A Bug as Old as The Sims 4 (Dev Diary Teaser)

Fix it in your own game now with NPC Household Variety! Full investigation & fix dev diary coming soon 💜

Receipts:

• Nov 2014 (the original) — a player counts 23 townie households, every one a single Sim: https://forums.ea.com/discussions/the-sims-4-general-discussion-en/townie-household-generation-problems/1584348

• July 2025 (the logs) — MCCC log shows single-Sim homeless households spawning nonstop: https://forums.ea.com/discussions/the-sims-4-feedback-en/right-now-the-game-creates-new-townies-when-my-sims-use-the-computer-to-work-/12384080

• Aug 2025 (bonus) — single-Sim spawns evicting whole neighborhoods, the culling side of it: https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/auto-generated-townie-takeover/12466225