Excessive Townie Generation

I can confirm the Style Influencer problem.

I tested without mods, cache cleared, new save game and a new created family, 4 Members (no On-/Offline Gallery Sim)

After that test I used MCCC to get some more information (logfile)

These Style Influencer are generated when you click on a Computer/Laptop. You don't have to use the Computer/Laptop. Just click on it. (I'm talking about a mouseclick btw., PC)

I clicked with everyone in the family (4 Members) on the computer:

[Jul-17-2025 14:41:27]* Created homeless household, Krause, containing 2 sim(s) for: filter_computerChat_Style_Influencer_Freelancer_Fashion_Photographer
[Jul-17-2025 14:41:30]* Created homeless household, Kreitz, containing 1 sim(s) for: filter_computerChat_Style_Influencer_Freelancer_Fashion_Photographer
[Jul-17-2025 14:41:33]* Created homeless household, Gutenberg, containing 3 sim(s) for: filter_computerChat_Style_Influencer_Freelancer_Fashion_Photographer
[Jul-17-2025 14:41:35]* Created homeless household, Vogel, containing 3 sim(s) for: filter_computerChat_Style_Influencer_Freelancer_Fashion_Photographer

So the game created a new Influencer for every Sim. (Overall 9 Sims in 8 seconds)

That Influencer doesn't appear in the friendlist, but does appear in the travel-friendlist (without relationship bar)

If you delete that Influencer, the game generates a new one next time you click on a Computer/Laptop.

If you delete just the relationship (MCCC) the game also generates a new one.

The game forces you to have a relationship with a random generated Influencer (Career lvl 1)

At least if you want to use a Computer.

There has always been a real bad issue with the game creating a lot of random NPC Sims.  But the latest patch and the event really exploded the number of NPC Sims being generated.  Probably causing / worsening the lag issue reported here:

Lag Bug Report

Glad it's not just me! Last night I played for an hour and had 18 new Sims plopped down by the game. I've never seen anything like it in all the years I've played.

I'm on console and definitely having this issue too, and I mainly just stay home with my Sims because I'm afraid to experience new randomly generated Sims spawning and uglying up my game with their stupid randomly generatedness, but it's been happening more often even though I haven't really been traveling anywhere else that usually makes them spawn, There's certain worlds & neighborhoods I don't visit at all because they take over my game making me tense, I really wish there was an official menu to assign NPC roles to already existing Sims because I don't want the culling mechanism to happen towards my other households removing them without my permission.

The Moschino stuff pack is now perpetually generating new townie sims in the Style Influencer career even when there already Style Influencers present in the game. Previous to this bug, the pack would only generate a sim with this career if there wasn't at least one already present in a game. Now it just keeps spawning them needlessly, and continues to do so even though there are already several Style Influencers present in my current game.

Brand new install. No saved games, no mods, nothing. Started a new family, played for 30 mins or so, and the townies took over. :) I have a lot of pre-mades in my game, too, so not sure what's happening.

I can't duplicate this. It's always been a bit excessive but not like you described.

To be sure, you also didn't move your mods over ?

Complete reinstall. No saved games, rebuilt my worlds from scratch.