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Family Tree has to come back ASAP.
Cailism
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Hey guys, love the game, but one of the things I really enjoyed the most about Sims 3 was the family tree. I liked to get it as big and complicated as possible, and that was like my main source of fun. When it was gone I was like, okay I guess, I'll find something else to have fun with. This hasn't been a huge issue, I still enjoy the game, HOWEVER,
It seems that, without a legitimate family tree, your sims like to swap relationships with each other. It's not set in stone enough. With a family tree, it's more rigid, you guys never had a problem with relationships swapping and being funky in sims 3. When my sims' mother died, they put her as their sister. In fact, this has happened to everyone I know. Mothers randomly become sisters. That's FREAKY. The children also list their mother's siblings as brother and sister. There's no such thing as aunt and uncle?
It REALLY ruins the feel for me. I cannot stress that enough.
And I know this topic has probably been made before but IT IS SO IMPORTANT.
It seems that, without a legitimate family tree, your sims like to swap relationships with each other. It's not set in stone enough. With a family tree, it's more rigid, you guys never had a problem with relationships swapping and being funky in sims 3. When my sims' mother died, they put her as their sister. In fact, this has happened to everyone I know. Mothers randomly become sisters. That's FREAKY. The children also list their mother's siblings as brother and sister. There's no such thing as aunt and uncle?
It REALLY ruins the feel for me. I cannot stress that enough.
And I know this topic has probably been made before but IT IS SO IMPORTANT.
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Im a simmer forever
Family trees were like my main reason to play, plus, I loved the random roulette of genes---a child could have his grandmother's eyes, or his great grandfather's hair. Now its always just between two gene pools
Well, we do still have the gravestones and we can write epitaphs on them. But yeah, it is really no substitute for a good family tree.
The Silverdust Legacy
My Sim Creations and Recreations Showcase
i just hope they fix the tree for sims we already lost
I soooooooooooooooooo hope so.
That would be fantastic if they did! I haven't been procreating with most of the sims that I've made yet because of this (and because I'm not finished making them yet). But it would be so much easier to check who is related to whom, especially since there is no name change at marriage now.
The Silverdust Legacy
My Sim Creations and Recreations Showcase
The official word is that they're thinking about it and would like to see it come back. Nothing is guaranteed.
On that note, I too hope it comes back. I used to aimlessly browse them when nothing big was going on.
Some of my creations in the gallery use CC so remember to enable them in the gallery's options to see them all.
The bug with swapped relationships has nothing to do with the Family Tree graph, wich was just that, a graph. The two are not related in any way other than in people's mind.
(The Swapped Relationship bug should be fixed as of yesterday's patch, AFAIK).
For the moment I am using ancestry to keep track of my sims. They have a nice ipad app so I can take pictures and update the tree as I am playing. Here's an example of how my Goth family looks (the children still dont't have pictures because I wait until they are older to take it):
Wow.
Well unless you did some creative building you can't kill sims by drowning in Sims 3, can you?