Let's FIX an Immersion-Breaking Problem in The Sims 4

EA/Maxis have been making fewer new Sims with each pack, and it shows. It is a nagging problem to see the exact same Sims, everywhere you go and with every family you play. I thought of a simple solution a long time ago, and I wish this is the type of thing they might do to fix the problem. This is the type of social functionality that would make Sims 5 better, as long as it is optional.
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[@Depweeb]

Am I the only one whose generated townies are mostly curvy seniors ? Then they become ghosts and STILL fcking contact you on the phone ...

[@crow____caw8870]

I take my sims to a nightclub and theres four sims there, including the bartender. The other three are random elders that look like they are dressed for a circus:,)

[@agsheuehd]

Not me, i usually see YA with terrible fashion sense (maybe because I have a mccc?) but yeah, it is really creepy to see ghost calling me out for a date.

[@justinenicole3926]

Your town is cool as hell lol

[@Judiland]

With MCCC I make generation of random Sims all female and ya. Then I cull them manually every 2 Sims days.

[@Rekowcski]

"Hey want to go on a date" NO MILDRED YOU ARE DEAD

[@ginabonina6427]

My sims were on their honeymoon vacation and saw the nanny fishing. They were not at all concerned about who was watching the kids back home. I on the other hand said WTF??

[@arabellaatticus9413]

lol

[@torigoth7487]

There's a new mod out that keeps celebs quarantined in Del sol valley

[@Depweeb]

Can you please share the name?! Thanks !

[@EroDhika]

spill the tea please

[@lainaleenreader5464]

@@torigoth7487 thank you!

[@EroDhika]

@@torigoth7487 but how about celebrities which live outside that place?

[@blaqgirlssss]

If only we could use mods in real life lol

[@WolfVidya]

I remember one of the excuses for cutting the open world, was to make it easier to have coherent sims acting coherently according to where they were in the world. This was clearly a big lie.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Hm, that sounds like something we don't have.

[@asideofaioli4630]

Lol, emphasis on the word "excuse"

[@piarateking8094]

seems to be more coherent in sims 3

[@Xxsorafan]

Lying is what they do best. Like remember when they said their engine couldn’t support pools 🤷‍♀️

[@luxberry9634]

I'm quite convinced that many of the restrictions we currently have come back from Olympus (sims online game) which then became sims 4. hell even much of the old code is still separated into client and server and the sims team certainly haven't touched on that for quite a while as its in dire need of a refurbishment to get anywhere near the level many simmers want the sims 4 to be.

[@knusprigeschuhsohle7939]

The Sims Team Never adjusting the seasonal clothes for townies is a big fat oversight that had always bothered me

[@maidenminnesota1]

That's why I use MC Command Center. You can control a lot of that stuff yourself. As usual, modders to the rescue!

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

Same.

[@asideofaioli4630]

@@maidenminnesota1 yeah, it just takes forever 😤

[@sleekoduck]

Marcus Flex + skimpy jogging shorts in winter in Forgotten Hollow = perfect delivery meal for Lilith Vatore

[@AWindy94]

@@sleekoduck 😂😆😂

[@Joeykm1972]

I do find it very annoying that Lazy Sims go to the Gym, while Active Sims go to lounges. And only Anglers should be fishing as NPCs. Loves Outdoor trait people should be going to parks. Active Sims should be playing basketball and skiing. Certain lots should be places where certain sims with certain personality traits.

[@12wer3wer9]

Yeah true. You know, like in past Sims games :D

[@lostinthelookingglas]

This would be really helpful for playing the challenges

[@destinyluv8828]

I agree. Good idea!

[@flashbaxx]

Unplayed Sims ought to have appropriate skills, too. I only recently got Get Together, had a Sim join the athletic group, and these premade numskulls in the group are all tripping on the treadmills and whatnot because of their lack of fitness skill.

[@amethystle]

SO MUCH LOST POTENTIAL! The whole thing with Sims4 was that our sims were supposed to have "personalities". And yet, traits do so very little to affect their actual day-to-day lives. Active sims should be the ones at the gym! Bookworms should be at the library! Nerdbrains should be at Geekcon! Romantics should be at the romance festival! Is this really that difficult? Why do their personalities have zero impact on where we're going to find them?

[@bethoniewaring]

I had a random thought today when my sim walked in on his brother in the bath so he could wash plates for the 15th time: You have the option to "set as front door" with doors. Would it really be that hard to have a "set as kitchen sink" function?

[@crotchwolf1929]

Meanwhile in the Sims 3, One kitchen sink, two bathrooms, one of which is off the kitchen. The only time I've ever seen a sim wash a plate in either bathroom was when both the dishwasher and the kitchen sink was in use. Their must be some sort of code that can make the sink in the kitchen attractive to a sim with a stack of dishes.

[@creepydoll2872]

I don’t know why that hasn’t been fixed either. Really annoying

[@xEnjoyTheMoment]

there is a mod for that, if that helps lol scumbumbomods.com/#/dont-wash-dishes-where-you-angry-poop/

[@maidenminnesota1]

@@xEnjoyTheMoment That one might not work, anymore, but somebody did an update to it. I have the updated version. Sadly, Scumbumbo is no longer on this earthly realm. RIP.

[@catatemyname7801]

Whatever happened to sims locking the bathroom door when they are using the toilet or taking a shower, like in sims 2? so many things I wish they'd kept from the previous games...

[@TheLeafcuter]

I wish townies just picked from the styles portion of CAS. and then let us players make our own damn styles!

[@Karin141622]

This! The idea to pull them from the Gallery is interesting, but I'm kinda worried that if it was in any way based on popular Gallery Sims, our towns would consist of 90% pregnant teen blonde girl Sims and extremely attractive YA men with all the same traits... I prefer the game randomly generating faces, body types and skin tones for the sake of diversity. But using preset outfits for their clothing, AND letting players save more outfits that could then be used on townies would fix most of the clothing issues, IMO.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

This is a brilliant idea too. They could lean on player-made styles to generate randoms for people who do not want to make their own.

[@vikkisims6364]

Exactly. This could open up a new category in the gallery too - player-created outfits. I, for one, like having my townies look good, but I don't have the patience to dress them one by one, nor do I have enough imagination to make their outfits look different. For this reason, I find the styles part very useful, but the problem is, I run out of them quickly. If they just let us create, share and download outfits, this wouldn't be a problem.

[@TheLeafcuter]

@@vikkisims6364 yeah! Honestly I use styles all the time when starting up new games whenever I dont feel like dressing up the sims myself. But I also have so many great outfits that I've made over the years that I want to reuse but that I wont because the time and effort it would take to remake them every time is too tedious. If I could save outfits that I create I would do it all the time!

[@alisakumm9165]

@@vikkisims6364 Yes! This! I've actually wished before that I could just save an outfit, without the sim wearing it! They have these pre-styled looks, so why didn't they open that up for players to add to it and share it in the gallery?

[@harrymetsally86]

I completely agree about not wanting to see the same sims literally EVERYWHERE. Even if they ARE obsessed with certain sims, shouldn't there be an option to bind that sim to the area their house is unless you take it off? I love your vids!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Thanks!

[@hannahi9355]

Also they should show the sim's citizenship too. That would be lit. Like if it showed where the sim was born.

[@babygurleatsshickennuggits4201]

I know there's a mod for this somewhere but I'm sick of seeing celeb sims places that don't have the get famous lot traits. Like my sim can't socialize with anyone, walk places because other sims have fainted, and can't use certain services because the people that are supposed to be handling them are busy watching the celeb sims.

[@trevordavis2499]

For whatever reason the game works on the "last known sims". What I do is go to an area and knock on people's doors and interact with them. I hate judith ward, I took her house and moved her into THE BIN. Mwahahaha!

[@lwaves]

I barely play the game part, I'm more of a builder, yet even I'm sick of the same sims turning up everywhere. It's like they stalk you, that ex who won't accept that it's over. Sacricial's violence mod is useful in these situations. ;-)

[@Rabbitmancer]

Consider TS3: World Adventures. Because the individual worlds were completely separate from each other, when you traveled to another country, it really felt like you had gone to another country. All of the locals looked and acted like they belonged there and there were even some local customs to observe. You didn't have Nancy Landgraab selling you artifacts in Egypt, you had an Egyptian Sim there. In TS4, you go to Japan and see like 5 Japanese Sims while your next door neighbor from Willow Creek sashays past in a ballgown. It doesn't feel like another country at all. In fact, you don't even have to have a visa, you can just pop over to Japan for an hour or two if you want and be back in time for dinner. Why even have a destination like that if it doesn't feel special?

[@meganisthemann]

Exactly. I hate to be that salty Sims player that can't let go of the Sims 3, but almost every time I watch one of Carl's "issues with the Sims 4" videos I think to myself "oh, you mean like what we had in TS3?". I get that TS3 had it's own issues and they wanted to do new stuff with TS4, but I really feel like a perfect game would be having TS4 CAS abilities (once they fix skintones... again) in a Sims 3 game. But that's just my opinion, of course.

[@destinyluv8828]

@@meganisthemann And your opinion is valid! I feel like many Simmers feel this way! Me included!

[@fenrisvermundr2516]

I remember back in my academy days I'd beam over to Akihabara so I could browse. I'd materialize at the station around 5 PST, and would be back at the Academy around 7.

[@shippey2489]

Yes! And in TS3: Into The Future the world was also separated and no one there was wearing present-day outfits!

[@jorboii]

Yeah this was a huge problem for me regarding realism. Why can my sim go from their home in Oasis Springs to community lots in San Myschuno and Willow Creek in a day...I know this is a hot take, but I far rathered the closed off towns in The Sims 3.

[@astral_alicia]

Im so tired of seeing celebrities in the poorer neighborhoods of every world. There is no reason for them to be there.

[@destinyluv8828]

Get this mod - www.patreon.com/posts/39030724

[@sleepyowln4925]

@@destinyluv8828 thank you!

[@kiayaoi]

when i got snowy escape and there were literally 0 japanese townies besides the ones you were supposed to play as i got so annoyed omg....

[@agentsquid9079]

Why can’t townies be from and mostly stay in their own worlds. Okay they come visit maybe San Myshuno if they’re from Willow Creek occasionally.. BUT can’t they just stay in their own world’s and can’t we have a local townie popultion???

[@sleekoduck]

Maybe all the Japanese townies were stuck in San Myshuno. It seemed for a while like all the townies had Japanese names. Funny thing, they didn't look Japanese.

[@ristiannarussell8116]

@@agentsquid9079 Because all "unplayed" & homeless Sims get dumped into 1 group at the game then selects from. It would be awesome to assign a home world or even district for Townies/NPCs in the family manager. Make a tab for each of the Worlds & then general Population (for those NPCs you WANT to keep constant & Sims you don't care about). Then you have a check box or something to mark unplayed neighbor or something. Like, let me pretend that all of those decorative houses actually have residents & these Sims in interacting with are them.

[@che7941]

really??? I have like 1000 autogenerated tanaka, ichikawa, yamaguchi, yamamoto and ikeda households. And if the auto townies arent japanese the rest has indian with every second character being ghandi lol

[@phoenixflamingstar]

I hate seeing the same townies everywhere I go. It's like you go on vacation across the country and suddenly you see your next door neighbor there! 🤦‍♀️

[@ezclean7022]

It is so dumb

[@howdypartner8326]

Sounds like a concept for some cartoon which, sadly, The Sims 4 aspires to be.

[@ivanataylor5014]

Imagine them going back to previous packs and fixing something lol

[@justinallen2408]

The new team just doesn't know how to make a game

[@Silver-kw7eq]

you'd think with the amount of money ea makes, they could fix these simple issues

[@RubyBlueUwU]

Especially when there’s thousands of people all over the world that put hours of effort into fixing those issues themselves for free

[@grease_monkey6078]

EA are the worst gaming company in the industry, this is the company that allows in game ads pop up in Madden games. They are greedy and dont care for gameplay

[@karincervantes8998]

@@grease_monkey6078 I agree, and I don't think they are going to change. They don't care. If they did, they wouldn't put out this garbage. The end.

[@Silver-kw7eq]

@@grease_monkey6078 and how is it that the sims is basically a monopoly?? they have little to no competitors and those who do compete, are no where near close to the sims and the sims is so generic, it's not like you can get sued for creating a game with customizable characters?? and EA is so lazy, it wouldn't be that hard to take them off their throne

[@Silver-kw7eq]

@@RubyBlueUwU modders need to come together and either buy the game out themselves or make their own that competes with ea. the sims is pretty basic gameplay that you can almost exactly copy without getting into legal trouble. it's just characters with needs and wants and then ofc the expansion packs would have to be different but it would still work? how does ea have a complete monopoly??

[@JerichaG92]

Yeah the genetics are broken now

[@Rabbitmancer]

They were always kinda broken but they're shattered into tiny pieces now. One step forward, two steps back with EA. Always.

[@AK-cq6px]

i mean HOW didn't they expect problems with genetics after this update??? isn't it a first thing to check after SKINTONE overhaul???

[@vaughnmartinez8335]

Yep... yesterday I was 'playing with genetics' so Bob and Eliza would have a kid, every other randomly generated kid had an extremely pale skin tone, unlike either of the parents :/// had to just pick one myself

[@goneforevers]

ALIBINO SIMS

[@Miluielle]

Can't help but think they're trolling us on purpose now.

[@DissonantSynth]

The water plumbob animation was super beautiful!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

[@MorgynEmberYT]

We just need an option to disable the townies from being generated constantly. Edit: Thank you for the likes! If you would like to have a option to disable the generated townies be sure to tell the developers!

[@cazzy3149]

I was confused by your comment because that’s always what I assumed the “fill empty lots” option was.

[@MorgynEmberYT]

@@cazzy3149 I can understand the confusion. That's what I thought it did as well, until I realized that the game generates way too many townies

[@grice478]

@@cazzy3149 unfortunately that only stops them being moved into houses. They'll still automatically generate new townies that are just randomly walking around the place

[@ayyydogg]

The mod NPCC saved my life in this regard, I can’t play without it. I highly recommend!!

[@MorgynEmberYT]

@@ayyydogg I appreciate you telling us. But that cannot be done for people who play Sims 4 on consoles because mods are not allowed as of now

[@ile954]

Your animations are getting better and better! 💕

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Always cool when someone notices, thanks :)

[@crotchwolf1929]

Agreed. Maybe he'll do videos on the Sims 3 in the future.

[@MakerOfChase]

Came looking for this comment! Take a like!

[@RozariePlays]

Theres a mod called Sim Spawn Overhaul by creator Lotharihoe that lets you pick and choose what parts of the spawn system you want to fix

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Awesome, hearting this for visibility. Thanks.

[@destinyluv8828]

That’s awesome! Will be putting this in my game!

[@jes3927]

the gods have heard our prayers! does this mod efficiently lock every single pack-themed sims to their respective pack-themed worlds?

[@Robert_Burnell-Jones]

It's good that there are mods that can pick up the slack from EA/Maxis. But unfortunately, no amount of mods or CC will ever help us console players, who can use neither. Our games are only what EA/Maxis gives us, nothing more. That being said, I think it would be best not to rely too much on mods and CC and force the issue back where it belongs - in the hands of the games creators, and not us players.

[@brandoniswhoiam]

These renders are killing me.

[@even___]

Just wanna know how long most of them took to render 💀 The amount of patience this human has is uh.

[@jenniferlunberg1471]

@@even___ I'm not surprised, he still has patience with Sims 4. That tells a lot xD

[@loeuf]

How does he get the sims models?

[@Noname-sz5ui]

So cringe

[@even___]

@@Noname-sz5ui cringe isnt an adjective huh

[@mykokorobrokoro5297]

spore did this and it was hilarious to see what creatures ended up in your world! love this idea

[@enderdrive]

Yes!

[@lapislarka]

Honestly, I don't want townies. At all. Not well dressed, "world appropriate," or fresh out of the gallery. I want the not in world, unemployed sims I made picked for everything first for anything and only then for the game to generate townies as necessary. I want to shut off nonessential townie generation and have since the game released so I do not have to constantly purge my saves of them. So I do not bat an eyelash when I see Bob Pancakes for the thousandth time in my neighborhood and then again on vacation. I roll my eyes a little when all four of my five star celebrities in the file appear at the college dorms, but I am much more annoyed by the randos that populate for no good reason right beside them.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

I heavily desire them to back up that "play with life" "you're in control" stuff with actual detailed game options. It's important. This game cannot be tailored to one type of player.

[@Ghrathryn]

@@CarlsSimGuides Agreed. I said it before in one of your other videos, but it's like most game devs (at least sim or RPG) these days can't make something deep then build in options for the player, they've got to make shallow crud and then try to imp things in later, which usually flops harder than just leaving things alone. Sims 3, I've not played in a while, but I'm sure had options to turn of individual supernaturals, celebs (and opt out household) and knock out world roam for sims, yet somehow the current dev team can't go over that code and rejigger it to whatever the current language is? Really?

[@Las645]

Nooo lmao I’m way to lazy to create my own sims I can barely create my main family without getting a headache

[@maybelikealittlebit]

@@Las645 that’s so interesting to me since I spend way too long customizing and perfecting. I enjoy all aspects of the game equally though. But I do play by trying to make super (best of the best in every skill) sims lol. How do you play?

[@Las645]

@@maybelikealittlebit I do a lot of family gameplay or storylines I also use a lot of mods which yeah I barely feel like downloading those, but it’s worth it. Sometimes I’ll do like a storyline about a single mom in uni or something. And then other times I’ll use the occult sims for a storyline, or I’ll do a rich celebrity family one 😂 the way I play is very basic, but I enjoy it.

[@BrunoSantos-sb6vh]

Your suggestion reminds me of Spore and how the creatures were basically a PNG file with information embedded in it and somehow it worked in 2008 but it is too much in 2014. You're right, I mean, the gallery is there, at release there were all those SimGuru characters floating around, I remember downloading a lot of "canon" sims like Bjorn Tu'Rock and Amber Stein and other sims that are not in game but were heavily in promotional materials, because I wanted my game to "feel" like it was "right", whatever that is. I wish EA would enable something like you talk about, but I am not holding my breath. Some producers have mentioned that the reason why the worlds started getting smaller and smaller is for compatibility reasons and having a dedicated population to each world would put a huge strain on older setups. Maxis is proud of TS4 being able to play on a toaster (as long as it's a 64 bit toaster with Directx 9), so they'll cut any corners to save memory load. Honestly I think that even TS5 is going to have a similar population problem because of this.

[@FallenAngelHiroko]

True enough. But that's starting to backfire with all these packs. I have over what's minimum and it still runs like a toaster. The only game that does it is Sims. So I call bullshit on EA's memory excuses. In fact, I call bullshit on ALL of EA's excuses.

[@BrunoSantos-sb6vh]

But you see, they never promised a toaster would run the whole game smoothly. It loads and that is their selling point. That was pretty much the downfall of TS3 as well and TS4 is going the same path: too many packs, no cohesive narrative, all over the place. And simmers assume they *have* to have *all* the packs, or it's not the game "as intended", so we end up spending thousands and thousands of dollars on it. I personally stopped buying at Uni. I still look at new releases, "that's cool" and all, but I don't think EA is selling a gaming experience I am interested in spening any more money on. Every now and then I play my families a bit, tend the neighborhood and maintain the mods I have installed, but that's it.

[@maidenminnesota1]

Do you honestly believe there will be a TS5? They've said if TS4 doesn't make them bajillions of Simoleons they won't make one. People are so peeved over TS4 I think that's the reason they just keep adding to it, rather than creating an entirely new version.

[@aureliaaurita6498]

@@maidenminnesota1 There will, they are working on it. And TS4 did make them tons of money. I own packs worth 550 dollars, at least if I had bought all of them at full price. However, my expectations: TS5 is gonna be like the latest packs: Visually impressive, lacking in gameplay and releasing in an unpolished state. Price: 60-70 $. I don't know how "online" it's going to be, but if they made it a live service with additional micro transactions, it would be very much EA. And if they want players to interact within the Sims world, it would require even less gameplay and the characters being even less unique by themselves. Buying all the packs currently on the market for TS4 costs 750 $. So I guess the amount of money they're making is huge. So it would be just as much EA to pump out a ton more to make even more money. There will be a TS5 for sure. But if they don't let the devs put enough effort into it, it may fail miserably as soon as Paralives gets released. The reason for the many new packs for TS4 is probably that you can keep milking the fanbase while creating a new game.

[@DoveJS]

@@aureliaaurita6498 Yes, all of this. Plus, their two mobile Sims games are the real moneymakers in all likelihood (the old one is still around and should appeal to Sims 2/3 players but they made a new one with shinier graphics and a more "modern" approach to app games of its ilk.) I think Sims 4 is developed with the newer app in mind, so they can borrow assets for microtransactions. They certainly reused some of them at launch so why stop there?

[@Den-jp4yu]

Man those 3D animations look so satisfying-

[@CarlsSimGuides]

You have no idea how cool it is to see people commenting things like this. I've been learning all year and it feels like I've broadened what Im able to do. Thank you so much.

[@lazycloud4684]

@@CarlsSimGuides I think the animationsn are pretty, but they sometimes don't make much sense, or don't really "fit." To me, they were a bit jarring. It's like you use the sims videos to practice your animation skills with blender (or whatever program u use), and then stick them in randomly.

[@deadeobi]

@@lazycloud4684 and why is that a problem?

[@Silver-kw7eq]

2:38 YES LET THE PEOPLE WHO PLAY CREATE THE POPULATION THAT WOULD BE AWESOME

[@TeruteruBozusama]

Like in Miitopia! I saw a stream where someone's lovey-dove couple were Elsa and Stan Lee..!

[@Klondike877]

i dont agree i dont want to see sims made by a fourteen years old girl that think a masculin man should not have fat and be super athletic and have huge eyes, and small jaw small chin small weist... you know where im going... and see flat chess, large fat women... or again huge eyes etc... i would much prefer having the option to design myself/randomize at will in cas, some townies with really specific jobs, like a tool to control who is what, who is fireman and in which neighborhood etc...

[@anomalytenacious]

@@Klondike877 I would be nice if they just gave the players control over who appears in their world. We can use the gallery a tick any gallery sims made by others to be used as random sims, or we could let maxis RNG do it, or we can turn the maxis RNG off and fill the world with our own custom made sims. The point is give players the tools to play the game how they want, letting the player be in control of the world.

[@Crazypixiness]

These animations - Carl, you are becoming too powerful! Amazing job and great commentary!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

[@doggytheanarchist7876]

that's an incredible idea and doesn't even sound like it would be that hard to implement.

[@lindawilliams1933]

I tried to put other people's creation in my game. I never see them and then they only make them vendors or mixologist. And nothing else.

[@theseventhnight]

I started a household with YA guy with his Teen girl cousin, she aged up and i moved her out so i could start a family with the guy the game gave her a job in the tech career the same as the guy had to this day she is the only townie in that playthrough that has a proper job

[@vhs3760]

To be fair, the slopes are a tourist destination. That said, would be nice to see more Japanese sims down in the town.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Yeah, that definitely occurred to me, but why are the Bjergsens banging in the dumpster in Evergreen Harbor lol

[@RubyBlueUwU]

It should be a mix, for sure, and maybe wait until a week or so later before familiar faces start showing up

[@optimusprime320-h9c]

New drinking game, take a shot every time the community wants something in sims 4 that they already got in Sim 3. Drink responsibility, spoiler there’s to many to drink responsibility

[@suehunt6362]

If the gallery WORKED, that wouild be great.....

[@tias2705]

I have a dream that one day the gallery will not only work and be easier to navigate, but allow modders to upload their own creations that aren't trademarked for simmers to download. It would be so awesome to shop online and have new furniture delivered to your sim's home or go to a rabbit hole store that brings up the gallery so you can shop with a try on option that brings you to create a sim to see it fully.

[@abbeybarnes5966]

@Artoria Pendragon some people are having issues with the gallery. Mine works just fine too, but there’s definitely quite a few people reporting problems with it

[@kenleyflorestal]

But the sims team never even bother to fix the gallery SMH

[@leahdavis9434]

@Artoria Pendragon the filters have never worked properly for me

[@omgnoi]

Mine never loads lol it just says offline 😂

[@kmrazSilverSimmer73]

Yes, yes, yes. I agree with everything you said in this video. I see the same random Sims everywhere so much, I'm starting to dislike them all. For instance, I send my Sim to the gym. They see the same people there ALL the time. I've had my Sim "gym hop" and the same Sims show up all the sudden. Stalkers. I shouldn't see Don Lothario and Eliza Pancakes at the gym in Windenburg. At the gyms in their respective towns sure, but not EVERY gym!!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

YEAH! That's another thing, go to one world... see Sims, move to another, the @!#%ers show up again. What the hell, I feel stalked.

[@emmettbrown6418]

@@CarlsSimGuides stalkers.... could be game play in that

[@metatrontf]

I love how Carl's disappointment/frustration with the game is always so evident. So relatable.

[@KermitsLeftNut]

I don’t get why the generated townies aren’t programmed to wear the existing pre-made outfits

[@racermigs1]

Last time I was this early, KZbin still had the 5-star rating system.

[@meesterpepper572]

I want a "make townie family" option in CAS that lets you not just make townies and choose their household relationships, but set their careers and some skills as well. The caveat being, the household can't be played - you have to get them to move in or marry you same as you would any other NPC.

[@iamforeveryoung23]

It's so nice how the Sims 4 is supporting so many modders. By leaving all the popular fixes to them. I really don't know how console players play. It's so bland and $$$$$. Your points are head on. Thank you for using your platform to voice these opinions

[@emilyredbird7497]

They did the player-creation inclusion in Spore back in... a long time ago! Why not now?

[@RefugeeNT]

2:48 You can use this feature already with MC Command Centre. But it uses your gallery not an online.

[@ElysiaWhitemoonOmega]

wait, what option does that, you mean using my gallery for the random towny generation?

[@666-bpm]

How?

[@WelshMan22]

am I the only one who's sims make food and then don't eat it even though their hunger is in the red

[@kelseystinn4235]

Nope! You are not alone. This issue has been reported multiple times. Hopefully a fix comes soon because I am tired of playing babysitter.

[@omgnoi]

Yes it’s annoying

[@highfive7689]

In my new game that I recently started the only two mermaids were 1 in the Eco-expansion town and the other in the desert town ( not Strangeville) none in the tropical islands of island living. What does that tell about broken systems? And why would a person from island living to Japan dressed like you about to walk the beaches that drives me crazy! Good vid dude.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Sounds like the mermaid might have tuberculosis

[@heykiddosss]

I like Sims 2 approach when it comes to townies. They have premade npcs and random ones don’t generate as chaotically as in Sims 4. Also in locations like Twikki island, University campuses and such you can’t see npcs from your main hood and npcs in Takemizu village for example tend to wear traditional clothes. In sims 4 however townies are a nightmare, even premade ones, that’s why I only build and create sims in Sims 4

[@cindychung7002]

I use a mod to keep the regular sims from being spellcasters. So no more Bob Pancakes running around the Realm of Magic.

[@klltx2001]

It's wild that Sims 3 does a better job at containing sims to their neighborhoods in an OPEN WORLD than Sims 4's much much more closed world.

[@mvrgnn]

i’m so glad you ,made a video on this i find it unrealistic to see sulani sims in windenburg and vice versa it just does not make sense

[@Den-jp4yu]

Or Mortimer Goth doing the fire dance in Sulani

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

@@Den-jp4yu LOL I mean, people *do* travel...but I get what you're saying.

[@pharoahcaraboo9610]

i love when i'm trying to have a dinner date and judith ward appears and suddenly grinds the date and the dine out scripting to a halt, making an already stressful and often not-working experience even WORSE because literally every sim needs to walk over to her.

[@CylindricalWhistle]

And if that doesn't happen, the game will still force random townies to barge into your conversation so that suddenly it's an awkward group chat that takes forever to x out of. They really need to disable idle chatter for dates, it makes no sense.

[@SimplyDawn]

using Gallery Sims that are world specific as NPCs would be such a great idea!! i would love that as an option.

[@itscyberqueen13]

"She eats boogers." ROFLOL I love the renders and animations on this post. Love your channel so much.

[@candlegal10311]

kind of took me by surprise. I'll admit I laughed hard.

[@cordeliaface]

Spore had a similar concept. It was "online" in that other players could share their creations, and those creations would be automatically downloaded into your spore's current evolution ecosystem.

[@AlexiusDenelle16]

It’s crazy to see how much your videos are improving. With the animations and how well your videos flow. Also I’m not a fan of seeing my sims are are mermaids, appear while I’m skiing

[@fleacythesheepgirl]

Building the population for each town takes work - cut to sims 3 with populated maps ten times the size and every person has their own little biography. Seriously there was a sims version of Egypt France China and Italy in Sims 3. Every Sims 3 world had people to match the location. Personally I think it should be up to EA to populate the worlds cause 1. It's THEIR job 2. Gallery sims tend to look very similar (like 95% are thin white young adults, not that there's anything wrong with being thin white or young, no shame on anyone it's not a very accurate reflection of real life).

[@EroDhika]

as long as you have MCCC you can import any NPC from tray and make them as townies

[@arkadiakowalczyk4768]

I thought with the skin color upgrade, genetic kid of blue and red sim, would be purple. Its not :(

[@kinseylise8595]

Idk what color blue and red sims make so it might still be wrong (eg if they make a green sim), but as far as genetics go I wouldn’t want them to make purple sims necessarily. You’d end up with no primary color sims after a generation.

[@destinyluv8828]

Awwww haha

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Dude, mixed kids always appear white and you want this

[@kinseylise8595]

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola ?

[@omgnoi]

All my sims come out black no matter what skin base they are

[@Keledorn]

I've been changing Nancy Landgraab's name to Forest Gump because everywhere my sim goes, within a minute she will go jogging past him.

[@skelar1315]

I never thought about this but I would actually love to hand pick and make a bunch of sims for each world lol. I would also love it if certain worlds were “near” each other while other are “far away” that way you might see some sims from another world but not a lot and it would make more sense

[@lypreila7913]

This video: Carl plays with editing and animations and I love it.

[@Rosaeart]

Can we make edges and chest hair in their own section of hair so if we want them we can add them and if we don’t we don’t have to Thank you EA

[@forsims3642]

That plum bob falling into the water was sooo satisfying

[@user-rc8qv2qn6x]

Yesss, and please making appropiate warm and cold wear for those sims that were in the game BEFORE seasons.. like pancakes, ghot, fyres, pizzazz, etc.... absolutely NEEDED

[@HoboGirl09]

I think they need to implement a color wheel for clothes they could totally do it seeing what they did for the skin tones.

[@lwaves]

How to fix The Sims 4: Option 1 - Wait for Arnie and other modders to fix everything that EA and the devs won't. Option 2 - Play The Sims 3. Option 3 - Wait for and buy Paralives, in the hope it's better.

[@realtoastt9076]

"Wait for some youtuber playthroughs of paralives to see if it's worth it" I'm not making this sims 4 mistake again

[@lwaves]

@@realtoastt9076 True and that was intended as part of the 'wait for Paralives' bit, I just didn't say it outright. Right now, we don't know enough about it but by launch we'll know a lot more. Then we'll be able to better judge whether it's worth buying. :-)

[@shelleyburr3988]

Omg, option 2! Still playing Sims 3 on old mods & watching Sims 4 KZbin channels to see if it ever gets better.

[@lwaves]

@@shelleyburr3988 I'm slowly getting TS3 versions of the TS4 mods I really like. Once I get them, the plan is to go back to TS3. I want to rebuild my TS4 lots as well, so I need to screenshot all of them. Time is a huge factor in that and it's time I don't have.

[@Susan-pg7yc]

You are SO right! And thanks for your wonderful humor about something that is maddeningly frustrating. I don’t think they know how distracting this is.

[@user-st2xe3qg9o]

these asmr-like 3D animations are sooo cool, keep it up!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

I love it, so that's likely to happen! Thanks a lot for noticing.

[@crotchwolf1929]

I don't hate the random Townie generator but I do love this idea of making townies out of sims from the gallery.

[@bobbobblington5705]

the one dislike is judith ward

[@MyNeonBubbles]

I thought I was crazy thinking the game was glitching when my white and poc sims had a baby more pale than the snow. Turns out it’s just ea being ea

[@thisisgesi]

Your animations are looking ABSOLOTELY BRILLIANT! The points you made and solutions you provided are genius, gallery sims would be brilliant!

[@mletrout7942]

My favorite fix is to delete ALL the premade townies ten seconds after starting a new game. Confuses the crap out of EA, too.

[@rosepetal84]

Or why can't the randomized sims use the styled looks system in the game...?

[@Liqidslver]

Btw I have read your website for yrs and love the fact that you are now on KZbin keep going and growing and major props for being willing to do so.😃

[@ravenlure4354]

Once again Carl you hit the nail on the head and I love you for it! LOL Thank you for putting it in an amusing way. Custom Content, does help with some of that issue, not all... sadly. Judith showing up seems like a force of nature LOL but MCCC , and I know not all want to down load mods, nor should we have too, does give you and option of what percentage of sims from your library ( or Tray ) that you want to randomly show up in your game. This helps mix up the population a bit, but does nothing for Judith. lol I am working on building a clean save with its own townies. for the most part, but that would be an extreme way to help a bit with the issue that we should not have to worry about in the first place. I did something last year for Halloween. I go a mod that allows you to do dark spell casting.. and I went to the PBP ( I think that is what it is called) When the stars got their awards to kill all the stars. it kind of felt good and it was amusing. It seemed like an episode of Grey Still Plays! LOL Grimm comes and gives up because there is too many corpses..so what does he do? He grabs the mic and starts telling jokes. LOL OMG IT WAS TOO FUNNY. BUT the point is for every star I killed off a new one generated and came to the award show. I think once you kill off the stars.. then well that should be it. I even made a graveyard for them as well! it was pretty good. Their ghosts desecrated each others tombstones and all. Anywhooooooo thanks Carl for another video! Keep up the good work! I hope the sims stays like this, I would miss your videos!

[@thesourpatchkidd579]

I also think Sims should go to work when you’re not playing them on the days they’re supposed to. It’s so weird to see Sims just roaming about when they should be working and there’s no consequences.

[@margielee2088]

My dark confession... I love seeing the crazy outfits the NPC's wear. Please don't judge me.

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Oh, it can definitely be funny. Celebrities and other Sims stalking me, not so much.

[@fleacythesheepgirl]

I like the eyeball ring...

[@CarlsSimGuides]

@@fleacythesheepgirl I'm not judging the ring lol. Eyeball ring just had a problem in the past where it appeared on many, many townies. It was overtuned or something, and has since been tuned back to appear less frequently.

[@FallenAngelHiroko]

Frankly, the only ones that need a crazy outfit is those who has the Erratic trait (and any CC traits that fall into the same category). I would make the exception when it came down to creating your own movies and commercials (Get Famous). But otherwise, come on.

[@babygurleatsshickennuggits4201]

I don't mind as long as they're fully dressed, not randomly have the default pink underwear randomly. If I had a nsfw mod in the game it would just be so much worse.

[@cyndi8084]

I love love LOVE the idea of gallery sims being in the game as townies!!

[@vikenemma2953]

Maybe more group visits from the entire household of sims? You only get one sim that comes over. Would be cool if more sims would come in and visit you.

[@kieronbond9526]

I remember once I sent my Sims to the park in cold weather and there was an event somehow filled with mermaids...grim reaper had a field day. It was in Willow Creek, poor mermaids so far from home.

[@shannoncole5773]

you can choose which sims spawn in as townies with mc command center, you can edit the percentage of sims that are pulled from your library, so if you choose 100%, all of the townies being spawned will be those in your library its so good

[@AntisocialclubSJ]

It’s wild that making winter and summer clothes for older sims is something that Maxis has to be recommended to do and yet. Love the idea of choosing pre-made sims as townie rather than generating randoms. I’m on of those people who creates tons of family and moving them in and giving them jobs is a bit too much to do just start the game so that would be a good idea.

[@infpdreams]

I keep adding to and editing my own save file, from which I start almost all new saves now. It's mostly me making townies into normal, realistic people with small backstory and personalities. It's actually really exciting to see them nowadays when they're roaming around or showing up at public venues! I'm always thrilled when I see some who are friends from work (like two of my bartenders who work at the same bar) show up together at the karaoke bar I built. My makeup artist and costume designer at the acting studio are a married couple. It's just really cool, but... the only reason I did it in the first place was because of this game's terrible randomly generated Sims. Which is just sad.

[@agood1]

yes this is how I play too its great. people complain maybe bc its nit the game for them. you gotta actually plaay the game... I dont know why people complain when they cannjust do this, its part of the game.

[@AP-sh3gr]

I just desperately want to be able to disable random generation of sims and allow the game to either randomly select or allow manual selection of sims for required npc functions

[@LM-ei8ts]

Anyone else here played with Sexy Linda?? She is a beast! So much fun!

[@DoveJS]

Not yet, but I want to! I think she'll be my choice when I finally start the 100 baby challenge but even if not, ya know, still awesome. :D But I went to download her, saw all the versions... can't decide between them all! lol Also just saw Ariella the Sexy Mermaid. Lindy or Ariella? Hrmm... EDIT: Thought it was LGR's account when I saw Duke Nukem and Fartwhistle. XD

[@ezclean7022]

How is she a beast?

[@ivy_inferno]

That would be fantastic! Personnally this is kinda high on my list, but 2 things I would want to be fixed before the ugly townies is 1- like you said at the beginning, skin color that FITS the parents... and 2- removing the diet part in the new year's resolutions, especially when my sims is so skinny that she wouldn't even be able to live IRL

[@minrizor]

Carl, your suggestion is literally something they did back with Spore and it boggles my mind why they haven't bothered reusing the idea at all!

[@pathofthetrickster]

Jokes on you. I've filled my sim world full of vampires that have lived for 500+ days . All of the original townies are dead and gone and 80% of the world are all my creations 😂

[@brentoutashape9141]

Sims 3 handled travel better. When I visit China, the population was....Chinese. Also, it was cool to be able to call Sims you met there and have them visit you.

[@annhitchins7778]

great thoughts, as usual. I did spend hours hand selecting scores of sims on the gallery to stock my library with, so they are pulled from there to populate my game.. It helped me create a diverse world, with well dressed sims. Sims I want my sims to meet.

[@plumfrogvic]

THIS. Thank you, literally cannot stand how it breaks the immersion of gameplay

[@Donuts8]

Second option: murder the sims you keep seeing.

[@elaineashdown4012]

I worry that my female sims father gets flirty with her every time they meet GROSS !!!!!!

[@chaos1993]

I would think the clothing issue could be fixed relatively easily be making it so the randomly generated clothing would have to match-- color (white/black as freebies), length (no sweater/shorts combos), then give random townies a "preferred style" (so they'd pick boho/preppy/etc.). Should keep "unique" locations such as Island Living/Snowy Escape/Batuu locked to their particular areas-- randomly generated clothing in those areas could only pick from those packs, and randomly generated clothing not from those areas couldn't pick from the packs. I also agree on the randomly generated townies fitting the vibe of those unique locations a bit better-- if facial features are too complicated to program, more simple selections like hair color/skin tone could still help a lot.

[@shippey2489]

The magical realm sages, Vlad, Guidry, Bonehila, and -(for lore because it's missing)- Bella Goth should be the only ones to pop out randomly in every world.

[@GeminieCricket]

Why keep kicking a dead horse ? THE GAME IS OVER.

[@kiteride8674]

100% agree. It’s so annoying to see townies in strange places.

[@andrewmoeller1987]

Remember when one of the recent patch updates said townies would be dressed more normal? How normal is it to see two different townies in the female robot costume (excluding the head)?...at the same venue, just several sim hours apart. I feel like when visiting Selvadorada, you see plenty of Hispanic looking Sims. But, of course since I've had a sim go there, most of who I see is them (outside of Selvadorada that is), but at least it's a change from the usual townies... I guess.

[@creepydoll2872]

Yes this is one of the most annoy parts of the game. I would prefer if the sims just didn’t leave their worlds like they did in Sims 2 and 3. That would help a lot. I don’t think my chic Sims in San Muyshuno should be found in Strangerville. I have a mod to cut down on the amount of NPCS the game generates but its not perfect unless I add a bunch of townies. It could be fixed if they just didn’t leave their worlds, I feel like that could be an on and off in game options. Also the issue that everyone has the Japanese or polynesian names! It was bad with City Living and I do want some sims with these names to generate but when its like all the sims that generate its unrealistic. I go in and edit and give some Latinx names, Russian, English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, etc for more diversity

[@Miandey]

I helped myself with mcc comand.It gets my townies from my Galery :) Thank you for the video Carl :) And while we talk about immersion breaking: YOU REACHED THE MAXIMUM FOR THIS LIFESTYLE! Boom! Gets me everytime.

[@Thretcha]

I love how you are basically describing the spore gallery features... a game by maxis that is very old by now :D It allowed the players to custom pick creatures that would show up fron the gallery or use the random pop from gallery or just maxis made stuff. So they already did this feature in the past :D

[@crystallinecrow3365]

i love this idea. i'm so over the terribly dressed townies that i already randomly browse the gallery and just add sims to my save, try to stay on top of culling, etc .... it helps but not enough, and is a lot of work. your idea would .... be so much better than my thing.

[@MandalaBunnyhome]

I always wondered why they didn't use community sims instead of randomly generated ones, you have some really good ideas for how to make it work!