getting lot of ugly / fat sims

[TysonL]

so i notice i'm getting very unattractive sims in my game. I haven't played since star wars expansion. I went to star wars area, 0 twi leks are spawning in my game. lot of fat storm troopers.

so I decided debug spawn only females and I did this 50 times and out of that 50 times only 2 pretty sims came out, Athletic body / slim. was there a secret update that doesn't spawn pretty sims? I know it's random but that ratio I got was shocking.

[James3157]

Publicado originalmente por Jehane:

Also, every time I age up one of the kids to teenagers, the game decides they need to be overweight, too, even though they weren't as kids. In fact, most of my Sims' kids tend to be very active, always on the move, making good use of the monkey bars and the swing, and I make sure they eat healthy, too. It's a bit annoying 'cause it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, and I don't get the reasoning behind it. If the Sims are constantly overeating and doing no exercise at all - ok. Makes perfect sense. But athletic Sims with a healthy lifestyle? That's a bit unrealistic.

The Sims 4 is a fantasy game, but there are ways to make sims lose weight such as diet, exercise, or spending rewards for making your sim skinny; although, some people might be overweight or obese in real life for various other reasons besides unhealthy food and inactivity such as some types of drugs might cause weight gain (also known as medication and one such example is SSRIs which is an antidepressant drug), hypothyroidism (more common in females than males), PCOS (females only), cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, slowed down metabolism from getting older (although this does not start until middle age or older), and possibly genetics (such as for example both parents are overweight/obese might increase the likelihood of their children being the same way) to name just a few examples of this.

[FauxFurry]

Publicado originalmente por Jehane:

One thing I noticed when I saw one of my Sims through college: All of her room mates in the dorm gained a lot of weight over time, and by the end of her studies (she was studying for five semesters), all seven of them were overweight while my Sim remained the stick insect she was when she enrolled. I thought that was very weird, especially since this didn't happen to her former room mates - before she moved into the dorm, she shared a house with three other students, and none of them changed, like, at all. Only the guys in the dorm, no matter what they looked like when she moved in. Very strange.

Also, every time I age up one of the kids to teenagers, the game decides they need to be overweight, too, even though they weren't as kids. In fact, most of my Sims' kids tend to be very active, always on the move, making good use of the monkey bars and the swing, and I make sure they eat healthy, too. It's a bit annoying 'cause it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, and I don't get the reasoning behind it. If the Sims are constantly overeating and doing no exercise at all - ok. Makes perfect sense. But athletic Sims with a healthy lifestyle? That's a bit unrealistic.

It almost feels like a bid to coax one into buying Cool Kitchen Stuff so that one will feed their child Sims copious quantities of "Taste of Diet" ice cream at their birthday parties to get their weight down without having to spend hours of real world time at the gym.

[GGcake]

Those are just steam users

[Jehane]

Publicado originalmente por James3157:

The Sims 4 is a fantasy game, but there are ways to make sims lose weight such as diet, exercise, or spending rewards for making your sim skinny; although, some people might be overweight or obese in real life for various other reasons besides unhealthy food and inactivity such as some types of drugs might cause weight gain (also known as medication and one such example is SSRIs which is an antidepressant drug), hypothyroidism (more common in females than males), PCOS (females only), cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, slowed down metabolism from getting older (although this does not start until middle age or older), and possibly genetics (such as for example both parents are overweight/obese might increase the likelihood of their children being the same way) to name just a few examples of this.

Yeah, I know, but like I said, my Sims are athletic (most of the adults have fitness level 10 and get grumpy when they don't work out regularly), work out regularly (they are in a fitness group that meets regularly), the kids are very active, and they watch their diet (if a nanny or housekeeper whips up a white cake, it goes straight into the bin), so it doesn't make any sense that their body type changes this drastically. It doesn't happen IRL, either, unless you have any of the medical conditions you mention (hypothyroidism is a real ♥♥♥♥♥, antidepressants, too, and don't get me started on metabolism slowing down 😁). I'm pretty sure none of my Sims have any of those 😁 It's just a bit weird, and just like it's unrealistic to have only skinny Sims, it's equally unrealistic to have a dorm with one skinny and seven overweight Sims 😄

[kainfrayer]

Man you should known the robo-offended crowd would come out as if you were talking about them.

[Sovereign Dark]

If you use MCCC, you can click directly on any sim, use MCCC > sim flags > CAS to freeze their physiques as you'd like them, from largest to slimmest. Doing so, they will remain unchanged no matter how much they eat or exercise. Bienchen also has a lessf** mod.
Otherwise, TS4 is allergic to slender sims.

[James3157]

Publicado originalmente por Sovereign Dark:

If you use MCCC, you can click directly on any sim, use MCCC > sim flags > CAS to freeze their physiques as you'd like them, from largest to slimmest. Doing so, they will remain unchanged no matter how much they eat or exercise. Bienchen also has a lessf** mod.
Otherwise, TS4 is allergic to slender sims.

I did not know that and that is coming from someone who uses the MCCC mod and has used it for a long time. Also, speaking of fat sims I sometimes struggle with keeping my sims skinny because of not dieting properly and/or not exercising enough. For example, when trying to focus in other areas besides weight such as dieting and exercise it is easier for my sims to gain weight as well. On the one hand I like realism at least to some extent when it comes to weight on The SIms 4 not being frozen, but on the other hand keeping sims skinny can be challenging sometimes and especially without mods. Cassandra Goth for example when playing as her (especially as a young adult and old enough to get married and not live with her parents anymore) starts skinny but can become fat if not doing enough diet and exercise.

[Sovereign Dark]

Publicado originalmente por James3157:

Publicado originalmente por Sovereign Dark:

If you use MCCC, you can click directly on any sim, use MCCC > sim flags > CAS to freeze their physiques as you'd like them, from largest to slimmest. Doing so, they will remain unchanged no matter how much they eat or exercise. Bienchen also has a lessf** mod.
Otherwise, TS4 is allergic to slender sims.

I did not know that and that is coming from someone who uses the MCCC mod and has used it for a long time. Also, speaking of fat sims I sometimes struggle with keeping my sims skinny because of not dieting properly and/or not exercising enough. For example, when trying to focus in other areas besides weight such as dieting and exercise it is easier for my sims to gain weight as well. On the one hand I like realism at least to some extent when it comes to weight on The SIms 4 not being frozen, but on the other hand keeping sims skinny can be challenging sometimes and especially without mods. Cassandra Goth for example when playing as her (especially as a young adult and old enough to get married and not live with her parents anymore) starts skinny but can become fat if not doing enough diet and exercise.

It would be better if the game mechanics functioned realistically in this sense. However, they don't. Even if you feed your sims reasonably, they'll eventually incline toward obesity just for..well, eating.
Increasing muscle mass through exercise won't reduce body weight. Only jogging or a treadmill will have that effect. Although, if you continue to simply feed your sims when they're hungry, it won't do them any good since weight reduction is a slower process by aerobic type exercise than is weight increase by eating meals (apart from garden salad, if I'm to understand). In essence, the ratio doesn't work accurately, so we're bound to see larger and larger sims over the course of gameplay.

I don't watch many YTers but I enjoy interesting Let's Plays. I'd followed Deligracy's Tiny Town Challenge LP and just about every of her sims had grown obese throughout the LP challenge (except for the final sim) as they kept preparing and eating meals autonomously. But none had done any exercise autonomously.

If you DO want to change your sims weight or muscle mass at any point with the MC freeze physique flag, you may still use the Modify in CAS cheat to make any changes. The flag prevents auto changes but doesn't prevent you from making desired changes with fulleditmode enabled.
As example. I'd thought it appropriate to max the muscle mass of my female werewolf, although she and her sisters are MC flagged with physique and appearance freezes.

Edit: Also, I did send my werewolf to work out on strength building machines during gameplay so it would justify gradual changes I'd made to her body mass until she reached maximum. I'm particular about realistic gameplay in that I don't want sims to mirror our own reality, but that seemed more realistic to me than how the game functions.