Urgh; AL townies breeding like rats!
Architect Manic:
I appreciate the correction and additional info, but 5 social groups multiplied by 10 equals 50 new townies. How do you justify the hundred others that I experienced?
Dragon Slave:
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Creating new neighbors is fine, but it should only occur if and when they are required.
Oh, I agree with you there, and by no means do I think EA has an excuse for the train wreck they created. I just didn't expect any better from them, because they've been so shitty with us in the past. My expectations for TS3 are low indeed. :-\
I personally don't mind ugly... because I play realistically and there are ugly people in real life.. so, it all works out... but it's the same archetype faces over and over again. I breed my sims to townies, I want to keep the gene pool diverse. How is this possibe when they all bear the same faces over and over again?
What really kills me is the randomness of it all. I've never seen a fish lipped, tan skinned, orange corn rowed man in a kilt named Holden Tang in real life - I don't want to see it in the sims. On the other hand, I liked the Nightlife downtownies - why can't they design more template characters like those?
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fyi: there are 5 social groups, every consisting of around 10 members. but their purpose is far beyond me.
I see the social groups as a way of creating cliques. I've tried to do this on my own in the game for years but it never works the way I want it to as they're always bringing home sims from the wrong group (cheerleaders jump off the bus with my goth kids. >:(). So I had some hopes that *maybe* I could turn this in my favor - except some of the groups are kinda strange. (Gearheads ???)
Sigmund:
Quote from: Dragon Slave on 2008 September 01, 22:24:24
I personally don't mind ugly... because I play realistically and there are ugly people in real life.. so, it all works out... but it's the same archetype faces over and over again. I breed my sims to townies, I want to keep the gene pool diverse. How is this possibe when they all bear the same faces over and over again?
What really kills me is the randomness of it all. I've never seen a fish lipped, tan skinned, orange corn rowed man in a kilt named Holden Tang in real life - I don't want to see it in the sims. On the other hand, I liked the Nightlife downtownies - why can't they design more template characters like those?
I don't know if you're interested or not, but I recently downloaded Spookymuffin's face templates (available here: http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=75472) and they solved this problem for me. They're diverse enough to be realistic, but aren't as drastic as the default ones. Of course, the downside is that only new Townies will be affected by them.
Zazazu:
Quote from: Dragon Slave on 2008 September 01, 22:24:24
I personally don't mind ugly... because I play realistically and there are ugly people in real life.. so, it all works out... but it's the same archetype faces over and over again. I breed my sims to townies, I want to keep the gene pool diverse. How is this possibe when they all bear the same faces over and over again?
This is what multiple sets of default replacement sets are for. I have five, plus one that is a melding of the five sets. At least I remembered to switch them out before these dumb neighbors and social group losers were spawned.
Say you have just 300 townies/NPCs in a game (typical player with just a few playables and not using noregen hacks). There are 27 face templates. If they were distributed evenly, that's 10 of every face...which is already a lot of redundancy. But they don't get distributed evenly due to the nature of randomness, so it will be even worse.
TripleM:
Quote from: Dragon Slave on 2008 September 01, 22:24:24
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So I had some hopes that *maybe* I could turn this in my favor - except some of the groups are kinda strange. (Gearheads ???)
probably not, only premade sims, part of "special" households, react accordingly to gestures and stories (script driven), but they dont mind to befriend other sims as well. in addition no member of a group knows another member of the same group.
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