June 2018 - last edited June 2018 by crinrict
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Start a file and wait for townies to spawn.
What happens when the bug occurs? Alien and vampire townies will not spawn whatsoever.
What do you expect to see? Alien and vampire townies SHOULD be spawning.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure
For some reason, I think after a recent patch (but I'm not sure which one), alien and vampire townies have completely stopped spawning. This definitely was not always the case. They used to spawn a good bit, but of course not as often as human Sims. They would also spawn in every neighborhood (not just Forgotten Hollow). Aliens were usually disguised unless they spawned during an Alien Night at a bar. I haven't played in Forgotten Hollow or gone to Alien Night recently (due to the alien discovery bug), so I wouldn't know if they still spawn there, but I definitely haven't seen them anywhere else.
June 2018
Could you retest this after patch ?
Good Luck
Crin
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June 2018
Good Luck
Crin
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June 2018
June 2018
Good Luck
Crin
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July 2018
October 2018 - last edited October 2018
UPDATE: Without mods, vampire townies DO spawn, but ONLY in Forgotten Hollow. Vampire townies still do not spawn in other worlds, and alien townies still do not spawn at all. I recall both aliens and vampires being able to spawn in all worlds sometime ago. The only times that I can get alien townies to spawn is by using the satellite dish, meeting aliens in Sixam, or going to Aliens Night at a bar.
October 2018
October 2018 - last edited October 2018
Do you have a fair number of vampire townies in your save already @Lorraine-Simmer? I know I don't get vampire townies any more in my save, because I already have eight vampires in it. That's five individual unplayed vampire households, plus the original three Maxis premade vampires. I've never had a problem with them not generating outside of Forgotten Hollow either whenever I start a new game.
Unlike aliens in disguise, I don't think the game will just continue to keep generating vampires, from what I've seen in my game. Aliens in disguise will be generated any time though there's not a prior one available for whatever reason to fill the role, possibly because they're often used as bartenders and so on.
I know that the mod, NPC Control by Paulson will stop the generating of alien and vampire walkbys, but it's a setting that can be toggled on or off. So, if you have that mod or another similar that stops/controls random townie generating, it's your culprit for as to why they're not being generated for you.
Some of the late night walkbys in outfits from the Vampires pack are not actually vampires though, instead they're fake vampires (wannabes if you will) generated by the game. That's what I believe that @alanmichael1 is probably seeing in their game late at night.
One last thing, if you use MC Command Center, you can check your log file that it generates and it will tell you the names of all the Sims the game is generating and what filter they're being used for, which is super helpful.
October 2018
No, whenever I start a save in a world other than Forgotten Hollow, absolutely no vampire townies spawn. The only way I can get vampire townies to spawn is by either visiting Forgotten Hollow or playing there.