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gertie47
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9 hours ago

How do you make peace with the randomly generated sims?

I have realised that the reason I can't move beyond about 3 generations in any legacy is that I actually spend hours more on making over the randomly generated sims, and also making over the randomly generated outfits when unplayed premades age-up, than I do actually in game play. 

Yes, it is a me problem that I can't make peace with the, let's face it, clowns the game randomly generates to fill NPC roles, etc. I don't even let my sims visit bars anymore because they generate thousands of "bar regulars".   

So far, my coping techniques have been mods, but I still find these are hit-or-miss (especially since career outfits don't retain the hairstyle from the makeover). 

I need advice then, from people who are able to continue to play (particularly long legacies) despite the state of the randomly generated 'clowns' the game creates after the original premades die off. How do you just remain unbothered? 

I really want to do a legacy challenge, but this petty irritation keeps me from getting interested in multi-generational saves. 

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  • I'm not bothered about townie sims appearance or fashion, but about the fact that they get generated at all. Doesn't matter what you look like, dear pixel, you're stealing the spotlight from my ~100 curated custom townies, who could have appeared instead of you. 
    I tend to go on deletion sprees either at the end or the beginning of a game session.

  • I am still trying to learn to live with this. I made a good amount of Spellcaster NPCs to minimize/stop them generating when I got to the Magic Realm (this really helped). I tried to download extra Maxis produced Households for not in world NPCs but still the auto generation madness won't stop.

    I feel bad because my game seems to be stuck in 3 types of favoured auto generation preferences. Asian looking dominating facial features (which I do not mind having Asian looking Sims, in fact some of my favourite NPCs I have saved were saved from original auto generated ones, I just re-dressed), dark skinned with blonde/red hair (and not fashion looking, like uncomplimentary contrast/colour clashing) and extremely overweight/obese Sims (I do not mind occasional curvy or even overweight, but obese bothers me though, I mean the Sims do not have anorexic Sims (thank gawd!) as that is mental illness, but extreme obesity is also a mental illness, and just as triggering.

    That is just the aesthetics, don't even get me started on the fashion clashing and accessory abuse!

    I do not want to download a mod (especially script based, tuning mods are not such an issue) to fix something as large of scale as auto generation, as it seems just as much as an upkeep, and potential to break the game in an update.

    I just wish the devs would update NPC generation pools where we can do it at the manage/edit world level, like marking an NPC a maid, mailperson, firefighter, bar tender, etc. And if we do not assign, it will be auto generated.

  • Bellesim1967's avatar
    Bellesim1967
    Seasoned Traveler
    8 hours ago

    I have finally left them in the unplayed area with neighborhood stories disabled.  Thankfully, it has worked so far. I am playing in a royalty save, playing only one family right now.

     

     

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