Do you influence the biological s*x of your sim children? «123...Next Go

Emusimmer32

Didn't know if they'd censor the full word hence the *

Basically if you didn't know (I'm sure most of you do tho) you can listen to pop / alternative music or eat carrots / strawberries to influence the biological s*x of your children in the sims 4. You could also do this through modding too and you can influence the sex in the sims 3 with watermelons and apples I believe. I don't know if it's available or not on the sims 2 though.

Anyway was interested to see if people do this. I used to all the time years ago and I'd give families atleast one boy and one girl. Now I just don't care and normally have it surprise me. I also find it more interesting to not have such a "perfect" (i guess thats the word) family. Anyway what do you guys do?

RySBI

Never

Not so far, though if I had a specific storyline in mind involving a sim’s children, I’d probably just cheat to edit them in CAS when they became toddlers.

I do kind of like the randomness of it though!

Emusimmer32

Never

I agree I feel like if i have a story in mind i would but the randomness is just funner for me personally

haneul

Never

I've played all the sims games and never done it. I like it better when it's up to chance.

Nikkih

Sometimes

I would say sometimes if my sims have had too many boys, I just want atleast one girl for the next gen and vice versa if theres too many girls, so I get my pregnant sim too eat lots of strawberries and listen to pop when/if that happens, for a boy is eating lots carots and listen to alternate music

texxx78

Never

I like the impredictability, just as life...

Kerrigan

Sometimes

Nikkih wrote: »

I would say sometimes if my sims have had too many boys, I just want atleast one girl for the next gen and vice versa if theres too many girls, so I get my pregnant sim too eat lots of strawberries and listen to pop when/if that happens, for a boy is eating lots carots and listen to alternate music

That's where I am with it. I might just prefer the born sim be a girl or a boy based on current story or like you're saying, there are plenty of one or the other so let's balance things out. I love that we have that ability without having to fulleditmode them.

I try to stay out of the cas for "born" sims except for hair style and clothing so once they're born I let them run their course.

Becka28

Barely

Only if required by a challenge. Never when I play my own way.

Nikkih

Sometimes

Kerrigan wrote: »

Nikkih wrote: »

I would say sometimes if my sims have had too many boys, I just want atleast one girl for the next gen and vice versa if theres too many girls, so I get my pregnant sim too eat lots of strawberries and listen to pop when/if that happens, for a boy is eating lots carots and listen to alternate music

That's where I am with it. I might just prefer the born sim be a girl or a boy based on current story or like you're saying, there are plenty of one or the other so let's balance things out. I love that we have that ability without having to fulleditmode them.

I try to stay out of the cas for "born" sims except for hair style and clothing so once they're born I let them run their course.

Sometimes the game goes through a phase of just giving your families girls and sometimes just boys, I do like to have a mixture of both in my game, born in game children I dont touch how they look like, I dont like my sims to look all the same, my first sim when I first start a new save I would say always looks the same, because I'm female & blonde and light skinned that's what my first sim looks like, then when I play the game and my sim has children their features change etc and I always keep it @Kerrigan

NorthDakotaGamer

Barely

If I need a certain gender for an heir in a challenge, I have sometimes. But I usually leave it to chance otherwise.

Vicky_chingyu1023

Never

Nah. I just let the game determined my kids' genders and orientations.

TomasGrizzly

Barely

As I have 1+1 quite often, there's rarely a need. If I had 2-3 of the same gender, I might help the next one being the other gender.

izecson

Never

No, but Im tired of always getting baby boys.

musteni

Barely

I think I once made my sim eat some strawberries hoping for a girl. Not completely sure. Could have picked never as well, lol.

CAPTAIN_NXR7

Sometimes

I try not to get the lady sims pregnant too often, but I do remember going for the carrots/ alternative music option once because my story required a male heir. It was also a way of testing the gender control.
I usually let things happen naturally though...as long as the babe is healthy, right?

I’d do it all again if my story requires it though. 😇

permanentrose

Sometimes

It depends on the storyline I’m playing, but I definitely like the element of surprise with some families. I have MCCC so I can check to see how many babies and their genders before my sim gives birth but sometimes I keep myself from checking just for the extra surprise. One of my favorite sims is pregnant with twins right now and it’s a boy and a girl. I didn’t choose twins or the genders, so that was a fun little story development.

However, for my main family, the one in my signature, I really wanted them to have girls. I had the perfect names picked out and everything, so I did make sure both of them were girls.

EnkiSchmidt

Always

Almost always. Although I hardly put my sims through pregnancy and instead give them toddlers in CAS. In legacies and challenges that require pregnancies I use the ingame influence methods.

Deciding my sims' offspring is no different in my opinion from deciding their careers or lot traits. It's still a surprise for them.

Sharonia

Never

I never do this. I love randomness in my sims games.

Pamtastic72

Barely

I have done it I think twice...for a certain storyline, but mostly I like to leave it to chance.

LiELF

Never

I actually go out of my way not to influence the gender. I try to make sure my Sims don't listen to Alternative or Pop stations or eat carrots or strawberries. If they do it on their own, so be it, but I like to be surprised and see where the game takes it.

simesmerized

Sometimes

Sometimes if I have a specific story in mind. I’m trying to let them be what they want to be. I’ve got to learn to stop trying to be so controlling because I’m finding it’s more amusing when things turn out randomly.

permanentrose

Sometimes

Sort of a side note but related -

My sister has two kids, a boy and a girl, and based on ovulation facts and some scientific beliefs about the differing speeds in which x and y swimmers swim lol, she is very convinced she influenced the gender of her babies due to conception circumstances. Both her kids are the gender she thought they would be based on this (she in insanely in tune with her ovulation cycle though, more than anyone I know) so who knows, maybe the gender influencing tricks in the sims aren’t so unrealistic based on real life

**Also if this is not an appropriate comment I will delete it, just thought it was an interesting tidbit

FatTribble23

Barely

Only if they've had 2 kids and both are girls. I play legacies and whether I end up playing the boy as heir or not, I want at least one boy to carry on the name. I'll influence his children as well for a boy.

Kimmer

Never

I've done it once, a long time ago, but I don't do it anymore.

Daravi

Barely

On my own played sims just a handful times in all these years, I let me surprise and deal with it. On other sims (npc) in the game, in one or two occasions I have changed the gender completely for the story progress. But I'm still afraid to let my sims eat cheesecake (Sims2) or the Berry equivalent in Sims 4 during the pregnancy.

cchant86

Never

I like randomness in my game and love the surprise.