Do you rename Sims? Particularly non-played Sims?

I mostly delete all randomly generated townies, but if I do keep them for any reason, I often edit their names and clothing. I prefer names I can pronounce and suit the sim.

mostly only last names. cause im tired of every town being full of villareals and vatores and landgrabbs ALL the time

I rename everyone. I can’t remember the last time I saw a townie walk by and didn’t facepalm at their name.

Sometimes it’s because the first name doesn’t fit with the last name, but more often than not it’s due to the huge bias towards Asian names. With the exception of Spanish, there are hardly any European-named sims generated by the game. Where are all the Italian, German, French, Polish, and Swedish names, for example?

I rename newly spawned townies so I don't get them mixed up with preexisting families of the same name. I sort of keep everyone's family tree organized, and I get really annoyed if I have 5 sims with the same last name and they're unrelated LOL

Sometimes if I don't feel like renaming, some households get a new sibling or I just delete them altogether.

I used to rename all the sims that generate with city living names, but now I use a mod to stop those names from being used. It got really annoying to have multiple sims with the same name who weren't related.

Nah. I'm too lazy.

That honestly sounds like way too much work lol.

I don't rename anyone, even after a Sim gets married. I kind of think the City Living names are charming and they feel very ethnic to me. What ethnicity? Who knows, but I don't mind them!

I've only ever given surnames to adopted pets because they need a last name to cheat the relationship... I adopt a pet, take them into CAS (fulleditmode) and just make a copy pretty much. Delete the old one, add a last name so that if there WAS a relationship prior to me doing all this, I can have the same relationship once I've created this clone in CAS... It's all that issue of pets not being able to be trained not to do certain things. So once that's fixed, I probably won't even go through the process of giving them last names.

I use a mod to control those City Living names, but before I started using that mod, I renamed often. I just like being able to pronounce sims names, even if it's only "close enough". Some of those city living names though, I am completely baffled on where to begin pronouncing them.

I’m very picky when it comes to the game-generated townies I keep in my saves, so I always give the ones I keep makeovers and change their names to better suit them. Although, my current save file has been generating some decent names lately. It created this beautiful sim named Jewel Xu and I just adore her. She’s an extremely skilled bartender in my game who frequently works in San Myshuno. :smile:

Mostly only where it needs to fit into a specific scenario I'm developing; other than that, I actually have a mod that generates less 'exotic' names so I don't really have to change that many.