Unplayed NPCs not living in Glimmerbrook will no longer appear in Glimmerbrook performing Magic.
Fixed in Patch 1.59.73
@TheSpaark, I find the same amount of Townies like Hugo Villareal, and Eliza Pancakes as often as I have in other towns like Sulani from Island Living, and Forgotten Hollow from Vampires. So, while is might seem excessive to you ☹️ , it is at least no more excessive than it is with the other packs. In fact, I'm sure when we visit those other towns like Forgotten Hollow and Sulani, we will see the Realm of Magic Townies show up there constantly as well! 😉😃
@PugLove888 The problem is that they get permanently tagged as spell casters. It's like if every townie who appeared in Forgotten Hollow became a vampire
The game really should look for sims that are actual spellcasters first and foremost. I'm all for townies being used for things to avoid fewer randomly generated sims, but having so many townies suddenly become a spellcaster is a big problem. And I get the feeling it's not really intended to work this way.
@PugLove888 The other issue is the world beyond the portal is meant to be for spellcasters only. There shouldn't BE any tourists there. And so, as mentioned, they all become spellcasters. It wouldn't be a big deal if it was only one or two but, it's far, far more than just one or two.
@Grouchybeast, thanks for that info! I did not realize that the game was tagging them all as Spellcasters! So I agree that this is odd. (your Vampire/Forgotten Hollow analogy was great! :eahigh_file🙂
My guess is that Townies show up so the game doesn't have to generate completely new Sims to round out the magical realm, but they should all be tagged as Spellcasters! 🤨 @moxiegraphix , I guess that is why they can all go to the realm... in order to fill it out with more "Spellcasters" even thought they aren't really supposed to be Spellcasters! Kind of like how Bella Goth can show up as a vet in Brindleton Bay, even though she already has another job. 🤒 Instead of generating a new Sim, the game just reuses ones we already have in the game!
@PugLove888 And, normally, I'm all for reusing sims. Still, the game seems to want too many and I'm not sure I want every townie to be a spellcaster, LOL, even if they aren't all running around the regular world casting. I haven't discovered yet how already having a bunch of spellcasters affects things. The hope would be the game wouldn't create too many more but that's not generally how the game works without mods.
@moxiegraphix, true! And I don't play with Mods (never have in TS4) so I just have to deal with any problems like this until or if they change them. 🤨 At least they aren't running around turning other Sims into inanimate objects or setting everything on fire! 😃:eahigh_file:
@PugLove888 wrote:@Grouchybeast, thanks for that info! I did not realize that the game was tagging them all as Spellcasters! So I agree that this is odd. (your Vampire/Forgotten Hollow analogy was great! :eahigh_file🙂
My guess is that Townies show up so the game doesn't have to generate completely new Sims to round out the magical realm, but they should all be tagged as Spellcasters! 🤨 @moxiegraphix , I guess that is why they can all go to the realm... in order to fill it out with more "Spellcasters" even thought they aren't really supposed to be Spellcasters! Kind of like how Bella Goth can show up as a vet in Brindleton Bay, even though she already has another job. 🤒 Instead of generating a new Sim, the game just reuses ones we already have in the game!
I don't have ROM yet, but you know, I was actually just recently wondering if that's the reason that's happening, since people have complained about townie generation so much. Looks like we're better off with townie generation. X-D
(Also, didn't they fix that issue with Sims being strong-armed by the game into being vets? Or is Bella unplayed in your game?)
@StarryMight, yes, many people don't want more townies, but many others don't want the Maxis-made Sims that everyone has to be commandeered into these other areas. Sounds like developers might be between a rock and a hard place! 😞 Yeah, I agree that townie generation would probably be a better thing than this. While some people ignore Maxis pre-mades , many others do play with them, so this is undoubtedly going to affect their games! 🤨
They might have fixed the issue, but I've mostly been exploring Island Living and ROM , and experimenting with Alien/Mermaids and Vampire/Mermaids along with other things that posters will ask about! 🥳 So, for those cases, I haven't played much with any pets and the few I had didn't get sick lately while playing them. :eahigh_file: I don't remember if I actually had Bella Goth as a vet, but I have had many other Maxis-made Sims that came with the game be vets despite having their original jobs. I just often use Bella as a reference since she came with the base game so everyone is sure to know whom I'm talking about unless they are extremely new to the game. But I rarely play rotationally... I'm a control freak when it comes to my Sims 😳 I mostly have a bunch of Save Games... usually one for each household! 😃 I will have to check to see if they fixed this now! 😃🤓
