Townie household generation problems
Apologies in advance for this being really long! But it's got lots of info in it. So, I started a vanilla game with only one Sim in it, and with no genetics mod and no townie-suppression mod (I've...
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Day 15: A new family finally moved into the neighbourhood!! I'm not sure if this is prompted by my played Sim being in her third trimester or by the kids in the original families in the town all having aged up. Family of four, with kids who look like they're related to their parents. But the game didn't try to compensate for existing gender imbalance -- the family has one teen daughter (leaving that now 10-4 in favour of teen girls) and one boy child (leaving that now 8-2 in favour of boy children). The YA balance is still off too, even with the boy teens having aged up: it's 8-20 in favour of young women.
@shaposh2012: It's out of sheer curiosity and because the other Simmers I know personally don't micromanage at all that I decided to do this. I think the game should be doing a better job of town-filling for the many Simmers who don't want to micromanage their unplayed Sims.
@Sincerbox: I'm optimistic that there might be an identifiable bug in the townie generation, or a bit of code that's easy enough to tweak to redress the gender imbalance that I think is the worst of the problems. (I've not, by the way, seen non-natural gender imbalance in Elders or Adults, but that would naturally change, I think, as Sims age. Depends on how the game culls townies, I suppose, if you let it do that culling. I haven't hit 180 in the population yet and I know the developers were still looking at further tweaks to townie culling, so it doesn't seem much point in tracking that too right now. I'll stop before long with this, plus I ought to be doing other things too!)
@shaposh2012: It's out of sheer curiosity and because the other Simmers I know personally don't micromanage at all that I decided to do this. I think the game should be doing a better job of town-filling for the many Simmers who don't want to micromanage their unplayed Sims.
@Sincerbox: I'm optimistic that there might be an identifiable bug in the townie generation, or a bit of code that's easy enough to tweak to redress the gender imbalance that I think is the worst of the problems. (I've not, by the way, seen non-natural gender imbalance in Elders or Adults, but that would naturally change, I think, as Sims age. Depends on how the game culls townies, I suppose, if you let it do that culling. I haven't hit 180 in the population yet and I know the developers were still looking at further tweaks to townie culling, so it doesn't seem much point in tracking that too right now. I'll stop before long with this, plus I ought to be doing other things too!)
