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

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??

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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

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!

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....

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! 🤦‍♀️

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

The water plumbob animation was super beautiful!

Imagine them going back to previous packs and fixing something lol

Your animations are getting better and better! 💕

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

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!

Yeah the genetics are broken now

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.

These renders are killing me.

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.

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

Man those 3D animations look so satisfying-

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

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

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

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.

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!!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

You are AWESOME 🤩. I come to you every time I buy a pack!!!! You tell me whether to buy or not!!!!! Your website is awesome too!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!

Your suggestions are sooo good and I wish ea would actually do this 😩

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

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

That plum bob falling into the water was sooo satisfying

Your editing skills have been on point lately 👏🏼

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

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

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.

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

the one dislike is judith ward

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

The animations are so cool. The video is a great point, but I love your animations

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!

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

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

Carl you're simply brilliant! This would really improve gameplay so much! 🏆

AMAZING IDEA🖤🖤🖤love you carl!!😘

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

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.

The editing in the was great. Made me laugh.

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

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.

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

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

I agree with what you said. We need some of the sims 3 style world edit on the world's and some of the characters from sims 2 re made for the sims 4. On a side note tried to play the sims 3 recently and couldn't get it to launch on Origin.

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

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 😂

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.

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.

Second option: murder the sims you keep seeing.

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).

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!

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

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.

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.

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!

Carl I'm a huge fan of your guides! I've actually redone my whole populations with added jobs. One Era is Rococo Style, and the Other is the 20s-30s. I have a mod where only my sims are pulled for strolling, and jobs, community lots, etc. Takes a bit of work, but everyone looks great, and the game feels good. If that's too much, just make a Style Influencer and Set Some trends!

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

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

The helpful rant on sims 4 I didn't know I needed.

I agree with everything you said. I tend to delete all premade sims and then use MC Command center to force the game to generate from my gallery.