Why is 90% of all auto-generated townies Japanese with blonde hair??

"Sk8rblaze;c-17076563" wrote:

"catitude5;c-17076435" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-17076404" wrote:
See this is where I don't understand when people keep requesting for diverse Sims or enthic groups. O.K. great, but they aren't. They all turn into Europeans with other names that possibly don't fit their enthic group of who they are to represent. And then I have to pretend they dyed their hair, and they are very western by not generating with particular facial features which (no matter who wants to argue it), are not indicative to their race. Just slapping a name on a Sim isn't my idea of diversity. Or just a skin color. Like building a Sim and changing the skin tone to black or brown and telling me the Sim is of a specific enthic group. No, either have real diverse Sims or stop generating pretend ones. Also, as far as diversity I see this on the gallery all the time. People build a white Sim then paint it brown, no, sorry, either give the Sim the facial features it would have or stop trying to paint all white Sim brown or black. And they want diversity of cultures...sorry, just dressing in a special outfit isn't my idea of diversity, these Sims should come with thier own traditions, ideas, beliefs and actions and not just a Sim with a name slapped on them, with western habits, and dyed hair or dyed skin.

Just have what speaks to you. People don't have to fit into a box, I have to have so many of this or that type of person. It's your world people, have whatever you want.

It's difficult to have whatever I want when the game is constantly making these choices without my input.

Really, they need more Q&A on live mode in general. It feels like the most neglected part of The Sims 4, which is sad considering it should be the largest. I still can't believe they designed a system as boring and repetitive as whims and then have it disabled by default instead of re-purposing it into something better. Aspirations, the unfortunate main grindy repetitive system of TS4, still has not had improvements that it should have to make it more open-ended and fun with each generation/Sim.

I delete the generated ones every day. I don't want them in my game. I used to try to fix them up in cas, but it's no use. The game just keeps generating new ones, so out they go as fast as they come in.

It's a bug they haven't solved. That and then they wear a million accessories since vampires. I end up deleting similar named, horribly dressed ones every so often. And tweaking some so every townie isn't a pear

or dark with ginger-red ish hair :s

I do not know why this hasn't been fixed, You can so clearly see it when other people are playing, for example the sim Supply's super sim Let's Play, he has so many City Living sims in his save now.

I am using mods to deal with this, I am downloading sims from the gallery and putting them in unplayed households, then I have MC Command Center, population set to 0 for everyone and then I am using NPC Control by Paulson. By doing this the game generates much less sims and uses existing ones instead from your unplayed households. So I have sims that I have downloaded from the gallery showing up on the street and as workers instead of generated city living sims.

https://i.imgur.com/GVPTOCe.png

"CaityTrina;c-17079204" wrote:
It's a bug they haven't solved. That and then they wear a million accessories since vampires. I end up deleting similar named, horribly dressed ones every so often. And tweaking some so every townie isn't a pear

I want more variety too with names and how they look. The game finds take the nicest looking stuff be it CC or stuff from the game and combines it in the worst way possible

"ChadSims2;c-17075047" wrote:
City Living destroyed townie generating wish there was a way to completely turn off townie spawning.

Honestly, this is one of my most wanted features.

You forgot the word 'old'. Most of the townies my game generates are elders. Have seen reports from other players that are havng the same issue.

"nerdfashion;c-17079446" wrote:
Here's how I fix it...
1. I go to manage worlds.
2. I go to manage households,
3. I hit that sweet, sweet delete button.

The problem with this is that new ones will be generated, no matter what. :s

"Sk8rblaze;c-17079406" wrote:

"catitude5;c-17079050" wrote:

"Sk8rblaze;c-17076563" wrote:

"catitude5;c-17076435" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-17076404" wrote:
See this is where I don't understand when people keep requesting for diverse Sims or enthic groups. O.K. great, but they aren't. They all turn into Europeans with other names that possibly don't fit their enthic group of who they are to represent. And then I have to pretend they dyed their hair, and they are very western by not generating with particular facial features which (no matter who wants to argue it), are not indicative to their race. Just slapping a name on a Sim isn't my idea of diversity. Or just a skin color. Like building a Sim and changing the skin tone to black or brown and telling me the Sim is of a specific enthic group. No, either have real diverse Sims or stop generating pretend ones. Also, as far as diversity I see this on the gallery all the time. People build a white Sim then paint it brown, no, sorry, either give the Sim the facial features it would have or stop trying to paint all white Sim brown or black. And they want diversity of cultures...sorry, just dressing in a special outfit isn't my idea of diversity, these Sims should come with thier own traditions, ideas, beliefs and actions and not just a Sim with a name slapped on them, with western habits, and dyed hair or dyed skin.

Just have what speaks to you. People don't have to fit into a box, I have to have so many of this or that type of person. It's your world people, have whatever you want.

It's difficult to have whatever I want when the game is constantly making these choices without my input.

Really, they need more Q&A on live mode in general. It feels like the most neglected part of The Sims 4, which is sad considering it should be the largest. I still can't believe they designed a system as boring and repetitive as whims and then have it disabled by default instead of re-purposing it into something better. Aspirations, the unfortunate main grindy repetitive system of TS4, still has not had improvements that it should have to make it more open-ended and fun with each generation/Sim.

I delete the generated ones every day. I don't want them in my game. I used to try to fix them up in cas, but it's no use. The game just keeps generating new ones, so out they go as fast as they come in.

I do the same thing. It gets redundant though when I just want to play the game, and even if I do delete them, they come right back. I know mods exist to customize/fix this issue, but I don't believe mods should be a necessity to fix a game's problem.

I'm hoping that in sims5 we can either make our own townies or maybe have a list we can pick from instead of the game generating these ugly things.

"AlbaWaterhouse;c-17080275" wrote:

"nerdfashion;c-17079446" wrote:
Here's how I fix it...
1. I go to manage worlds.
2. I go to manage households,
3. I hit that sweet, sweet delete button.

The problem with this is that new ones will be generated, no matter what. :s

I tried fixing them, and the game just makes more. Why doesn't it use the ones we fixed?