Does anybody else sometimes change the names of premades

"JC1979;c-17038852" wrote:
Yes I do, a lot. There is only so many sims named Tanaka, Mori, Ghandi, Geffedi, Mosouni and so on that I can tolerate. Ever since I bought CL every premade generated has a Far Eastern/middle eastern name, it’s not diverse. I’ve went so far as eliminating premades with mods, because the regeneration of same names and weird outfits is beyond annoying.

That’s randomly generated not premades. But yeah I change those too.

I don’t change the names of premades I just delete them. I do keep the Goths, Landgraabs, pizzaz, and maybe 1 or 2 others.

I change most NPC names that don't follow any kind of workable naming convention that I can explain in a given save. I mean, if I've created a neighborhood of mixed races, the names might be fine, unless they are all of a single type and ignore other naming conventions.

Example: If I have Nordic or Slavic appearing sims, African or Jamaican appearing sims, any of the Asian appeaing sims, or East Indian in appearance and every single family has East Indian names, I change them up and make them make sense. For instance, I have no problem with a name like Heidi Nakamura if say....one of the Munch family married one of the Nakamura family, but having 80 sims running 'round all with the name Johnson would really irk me. Or Yuki Johanson from parents of workable lineage, but just having 80 sims running round with the name Kimura would also irk me.

I realize we live in a world where names don't necessarily match nationality because we live in a lovely melting pot these days, but whole neighborhoods full of people with all one nationality's naming conventions or names that don't make any since in ANY culture... they get changed.

"JC1979;c-17038852" wrote:
Yes I do, a lot. There is only so many sims named Tanaka, Mori, Ghandi, Geffedi, Mosouni and so on that I can tolerate. Ever since I bought CL every premade generated has a Far Eastern/middle eastern name, it’s not diverse. I’ve went so far as eliminating premades with mods, because the regeneration of same names and weird outfits is beyond annoying.

Wow someone else actually has this issue ! I love some diversity but ever since I bought City Living almost all the random townies are Tanakas or masoumis or hakashi ! I used to have hispanic last names , more common ones , South asian but now they're all extinct.

@PlumbobMafiaQueen exactly. I love diversity, but it’s no longer diverse when most sims generated either look the same with beyond bad fashion choices and/or have the same Asian names. I have also noticed CL has driven out Latin named sims as well. I don’t know why that particular expansion has so much dominance over the entire game.

I once changed the Munch's last name to Munchausen. Only because Windenberg has that German feel and I wanted more German Sims in that town.

No never. I love them as they are.

I change J Huntington's because I think "J" is a stupid name. I also change Brant's because the combination of Brent and Brant sounds more suitable for twin brothers than it does for a couple (and since I find Brant to be the worse of those two names, I change that one)

I only change the names of the ones that are randomly generated, but not the official ones.

Mostly pregenerated townies, renaming them based on their ethnicity.

Only if they switch gender, really. But the townies, YES! Especially if I have a few that spawn with the same last names and/or if their names don't really fit their ethnicity or is unpronounceable by me.