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All Girls?
Serendipity38
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in The Sims 2
So, I decided to start a new Legacy attempt. Nothing new there *Shakes head, laughing at myself*
Anyways, my founder has four children now. Three pregnancies. And each and every one of the four, are girls. I definitely went and rolled the dice in CAS before the births of all of the younger siblings, to avoid the dreaded "First Born Glitch". And while I wanted her to have three children to be able to chose from, for the heir, the game decided to surprise me with twins as the outcome of her third pregnancy. FUN! *LOL*
But all four are girls. Now I know this happens in real life all the time, but...Later on down the road, when the heir and the spares start having their own kids, if it turns out that I've got an "all girl glitch", does anyone know of a way to fix it? I dont have any CC or mods that would cause such, at least I'm pretty darn sure, anyways.
Would appreciate it if anyone has any advice/feedback on this, thank you!
Now, back to dealing with 1 child, 1 toddler and 2 babies in game...Oh, did I mention the oldest was born with only one nice point? Yeahhhhhhhhh, lots and lots of encouraging niceness from mom is in her future! Dad cant do it, he's only got three nice points, himself!
Anyways, my founder has four children now. Three pregnancies. And each and every one of the four, are girls. I definitely went and rolled the dice in CAS before the births of all of the younger siblings, to avoid the dreaded "First Born Glitch". And while I wanted her to have three children to be able to chose from, for the heir, the game decided to surprise me with twins as the outcome of her third pregnancy. FUN! *LOL*
But all four are girls. Now I know this happens in real life all the time, but...Later on down the road, when the heir and the spares start having their own kids, if it turns out that I've got an "all girl glitch", does anyone know of a way to fix it? I dont have any CC or mods that would cause such, at least I'm pretty darn sure, anyways.
Would appreciate it if anyone has any advice/feedback on this, thank you!
Now, back to dealing with 1 child, 1 toddler and 2 babies in game...Oh, did I mention the oldest was born with only one nice point? Yeahhhhhhhhh, lots and lots of encouraging niceness from mom is in her future! Dad cant do it, he's only got three nice points, himself!
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When a Sim gives birth in TS2 it does not check for what genders have been born before. So there's always a 50/50 chance for a boy or a girl.
However, gender is determined at birth and not conception so if you pause the moment your game autofocuses you on the birth, save the game, and then play, if you get the gender you do not want, you can exit without saving. Keep in mind that this will change the genetics and personality as well.
One of my families had 3 boys before having their only daughter (and youngest child). Of the 120 born in game Sims in that same neighborhood: 58 were male, 62 were female, the reloading trick was not used at all.
Over short number of trials (such as the average number of kids one makes a single pair of Sims have), you can have runs that appear to defy the odds (3+ girls/boys in a row). However, the more births you have, the more it will approach the average.
So thank you again. Wow you had a lot of births in that one neighborhood, congratulations!
Also, you don't have to save the CAS sim, just X'out of the create a sim, and back to the neighborhood and then back to your lot where the birth is about to happen, and voila! You should then have avoided the risk of the "First Born Glitch"!
As long as you don't roll the die the same number of times at the start of each play session, you'll be fine.
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Yes and no for rotational play.
The problem is the RNG aspects resets every time you restart the program. So unless the first family you played with a pregnancy that session was a set of parents having their first kid together, you'd run into the issue. The ones after them would be fine provided they are played before you close the game down for any reason.
There is no mod to correct this issue without player input.
None of the games are. It just boils down to the one game whose pros outweigh the cons the most. As it is with most favorites within a genre or series.
I expect sims, any of the series, to be buggy at this point. As long as it isnt game breaking, I just deal with it.
I definitely find more bugs and issues in 3 than 2, 1 I cant be bothered to install and I dont play 4 often enough to notice, but just because I have less issues with 2 isnt the reason why I like 2 the most. 2 is my favorite because I've put the most time into it, and as I was like 6-7 at the release I basically grew up playing it for hours and hours every single day. No amount of glitches, bugs, errors, quirks, etc will change how special it is.
The Batbox, a bugfixing mod, has an option to "rerandomize sim generator" which you can use if loading CAS is too slow. Wait until the sim giving birth starts to wave, save before the build and buy modes grey out, and click that option. It will force you to reload the house (which is why you should save immediately before using it,) but it works to prevent the firstborn glitch.
Always read and understand what the batbox does before using it, as it is a somewhat powerful mod, but this part should work perfectly.
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Batbox is at MATY (More awesome than you)
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@xitneverendss also gave me the link to the Batbox, but thank you as well!