Situational Outfits Yay or Nay?

"NightlyCoffee;c-17967833" wrote:
I'm using mods to get rid of all situation outfits possible... because I HATE them with a burning passion! Who thought random situational outfits were a good idea?

I would love to see situational outfits completely removed from the game.

It was probably done to save time or make NPC's look like they wear different clothes while at events, though it seems like the team didn't stop to think about how random the outfits would become or how stupid they'd look.
It's another example of looks good on paper, but poor execution.

"ddd994;c-17967884" wrote:
I’m not sure if the magic realm is a bug or what.. but I recently revisited the realm with a new spellcaster sim I made, and my old spellcaster sims all turned up in not only messed up outfits, but made 2/3 changes over the course of my visit. Of course not one outfit was one I had given them.. So annoying.

Honestly do the developers even play the sims 4, some of the bugs are so jarring.. not to mention the amount of critical bugs that ship with brand new content ?

I try my best to defend this game but they don’t make it easy lol

I've seen this, not just with my own sims on rotation, but with NPC sims as well. They'll be in one outfit, then change into another one, then another in the span of a single sim hour. Oddly (or by design) the only sims not affected but situational outfits or the weird changing bug are the Sages. :-/

As for the devs, I don't think lockdowns and working from home hasn't been helping the QA testing for the game. :-/

I don't mind them, but I do wish Sims would automatically change back into their set clothes when they go home. It would also be nice if I didn't end up with townies walking around in their underwear because they put a vendor t-shirt on.

I still haven't played since most of my legacy save's Sims had their carefully-chosen shirts changed to concert tees. It's just too depressing to go through all that work again, and yet if I go back to a previous save, I won't have any of the souvenirs from a one-time event. Catch-22. Schrödinger's game. If I never play it, I both keep my souvenirs and don't have my shirts changed, right?

Just one more reason why this game is less rotation friendly.
I really dislike the game dressing my sims up in outfits that are out of character for them.

"halloweenchild;c-17967997" wrote:

I've seen this, not just with my own sims on rotation, but with NPC sims as well. They'll be in one outfit, then change into another one, then another in the span of a single sim hour. Oddly (or by design) the only sims not affected but situational outfits or the weird changing bug are the Sages. :-/

I recently read this in the "hidden traits" thread,
there is a hidden trait to avoid this clothes-changing for the magic realm, which can be added to any sim through a cheat but only works if the sim hasnt set foot in the realm yet. Unfortunately I found out too late for my spellcasters :(

I don't mind them but I would like to be able to edit them especially when they turn up all dorky looking. ;)

I want a costume category. I want to be able to pick the halloween outfits my sims show up in, and the outfits they show up in during the festival with cos play and such, I play rotationally so would like to see them in costumes I want them to wear. I don’t use mods or CC.

"Other"
I can't really vote on this. Much of the time it does irritate me, however sometimes it's really fun! Like at Geek-Con, many Sims dressing up in costumes and stuff. Or the "Knights night" at the bar and all sorts on Sims, many of my other played Sims, come in as NPC's in knight armour costumes, lol! :)

The absolute BANE of my existence.
I'm playing (mythological) ANCIENT GREECE and I spend so much effort and time creating my sims and picking out their clothes and accessories. I play with a LOT of CC and of course, the game uses that CC and gives it to whomever it feels like, for "situations". It's never just a festival t-shirt or anything. It's just random.
EXCUSE ME RANDOM SIM, BUT WHY ARE YOU HOLDING POSEIDON'S TRIDENT?
MA'AM WHO ALLOWED YOU TO TAKE THANATOS' SCYTH?

And then the greek gods who change out of the gowns and robes I give them and are forced to wear modern clothes set on random. They are SCARED of the future. They have no taste.