Situational Outfits Yay or Nay?

"Missmagoo2;c-17968545" wrote:
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.

You can use Sims 4 Studio to fix the issue of CC showing up on random Townes.
https://sims4studio.com/thread/1659/batch-fix-show-random-sims

I dislike all instances of situational outfits that aren't costumes. It's ridiculous to see sims I made in clothes I didn't put them in, especially when there doesn't seem to be a reason for them to have a situational outfit anyway, like when they go on a jog.

"SimplyJen;c-17968564" wrote:

"Missmagoo2;c-17968545" wrote:
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.

You can use Sims 4 Studio to fix the issue of CC showing up on random Townes.
https://sims4studio.com/thread/1659/batch-fix-show-random-sims

Alright. This is fair. Too many CC clothing is tagged as situational (and other stuff) when it shouldn't be. There are excellent CC clothing, however I have had to go in and change the tags on many. Also the random. I'm very careful how I tag my own CC stuff now. Also many CC I download I try to go through all of it in Sims4studio to see how it's tagged. ;)

"SimplyJen;c-17968564" wrote:

"Missmagoo2;c-17968545" wrote:
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.

You can use Sims 4 Studio to fix the issue of CC showing up on random Townes.
https://sims4studio.com/thread/1659/batch-fix-show-random-sims

Oh! Now before I go and download this... is there a way to disallow only certain CC items? I'm okay with my townies wearing the CC I put in the game, just not the "special" CC I need for specific sims. AND is there a way to disallow base game clothes to appear? That's a big issue I'm running into with my immersion. Lots of "modern" sims walking through the ancient temples...

"Missmagoo2;c-17969194" wrote:

"SimplyJen;c-17968564" wrote:

"Missmagoo2;c-17968545" wrote:
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.

You can use Sims 4 Studio to fix the issue of CC showing up on random Townes.
https://sims4studio.com/thread/1659/batch-fix-show-random-sims

Oh! Now before I go and download this... is there a way to disallow only certain CC items? I'm okay with my townies wearing the CC I put in the game, just not the "special" CC I need for specific sims. AND is there a way to disallow base game clothes to appear? That's a big issue I'm running into with my immersion. Lots of "modern" sims walking through the ancient temples...

Once you have Sims 4 Studio installed, go into your mods folder and find the CC items you want to change. Right-click and Open with > S4Studio Under the color swatches click on the Categories tab. Scroll to the bottom to find Allow For Random (uncheck the tag), Apply To All Swatches, Save. Now that piece of CC clothing won't appear on random townies. :warning: You'll notice all package files will show a little S4S icon now but this is only because it's the program you last used to open them. It does not prevent them from working. If you ever uninstall Sims 4 Studios then the package file icons should go back to normal.

Depending on how much CC you have and how it's organized, you can pull anything you don't want to be changed out of the mods folder to run the batch fix (linked previously) and once the batch fix is applied, put all of it back into the mods folder. Just kinda depends on how much CC you're working with if you want to do it manually like I described or follow the link for the batch fix. Any defaults you have should be kept allow for random because that's how defaults work so make sure they aren't batch fixed if you go that route.

I'm personally not aware of how to hide base game clothes. sorry :# If I had to guess, that would mean making default replacements for the EA stuff you want to hide. A quick Google search brought this page up which seems to have done just that but it may be a bit out of date. I didn't look very much into it: https://starbearysims.tumblr.com/post/187022800433/base-game-cas-hide-disable-for-random-this-is

I want them gone. Maxis could definitely flip the switch off for this mess. I don't think that situation outfits were ever needed for much except for the cos-players at Geek-Con. They were never needed for newly generated Vampires or poser Vampires. I remember seeing a newly generated young adult male Vampire walking around at night in an outfit consisting of a spa towel, weird jewelry, spa leggings, and tennis shoes. A lot of adult male Vampires were dressed in the Jimi Hendrix style jacket. Now everyone is sporting either a turban or a hijab.

I think the game needs a refresh on how it dresses townies in general. There should be no accessories of any kind because the game only seems to be capable of being programmed to do all or nothing. That includes jewelry, glasses, hats, gloves, and socks. I'm seeing a lot of elder male and female townies generated with Base Game eyeliner and lipstick. Why is this stuff on the males? Did someone at Maxis think that was cute? It's not.

The premade outfits are awful. Either let us make out own or hire someone that does a better job.

I wouldn't be bothered if they just affected townies that I don't play. But when they end up on all of my rotational households at random, I just want to dropkick the screen. :D It makes me a little crazy.

@SimplyJen There are many excellent creators out there. Excellent CC, way beyond my skill will ever be.
It does irritate me though that people don't tag things right. Having something as random on, all categories on, gets annoying. I've had to go in and turn off random on a few dozen costumes I dl'ed the other day. Took me hours. Though I did so in and turned off alot of the categories too since everything was tagged "on". So that it wouldn't show up on every category in CAS when I'm working on a Sim. No. I don't want to see a bikini in "cold weather" category. No. I don't want to see a robocop costume in "swimwear". :D

If the CC creations weren't so excellent, I would have deleted the whole lot. However, no hard feelings. I appreciate the time and creativity put into making these. :smiley:

(Fufu pants stays though! ;) ) :D

I kind of like them. I like sims wearing something different for the festivals and such (I don't like them doing it for the magic realm, though), but it would be nice to be able to choose whether I want my sim to do that and maybe be able to edit the situational outfits. Sometimes the combinations are bad and they definitely shouldn't keep wearing the outfits when the event has ended.

I'd like to assign NPCs to roles just so that I could cut down on Vlad as the vendor everywhere, etc. I tend to ignore it but I'd like that better. I can go either way on situational outfits but I'd rather be able to insert a random sim of my choice as the bartender or food stall attendant. Some people might want to create an interaction through those assignments such as an attractive sim working at the bar or a sim's enemy or friend. I'd see that option as an improvement and those who don't care could leave the assignment as random.