Townie family generation, curious

"Hoverael;c-17927698" wrote:

"ModerateOsprey;c-17927270" wrote:
The NPCC mod allows you to completely control NPCs - prevent them spawning, etc You can select any sim in game and assign their role - bartender, fitness instructor etc.

Unfortunately the mod is behind a paywall. Fortunately though, a kind poster has posted a link to a download of the latest version in the Gameplay mods forum - bottom post of page 1 of this thread:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/989052/npcc-1-3-3/p1

Unfortunately though, EA has decided to remove it and go after the wrong person in the process.

Who did EA go after instead?

"verlainem;c-17928025" wrote:

"Hoverael;c-17927698" wrote:

"ModerateOsprey;c-17927270" wrote:
The NPCC mod allows you to completely control NPCs - prevent them spawning, etc You can select any sim in game and assign their role - bartender, fitness instructor etc.

Unfortunately the mod is behind a paywall. Fortunately though, a kind poster has posted a link to a download of the latest version in the Gameplay mods forum - bottom post of page 1 of this thread:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/989052/npcc-1-3-3/p1

Unfortunately though, EA has decided to remove it and go after the wrong person in the process.

Who did EA go after instead?

They removed the posts from the person/people who shared the modder's content, and issued a warning to that person, rather than going after the modder.

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.

"ncisGibbs02;c-17904154" wrote:

"mightysprite;d-990644" wrote:
Salim Benali has been starting to get a little friendlier with his good friend Tanvi Savalani, who I think is a randomly generated townie. He knew she was a stay-at-home mom. I moved Tanvi and her child Sai into an apartment so that Salim could go visit them. In the process, I noticed another Savalani household with a dad and a child.
https://i.ibb.co/dmwPkCH/savalani.png

I didn't want to peek at Tanvi and Sai's relationships and family tree, because I don't want to know anything Salim doesn't know about them just yet, but I wonder if they are related-- perhaps divorced-- as the children do look like a mix of both parents?

Then I got curious and looked through the other households. I found some Gotos who don't look like each other at all
https://i.ibb.co/pb6VrX9/goto.png

some Mahajans who look like sisters (one of these is Salim's neighbor)
https://i.ibb.co/ngqdQXx/mahajan.png

and some Acharyas and Hashimotos who are like the Savalanis, separate households but the kids look like a mix of the adults.
(Or well, on second thought, maybe the Acharya kids don't resemble the adults from both households as much as the Hashimotos and Savalanis do.)
https://i.ibb.co/zRGHs48/acharya.png
https://i.ibb.co/ynn8jKB/hashimoto.png

And then I noticed something odd. No townie families with kids have 2 parents in the home, except for the premades. It's all single parents.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

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.

@Jyotai I'll take all your 3-parent 2-child random families! That would be fun.

"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.

@mightysprite Most of the time that 'third parent' turns out to be a teen. In fact in a lot of the single parent families when I went in to edit them the one that was the mother and the one that was the teen was backwards from it looked like in the preview. My CAS settings have gotten weird at times.

@ncisGibbs02 This 'real life week' is the first I've ever seen the toddlers, and also the first time I've seen more than a single parent. Maybe a stealth patch changed something?

Regardless - I've just been deleting them now because I'm getting overwhelmed with editing to taste.

I've been using MCCC and 'Sims 4 Studio' to fix a lot of outfit issues. blocking some items, and changing what categories things are on.

I've noticed a LOT of mod clothing makers don't set the flags for things like color, occults, outfit style (everyday, athletic, etc) properly or even at all. They just instead remove the 'random' chance and call it a day.
- that for me really sucks because the whole reason I grab most of that clothing is to have more interesting townies. And setting the color and fashion style is now very important due to the changes from 'Dream Home Designer' that some fashion and romance mods have also added in to their attraction systems... So... if an item looks 'red' on my screen but is flagged as 'grey' in Sims 4 Studio, things get weird... And so I've edited several dozen pieces of CC clothing in the last few weeks to sort it all out.
- and making everything random has meant some of my townies have gotten really bad fashion, until I go in and fix the flags for those items. :)

Slowly but surely my random townies are looking better as I tweak more and more settings. But it's not 'there' yet. :)


And yeah, some of the patterns in how it tries to balance things out are just really weird.