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Why is it called Try for Baby?
Anitalifegurl
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Why is the option to have a baby a called "try for baby"? I never understand cause so far, every pregnancy in the game had been successful. Never once did "try for baby" fail. I don't know if there's a way to fail it or for the pregnancy to fail while the mom sim is bearing. I think maybe it should be renamed "woohoo for baby" since every "try" is a success.
Please don't be mean to me cause this post. I play the game vanilla style, and only still on my first family so far. But I gotten 5 kids successfully from "try for baby" building the family. So I guess the option's name amuses me. Please be kind.
Please don't be mean to me cause this post. I play the game vanilla style, and only still on my first family so far. But I gotten 5 kids successfully from "try for baby" building the family. So I guess the option's name amuses me. Please be kind.
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Oh, I didn't know that. I thought there wasn't any chance since it's been so successful. But to be fair, both parents in the current family were young adults at the time of the pregnancies. So that's possibly why I had more success cause they weren't adults yet. Thank you for informing me about that. Have a wonderful day/night!
If the mother is an adult, it sometimes takes me 5 tries to get her pregnant, also she gets a sad moodlet from it. I only had it once for a young adult whatsoever.
Thanks, you have a wonderful time too
I don't know, maybe my couple was just lucky for 5 successful pregnancies while being young adults. Then again, I was kind of addicted to making a BIG family XD so they have 5 kids. I had to stop myself after their 5th kid and try to raise the family lol. So I never had them try as adults cause I decided to stop before they became adults. And the whole Expecting-Mama-Sim-can't-age-while-pregnant thing possibly delayed the mom from aging closer to her husband's XD
That's interesting that would be included. I mean that kind of thing DOES happen in life, so why can't it happen in Sims too. But from the success rate that young adults seem to have I didn't think it would be possible to fail it.
So can pregnancy kill an elder?
You're welcome
Aw I'm so sorry to hear that. Maybe it'll improve as time goes on? And it'll become less of the norm. Thanks for commenting.
I don't play with mods so sometimes I randomly click that button. I've created a few less expected children in that way. I don't do it when I'm not playing the potential mother because so far, I follow the various kids in my game through the rotation. I guess that's a bit like the 100 baby challenge but less structured. I just have a bunch of households so I've probably done that challenge without trying.
I'm sorry about the pregnancy fails you had in the game. I guess I've been lucky with succeeding every time so far. Now I'm curious when I'll get a pregnancy fail. But I'm sure it's random when it happens. Same, I don't play with mods and I had made a big family cause idk it was fun at the time? XD
I don't know what the 100 baby challenge is. But you are brave to watch over many households than only one. Lol. For me, one household is stressful enough cause it can be hard to keep my sims on track to improve specific skills for the futures I have planned for them.
I have most of my children during young adulthood, but sometimes I make a baby or two when my sims are about to age up to elders xD
Thanks for the reply. I think it's just that I played quite a few games with just one random family before so now, I play a bunch in one save. I used to abandon saves when I'd start up a new one. For some reason, I didn't really go back to check on where I'd left off. Keeping households in one save means that I go back because I run into those sims again around the world.
Err, other players know more about it but I think the 100 baby challenge is a challenge to have 100 babies in one save. Some players might turn aging off and have a rule that one sim has to be the parent of 100 babies. I haven't actually played it intentionally because I'm just a rotational player but since I have a bunch of households, I've probably had that many over a few generations.
I play a lot of different types of households so my play style switches, I think.
Most of the time they do succeed in getting pregnant when they want to but I think it's right that they aren't always successful. If I need them to be pregnant for story reasons I just have the couple "Try for Baby" as often as possible until the woman gets pregnant. I use MCCC so I can check the pregnancy status quickly if I really want to.
I’ve had it fail a couple of times, admittedly though it’s rare. The last time it failed for me was Morgan Fyres. I had her try with a sim she married 4 times, all four failed so I incorporated into the story by taking her into CAS, ticking unable to get pregnant and had them adopt a baby.
Oof then I was risky and had both the parents as new elders woohoo! They both survived XD
I didn't know it was probably from a real life term. That's interesting.
That's horrible I'm so sorry
Lol. I have a woohoo loving sim and he's working his way through the town XD But I'm not so sure he'll hook up with many females cause he's more into guys. But that sounds so funny, just they call to say there's a kid now XD Not even in sims people can't afford child support I guess. I'm sorry that was a bad joke.
Aw it sounds like it didn't go as planned, but hey, adopting is wonderful too
Aw that's sweet, eventually it worked out
I really wish there could be accidental pregnancies. I think everything with pregnancy is just too predictable. Things I would like to see are:
That's all my pregnancy/baby rants for today!
These are all interesting ideas, but the ones in bold would cause them to lose their T for teen rating, and therefore a big segment of their customer base, and some of the others have to be handled with great sensitivity and care so it doesn’t come off like mocking or cartooning things that are traumatic for people. But I agree with the core of your thoughts in that some more randomness and negative consequences would be interesting. 🙂
I don't blame you! All these ideas would make it more interesting. I tried to get teens to be pregnant once before, but it can't happen. "Mess around" for all I can tell is probably just more hardcore making out than actually woohooing. So I guess I was a bit disappointed there. I wanted it for variety, a change to make some drama happen and the game would have been more interesting.
I can only guess it won't allow accidental pregnancies and teen pregnancies cause the game want to encourage that behavior in case of any much younger players that might be between the time of not knowing what woohooing is and what it is in real life.
I'd be on board to somehow get lucky to get Quadruplets! As needy as the babies can be they are so cute and a nice addition to the house
Yeah, it'd be more interesting if there was a lesser way to influence the gender of the baby by what the mom eats or listens to. I don't care which it is so I'm happy to get either girls or boys
Yeah, miscarriages and still births would be so emotionally wrenching on the sims that got that and it would be a huge surprise. Yet maybe they aren't in the game so the game isn't that real, so it can still be rated for all ages to play. But I agree, it would be very interesting if it were to be added.
I'm for Mental/physical genetic issues from birth of babies through out the sims' lives, cause it would make them more unique. And it would challenge the players on how to handle whatever issue it is. I think that would be a less disturbing addition to the game if it ever does get added. Cause for the most part it wouldn't be seen, more just watching how the sim acted differently than others, and learning how to help the sim out to life a good life
Oh, the premature or late births would be interesting too. It would change up the game play too.
I really like the idea of the baby and toddler stages kinda getting put together. Cause yeah the babies are so boring and you can't do much with them at first. It'd be nice if there be more chances to care for it as a baby and help it slowly go into toddlerhood. And I'd love it if the babies could eventually escape the cribs. Lol. My big brother did that as a baby, he was always finding a way out of his crib xD It'd be interesting to see sim babies be able to do something like that too. And I'm all for bonding with the babies more
Your rants were welcomed