Let Sims wear their assigned CAS outfits instead of weird situational ones, please

i don't have CL & that's how it looks atm in my game
the encircled sim is one of mine how he shouldn't be clothed in clubs

http://i66.tinypic.com/6z0dqh.jpg
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in the second image the same sim of mine
at the left his actual party clothes & at the right another random combo of his clubbing clothes

Okay, I am like 90% with you OP, the problem is ... I DO care about the festivals. I use them a lot, and not only that, even when I didn't use them, once the message popped up that the festival was in town, I would start seeing sims in festival generated clothing wandering around the world.
Oh, hanging out at the ruins in Windenburg instead of going to the festival? BAM five townies wearing tights, socks, gloves, bracelets, rings on every finger, and that LLAMAMAN hat, show up. The festival outfits were (with the exception of Geekcon) mostly just using color filters, and mostly the festival wear wasn't that bad, a few, questionable choices here and there, but you DO see that in real life when people try to dress for something outside their usual style, and once festivals were over, the sims changed back into their usual clothes. But once sims started desperately filling every accessory slot, and pulling from the costume category to do so, and then NEVER changing back into their own clothes unless requested to do so, it became a bad glitch that seriously disturbed many. Oh, taking a romantic screenshot of a proposal? Who's that blinded out guy in the hooded cloak hat, suit jacket, shorts, and ripped zombie tights? Oh he's from a festival? What festival, there hasn't been a festival in two days!
It was a serious problem for many players. And I was glad to see it in the patch notes.

HOWEVER, moving the problem to night club /dance parties isn't a real fix. Granted NONE of these fashion disaster pics you've posted of night club wear are as horrifying as what the festivals were generating, it's still a problem. I was one of the people whose sims were NOT changing into lot specific attire (a separate and longer standing issue from the festival glitch) - fancy restaurant set to formal wear? Everyone is in everyday wear. Night club? Everyone is in everyday wear. NPC's would change, so bartenders / caterers / restaurant staff/ dj's etc would be dressed correctly but other sims, both townies, my own, played and unplayed, would not. So that needed to be fixed as well - however FORCING sims into weird auto generated outfits, is not a fix, and I for one, would prefer my sims continue to show up at parties and formal events in jeans and everyday outfits that I at least choose for them, for a while longer while a real fix is created, then have them show up in a random autogenerated outfit that may have had the right tags to be acceptable to a computer, but that certainly aren't acceptable to people with eyeballs.

"SkyeChimes;c-16164841" wrote:
Okay, I am like 90% with you OP, the problem is ... I DO care about the festivals. I use them a lot, and not only that, even when I didn't use them, once the message popped up that the festival was in town, I would start seeing sims in festival generated clothing wandering around the world.
Oh, hanging out at the ruins in Windenburg instead of going to the festival? BAM five townies wearing tights, socks, gloves, bracelets, rings on every finger, and that LLAMAMAN hat, show up. The festival outfits were (with the exception of Geekcon) mostly just using color filters, and mostly the festival wear wasn't that bad, a few, questionable choices here and there, but you DO see that in real life when people try to dress for something outside their usual style, and once festivals were over, the sims changed back into their usual clothes. But once sims started desperately filling every accessory slot, and pulling from the costume category to do so, and then NEVER changing back into their own clothes unless requested to do so, it became a bad glitch that seriously disturbed many. Oh, taking a romantic screenshot of a proposal? Who's that blinded out guy in the hooded cloak hat, suit jacket, shorts, and ripped zombie tights? Oh he's from a festival? What festival, there hasn't been a festival in two days!
It was a serious problem for many players. And I was glad to see it in the patch notes.

HOWEVER, moving the problem to night club /dance parties isn't a real fix. Granted NONE of these fashion disaster pics you've posted of night club wear are as horrifying as what the festivals were generating, it's still a problem. I was one of the people whose sims were NOT changing into lot specific attire (a separate and longer standing issue from the festival glitch) - fancy restaurant set to formal wear? Everyone is in everyday wear. Night club? Everyone is in everyday wear. NPC's would change, so bartenders / caterers / restaurant staff/ dj's etc would be dressed correctly but other sims, both townies, my own, played and unplayed, would not. So that needed to be fixed as well - however FORCING sims into weird auto generated outfits, is not a fix, and I for one, would prefer my sims continue to show up at parties and formal events in jeans and everyday outfits that I at least choose for them, for a while longer while a real fix is created, then have them show up in a random autogenerated outfit that may have had the right tags to be acceptable to a computer, but that certainly aren't acceptable to people with eyeballs.

I'm not saying that I didn't care at all about that festival outfits glitch - I hated it, but with MCCC there was such an easy fix. You just go to situational outfits, and select everyday or party clothing for these festivals and you're done. Therefore, it never bothered me much and it wasn't as in-your-face as this issue is for me. Nightclubs or parties, however, aren't listed in the situational outfits categories, so I don't know how to avert this fashion disaster there. :sweat_smile:

I'm 100% with you on the second part. I love the fact that I now see formal outfits at lounges, for example, which I didn't see before on my Sims/premades visiting. But if that means having these abominable outfits at parties and nightclubs.... no thanks. In that case, I'd much rather sacrifice those formal outfits and have the everyday outfits back. I read somewhere that it's possible to blacklist certain items using MCCC... so I'm thinking of blacklisting all hats and glasses in the hopes of making the whole thing look at least a little less circus-y. No idea how that all works, though, as I only started using MCCC about a month ago... but I really, really can't stand seeing my poor Sims like this. This is the term fashion victim taken to a whole new level lol.

Why. WHY are situation outfits a thing at all? There's a way to disable these entirely, right? Just outright block them from the game?

Like, why the heck should they wear "situation" outfits at the night club when the PARTY outfits, which we chose OURSELVES, already exist???
I mean, what do you do at a night club? That's right, you party. You don't "situation" there. You party.

Also, why do the townies need to wear different outfits at the festivals, while your sim just shows up all normal-looking, like they didn't get the memo? I want my sims to cosplay at geek-con too, haha. But that's really the only one that should have a different outfit at all. Why does the romance festival need different outfits? What's the point?

And supposedly this is all by design? What the heck. That's terrible design. This is The Sims!!! The players are supposed to be in control here. They probably didn't think this through at all. :|

"Magdaleena;c-16164997" wrote:
Why. WHY are situation outfits a thing at all? There's a way to disable these entirely, right? Just outright block them from the game?

Like, why the heck should they wear "situation" outfits at the night club when the PARTY outfits, which we chose OURSELVES, already exist???
I mean, what do you do at a night club? That's right, you party. You don't "situation" there. You party.

Also, why do the townies need to wear different outfits at the festivals, while your sim just shows up all normal-looking, like they didn't get the memo? I want my sims to cosplay at geek-con too, haha. But that's really the only one that should have a different outfit at all. Why does the romance festival need different outfits? What's the point?

And supposedly this is all by design? What the heck. That's terrible design. This is The Sims!!! The players are supposed to be in control here. They probably didn't think this through at all. :|

Amen. If there is a way to disable them please enlighten me. I know how to block festival outfits, but no idea how to get rid of these nightclub outfits. :(

It really makes me wonder if MC Command Center can fix it, why can't Maxis? It seems not only should Maxis be able to fix it, but they should be able to do it more cleanly. Maybe their coders should ask Deaderpool for tips :/

"Felicity;c-16165078" wrote:
It really makes me wonder if MC Command Center can fix it, why can't Maxis? It seems not only should Maxis be able to fix it, but they should be able to do it more cleanly. Maybe their coders should ask Deaderpool for tips :/

My thoughts exactly !
Or at least that were my thoughts. I changed my mind. They should pay him or better hire him. He is a game saver. Without him, this game is unplayable.
Just read his recent patch notes. He still fix Maxis bugs !
I'm so angry ! I love this game and after the toddler patch and parenthood, I started to have faith again. I really thought they listen and care about the players (CUSTOMERS !!! WE PAY FOR THAT GAME !!!) And after my PC broke I wanted to buy everything for the console, meaning everything twice.

Now not anymore. I lost my faith again. And until Maxis finally wake up and realize, that they develop this game for CUSTOMERS, who PAY for it and NOT for themselves and not just for their own entertainment and their "funny" humor, I won't spend a single Euro.

Again and again and again : I want to play a sims game MY WAY and not THEIR WAY !

Sorry for my rant. I'm just angry and very, very disappointed. :'(

@lottevdbrug ah! That makes sense - I play completely vanilla, no mods or CC (even McCC), so the festivals were more of an issue as that fix wasn't an option for me. I don't hate mods, but they just seem like a lot of effort. I have considered MCCC before, maybe someday I will sit down and go through all the options and modules and install it.

I agree, I enjoy them wearing the appropriate category for the setting, but I also would prefer they held off on fixing that if it was only going to break nightclubs and dance parties. And I agree with @Magdaleena that situational outfits for nightclubs seem unnecary when we have party outfits. And if you have chosen to dress your sim in a costume or for a child's birthday party in the party category - well at least it was YOUR choice and probably suits the character of that particular sim, after all not everybody dresses like a ...professional of ill repute... to go to a club, and a sim in a modest party outfit would still bother me less than a sim in a poorly coordinated outfit I didn't choose!

@SimGuruNick @SimGuruArvin can we get confirmation as to whether the strange outfits at nightclubs/ dance parties, including continued abuse of the accessory slots, is a bug or working as intended? If situtional outfits in these scenarios are as intended can we offer two pieces of feedback? 1. Accessory slots are still being overused and this can not be intentional, every sim does not need to wear a hat, and glasses, and etc. 2. Situational outfits for dance parties / night clubs are not the desirable state for many players, please consider changing it.

I haven't noticed this yet.. Haven't done much clubbing with 2 new toddlers in the house (it's a long story) But I was wondering how you all feel about not being able to change their work attire? Does this fall under that same category? I mean normally the work attire is tasteful and realistic, but it doesn't fit the personality of some of my Sims, and I do wish I could change it in probably 75% of all my Sims.

Ugg, I'm so sick of this! It's not even NPCs anymore, last night my sim went to a nightclub & the weirdly dressed ones were from my own households, the NPCs actually looked normal. What's the point of having CAS if the games just going to change their clothes?

I'm sick of the cosplay club, too. I don't even like Star Wars. In fact I'm hating it worse & worse every time I see someone show up to a lot in a Darth Maul mask or Princess Leia hair. We need a block option on CAS so no one, not even NPCs can wear clothing or hair we don't want, or an option to delete those items from the game altogether.