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83bienchen
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4 years ago

Fix Townies! - Disable accessories for random!? Should EA do this?

Making over townies and also your own Sims after their birthday is such a hassle in TS4. I was thinking how much easier it would be and also how much more pleasing Sims would look if the game didn't throw hats, glasses, socks and accessories (in the future probably also nails) on them randomly.
In my opinion, this approach would fix a lot of the issues many are having with townies, while players can always choose to add accessories of THEIR choice. What do you think?

Also, EA could do it meanwhile updating CAS assets when the next pack is due that requires changes to CAS assets anyway (there have been such packs in the past, e.g. every pack adding a new species). That way it wouldn't become a hassle.

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  • Yes... They will still miss-match other clothes, even if its just patterns, but it just wouldn't be so glaring if there were less possibilities.
  • If the random assignment of accessories made sense most of the time I would not mind, but since it almost always looks horrid I would rather decide and assign these myself.
  • I would be ok with the generation of accessories if they limited how much, some are so bling'd up it's ridiculous!
  • Nix it.
    It's bad enough with all the bad combinations, but also CC often use accessories categories and makes things worse.
    A lot of my CC are unique items specialized for particular sims. It doesn't belong on just anyone.
  • Never gonna happen. People (including myself, often) have been complaining about this sort of thing forever. Like random outfit changes. I have 6 mods with lines and lines of tuning I've modified to fight this kind of behavior, and every game more of it shows up. I even made a guy called Maxis Max who lives in my town, wearing every possible accessory and silly clothes item I could pile on as a loving tribute. It's just another reason I also made mods to keep random townies to a minimum (or not at all).

    BTW, one place you can really see this is on warm and cold weather outfits for pre-made sims that come in the game (the ones who come in packs from before Seasons). Instead of taking the time and going in and permanently adding those outfits in a way that makes sense, they are randomly generated every new game. So families like the Goths wear something stupid, and tend to sport nose rings and glasses even if they don't normally do so.
  • Yes, please. Especially if you have CC, it somehow just decides that this townie needs every single option of piercing available. I mean, sure, you do you if you like piercing, but having the majority of townies wear double nose rings doesn't look realistic to me.
  • Totally agree.

    Worst thing I see is when my sim is NOT using glasses, but the game suggested that s/he uses glasses with sleepwear... WHO wear glasses in their sleep if NOT using glasses when they are awake??? To see their dreams clearer, or what?

    I'd also wish we could set STYLE per sim in CAS, not only per clothing alternative. I don't know any person who prefers PREPPY full outfits, CLASSY ops and BOHO bottoms. One option to affect all categories would be nice.

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