Having issues with styling townies with NPC roles.

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I've been working on a nostalgic save file where all sims look like sims from previous Sims games. But I've been having some problems with NPC roles.

Currently I'm trying to set librarians and gym trainers. But every time I have edited a librarian in CAS and I go back to the lot, a new sim is spawned to replace the librarian. I have created a couple of gym trainers and given them the right traits and jobs through cheats, but the game prefers to select a random premade for a gym trainer. I've also edited premade townies that had been selected by the game to be gym trainer, but again, after editing them, another sim will be selected.

Basically this makes it possible to tweak these NPC roles. Which is a shame, because I really wan to play the game without randomly generated looking townies. And I have thought of some fun Sims 1 style names to give to the librarians, like Paige Turner and Betty Book, that I really want to use.

Does anyone have experience with this and know a solution?

And does anyone know how bartenders are selected? It seems to me that a random sim will be picked every time and it is no use to try and make custom bartenders. Is that true?

lablue0314 · Answer

The mistake you are making when doing this is you are not to actively play the sim, not even for a moment just to bring them into CAS. This deletes the part that gives them that role. Instead what you do is from Manage World, find the household the sim is living in, take them straight to CAS from there. Go into CAS, and edit their outfits, hairstyle, and anything else.

When it comes to assigning the roles, the game will usually pick from the homeless section, or creating a whole new sim for that role, and also picking sims with certain traits that did not have a job to fill a role. I was a little curious about this a while back. I went through a game save and evicted quite a few sims, and noticed that very soon after that they were doing different NPC roles such as the bartender, librarian, and so on, even though they already had a job (that your sim can also work at). I'm sure there is more to this than that, but this is what I have discovered personally.

netzspannung · Answer

In my experience, the only way to make sure they don't lose their NPC role is to edit them while you're in live mode. I edit gym trainers all the time and they always keep their job. What I do is, while I am playing my Sim, I find the NPC at their job location. Then I open the cheat console and type in testingcheats true hit enter and then cas.fulleditmode and hit enter and close the console. Then I shift-click the Sim and click on edit in CAS (or something similar). Then I edit them as usual but before I leave CAS, I make sure that I have selected the outfit category they were wearing when I entered CAS. Otherwise - although I don't think this happens with homeless households - it can happen that you switch over to that household when you exit CAS and are playing the Sim you only wanted to edit. And this is how I edit 90% of game-generated Sims, not from Manage Households but on the go.
Librarians are a bit of a different creature though because they wear a career outfit that you can't edit in regular CAS. There are separate cheats for that which I have never tried. But you can edit the physique and features this way of course.

simmingal · Answer

wish theyd just give us actual npc manager already p_p even my CoL roles are messed and it hasn't even been that long dang it

so tired of randomized townies taking over everything and landgraabs being reduced to being massage therapists and maids and whatever the heck is worst possible role match

sharooonia · Answer

I flag freeze them in their career with MCCC, that keeps everybody where I want them career wise. I get tired of making over endless NPC’s.

simulord · Answer

I've found success editing in Manage Worlds. As long as you move them back into Unplayed Households, they should revert to whatever role they had when you went to edit them. Rebuilt a couple of Britechester librarians and they kept their roles.

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