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So I've been playing my sim game for awhile now and noticed that not one zombie has spawned. I do not use any mods that stop/lower the spawn rate of zombies, so I don't understand what is going on there.

I do use Nraas Overwatch, Story Progression and Master Controller, but I selected no on clearing out the homeless when I first ran it, and I have clear out the homeless set to false so it doesn't get rid of them on overwatch, but I have yet to see a single zombie spawn. Is there perhaps something I am overlooking here? I know a lot of people say "Why the hell would you want those things to spawn?" - well frankly I like zombies, I like the concept of them, and would like to see them.

That belongs on Twallan's forum obviously. ::)

I've already been through Twallan's forum and the issue is not related to the Nraas mods, I've even tried removing them to weild no results, still no zombies. I am curious as to wheather it has anything to do with the fact that I am using a custom neighbourhood really, but I figured I'd ask about other things first.

No, zombies work in custom hoods. I have spawning zombies in my custom hoods at full moon and I use the same mods but not SP.

I have most of Twallan's mods, and I still get zombies.  Try a fresh save in an EAxian world (use game settings to decrease the wait between full moons so you don't have to wait forever to get to a point where you can test it).

Alright I tested this, and my results are as follows:

When I loaded the game I chose not to run story progression, the first full moon produced 3 zombies. The zombies themselves however were made up of current "homeless" sims, aka vendors/proprietors and the paparazzi, they stood outside my house and growled for about 1 hour before they suddenly turned human again and walked back to their spots.

I then turned on story progression and the next night I got 1 zombie, who just stood there and did nothing, I assume the nothingness progresses from the fact my sim is pregnant and they are probably immune to attacks. This zombie was a random nobody this time, and after an hourish or so turned back to human, got in a taxi and drove off to nowhere and disappeared from existence.

Also I noticed that they spawned on the house I am playing with on my custom hood is completely fenced off, and only has a small area out the front, that wouldn't make a difference would it?

Edit: On the third and fourth night no zombies spawned at all, there was what appeared to be a zombie at the beach, but the second I zoomed in on her, she went from green skinned back to human and ran away. - I continued to play for another sim week and no more zombies were spawning anymore.

Is this the usual behaviour of the zombies?

Mine used to spawn around the garden and then start eating the plants, for this most unzombie-like behaviour they have been banned.

Mine wont even touch plants! There was a literal smorgasbord of plants for them, but they just stood there growling until they turned into humans and disappeared.

Plants v. Zombies Sims Style! Without the peashooter even.

Zombies will not enter or spawn in your house, and a fenced-in yard is considered an interior for these purposes.  I'm not sure how big of a space they need for spawning purposes.  You mentioned you only have a small area in front that isn't fenced in.  It might not be big enough to spawn a zombie.

When zombies spawn, they will automatically target any plants that are located outdoors where a zombie can reach them.  So far, I've only seen them go for harvestable plants and trees, as well as the Store Pea Shooter and sunflower.  They will not target any plants that are fenced in or indoors.  Likewise, if a human sim goes outdoors, they might auto-attack him or her, but they will not target or attack sims who remain indoors.  Zombies will usually remain on your property until the sun starts to come up, but can also leave after successfully attacking a plant, or after being knocked out by the Pea Shooter.

I had harvestable plants that were RIGHT in front of the zombies when they spawned, and they still continued to sit there and growl until, again, they turned human and disappeared. Are they meant to turn human, get in a taxi, and leave?

I don't think so.  In my game, they stay zombies until the next morning, and they usually stay for hours.

I didn't think so. I tried getting rid of my fence around the house, but no zombies spawned still. On the test game they stopped spawning all together now, so I deleted that and started a new one, and they spawned once again for 4 nights this time, doing the same thing, and then disappeared. I am starting to wonder if perhaps something is interfering with it, I also have some of Anach's mods too, so curious if one of his is possibly causing issues. Other than that the only mods I use are the ones basically everyone else uses here.

Time to do the old 50/50 mod test.

Overwatch will reset zombies when they're standing around with route failure bubbles because they can't get in your house. Perhaps this is what you're seeing.

I have Overwatch, and this doesn't happen in my game.

Well, then I'm out of ideas. I did see a zombie in front of my house get reset by Overwatch, though. I don't actually get too many zombies in my game either but I don't particularly care for them so I haven't bothered to investigate why.