SKx1M0/screenshot-1542738179.png

https://i.postimg.cc/Bb9dGGDK/screenshot-1542738351.png

https://i.postimg.cc/jdqMn5sj/screenshot-1542738459.png

I play with the English names so I am not certainly sure if you should alter other two tunings (under "tuning") and change something there if you want to use this with your language names. What I noticed is that all original names are preserved and it is just changed in the first part to "ENGLISH" so maybe it will be enough to change your language back (i.e. instead of cz-cs: ENGLISH to cz-cs: CZECH)

https://i.postimg.cc/TwykwHGJ/screenshot-1542737740.png

I am at the club with my sim now and townies are called: Kiley Cary, Dustin Broke, Riley Redd, Lewis Lloyd, Simon Brewer...

Nice Fix. I'll try it later :D