Skewed Neighborhood Demographics
rufio:
From various posts on this forum, I've determined that AL provides a steady trickle of new townies into the game. This doesn't particularly bother me, as long as it doesn't cause BFBVFS, which I gather it doesn't. However:
I have ACR and use it to randomly roll every single townie's gender preference, so that playing romance sims is actually slightly challenging. After I installed AL, I noticed the usual initial influx of townies, and rolled their preferences. Later on I noticed that more townies would accumulate, but the only thing that bothered me about this was that every single one of the subsequent townies seems to female. My neighborhood currently has about 250 male townies and about 350 female townies, and there was no real difference between the number of male and female townies until I installed AL. Is this some kind of random number generating bug, or is it by design? From looking through the phonebook of a sim with the Head for Numbers perk, I note that the new townies do not all seem to have the same name, the same hairstyle, or the same hair color, which I would have expected to happen if it had been a random number bug. Is there anything I can do to change it so that generates some male townies, too?
purplebunny:
I think you've just been bit by sado-randomness.
Each time a townie generates, there's a 50% chance it'll be male, 50% it'll be female.
You could always generate your own townies using the NPC/Townie maker and only accept the male ones...
Gwill:
I'm so glad to hear someone else say this.
The fact that all 4 births I've had since installing AL I'll gladly atribute to randomness, but every single new townie/social group sim the game has generated since then has also been female. Whenever I look for roommates I get a list of all females, regardless of what family and who's searching.
My butler is male, and I have encountered a warlock, but all other new characters since I installed AL are female. I have 50 female social group sims, that is notning like random!
seelindarun:
How weird. Can you check the date stamps on those character files to see if they were all generated within the same play session? I habitually see the first-born effect when the game has to pull an NPC out of its ass, so I always re-randomise at the start of every play session. I've never seen that bug skew gender in a pre-AL game, though.
rufio:
Quote from: Gwill on 2008 September 30, 19:10:41
I'm so glad to hear someone else say this.
The fact that all 4 births I've had since installing AL I'll gladly atribute to randomness, but every single new townie/social group sim the game has generated since then has also been female. Whenever I look for roommates I get a list of all females, regardless of what family and who's searching.
My butler is male, and I have encountered a warlock, but all other new characters since I installed AL are female. I have 50 female social group sims, that is notning like random!
Good to know I'm not the only one who noticed it. It also happens with born-in-game sims too? Darn. I haven't had any since AL.
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