UPDATE: NPC Household Variety Fix v1.5

Another day, another mod update! As usual, while I was testing other things, I noticed something weird in my game. No matter what world my Sims were in, there were occult Sims everywhere! And this was with Home Regions installed and explicitly set up to deny occult Sims access to any worlds but their own. After adding some logging to help diagnose what was going on, I discovered that NHVF was actually the culprit.

In order to keep occult Sims from being created as part of non-occult generated households, the mod gives them a score of 0 when the game asks whether a Sim fits a household filter. The problem was that this score was being provided for EVERY Sim filter in the game, not just the ones that create households. This resulted in weird behaviors like occult Sims bypassing the Home Regions filtering en masse. Yeah, my bad!

Once I tracked down the issue, the solution was ensuring that the filter score the mod provides is ONLY used by the household generation filters and bypassed by any other filters. Additionally, I have added a name check that excludes Home Regions filters in particular, as the pure scoping solution was not sufficient to prevent the conflict. If you do not use that mod, this exclusion will have no effect in your game.

I HIGHLY recommend updating to the newest version ASAP! Available on my master download post or on CurseForge now! Happy Simming!