There's currently a flea market in my San Myshuno, and out of 2 vendors, both are MY sims, not NPCs. I dislike this so much because what they are selling has no relevance to what they do for a living or their personality. And - I know that next time I play them I will find their inventory packed with all versions of what they sell. The rather poor Natalie will have the inventory filled with more or less costy crystals, and I will need to use a money cheat when selling them because she was never meant to have tons of crystals for sale. She is a stay at home mom who occasionally go to the river in Oasis Springs to fish. It's totally wrong to see her selling crystals in San Myshuno! She would not even have afforded traveling all the way to San Myshuno...Also the other of my sims is from Oasis Springs. He is married to one of the wealthiest persons in my game, and he too descand from a top notch family money wise. He is into history and do some Archaeology trips to Selvadorada, when he feels like it. This day he is dressed in a politician suit selling *lamps* on a flea market. Huh??? I expect to find a bunch of table lamps in his household inventory next time played.I'd appreciate if the game would rather get those vendors from NPC characters. My game has probably several hundreds characters who do not live anywhere and has no story etc set by me. They were created by the game for various reasons. Can't they be the vendors? I realize none of them will have a household inventory - is that why my sims are randomly used as vendors?Creating characters in this game is quite essential for the game experience. Seeing your characters in totally wrong situations must be avoided, it ruins the fun. I want to be the one deciding what my sim shall do, and my wealthy sim shall definitely not be a flea market vendor.

Wow, that's even more irritating than how the game likes to turn on the advanced movement options on vampire sims when you go to play another household! Yes, I'd definitely like to see the game's AI take our own choices and actions with our sims and the traits and skills we give them more into account when we aren't playing them. As it is, the game's sad excuse for "story progression" is like trying to play dolls with someone who knows nothing about your Barbies and their personalities and backstories and wants to take your tomboy character, slap her in a ball gown, and have her fawn over a guy she normally despises. I'm glad I generally ignore the flea markets and festivals these days...

"SimsLovinLycan;c-17428367" wrote:Wow, that's even more irritating than how the game likes to turn on the advanced movement options on vampire sims when you go to play another household! Yes, I'd definitely like to see the game's AI take our own choices and actions with our sims and the traits and skills we give them more into account when we aren't playing them. As it is, the game's sad excuse for "story progression" is like trying to play dolls with someone who knows nothing about your Barbies and their personalities and backstories and wants to take your tomboy character, slap her in a ball gown, and have her fawn over a guy she normally despises. I'm glad I generally ignore the flea markets and festivals these days...I'm sure the game has some sort of logarithm to pick those vendors, perhaps based on a trait, but I'd much prefer the game to only use NPCs. Even when leaving my played sims alone, there are so many to choose from. I don't even recall seeing all those game created NPCs in my game, the list in "manage households" seems endless. Should definitely be enough to satisfy hundreds of flea markets...

Same. I don't understand why there can't be a set of NPC sims programmed to hold specific jobs. At the very least, played sims shouldn't be selected to be options.

"SimsLovinLycan;c-17428367" wrote:Wow, that's even more irritating than how the game likes to turn on the advanced movement options on vampire sims when you go to play another household! Yes, I'd definitely like to see the game's AI take our own choices and actions with our sims and the traits and skills we give them more into account when we aren't playing them. As it is, the game's sad excuse for "story progression" is like trying to play dolls with someone who knows nothing about your Barbies and their personalities and backstories and wants to take your tomboy character, slap her in a ball gown, and have her fawn over a guy she normally despises. I'm glad I generally ignore the flea markets and festivals these days...This description made me chuckle a little cause I was that person whose Barbie dolls all had names, personalities, backstories, families, etc. They even had a fictional town they all lived in. I was a little storyteller even back then. :) But back to the topic, it bothers me as well to see my well thought out characters suddenly acting as vendors for food stalls, flea market stands and bar tenders. Just get not in world sims to do it or set NPCs.

Not only flea market vendors, the same problem also happens with bartenders and bouncers. I really don't know what's so difficult about assigning these roles to NPCs. Just blacklist sims under the "my households" tab in manage worlds and use one of the hundreds of random sims the game likes to generate so much.

Vendors at festivals and markets should be NPCs only

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EuphorialQueen
Hero (Retired)
6 years ago
@Simmerville This is indeed a frustrating situation.
And - I know that next time I play them I will find their inventory packed with all versions of what they sell. The rather poor Natalie will have the inventory filled with more or less costly crystals, and I will need to use a money cheat when selling them because she was never meant to have tons of crystals for sale. She is a stay at home mom who occasionally go to the river in Oasis Springs to fish. It's totally wrong to see her selling crystals in San Myshuno! She would not even have afforded traveling all the way to San Myshuno.

Curiosity makes me ask if you have found this to be true? Are your Sims just being assigned these jobs or do they actually gain items? Are the Sims assigned as vendors employed?
Is your Sim Mom registered with the Ministry of Labor as a self-employed stay-at-home mom?
These are serious questions that I want to know in case someone else has this happen.
EQ
83bienchen
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
They actually gain items. Sims that are assigned these jobs will actually have all the items on the craft sales table assigned to their household inventory.
Simmerville
Legend
6 years ago
"EuphorialQueen;c-17433342" wrote:
@Simmerville This is indeed a frustrating situation.
And - I know that next time I play them I will find their inventory packed with all versions of what they sell. The rather poor Natalie will have the inventory filled with more or less costly crystals, and I will need to use a money cheat when selling them because she was never meant to have tons of crystals for sale. She is a stay at home mom who occasionally go to the river in Oasis Springs to fish. It's totally wrong to see her selling crystals in San Myshuno! She would not even have afforded traveling all the way to San Myshuno.

Curiosity makes me ask if you have found this to be true? Are your Sims just being assigned these jobs or do they actually gain items? Are the Sims assigned as vendors employed?
Is your Sim Mom registered with the Ministry of Labor as a self-employed stay-at-home mom?
These are serious questions that I want to know in case someone else has this happen.
EQ

One house i entered had ALL fish tanks in the household inventory (poor household with no interest in fish. I just assume they got them from being a vendor). Malcolm Landgraab once had the inventory filled with 20-30 of those dolls we ca dig up. Huh - Malcolm selling §20 dolls at a flee market????? So, yes, check your household inventories, there might be some items you never bought.
Simmerville
Legend
6 years ago
"83bienchen;c-17433362" wrote:
They actually gain items. Sims that are assigned these jobs will actually have all the items on the craft sales table assigned to their household inventory.

I think they are giving a great number of items when they start the selling session, they need it for restocking the sales table. But say if I quit my game before they are done, the unsold items will stay (yes, probably + those left on the table)
Fanphoria
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Honestly, I really wish we had more control on who gets assigned those NPC jobs, like some kind of household/job manager. Cause yeah, I don't want my sim becoming a bartender or stall vendor when I'm playing another household, but I also don't really want any of the Landgraabs or vampires to have those jobs either lol.
kwanzaabot
6 years ago
I'm the complete opposite, I loathe randomly-generated Sims. They're always ugly with terrible fashion sense.

I'd much rather the game use Townies I create.
83bienchen
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I don't believe that's the complete opposite. While I don't like to see my played Sims as vendors at the flea market, I still do like to see my neighbourhoods filled with townies I created (or made over).

I use my townieoverhaul_lessfame Mod to stop new Sims from being constantly added.

For those who really don't want to have any NPC Sims created, Paulsons NPC-Control-Mod is the better choice, though.

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