HELP! Celebrities are invading my game!

"UnDutchable;c-16845801" wrote:

"SilentKitty;c-16845313" wrote:

"Icewolf;c-16843789" wrote:
I got fame turned off since I only wanted a few of my own sims to be celebrities, but the game still generated new ones. Often elders too. It's super annoying. I'm so tired of these auto generating sims! :weary:

Hmm, I thought that this is what you would avoid if you turned fame off :/ I can imagine having a few dedicated stars but no way no how do I want to have random generated celebrities. Haven’t bought the EP yet, want to see what happens in people’s saves first.

Unfortunately, it looks like the game "needs" a certain amount of celebrities, so it will spawn random ones even if you have fame turned off. The Starlight Accolades happened in my game yesterday, and the game spawned new ones continuously during the ceremony. I noticed the game also spawned new celebrities when my sim was simply exploring Del Sol Valley. It's the exact same problem that we've had since City Living, too: 9 out of 10 spawn with the same Japanese names, most have weird body shapes, and once they're in the world the game prioritizes them over other NPCs so they'll show up everywhere.

I have all the celebrity premades in my game, plus five that I made myself, but the game still felt the need to spawn new celebrities and even gave one of them an award at the ceremony.

I'm going to see if MC Command Center has a setting that will prevent this, because this is super annoying. There's literally no point to the celebrity system if the game is going to ignore the ones that already exist.

I could be wrong but I think the issue is that it is usually faster for the game to just generate a new random Sim for a role than loading a pre-made one. The devs really want to avoid long loading screens but to me that would be a small price to pay for not having random weirdos roaming in my game.