How to reduce game generated Sims?

There's no way to reduce it significantly without mods. Some people use the reduced random townie generation mod but it's broken right now. I personally use NPC Control but it does not often get updated very quickly after patches. Other than that I know of no solutions. MCCC reduces it a bit simply by being installed (since it allows for unemployed sims to fill service roles instead of having the game generate more) but this just reduces it a tiny bit, it doesn't reduce it as much as the other two mods do.

I wouldn't mind reducing the townies with Japanese sounding names. I don't mind a few but it seems like there is a lot of those in my game. I'd rather have townies with recognizable names that I can remember.

I just delete them every day.

With Mccc you can click on a sim and delete right away, anyway... If you visit a cafe the game generates adults in it doesn't have any, lounge bars generates elders, the barmans are almost always elders or young adults, nightclubs generates young adults and adults, food stalls tend to prefer pre-mades for some reason, bowling tend to generate teens... If you have a pool of sims of every age you can reduce the townie generation with no mods... If you have a lot of ya the game will always generate adults and elders if you visit a lot type that has a preference for a specific age.

"SiliClone;c-17023749" wrote:
With Mccc you can click on a sim and delete right away, anyway... If you visit a cafe the game generates adults in it doesn't have any, lounge bars generates elders, the barmans are almost always elders or young adults, nightclubs generates young adults and adults, food stalls tend to prefer pre-mades for some reason, bowling tend to generate teens... If you have a pool of sims of every age you can reduce the townie generation with no mods... If you have a lot of ya the game will always generate adults and elders if you visit a lot type that has a preference for a specific age.

Thanks so much for that info, I’ll keep it in mind when adding new Sims.

"FurSimsOfficial;c-17023810" wrote:
My game is full of the girls with long boho skirts and a CC hair I downloaded. They are mostly brown with blond, brown or fire red hair AND very thin eyebrows. Oh and mostly the Asian eyes.
Also a lot of males with Asian eyes. The looks do not match up at all. I thought the sims 4 was suppose to be better in creating realistic races.

I remember how my sims 3 game was full of dark skinned sims with blonde hair and blue eyes.. come on man :D

Exactly what I’m talking about, plus all mine have that weird pear shape for the males and maxed out weight for the females. I recognize people are all shapes and sizes, but I’d like to see realistic representation of that.

One way I've been working around this issue is by putting townie sims I want to keep in favorite households (pressing the heart) so that it slows down random generations. I have 180 favorite households (max population set to 200), leaving 20 for births that might occur in my playable households. If you have non-playable sims set to aging on, then you will have to add new favorites over time, easy to do with downloading sims from the gallery.

"Sharonia;c-17023620" wrote:
I wouldn't mind reducing the townies with Japanese sounding names. I don't mind a few but it seems like there is a lot of those in my game. I'd rather have townies with recognizable names that I can remember.

I've actually been loving all the Japanese-sounding names. I kind of think of San Myshuno as San Francisco, so these names make it feel more realistic.

"MLadyAzzera;c-17023890" wrote:
One way I've been working around this issue is by putting townie sims I want to keep in favorite households (pressing the heart) so that it slows down random generations. I have 180 favorite households (max population set to 200), leaving 20 for births that might occur in my playable households. If you have non-playable sims set to aging on, then you will have to add new favorites over time, easy to do with downloading sims from the gallery.

Thanks, I was thinking of trying that, but had no idea if it would work! Awesome!!

"Kita5399;c-17024165" wrote:

"Cupid;c-17024093" wrote:

"MLadyAzzera;c-17023890" wrote:
One way I've been working around this issue is by putting townie sims I want to keep in favorite households (pressing the heart) so that it slows down random generations. I have 180 favorite households (max population set to 200), leaving 20 for births that might occur in my playable households. If you have non-playable sims set to aging on, then you will have to add new favorites over time, easy to do with downloading sims from the gallery.

Favoriting households does absolutely nothing to stop townies from generating. The maximum sim setting does not include sims from unfavorited households and those will continue to generate beyond reaching that number.

From my understanding the favorited households are just Sims that are protected from being culled correct? So how many more the game generates would depend on how high the max is set, and what your computer can handle? It may be a possibility to have a high number of favorites, and due to computer specs the game may not generate more (or would cull them regularly)? I have no problem with having some game generated Sims, I just end up with so many. Another problem I have is it giving me a bunch of households that have no name, and that causes last exception errors.

Yes, it basically just protects them from culling. There's another "limit" for all the sims in that save, and once you reach that limit (whatever it is, I don't know the exact number or if there even is one) then culling begins. It probably takes a lot of sims to reach that point anyway though. And reaching it still wouldn't stop the game from making more, the culled sims would get replaced and it'd be an endless cycle.