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Sims 2 WTH!?! (What The Heck!?!) moments.
SnappiTheSimmerxx
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So, I just recently got The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection, and, things has gone crazy! I have created a family, and, I have to say, i am CURSED with single (I'll explain later what I mean by "single") baby boys.
So, I started everything from scratch, except the house, I just picked a house from Desiderata Valley, I made two sims, the mom has the family aspiration, and the dad has the fortune aspiration, so, i selected the mom, and i picked her lifetime aspiration benefit thingie up to the top (Aka at the point where there is "Super Fertility"), but did Super Fertility have any effects, you ask? None. Back to the story, i made my sims have 3 children, and maybe i'll make them have more.
(Note: Their first name and last name are revealed at the link where theres the photos)
Now, this is the first child, if you haven't guessed it, he's a boy and a "single" child. (single child=a child who wasn't born with a twin)
Here's a picture of him:
imgur.com/a/bmdcu (Yes, I do know how to post images, just that PhotoBucket is too slow for me!
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Now, the second child, annnd if you haven't really guessed yet, yeah, he's a single child and he's a boy, yup, the curse is continuing, His peronality would be, "bubbly"
, here's a picture:
imgur.com/a/sjR1l
AAAAND the third child, who's the newest, and yep, you guessed it, he's a single child and he's a boy, yup, in the photo, he's the one standing in his mom's arms, and his brothers are cheering him because he was born just some minutes ago:
imgur.com/a/yrKds
So, that's my WTH!?! moments in Sims 2, feel free to post yours too! I'll keep you updated if the mom ever has the fourth child and if the fourth child is twins or a girl, or girl twins, or girl and boy twins, or atleast boy twins!
Long story short/TL;DR: All my children are single (babies who come without twins, aka normal babies) and are all boys, it's like a curse. XD
So, I just recently got The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection, and, things has gone crazy! I have created a family, and, I have to say, i am CURSED with single (I'll explain later what I mean by "single") baby boys.
So, I started everything from scratch, except the house, I just picked a house from Desiderata Valley, I made two sims, the mom has the family aspiration, and the dad has the fortune aspiration, so, i selected the mom, and i picked her lifetime aspiration benefit thingie up to the top (Aka at the point where there is "Super Fertility"), but did Super Fertility have any effects, you ask? None. Back to the story, i made my sims have 3 children, and maybe i'll make them have more.
(Note: Their first name and last name are revealed at the link where theres the photos)
Now, this is the first child, if you haven't guessed it, he's a boy and a "single" child. (single child=a child who wasn't born with a twin)
Here's a picture of him:
imgur.com/a/bmdcu (Yes, I do know how to post images, just that PhotoBucket is too slow for me!
)Now, the second child, annnd if you haven't really guessed yet, yeah, he's a single child and he's a boy, yup, the curse is continuing, His peronality would be, "bubbly"
, here's a picture:imgur.com/a/sjR1l
AAAAND the third child, who's the newest, and yep, you guessed it, he's a single child and he's a boy, yup, in the photo, he's the one standing in his mom's arms, and his brothers are cheering him because he was born just some minutes ago:
imgur.com/a/yrKds
So, that's my WTH!?! moments in Sims 2, feel free to post yours too! I'll keep you updated if the mom ever has the fourth child and if the fourth child is twins or a girl, or girl twins, or girl and boy twins, or atleast boy twins!
Even if I die, I'll still feel alive knowing that there are people that loved me. -Ryan Yamada
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Good luck in your quest for a girl and twins!
Pahaha! I'm glad I'm not the only one with this "curse"! I have heard about the cheesecake thingie, and yes, i have the OFB pack, because i have TS2 Ultimate Collection, but, I don't really know where to get cheesecake from! I tried to make the mom try to "Make dessert" (she has her cooking skill up to 4-5) but cheesecake won't appear! Do you have any idea where I can get cheesecake from?
Thanks! Haha!
I really want to ask you both something, my sims both have 8 to 7 days left until they become elders, is that an OK span to make them Try For Baby? I'm really scared that the mom might age with her baby and she might become an elder, probably a pregnant one!
Your sim should be able to make cheesecake at cooking skill level 7 I think. I can't quite remember if it's on restaurant menus.
I feel your pain, I have a sim with five children, the first 4 were boys! I was so happy to get a girl!
You are correct in that the cheesecake is under "Make dessert", however, you need a cooking skill level of 7 to unlock the cheesecake recipe.
It is definitely ok to have your Sims still try for baby
The second day of my legacy challenge, lightning struck the lot whilst my sim was at work and burnt the toilet, the fridge, the cooker and her bed. Everything.
Now I always add a smoke alarm right away!
I guess I don't understand why a single child is a "curse." I've NEVER had twins. I don't even think it's possible for my sims to have twins.
It would be a curse if you're wanting to test your skills and see if you can do two kids at once from birth to adult/YA.
It's possible with just the base game to have twins. You'd have to have 100 pregnancies before you could even begin to say that you're game is bugged to not give twin births. Or only gave one gender.
Twins and gender are completely random. The previous pregnancy does not affect it.
So it's possible to get 3 boys and 3 single births in a row. Happens to me all of the time. And I have Triplets & Quads which increases my chances of twins and adds chances of triplets and quadruplets.
Had one Sim have 5 kids. All single births. First 2 were boys. The remaining 3 were girls. 3 single girls in a row.
Another Sim had 4 kids. All single births. First 3 were boys. Fourth was a girl.
With a small sample size, it's not hard to have runs of something. A run of single births, a run of boys, a run of girls, or even a run of twins (a run of twins would be rare).
My WTH moment is with some relatives of the above Sims. Also to do with births and pregnancies and number of babies. I play with the following mods: Triplets & Quads, Autonomous Casual Romance (ACR), a mod to increase the number of Sims on a lot. ACR lets the Sims choose when to try for a baby. The father's name is Alphonse Micari. The mother's name is Gretchen Micari. They got married and Gretchen gets pregnant with Alphonse's kid thanks to ACR. 3 days pass and Triplets and Quads gives me quads. Less than 12 Sim HOURS later, they decide to TRY FOR A BABY thanks to ACR. Gretchen gets pregnant again and thankfully they just have a single kid. Their next TWO KIDS were also singles. They had 5 boys and 2 girls, 1 of the quads is a girl, and the first single birth is a girl. Their neighborhood operates on a rule of if they manage to get away for ACR induced woohoo/try for baby, it can't be interrupted except for emergency situations (like they've got something in the oven and no one else can deal with it). They also operate on a I must choose random when they give birth except in cases where I've crashed or forgotten to randomize genetics.
Well, but according to your last paragraph, it sounds like you need mods with the base game in order to have more than a single birth, so what I said holds true then, because I don't play with mods, and throughout the years, I've NEVER had any sim give birth to twins. Only to one child at a time.
That is true, I must say.
I am a.. Pretty old simmer, not so old, but kinda, I have to say that I joined TS community in around.. 2011? 2012? or very early 2013, but I'd go around early 2012, I guess.
I had previous households, and I really have to say, in those households, i was CURSED with girls only, I had around 4-5 girls in one of my household, and some of them were twins, and i had just 1 single boy.
The ability of having twins in TS2 base game? I don't know, but I had TS2 Double Deluxe back then, and now i have TS2 Ultimate Collection.
I don't really blame the "Super Fertile" thingie for not working, since i think it increases just 10%-15% of the chance of having twins, many people say that cheesecake and/or spaghetti increases the chances of having twins.
About spaghetti? No, my Sims eat spaghetti daily, even if the mother is pregnant, it increases nothing.
About cheesecake? I don't know man, I haven't even tested it out, who knows, maybe it will FINALLY work?
Also, another WTH!?! Moment: The most smartest child in my (current) family, who is an overachiever, has like 7-8 Lazy personality points, which means he's lazy, but he's an overachiever, WTH..?
Oh and also OP, if you save just before she gives birth, or at least close to it. You can exited out without saving if you don't get what you want, and then reload the household to try again. (you will have to replay from where ever the save was, so it is best to save often throughout the day of birth), as the gender and number of babies is not decided until right before the birth.
I think everyone has WTH birthing stories. My last family had 5 children. First 2 were both girls, both with dads hair and moms eyes. The next birth was a set of twins, girl (with dads hair and moms eyes, I was getting worried at this point
I think the biggest WTH I have ever had in Sims 2 (mind you I didn't really go to the forum or read anything, I just played my game, so my knowledge was nil! ) was when my sim was just out minding his own business..doing a little gardening, and then was crushed by a giant satellite. I really had this look
Edit: had to replace my "f's" with "h's" as I got plumed out....
As soon as a sim goes into labor, I pause & save. That way I can reload if I want a different gender/hair color/eye color/skintone (for various reasons).
As said, twins are possible without mods in the base game but are really rare. One of the EPs changed my luck at getting them and now I get them way too often. My sims are banned from eating cheesecake and the twin perk is also banned. I stopped using Trips&Quads years ago.
No, I need mods for Triplets and Quads. Which is why the mod is called Triplets and Quads and not Twins, Triplets, and Quads.
I've had twins prior to installing that mod. And I'd be more than happy to launch a base game only game and have a woman just constantly get pregnant by random Sims and instantly be sent to give birth to get twins.
I recall having a set of twins after University was released but before Nightlife was released. And at that time I used absolutely no custom content. So no mods, no custom anything. I didn't even have a Downloads folder yet most likely. I don't recall ever using Body Shop until after I started using CC. And I vaguely recall having to make a Downloads folder to put the Nightlife pre-order car into so that it would show up in game. I had kept a record of the Sims in that neighborhood at one point, but I lost it between getting new computers. The computer that save was on had hard drive failure and I didn't have an external back up so I can't even load it back up to look to see if I see any other twins.
EA had the chances of twins too low without mods to start off with. So they added in a cheat to force twins: forcetwins. They also added in cheesecake with Open for Business. Which is technically glitched. Currently in game it makes twins be a 100% chance. It was only supposed to increase the chances to more favorable and not to 100%. No one complained enough about that and it didn't get fixed.
They may have increased the chances of twins at some point as well with one of the EP's.
Well, that gives me some hope I guess. Cause I bought the game when it originally was released, and bought University at the time of its initial release as well. But I've NEVER had twins. I didn't even know you could. The closest I've ever been able to get to twins (or more) was to turn aging off the SECOND the kid was born, and get the mother pregnant again so that the babies would always age at the same time (or within a few hours of each other). But two born together? Nope, it's never happened in any of my games.
@SleepycatDSL: There is no cheesecake in my game. At least, it's never been offered as a dessert when I select a sim to "cook" dessert.
Cheesecake came with Open for Business.
I wish I could give you more stats on that neighborhood, that neighborhood had a decent number of births.
One way you could get twins without having to have aging off for 3 days is to use the boolprop testingcheatsenabled set of interactions. It's perfectly safe to use them. Just remember to turn testingcheatsenabled off when done if you don't feel comfortable leaving it on. The pop ups that come up do have options that can harm the game if you choose them.
Here's a link with the instructions and pictures to go with it: http://www.snootysims.com/thesims2index.php?id=pregnancy
Keep in mind that you can make a Sim pregnant via themselves. This will give the opposite gender version of the Sim you have get pregnant. This is exactly how Brandi Broke ships: pregnant with herself.
Just keep in mind that you may end up with triplets if the game decides to be "helpful" and give you twins on the second pregnancy.
Interesting. Thank you!
Let me guess they also had the same looks and were siblings of each other? And it was always the first born they would look like?
That's a bug in the game's random number generator for choosing genetics.
When the game generates anything random, it starts with a single number and uses that to start, then does a calculation to find a new number. That new number then is used for the next random thing and then put through the same calculation to generate a new number.
That would be all fine and good if the game remembered the final new number when you saved the game and closed it down. However, each time you shut down and start the game back up, it goes back to the same single number that it did when you first launched the game.
So if John and Jane have a kid in play session 1 and then have another kid in play session 2 unless someone else had given birth already or you played around with the random Sim generator in CAS, Kid 1 and Kid 2 would have the same genetics and personality. The only difference is gender potentially.
The fix is either using the FFS Lot Debugger by Pescado to fix the random number generator or going into CAS and hitting the random button there a random number of times (hitting it the same number of times will just cause the clone to be of the second born and not the first born.
It's referred to as the first born glitch if you want to read up on it more.
Ah, I've had that happen a few times as well. I think there's a genetic component when deciding personality. I've had a number of relatives, mostly parent to child have 2 active and 10 playful. And I hate the lazy Sum walk animation. Had one kid who had the same personality as his mother. I wasn't thrilled, especially since he was the one I liked the most of him and his siblings.
I've also heard good things about the triplets and quads hack, should you chose to go that route, but I haven't used it myself, as for me that's TOO MANY multiple births.
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