I've noticed this in a few packs now, and I really think it needs to go. Some Sims appear on lots in these completely randomized outfits that I've never designed for them and so they have no business wearing. I've noticed it with my spellcaster Sims mostly, and sometimes vampires, and sometimes other random townies. It doesn't make any sense, and it really ruins my game experience when encountering Sims I've created wearing things I wouldn't be caught dead putting them in. For instance, I have a mean old witch who sports nothing but black dresses in all her outfits. Yet here she is showing up in an outfit that looks like a rainbow barfed all over her, wearing a golf hat, aviator glasses, and arm length gloves. Just no. Whatever was done that caused Sims to put on these outfits needs to be shut off or removed. It's awful, and I hate not seeing my Sims presenting themselves the way I wanted to present themselves in public.

That's because of Sims 4 City Living. The game causes the sims in all the worlds to wear random tourist fashion police outfits.

"SERVERFRA;c-17517364" wrote:That's because of Sims 4 City Living. The game causes the sims in all the worlds to wear random tourist fashion police outfits.That's only part of the truth. Seasons, Vampires and Get Famous also produce random outfits for walkbys. And Realm of Magic also creates random outfits when Sims visit the magic realm. I don't understand it because these outfits are always the worst.

"Netzspannung;c-17517370" wrote:"SERVERFRA;c-17517364" wrote:That's because of Sims 4 City Living. The game causes the sims in all the worlds to wear random tourist fashion police outfits.That's only part of the truth. Seasons, Vampires and Get Famous also produce random outfits for walkbys. And Realm of Magic also creates random outfits when Sims visit the magic realm. I don't understand it because these outfits are always the worst.I just don't really see WHY this function needed to exist in the first place. When there are like 7 outfits you already design for them in CAS, there's absolutely no need for RNG outfits.

I agree completely. The game clearly cannot handle creating decent outfits, which it proves by putting the bleepin' eyeball ring on everyone. The colors don't match and they are over-accessorized to a point that it's not even funny anymore, in my opinion. It is definitely one of my biggest gripes with the game and I wish they would remove it entirely.

Random outfits are one of the most hated features of TS4 and the complaints about them are as old as the wish for a color wheel. They seem so easy to fix (just get rid of them), yet still our collective nauseation has been ignored for years. Either someone at EA/Maxis has a sick need to show us, the buying fans, who is really the boss, or somebody with an equally sick outfit fetish has gotten far too powerfull in the ranks of decision makers. In all the years of me hating (HATING!!) random outfits I couldn't come up with another explanation, and if I really wanted to see someone on the Guru team fired it is the person responsible for not making an end to this sad, tasteless stupidity.

Can we get rid of the randomly generated outfits on Sims that aren't part of their outfit list?

SEREFRAS
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
That's because of Sims 4 City Living. The game causes the sims in all the worlds to wear random tourist fashion police outfits.
Netzspannung
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
"SERVERFRA;c-17517364" wrote:
That's because of Sims 4 City Living. The game causes the sims in all the worlds to wear random tourist fashion police outfits.

That's only part of the truth. Seasons, Vampires and Get Famous also produce random outfits for walkbys. And Realm of Magic also creates random outfits when Sims visit the magic realm. I don't understand it because these outfits are always the worst.
TheGreatGorlon
5 years ago
"Netzspannung;c-17517370" wrote:
"SERVERFRA;c-17517364" wrote:
That's because of Sims 4 City Living. The game causes the sims in all the worlds to wear random tourist fashion police outfits.

That's only part of the truth. Seasons, Vampires and Get Famous also produce random outfits for walkbys. And Realm of Magic also creates random outfits when Sims visit the magic realm. I don't understand it because these outfits are always the worst.

I just don't really see WHY this function needed to exist in the first place. When there are like 7 outfits you already design for them in CAS, there's absolutely no need for RNG outfits.
Netzspannung
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
I agree completely. The game clearly cannot handle creating decent outfits, which it proves by putting the bleepin' eyeball ring on everyone. The colors don't match and they are over-accessorized to a point that it's not even funny anymore, in my opinion. It is definitely one of my biggest gripes with the game and I wish they would remove it entirely.
TopNotchToddler
5 years ago
Random outfits are one of the most hated features of TS4 and the complaints about them are as old as the wish for a color wheel. They seem so easy to fix (just get rid of them), yet still our collective nauseation has been ignored for years. Either someone at EA/Maxis has a sick need to show us, the buying fans, who is really the boss, or somebody with an equally sick outfit fetish has gotten far too powerfull in the ranks of decision makers. In all the years of me hating (HATING!!) random outfits I couldn't come up with another explanation, and if I really wanted to see someone on the Guru team fired it is the person responsible for not making an end to this sad, tasteless stupidity.
cb2342z
Seasoned Spectator
5 years ago
Now this is really what peeves me off. Change the Sim's outfit back to normal using the MCCC Dresser menu; and then two seconds later they're right back into that ugly "Situation" outfit that makes no sense at all.

And, I think simply ditching the script that creates situational outfits might fix some stuff.
randwick78
5 years ago
I agree it should be taken out, because it really irritates me. When the outfit generating system works so badly I can't understand why they would add this as a feature.

Townies and their randomly generated outfits are a real immersion breaker as well. I think townies should be dressed from the options in styled looks, with the ability to add our own being possible too.
atreya33
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I am also hoping we can one day disable situational outfits. Just a game option to turn them off would suffice. That way those who like them can still use them.

I simply don't bother to change the outfits of sims from other households anymore because of this. They show up in whatever anyway. And trying a historical save with every one dressed in a particular time period is nearly impossible. The situational outfits in the magic realm were so bothersome I even got a mod for that (I try to use as few mods as possible but this one is a must for me)
apotts
5 years ago
I cannot stand that this happens with the outfits, but I also cannot stand the weird random NPCs that the game makes on it's own. This basically ruined the Uni pack for me, because I put hours of extra work with MCCC to make all the roommates look less freaky, only to have them be replaced by more random freak roommates the next semester. It's stuff like this that has kept me from touching the game even though I have been off of work for a couple months now. Shame really.
logionX
Seasoned Vanguard
5 years ago
My most disliked feature in the sims 4. They hide it in their marketing trailers, they keep including it in their packs, they do not improve it with their patches. Outfits and Situational Outfits that are generated for sims are a mess.

Without MC Command Center and NPC Control, I would probably have stopped playing honestly. It is devastating to spend so much time in CAS, which is my favorite feature, only for the game to randomize everything into a mess anyway when you are playing the game.