"Netzspannung;c-17812744" wrote:
Game-generated randoms, such a pet peeve. What bothers me the most is that the game constantly generates new townies. I make over townies all the time, because I find outfits like this very distracting and irritating, especially when I want to take screenshots in my game.
https://i.imgur.com/9nCrQyk.jpg
And I know if I make them over in 'Manage Households' they can lose their roles/jobs, so I do it by shift-clicking on them in live mode after activating the cas.fulleditmode cheat. And yet, when I visit the lot again the game does not generate the lot with the 10 townies I just made over but generates a bunch of new ones. I try to use as few mods as possible, but I will have to look into another mod for this, because making over townies has turned into such a chore. But I would very much welcome an in-game solution. I feel like the game developers can hardly be proud of how this game mechanic plays out in practice.
Yeah, this is as far as I understand by design, the game generates new townies by default for every situation, it's very bad at reusing existing sims, I don't know if it's because it gives them ncp roles and can't reuse them again. But if modders have found ways to improve it I think Maxis should too.
As for the developers, the impression that I have gotten is that they treat it as a "joke" to deal with it. They don't want to talk about it so they kindly brush it away as a joke. If I was a developer I would want to deal with it because it makes the game look bad, making all these CAS assets are not easy and it takes time and costs money, but then they just let the game randomize everything into a mess.
