Townie Demographics

Last updated February 28th, 2024

Latest Patch Notes

2/28/24

• Repaired for patch 1.105.332

12/9/23

• Repaired for patch 1.103.250
• Added support for the new world, Tomarang
  

10/17/23

• If Pizza Preferences is installed, Townies spawning in Tartosa will have both dislikes for Pineapple and Hawaiian pizza

8/16/23

• Added Polish translation by Aarathiel

8/1/23

• Added Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese translations by WANZI

6/1/23

• Added Russian translation by Jane_Moriarty

5/23/23

• Townies in San Sequoia now have a chance to use a Chinese or Indian template
• Townies in Del Sol Valley now have a chance to use a Latin template
• Townies in Sixam now use an alien nameset, based on aliens from across the Sims franchise, celestial objects, and sci-fi media
• Tightened up some Maxis templates to prevent multiple templates from mixing together
• Improved behavior for languages which do not use a Roman alphabet; if no nameset is available for those alphabets, the mod will use their local default nameset instead 
• Added safeguarding to prevent a fatal error due to a mod conflict; a notification will be displayed in game if this error is detected

This is a companion mod to Home Regions. Getting townies to live in their own town was just the start. Now it's time for them to actually look, dress, act, walk, and be named differently depending not only on the World they're from, but each individual neighborhood, too.

Unique Neighborhoods, Unique Residents

Each neighborhood now comes with a set of unique attributes for Sims who live there, including:

• Fashion choices
• Physical features
• Names
• Skills
• Traits and preferences
• Walkstyle
• Occult status

For example, Sims living in Willow Creek are more likely to have African features and use a mix of French and Spanish names to match their Creole heritage. Sims from the the snooty Sage Estates neighborhood will have a Polished or Preppy fashion style and know a bit about Gardening, while Sims from Foundry Cove wear more Basic clothes and have a knack for Handiness.

Sims throughout Oasis Springs are more likely to have Latin features, use Hispanic names, and can handle spicy food. Sims living in the nicer neighborhoods like Skyward Palms wear Hipster or Preppy clothes, Sims living in town wear more Basic or Outdoorsy clothes, and Sims living in the eccentric Bedrock Strait wear Rocker and Boho styles.

Sims in Windenburg are more likely to have European features and use names from Germany and Northern Europe. Sims living in the rural parts know some Gardening, while Sims living out on the island have Fishing skill.

The shadowy denizens of Forgotten Hollow know a thing or two about Vampire Lore, and they are likely to be vampires themselves! They will all dress the part with various vampire styles, use Central European names, and some are easily spotted by their creepy walk.

Sims living around University of Britechester tend to have some Writing skill, while those around Foxbury Institute have some Programming skill.

Sims in Tartosa have Italian names and good Cooking skill, and (if you have Pizza Preferences installed) they are born with an innate hatred of pineapple on pizza.

These are just a few examples.

As a side benefit of telling Sims to use a single fashion style at a time, their outfit choices tend to be a little better. No mismatching suit jackets and swim trunks, just poor color coordination.

Existing Sims and any user-created Sims are not subject to these templates, and even randomly generated townies always have a chance to bypass most of the template so that neighborhoods do not become too homogeneous.

Note: No changes are made to the Spice Market, Art Quarter, and Fashion District neighborhoods, as well as the residential areas of Sulani, Mt. Komorebi, and Selvadorada, as these neighborhoods already have templates in an unmodded game.

Home Regions Integration

While Home Regions is not strictly required to use this mod, you're less likely to get many local townies who will use these new templates without it, so it is highly recommended that these two mods are used together.

With this mod and Home Regions installed, when townies spawn in a World, they also get assigned to a neighborhood by a random weighting. By default, townies are more likely to be assigned to dense or working class neighborhoods, and less likely to be assigned to sparse or upper class ones. These weights can be changed in the Home Regions settings.

Known Issue

Pets and strays (if you have Pets Everywhere installed or any other mod that adds strays to more places) that spawn in neighborhoods with a custom name set will get human names and surnames due to how non-default name lists are prioritized. This is apparently an issue in an unmodded game as well, but it usually only happens in Selvadorada since that's the only place with both a Townie Demographic template and a non-default name set. I'm not aware of a good way around this, but it's very low priority for me. Plus, sometimes the names are cute.

Languages

This mod uses the game's own localization data and can be used by all languages. The only added strings are for error notifications.

The error strings have been translated into the following languages:

Spanish (thank you, LeRoiDeTout!)
Italian (thank you, ISY!)
German (thank you, NeedCoffee4That!)
Russian (thank you, Jane_Moriarty!)
Traditional Chinese (thank you, WANZI!)
Simplified Chinese (thank you, WANZI!)
Polish (thank you, Aarathiel!)

Supplementary names have been provided for the following namesets:

Italian (thank you, MasSIMo!) 

If you would like to provide more names for a particular nationality or group, or create namesets for non-Roman alphabets, please contact me directly on Discord.

Requirements and Compatibility

This mod only requires the Base Game, but supports all packs.

This mod isn't likely to conflict with other mods because of how the script interacts with the game assets. There are no direct tuning overrides. 

Special Thanks

Andrew and The Sims 4 Studio team for making Sims 4 Studio
LeRoiDeTout for creating the Street Weighting script
and the greater The Sims 4 creator community for their continuous help and support throughout the whole modding process.

Discord Server

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