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For myself, I will immediately change a Sims looks if it has been shown to cause interference with their lives, after all the Sims is a social game. Sims such as Arlo Bunch, while not attractive to my eyes, have no problems socializing and building relationships in my game so there is no need for me to alter him. However, teenage Sims like Celeste GilsCarbo (Barnacle Bay) life was severely limited in part due to her looks. She had no friends, no skills except for a single point in guitar, her mother abandoned her which created hard feelings towards her family. Her step-brother thought she made an excellent romantic 'practice' partner in private but would belittle her in public. On top of that, she was working at the day Spa to pay the bills all the while failing at school.
Celeste is the only Sim I have ever almost totally remodeled because of those conditions. Her life is now a complete 180 from where she started. My goal wasn't to make her a raving beauty, just give her a better chance of being socially acceptable so she could grow.
One of the reasons I reuse sims I made up to 10 years ago is because my style of making sims has changed over the years and adding them to my new games generates even greater diversity to the appearances of my sims.
I was a bit disappointed when it seems this skin doesn't appear to be passed on genetically. I have it in several different colours.
I was guilty of changing the shape of the face of one of my sims once when I made him and his wife with dramatically different head shapes. She had a long narrow face and he had a short wide face. I experimented with 'play with genetics' and they produced a monster. The top half of the child's head was wide with a totally horizontal line across the bottom of that part of the head and a very long narrow jaw under it. I didn't get a pic as the sight was too terrifying. It looked like the child had been attacked with a chainsaw or something with its head sliced in half just above the mouth. Then a wide top of another head placed on top of the narrow jaw below. I think if the division between the top and bottom halves of the face wasn't so completely flat I might have gone with it.
The 'Perfect Genetics Challenge' I'm doing and making a video series is a different idea entirely. The point of that is to make a sim with distinctive eye and hair colour. And she has to have babies until she produces a child with the exact same eye and hair colour. That baby grows up to be the next generation and has to have babies until one has the same eye and hair colour. This goes on for 10 generations and then the challenge is done. In the challenge I'm doing, my founder and all of her heirs have purplish pink eyes and hair. The founder has pale blue skin - her husband is pale olive green skin and his hair is greenish too. The first heir has inherited her mother's hair and eyes, but she has her father's green skin. Plus, the founder and each heir has to have the 'Dislikes Children' trait.
This is my founder
And this is the first heir. She's only a child so far in the challenge.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
I still have them in the household. I'm treating them like any other sim. No idea what I'm going to do with them eventually. I'm sort of thinking I'll probably keep some in the household and move others out. Probably let them live out their lives elsewhere in the world but include them in family gatherings. I'm used to working with huge households. The most I've had in any one save so far is around 50 sims, but that was short term just for a huge family wedding. My Big Game has over 700 sim in it and they live in multiple worlds but they keep track of their friends and family members.
But with the Perfect Genetics Challenge Sims - I just haven't decided definitely yet. I'll probably do something different with each of them as ideas come to me. The rules of the challenge are only regarding the hair and eye colour and the one trait each heir must have. Otherwise each player seems to be able to make up their own rules regarding all else.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
I play with the game's logic, it's what I am familiar with. Any talks or references to Sims and their genetic make-up, sliders or similarities within the family tree that are not personality related are pretty much lost on me. As I said, when I look at a Sim all I see is the possible potential in that Sim, the rest is just wrapping (to me) books/covers and all that jazz.
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As in real life, I love to see family features passed down. When I see my son or nieces and nephews, it is comforting to see traces of my siblings and deceased parents in them
My son, who is my mini-me looks-wise, is nothing like me in temperament or personality but there's no denying he's family
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Yeah I know he didn't really get much from dad but he got Tay's mouth, and I think it does illuminate something I see in "ugly" sims: I can't think of any (EA made) infamous ugly sim that has absolutely zero redeeming facial features. Tay has a wide mouth with thin lips but it's hardly something to nitpick over. Faces are mostly inherited by whole parts and sometimes you just have to gamble to isolate a part that's not so bad. Which is still a "prissy about genes" kind of way to word it.
My sim's wishes matter the most in gameplay so if they really want an ugly sim with an awful personality I'll let them at least try it out. They're not programmed to be shallow after all (anyways it's a crime that they didn't bring back turn ons/turn offs and still won't for TS4)
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I definitely haven't seen shallowness in this game as in truly superficial. I have, however, experienced them being very selective in whom they prefer to get to know even when traits and other factors suggest they should at least get along.
^Well played @Igazor
@mw1525 ^I'm with you on that.
I like to go for realism as much as possible in my sims game and stories.
I actually featured Tay Bayless in my very first SimLit ever, My Holland Family Story.
He was a good kid, that got teased for his large ears naturally (because kids can be really mean), but he ended up landing a good catch in the romance department.
Anyone who reads that story might consider this foreshadowing
Let me see if I can dig up some pics of him from my story.
He didn't appear in the story until he was a teenager so here's how he looked aged up to a teen. (EA chosen hair):
^He received some rather shocking news.
Here he is proposing to his girl (Molly) and yes they were both teens at the time.
Of course she said Yes!
^As you can see his ears are quite large and prevalent.
Later as he grew into a YA, I gotta admit his ears were too large and unrealistic to me as well (remember, I like to go for realism in my stories) so he got "plastic surgery" to reduce them.
Before:
After:
(Wish he hadn't blinked)
I didn't change any other facial features on him, except for maybe tweaking his nose slightly, but that was it!
Here's a better pic of how he looks currently in my game:
^Truthfully I think he looks rather sexy in this pic.
As you can see, he and Molly had a son. (Shawn). He did inherit the large ears as you can kinda see in that picture and this one:
And I don't remember if I reduced them at all when he aged up, but I'm thinking if I did it was very slight. He's really a cute kiddo.
So anyway, I can see how some simmers might not like his looks because they are quite unrealistic - in a painful way - but he does have some decent genetics to offer. His offspring are unique looking and honestly...I like to see more uniqueness among sims in my game instead of the random EA generated townies look (aka: Pudding) you know?
That's just my two cents.
@FairyGodMother Of course, you're always guilty.
@igazor Pairing Arlo and Tay?!?! You're brave!! Results were not as bad as expected.
@Karritz I have looked EVERYWHERE for the skin with the forehead jewels! I saw it in a machinima and it is so pretty. Can you possibly link to it?
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@igazor Oh, sorry. I thought the pics you posted in the spoiler were children of Tay and Arlo. I just went back and had another look where you clearly said it was one of your sims and Tay. I'm scatter brained.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
Aww, I find Mortimer cute and fun, but Bella looks like she has an awkward phase through childhood.
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@simmerLella Mortimer is hot. Bella needs a little tweaking. Her awkward phase lasted through adulthood.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg