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Replacing children?
JasonPogo
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So I have fallen into the habit of checking what my sims kids will look like as adults once they become toddlers. As many of you know the often get an unfortunate mix of traits from their parents.
So now I will just use cas to randomize a good looking kid and replace the toddler with the new one.
Dose anyone else do this? I kinda feel bad about it but at the same time like not having a bunch of scary looking sims around....
So now I will just use cas to randomize a good looking kid and replace the toddler with the new one.
Dose anyone else do this? I kinda feel bad about it but at the same time like not having a bunch of scary looking sims around....
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I have another couple that I plan to have a daughter. It will be interesting to see how their genetics mix and come into play. They're both very beautiful, so their children should be beautiful too, but I'm not sure how true that is in The Sims world. I wouldn't replace her if she wasn't, but I might give the birth a few tries before saving until I'm happy with her. I wouldn't want to edit her face as I want her to look like her parents, but I might then change her body shape, hair and eye colour if needed (these would all still match one parent though). I later plan for her to have a son and want him to strongly resemble his grandfather, as this is a important part of the story. Therefore I might clone the grandfather if needed/the genetics aren't right and make the clone the father - I know that's pretty messed up, but if I do this I will delete the clone once the baby is born and make his father in CAS - perhaps using play with genetics first, then editing as needed. Something else I sometimes do, if I'm happy to skip the baby stage, is use play with genetics and give my couples children/toddlers in CAS. I hope in the future we will be able to create babies in this way too.
Do you often use unnatural hair colors for your adults or cc hairs? This might be why you have many redheads. I find in my game that Non Maxis Match cc's or sims who have blue, green, or pink maxis default hairs often have redhead children for some reason. Not sure why... Its actually how I determine if a kid was supposed to have a specific sim's genetic markers. A red head gets born to a sim with green hair and a spouse with some other, non red hair, I figure was supposed to be green but since child and below sims can't have green pink or blue hair, it defaults to red.
To prevent that I hardly ever go through natural pregnancy. Most of my sims' offspring gets created via Play with genetics (as teens, so that I get a good impression of what they will look like, then aged down while still in CAS). I have a preference for sims who are a near-average mix of their parents, not fond of them looking too much like one of them only.
So, yes, I get where you are coming from!
Definitely. If weird looking enough. In this game apparently Lucy's genes (despite having a pointy cute chin) her genes decided that 90% of he children would have zero chin. Zero.
What I have done is check what the kiddo will look like in CAS, and tweak some features if needed. Can't find any pics, but had to do a serious overhaul on a friend of one of my Sims. Poor girl had no chin, but monstrous lips. Looked like a fish before I worked my magic.
But recently I've been really strict with myself in not changing the genetics of sims at all. I used to micromanage how my sims looked and it kinda made them end up all looking the same, which makes the game less fun for me. The heir for my decades legacy ended up with a kinda awkward mix of her parents genetics which I didn't like at first, but I've come to love her and I think she's so uniquely adorable!!
Here's some pics:
Paolo Rocca's genes are pretty strong in that brow bone, and that tiny nose kinda makes her look like she just walked off set of the live action grinch o.o but I love her nonetheless *swoon*
I turn on CAS.fulleditmode and edit them however I want, from scratch.
But at least they conserve all their skills/relationship/jobs etc.
I also do exactly that. I also feel kind of bad, but I prefer it to using plastic surgery on babies. I want to see a couple's actual offspring and, when you try enough, some of them look interesting and like actual people, with characteristics from both parents meshed harmoniously, rather than random mismatched features in vague sim shape.
It's a shame these rare gems don't show up more often in the game genetic lottery.
This is me all the way.
-My 100 Baby Challenge: No changing at all until they're YA and ready to age up and leave their home. The matriarch then gives them a full makeover via new clothes and a haircut to try and make them look as good as can be before venturing out into the world of adulthood. As a mum with a multitude of children to take care of at all times, she simply doesn't have time to worry about the kids hairdos, weird makeup experiments or clothing choices.
-Lovelace Legacy: No changing genetics at all, hair and clothes may be customised at any time. Since I'm more connected to the sims personally in this playthrough, I value seeing the genetics be carried through the generations etc. (Minus the current grandma who threw 150,000 simoleans away in return for some plastic surgery in an attempt to find a younger man since her late husband's passing)
-My remodelling save: I have a save where I briefly edit any sim or building that my sim visits that is dire need of help, whether through questionable fashion choices or sims that are begging for plastic surgery or just silly floorplans and interior/exterior design.
I might (read: will) trim eyebrows (and maybe even make them bushier) or maybe get rid of unibrows (and now that I think about it, does the game HAVE unibrows?) and definatly change hairstyles to ones that better suits their faces and/or makes them more attractive/cute and even change haircolor but that is it.
I guess it's different if you do an "Official" legacy. I never play anything like that, I just want good looking happy Sims.