A number of the npc's the game recently generated (whether by Register, StoryProgression, or plain old EA-- I don't know what's doing it), to staff registers, look like Plumbots-- which is really annoying to me.

Which, btw, they aren't Plumbots: I can use MasterController to see "occult status" and they aren't Plumbots. But they look exactly like them. They aren't "bot fans" in traits, either...so it isn't even meant to be a human sim in "bot mode."

It gets fixed if I "edit in CAS" and change them from Adult to Young Adult, but I tend to get E12's after doing that (it does cause memory usage to spike, but not to the point that the spike would alone lead to that).

So...how does this happen, and how can I stop it?

Hi KA957 - The only explanation I can think of as to "Why" is that those bot outfits are set to be allowed for random. I use to see sims in those get-ups and it was annoying. I used <a href="http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Blacklistin ... r">Kuree's EasyCASP Editor</a> to Hide in CAS as well as unticking the Random option.

Rather than going into CAS you could try using MC>Basic>Remove Outfit and see if that helps.

Do you have sim from bin enabled in immigration and have plumbots in your bin?

It's supposed to produce all immigrants from "mating" two sims in the game (no EA random, and no bin). Come to think of it...it may have chosen a Plumbot to use as one of the mates.

However, I seem to have found a workaround, by having a sim in the active family "transfer outfit" (or whatever it's called) to the plumbot-looking sim. It's somehow an outfit, it seems. I then have to get rid of the current outfit and have it change into one of the ones passed over from the sim. I'll try the EasyCASP Editor, as well, though.

Do you have plumbots in your town?

Yes. I have Plumbots in my town ( I originally visited the future, bought a Plumbot, and came back with it-- the "realistic" way to do it-- but I liked Plumbots so much I put up a Plumbot shop in the present, because visiting the future and going back takes real time on loading screens) so it's conceivable whatever engine (Story Progression, I'm guessing?) may be choosing them to reproduce to make the townies...although that wouldn't explain why the game seems to treat the Plumbot look as clothing, and that thus it can go away when I force them to wear copies of other sims' outfits.

The plumbot parts are clothing. Sounds like SP is missing a check to not use them. I'll have a look.