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Do you look to see how a kid will look when they are older?
MKSizzle
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I know some do and some people, like me, like to wait and be surprised. Since I am playing a legacy, I always want the best looking to be the heir and ha e to always wait until they age up to YA to decide. I'm not sure why I do that to myself when I could just easily go into CAS and see early on so I could plan accordingly. I am my own worst enemy. Lol
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nhKoS031gDo you look to see how a kid will look when they are older? 90 votes
Take a peek
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Wait for the reveal
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Having said that, sometimes an intervention becomes necessary. Lucky for me, NRaas enables rerolls and "play with genetics" sessions, or else I might be stuck with this YA:
For the record, he doesn't have bad genetics overall, just some unfortunate proportions. For reference, here he is gender-switched:
But the lesson here is it's important to find out early. That way, you can do whatever you deem necessary.
I like to see how they look as adults and if they don’t suit my freakishly high standards they get plastic surgery as toddlers via CAS
You should be ashamed.
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You know what? As usual, @igazor wrote up a better description than I would be able to produce:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16331665/#Comment_16331665
"Reroll genetic seed value" is used on a pregnant mother. It rerolls the entire outcome of the pregnancy, from how many babies and their genders to looks, to traits if you don't get to pick them yourself.
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Except that I'm not ashamed in the least. I use Play With Genetics and its sneak peeks on sims when they are toddlers and children (not usually babies although that works too) somewhat out of curiosity but usually so that I can run the re-rolls in case some horrible combination of mismatched features were to be in the works. Or, as said in that other thread, too many single-parent clones. I play so ridiculously slowly that often enough I can't even remember what I've seen on PwG by the time the sims become teens, merely that I took some action so that whatever the kids turn out to look like I would deem them to be acceptable plus or minus some wardrobe and hairstyle fixes when the time comes. This applies to both actives and inactives whom I would never play.
Sometimes I use PwG on some random sim already in-game using two sims as genetic donors who don't even have or will never have any kids together, they may not even know each other, just because suddenly I'm curious as to what their kids would look like if they did ever reproduce together. It's all just for fun and in instances like this of course I wouldn't save the results.
As for the legacy households, again actively controlled or inactives (somewhat controlled, let's say guided), my rule is first born unless there is a really good reason for them to pass on the honor, perhaps I see them living in a different world when they have grown up (Traveler mod), be disqualified for trait-related reasons, or it's pretty clear that they aren't going to have kids themselves. When one of the kids in line was adopted, I really have to pause and think about it for a long time especially if part of the point is to carry the genetics forward from the family's founders. But sometimes the adoptees can win me over and the genetic carriers end up living elsewhere and continuing the genetic line on their own within the same game. In a household with 12 kids for example, there were five disqualifications for all different reasons and number 6 was the winner.
Looks don't even enter into that particular equation. All of my sims are special (to me), whether they would impress judges at a beauty contest or not is irrelevant.
Disclaimer: Also irrelevant, but we didn't/don't exchange gifts on Christmas anyway as it's not our holiday so the slithering snake stuff needs some slight adjustments.
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Like I've had the same baby/toddler in my game for literally 2 years (and a bit)... I wouldn't have made it 2 years without a peek. Though it has been 2 years since I took a peek so... it's pretty much a surprise now anyway, my memory's not that good. Just kidding, he's the spitting image of his mom and his grandpa, I won't forget how he looks.
I also like to make adjustments based on that. Not like anything major, just like adjusting jaw widths and stuff like that if they take after the opposite gendered parent since that often doesn't transfer well, so I try to adjust it to more realistic proportions. But I prefer to do that early on instead of just changing my sims appearance later on when it's noticeable that I've done so.
It all started with Zack & Blair....
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I also do it when I know the parents genetics could go bad together, like too low nose with a too high mouth or when they have the profile depth slider or the under chin depth slider too high (or low I don't remember) and the kids turn out with their tongues permanently out, like this:
Old pic, but the tongue is there... I always fix that, though I believe it happens mostly in Bridgeport kids and it goes away when they grow up... but it looks so weird I can't!
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