EgonVM's Ultimate NPC Making Guide 2.0
So yeah, due to how these forums work with the spoilers, the original guide is somewhat messed up and updating it would result in loss of information. So, after some consideration, I've decided to m...
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I want to add some NPC role information I found while playing in Tomarang.
Tomarang is the most "local exclusive" world. It's not just making the game create many locals. Tomarang is the only world (for now) that allows only Tomarani locals to work as Service NPCs.
I found that in my main save after the game spawned a new local mailman to walk in the town even though I have 2 of them in other worlds. Not only mailman but pizza delivery man is spawned too.
This is new because I haven't seen this level of hard filter in other worlds. Even in the jungle city of Selvadorada, San Myshuno's local mailman can come to send the mail. But in Tomarang, all services NPC are local. I tested only 2 services but I believe that the other service would have the same rule.
From my long observation, while Tomarani service workers can visit other worlds, only Tomarani service can walk or work in Tomarang.
Besides service sims, Tomarang prefers using local for spawning in most cases. At the lounge, if you don't have enough elders, the game will create new elders to spawn even if you have plenty of elders in other worlds.
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Strangely, the "Tomarang Vendor" has an exception to this rule. Tomarang vendors can be created as the other world local but they need to have "trait_Hidden_EP15_Local"
I found this thing because I saw one of the new Tomarang vendors has Chestnut Ridge's local name and I already confirmed their region by MCCC. I also found that this Sim has both "trait_Hidden_EP14_Local" and "trait_Hidden_EP15_Local" in the same person.
I guess that the system of generating vendors for Tomarang is to give "trait_Hidden_EP15_Local" to them.
If my theory is true, when I give existing vendors from other worlds to have "trait_Hidden_EP15_Local", they can come to work in Tomarang. I will test it another time. (It may be like the person who has two country passport.)
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Regarding tourists, Tomarang doesn't have tourists with unique outfits like in Selvadorada or San Myshuno. But the game sometimes spawns one outsider to walk in the night market. After around 4-5 visits, I think I haven't seen more than 1 (or 2) outsiders in Tomarang in the same time if not counting active family who visit.
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Finally, this makes Tomarang one of the most exotic worlds in terms of locals. Previously I thought Selvarorada was the most local exclusive, but the service sims case makes Tomarang more local exclusive.
Note: This is mainly the test of the save that disable EP06. I will test more with EP06 in the future. But if you want to test it yourself. Try to use the old save that already has the service worker before For Rent and try to hire it. (The easiest way is ordering pizza.)
Oh wow. I had to check it out in my game too. Here's what results I got for each role (from the game I've made custom NPC sims):
- Firefighter - Existing one
- Butler - New one
- Pizza Deliverer - New one
- Adoption Agent - Existing one
- Nanny - New one
- Repair Service - New one
- Ranch Hand - New one
- Eco Inspector - Existing one
- Maid - New one
So, only a few roles will use existing sims while the other ones use the new ones. That's a great discovery!
Do test it out. I'll see if I can find something related to that in The Sims Studio (through tuning files). Perhaps I could make a full list of those NPCs who have Tomarang specific sim requirement.
Ok... So then, I checked out the tuning files and found this interesting part:
locationBasedFilterTerm
The following worlds have this:
- Sulani
- Glimmerbrook
- Mt. Komorebi
- Henford-on-Bagley
- Moonwood Mill
- Chestnut Ridge
- Tomarang
However, Tomarang is the only one with the minimum filter score of 0. I wonder what that means. Yet (almost) every filter term requires the sim to live or be evicted from there. So, I'm guessing simply equipping the local trait won't work...
I tried to order a pizza in every world mentioned. Here's the result:
- Sulani - Existing one
- Glimmerbrook - Existing one
- Mt. Komorebi - Existing one
- Henford-on-Bagley - Existing one
- Moonwood Mill - Existing one
- Chestnut Ridge - Existing one
- Tomarang - New one
I'm guessing that the worlds mentioned there prefer sims who live or are evicted from that world and if there are none available, they resort to existing ones. Yet Tomarang will have zero-tolerance to non-Tomarani service sims, making the game generate a new one instead.
Yet what makes Firefighters, Adoption Agents, and Eco Inspectors different? I don't know.
Firefighter and Adoption Agents have this line:
<V n="career_location" t="none"/>Yet Eco Inspector doesn't. They have this line:
<V t="in_compatible_region"/>This can be the Get Famous effect you've described in another thread though...
I have to look into it deeper...
Thank you for your deeper playtesting and for looking at the tuning codes. I didn't expect that there would be many more details behind this.
So, most of the local service sims are generated in Tomarang except for some roles. I think it makes sense about those roles because they can be from other regions as the specialized service. (For the firefighters, as they don't have to appear too often, it's better to use existing ones.)
I wonder about this locationBasedFilterTerm too. These worlds are the worlds that seem to choose their local for the roles. What is the value of the other world? Do they have the same amount except Tomarang (which is 0)? I am curious about that but don't need to post if it's too long or complicated.
I will look for your deeper investigation if available, but thanks for your hard work continuing to check after my research. It's amazing!
I don't know what the minimum filter score exactly means... But they aren't same for others.
If you're interested, the minimum filter score for each is the following:
- Sulani - 0.1
- Glimmerbrook - 0.5 - 0.1
- Mt. Komorebi - 0.1
- Henford-on-Bagley - 0.25
- Moonwood Mill - 0.25
- Chestnut Ridge - 0.5
- Tomarang - 0
