In the process of giving my townies makeovers, I noticed that an incredible percentage of them are Taurus, including all categories (Downtownies, Vacation sims, Studio Towners, and Stranges). I investigated via SimEnhancer and found that there are nearly none with a Playful score of below 6. In fact, I only found a handful of serious townies in the entire game (besides the "wallflower" Downtownie archetypes who have 0 Playful as a matter of course). This seems extremely odd and makes me wonder if there is some kind of broken randomizer to blame. Has anyone else noticed this happening?

Mm that's interesting! I suspect Maxis intentionally gave them more Playful and probably Nice points so they would socialize and accept your sims interactions more. TS1 was really savage once you tried for two sims to get along.

I don't know if it's intentional or not, or even if it's happening to anyone but me! But I have not noticed any extra Nice points, unfortunately; my townies tend to be both Playful and Mean which makes them... interesting to try to befriend.

Oh, dear. Yeah, that combo would lead to lots of teasing.

You can use Sim Enhancer to edit the personalities of the townies if you want, but I imagine you know that. :-)

Sigh... yes, indeed.

I did decide to give a few of them a "personality transplant" although I did it in-game using some Simlogical visitor control items and a personality randomizer statue. Now there is at least a little bit of variety!