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Anova1147
Rising Rookie
3 months ago
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Under Investigation

NPC Sims wear random cold/hot weather outfits not assigned

We REALLY need these random generated townie outfits to be fixed. Hear me out, there's a reason I think it might be a bug. This issue happens to my active sims too, sims that I've put a lot of work into, not just NPCs. And it is primarily occurring with the hot and cold weather outfits! I will put together outfits for both active and unactive sims, played and unplayed. But when those sims generate on a lot somewhere, or when you see their thumbnail (such as the relationship panel) they are never in their own outfits. The game just randomly throws something together instead of loading the appropriate garbs. It seems the more packs you have, the more outrageous the randomly generated outfits become. . For some reason when out in the world (and sometimes even as you load up your household on their own lot, they load with random clothes on instead of the outfit you literally just made for them) it is not always registering when sims have premade outfits already assigned to them. Like I said, it seems like most of these issues happen with hot and cold weather outfit categories. The game just doesn't like to load them for some reason. If its the household you are actively playing and you go to change outfit, all the outfits you made are still there, and when you change into them everything is fine again. It is just when sims are either generated by the game, when you see their thumbnail like in the relationship panel or in pop-up messages, or when sims are loading into lots. And its not every time, but it is very frequent. I don't love when I spend 3 hours in CAS meticulously planning 5 perfect outfits for every category....And then I see that sim out and about still in the most absurd get up ever. Like why is my recently revamped Mortimer in a purple sequence vest, hiking boots, super short gyms shorts, with his eyebrow pierced and wearing a top hat...... Maybe its just because I have more packs now but I don't remember it ever being this bad before. This problem has become very pronounced. Now, this part may or may not be a bug, but the randomly generated townies and their outfits are just a bit too, well, random. It is way too time consuming to fix every weird looking townie and their outfits. But I feel like I don't really have a choice because playing with them looking like that really bothers me lol. And  Also, even more than just the clothes, random generated townies even just look weird physically. The characteristics they end up with just don't fit together. It is just a random mish-mash of inorganic looking features. Surely there has got to be a better way?

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title fit bug report at AHQ

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      Anova1147
      Rising Rookie

      Thanks for the reply....the first one is definitely the same bug I am referring to! 

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      Anova1147
      Rising Rookie

      That post is 6 years old but doesn't look like there has been any fix or answer yet. But yep, that first one is definitely the same issue I am having, just read through all the comments as well. And it has been getting worse over time! At least for me it has. It gets worse the more packs I have, I think. Because stuff becomes more random...

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    Thanks for confirming.

    I encourage you to post in the related AHQ thread as well. This forum is currently still in soft-launch so make sure you bump the AHQ  thread (it receives regular me toos but hasn't been bumped in a while) adding your voice.

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