Townie family generation, curious

"Jyotai;c-17929098" wrote:
I think Maxis is just trolling me at this point.

The past 2 "Thursdays" of my game have seen piles like this get added:

https://i.imgur.com/9oOWRbS.png

Only after this thread has my game suddenly seen multi-parent townies.

If I wanted kids in my game, I'd finally have things good.

But before these 2 game weeks, I'd never seen anything but a single parent, and only once not a mother.

I'm basically about to delete all 4 families here because what I really want is a mod to disable kids completely... and I started wondering if by manually aging them up I was telling some algorithm that these were the kinds of families I wanted to mess around with.

Oh my goodness, are those toddlers included in the new families?! ?
I would prefer families like that! (Although I would alter some of those outfits! ?)
I must check my townie pool!

You can edit the families. If I like one of them, I’ll split the household to move that Sim into another household and delete the others.

"SheriSim57;c-17929133" wrote:

"ncisGibbs02;c-17904154" wrote:

I’ve never had 2 parents either.
The odd townie families I get are always a mom, teenage girl and boy child. No variation.

The only different families are ones I make or come with packs I.e. Jang family in City Living

Sometimes I’ll get couples but most of my townies are elder Sims who stomp round my town angrily until I go through the townie pool and delete them.

I’ve not had the same family name duplicated though.

I often wonder if the game tries to balance out people. I did get a family with 2 parents, a child, and a teen in the beginning. I haven’t got a two parent family since then, but I have a large rotation.

I think the game is trying to balance but it doesn’t work properly.

Why make lots of single parent families plus single elders? Why are the single parents families always the same line up? (Mom, teenage daughter and child son).
A good balance to me would be different households.