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Jadeleine
Seasoned Traveler
5 years ago

Nicer looking townies

I would like to open discussion about townies and how they look like. It would be nice if townies had little more personality and they were nicer looking. Im not sure if its intentional or if its bug, but when I make my own townies to fit my style and theme the game destroys and replaces the clothes with very random clothes that ruin the theme. Its like totally a mess, sunglasses and socking etc. Its quite ruins theme playing and the feeling of effort gamer makes to create the town into personal taste and the work put on creating unique sims. For example making scifi town and even the played sims come accross walking in totally silly looking random clothes.

I think that there has been little improvements and some of the new characters are quite nice so im not saying everything is wrong.

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  • Onverser's avatar
    Onverser
    5 years ago
    They should disable the townies, they serve no purpose at this stage in the game. My game easily has enough sims to populate the world, the mod to disable townies makes my game so much nicer.
  • ChadSims2's avatar
    ChadSims2
    Seasoned Novice
    5 years ago
    "Simmingal;c-17661219" wrote:
    i think they should just straight up add that "disable townie generation" toggle so the game stops creating new townies and uses existing ones and actual households

    Exactly this I have enough townies that I had to make over the game should use those stop spawning a new one every single time disabling of new townies is the way to go.

  • Kathykins's avatar
    Kathykins
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 years ago
    "Onverser;c-17663144" wrote:
    They should disable the townies, they serve no purpose at this stage in the game. My game easily has enough sims to populate the world, the mod to disable townies makes my game so much nicer.


    The game needs to populate all the NPC jobs. I wouldn't want my created sims or pre-mades to be picked as stall vendors or bartenders. Let the game fill those jobs with non-important randomly generated sims. I really don't want to HAVE to create sims for all those roles. I mean, why does the game need to create sims as visitors to a bar when your sim is there? Why not use the sims that already exsist? It honestly baffles me.

    What I would like is more options, give the control back to the player, without having to use mods to achieve what we want. I don't want to use mods for every little thing, but for the first time in my Sims-history, I feel I have to. I'm very much FOR opt-in features, so I can turn on things I want, but leave those I don't.
  • Jadeleine's avatar
    Jadeleine
    Seasoned Traveler
    5 years ago
    "Kathykins;c-17663697" wrote:
    "Onverser;c-17663144" wrote:
    They should disable the townies, they serve no purpose at this stage in the game. My game easily has enough sims to populate the world, the mod to disable townies makes my game so much nicer.


    The game needs to populate all the NPC jobs. I wouldn't want my created sims or pre-mades to be picked as stall vendors or bartenders. Let the game fill those jobs with non-important randomly generated sims. I really don't want to HAVE to create sims for all those roles. I mean, why does the game need to create sims as visitors to a bar when your sim is there? Why not use the sims that already exsist? It honestly baffles me.

    What I would like is more options, give the control back to the player, without having to use mods to achieve what we want. I don't want to use mods for every little thing, but for the first time in my Sims-history, I feel I have to. I'm very much FOR opt-in features, so I can turn on things I want, but leave those I don't.


    Okay, opinions of this seems to vary. I never thought of this much other than that if my sims has retail or restaurant, I want to hire sims I created or placed as townies. But usually sims who work as vendors are very random. They don´t need that much personality or character.
  • Kathykins's avatar
    Kathykins
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 years ago
    "Jadeleine;c-17663969" wrote:
    "Kathykins;c-17663697" wrote:
    "Onverser;c-17663144" wrote:
    They should disable the townies, they serve no purpose at this stage in the game. My game easily has enough sims to populate the world, the mod to disable townies makes my game so much nicer.


    The game needs to populate all the NPC jobs. I wouldn't want my created sims or pre-mades to be picked as stall vendors or bartenders. Let the game fill those jobs with non-important randomly generated sims. I really don't want to HAVE to create sims for all those roles. I mean, why does the game need to create sims as visitors to a bar when your sim is there? Why not use the sims that already exsist? It honestly baffles me.

    What I would like is more options, give the control back to the player, without having to use mods to achieve what we want. I don't want to use mods for every little thing, but for the first time in my Sims-history, I feel I have to. I'm very much FOR opt-in features, so I can turn on things I want, but leave those I don't.


    Okay, opinions of this seems to vary. I never thought of this much other than that if my sims has retail or restaurant, I want to hire sims I created or placed as townies. But usually sims who work as vendors are very random. They don´t need that much personality or character.


    Very much agree with the bolded part :) I know we all play differently. Some like to create every sim in the world, some only a family they play. I think I'm a bit of both. I create maybe one sim to start a save, then expand from there. I also make over randoms, and some times incorporate those into my rotation or add them to families. For retail/restaurant, if I ever want to do those, I'd like my own created sims with the right traits/skills, yeah. I just don't have the best experience (or very much of it) with running my own business. For now, I use a mod to limit sim generation, and to control sims in NPC jobs.
  • Onverser's avatar
    Onverser
    5 years ago
    "Kathykins;c-17663697" wrote:
    "Onverser;c-17663144" wrote:
    They should disable the townies, they serve no purpose at this stage in the game. My game easily has enough sims to populate the world, the mod to disable townies makes my game so much nicer.


    The game needs to populate all the NPC jobs. I wouldn't want my created sims or pre-mades to be picked as stall vendors or bartenders. Let the game fill those jobs with non-important randomly generated sims. I really don't want to HAVE to create sims for all those roles.


    I suppose it depends on personal preference, in my game with the NPCC mod it'll make sims like Bob Pancakes start working as a bartender which doesn't bother me at all. I suppose to get around that they could just create sims to work as bartenders for the game, similar to how Realm of Magic has sims who are created specifically to be the sages.
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    Babykittyjade
    Rising Observer
    5 years ago
    I'm going to look for the townie mod disabler too. I made over my worlds with all new sims and I keep seeing hideous townies. What you guys are experiencing is NOTHING. I have tons of cc and the combinations they spawn with is high blood pressure inducing. ?
    I saw one with a pot belly, spikey blue anime hair, a hood with the hair poking through, a cyber punk face mask, heels and a fishing rod in hand. That was my landlord.
  • cb2342z's avatar
    cb2342z
    Seasoned Spectator
    5 years ago
    I have MCCC set up to only draw townies from my tray, and they still show up with these ridiculous outfits. Oddly enough, even in their regular outfits, there for a long time, they were spawning with that ugly MAC makeup. A simple change would simply be to draw outfit choices from styled looks, but that's too common sense.
  • Beardedgeek72's avatar
    Beardedgeek72
    New Spectator
    5 years ago
    "cody6268;c-17675118" wrote:
    I have MCCC set up to only draw townies from my tray, and they still show up with these ridiculous outfits. Oddly enough, even in their regular outfits, there for a long time, they were spawning with that ugly MAC makeup. A simple change would simply be to draw outfit choices from styled looks, but that's too common sense.


    You have to ALSO disable the "Festival Outfits" otherwise the game just put your Sims in those outfits (like I had Vlad in a pink turban for three in game years).
  • imahulazombie's avatar
    imahulazombie
    5 years ago
    there should be an option to disable random npcs being generated.
    it's very annoying having to delete them just for more to appear in your save.
    of course there's mccc, and if you don't want random generated townies at all, there's a mod called npcc by paulson. haven't played ts4 in a long time so dunno if it has had some changes, but it used to be a must have mod for my saves. yes, the game needs at least a few townies to fill the npc roles. i remember i used to completely depopulate my saves except for the played household, the bars were open but didn't have bartenders lol

    you guys shouldn't forget that the random townies choices, their names, their clothes, their household, all is also part of the game AI, and we know how ts4 AI is. the amount of bugs don't help the cause either.

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