Can you guess?
Playing multiple households for basically the first time.
Had two Sims from seperate households get accidentally pregnant {cheers risky woohoo}.
Pregnant Sim has seemingly given birth while I was rotated away from her household.
I was really looking forward to playing this out properly.
I have save points where I could return to prior to rotating away and allow her to have the baby, but I have played strictly Sunday morning to Sunday 2am. Going back would also mean forfeiting the promotion and skill gains of three or four Sim days.
What to do?
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I would just move on since I don't really enjoy playing out pregnancies much, but if the pregnancy gameplay is worth more to you than the skill gains/promotions, going back could be worth it.
If you have something important coming up, such as a birth, promotion, or whatever, play that household until those things happen, then move on to the next household. Keep note of how long you played that household, and deduct those same number of days the next time you play, and give it to the next household that lost that time. So if you needed an extra 3 days for the Smith family, that would mean the Jones family would lose those 3 days. Then when you come back around take those three days away from the Smith family, and then give the Jones family back the days they lost on the last round. I hope this made sense.
But, if I wanted to play with multiple pregnant households, I think I'd join them to a "pregnant club", having them hang out together. Then I could at least see them all being pregnant, although that would probably not enough to keep you happy Although pregnancies go like a winfd in not played houses, you can keep their baby as long as you like. At least that's a good thing.
Not only were pregnancies tripping me out because of them going through the whole process in one single season, I also enjoy taking my time in the game and so three days really wasn’t cutting it.
So I put my seasons on the longest setting and I made the pregnancies long enough to last for about three seasons. It’s been really nice.
I don’t have a strict schedule for when I rotate, but I’ll sometimes spend Sim-weeks playing a single household before I get bored and move onto a different one of my own choosing. Having longer seasons and longer pregnancies to go with them has been really nice, because I don’t have to worry about switching back to that household at such a short notice. I can play other households and other Sims for long periods of time and still get to enjoy pregnancies.
I also flag sims for No Offspring once they have had enough kids.
But I generally don't have a rotational system. I just jump around between households as I feel like playing them, so if I do get a pregnant Sim, I'll usually just play them through the birth before I switch. I have more fun playing on my own whims.
In my 'regular' save, I also find myself having to go to the other family members' households to least age up the Sims that haven't done so, on their own. It's not enough to let all age, when you're playing on Long. Some toddlers need to be Child Sims when the last uncle married starts having his own Sims. So, I find myself bobbing back and forth. Yeah, it's pretty close to insane, but hey, it keeps me happy.
As for missing out on the birthing of a Sim, I agree with the others. If that is far more important, more integral to your 'story', go back to a save that would allow you to enjoy that moment. Raises/promotions will still come along.
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I have left a household while a Sim is pregnant and had the birthing happen while in another household if I don't care about which gender gets born and I can ALWAYS change the game generated names if I don't care for them. For instance Beedha's daughter (I had no idea they were pregnant when I got CL) got a name change when I folded their household into my rotation. But I kept Kory Caliente's name because I found it suit him.
I also do this when it's close to a sim's birthday, mainly if they are babies, toddlers, and kids. So I can see them age up, get pics, and give them new clothing, and update their bedrooms.
I don't really care about the names of unknown townies oh, but I like to name my own played Simms so I hit Council when the birth notice pops up so that I can choose them myself.
> I here babies get neglected if you’re not playing them, and get taken away when you get back.
Not sure where you heard that, but this has never happened to me before. I think maybe if your sim in another household had a baby and your current played sim goes to visit them, the baby could get taken away because their needs only decay when you're on the same lot with them and babies just born are ALWAYS hungry. If you don't feed the baby within a sim hour they get the "___ is hungry. Be sure to feed them before they get taken away." So if my sim is visiting a house with a baby(newborn or otherwise), I always make sure to knock on the door and then feed them immediately before interacting with any of the other sims on the lot.
I have the MCCC story progression on and the Bjergsen household had a baby girl named Lilah and while I might have auto age off for played sims (the Bjergsens are technically played since I moved Sofie from their household), Lilah has not gotten taken away. I have invited the entire Bjergsen family over to my sim's house at once, taken my sim to their house, invited them to sim-hours long parties, etc and Lilah has been fine. I just make sure my sim feeds her when I get to their house. I will say that at first I had to do bb.enablefreebuild and move the bassinet downstairs (I always keep the baby in the living room just for easy access) but yeah, Lilah has always been fine and when I look at unplayed households in that save I can recognize other babies/toddlers and they're doing just fine.