So I took my sim into the jungle. The first trip went as expected, my sim was alone for the whole trip, never meeting another person. Makes sense as this is the jungle after all and hard to reach. On her second trip in (she's been spending time in the village getting to know the locals), she also went alone, but this time townies seem to invade her camp site all the time. As in I send one home and a new one spawns more or less immediately. It's as if the game has decided that she is not to be alone no matter what. They spawn at all hours of the day, walking up to her camp, lighting her fire and sitting in her chair, even in the middle of the night. I click on them to make them leave, they leave - a new one spawns immediately. What does the game has against people being alone in remote locations? It's completely immersion breaking and utterly annoying. Also why does Selvadorada, a small remote rural village, need to 5000 townies? OK I'm exaggerating a bit, but seriously, the game spawns 10-20 new townies each play session. It's on steroids! The only other location I know that spawn this many new townies all the time is Britechester when playing as a university student. Any tips, tricks or ways to get the townies to back off?

Update: It got better when she got deeper into the jungle. I still think there are far too many townies in total, but at least the immersion breaking visits by townies in remote places stopped.

Glad to hear it stopped because I would hate it if the townies were swarming the jungle. ? I love the remoteness and tranquility (and the chaos of insects, lol) and I love to take Sims out of the bustle of civilization to camp and explore there. Now I just wish there was a way to keep Sims from trying to run back to the public bathroom all the time. Wish we had some world editing tools so I could delete it. Then they'd have to use the bushes. Sim autonomy is all over the place but I still prefer having it on rather than making all their decisions for them.

I have to admit mine doesn't do that, but then I tend to keep on top of their needs and direct them to a bush when needed, at least if I only have one to manage. Also with T.O.O.L I do believe you should be able to delete it if you want to. If you can/want to play with mods.

When I played this, I tended to run into Selvadorada townies around the Omiscan baths. I figured that it was because the locals knew about that spot. I think the idea was probably that you could run into locals if you wanted. It would be kind of nice if we could control the flow of townies and even have lists of them for locations. I do appreciate some randomness but it would probably make a lot of us happy to be able to determine how many townies and even which townies our sims run into.I end up making over most of the townies that I pay attention to so they become "my" townies. For Selvadorada, I think the main point was that those townies were all from Selvadorada and not the other worlds. I will also add that while I tend to play very social sims who run into other sims a lot, it can be pretty hard to play a real introvert or the "close knit" lifestyle. The default seems to be more that the townies try to interact with your sims. I mean, I usually like that because my sims are mostly very social but it can be annoying if you want to only pay attention to a small number of your own sims. A challenge for me would be to play an unflirty close-knit loner. Maybe I'll try it sometime for a change but it would be very weird to me and also difficult to maintain.

I often interpret the townies in the jungle (Omiscan baths are the worst offenders, but also the crash site) as government agents trying to catch artifact thieves. When my sims run into their line of sight and cannot befriend or defeat those townies, it's back to their vacation home for that day.

Question about jungle adventure: why so many townies in the jungle?

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SheriSim
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
"Simmerville;c-18347046" wrote:
It's been a while since I played in Selvadorada, can't remember there were that many NPCs in the village, I mostly ran into locals. Maybe one r two know faces. But as you mentioned Britechester - it always annoyed me that a student moving away from home to live the dorm life, gets their parent on the door on day one. "- Hey son, you moved across the nation yesterday, so I just randomly decided to stop by this far from home to check how you are doing!". It gets totally nuts because it would never happen in real life, and it happens all the time in my game. Also, a student moving from San Myshuno to Britechester should not get a call "- Hi, wanna join me for a coffee in Windenburg?". I would accept it more if they were to gather on a community lot in Britechester, but a student would not travel t a different climate zone to have a coffee... I would ignore it once, but there are so many of them.

Writing this because it might be related to your case. The game should be better at taking the locations/worlds into consideration when spawning NPCs, visitors end even those phone calls. 99% should involve sims and locations within the world where the played sim resides/rents.

Lol, my parents did visit me in the dorms quite a bit, and I went home to visit too, we only saw each other some weekends. Of course we only lived a couple of hours apart. But the climate where I lived was different than theirs…. One was upper Desert and the other was in the valley. In California you can be in a different climates/weather condition in an hour or two of driving. Snow is a freak occurrence where I live, and is hot in the summer. But an hour to the East or an hour to the North it snows a lot in the Winter. Two hours to the west im at a beach, two hours to the East in a Desert…. lol. So, it doesn’t seem so strange to me for weather conditions ( ot the look of scenery ) to change drastically.
mightyspritesims
Legend
2 years ago
"Simmerville;c-18347046" wrote:
It's been a while since I played in Selvadorada, can't remember there were that many NPCs in the village, I mostly ran into locals. Maybe one r two know faces. But as you mentioned Britechester - it always annoyed me that a student moving away from home to live the dorm life, gets their parent on the door on day one. "- Hey son, you moved across the nation yesterday, so I just randomly decided to stop by this far from home to check how you are doing!". It gets totally nuts because it would never happen in real life, and it happens all the time in my game. Also, a student moving from San Myshuno to Britechester should not get a call "- Hi, wanna join me for a coffee in Windenburg?". I would accept it more if they were to gather on a community lot in Britechester, but a student would not travel t a different climate zone to have a coffee... I would ignore it once, but there are so many of them.

Writing this because it might be related to your case. The game should be better at taking the locations/worlds into consideration when spawning NPCs, visitors end even those phone calls. 99% should involve sims and locations within the world where the played sim resides/rents.

@Simmerville I remember you like playing with mods, have you tried Home Regions by kuttoe?
It allows you to set your own parameters for which NPCs can appear in which worlds.
It is the only mod I play with and I'm never going back. Of course it's quite helpful in my Local Color challenge which has travel restrictions as part of the challenge, but I've been using it in every save.
pandacookiesims
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago
Maybe the locals will feel bad if a tourist dies in the jungle so they come to keep them company. Do they ever bring supplies?

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