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My Sims Have No Boys
Simtown15
Posts: 3,952 Member
in The Sims 2
I'm playing a patriarchy as part of the rules of the Test of Time challenge and the first generation has no boys. The parents have five daughters and I keep having them try over and over to have a boy, but no matter what, they only have girls. If they don't produce a boy, I'll fail the challenge. The household is getting more and more chaotic because there are so many young children to take care of, and there are always multiple kids in diapers. Idk what to do!
My Sims Have No Boys 36 votes
Continue reloading with the next pregnancy until a boy is born
27%
10 votes
Accept the five girls and bend the rules of the challenge
8%
3 votes
Surrender and restart the challenge
0%
Keep having kids until a boy is born
47%
17 votes
Have the girls get taken by a social worker and continue trying for a boy with less kids to take care of
8%
3 votes
Other (please specify)
8%
1
Comments
Boy preference means that the firstborn boy gets to claim the vast majority of what the family has, even if he has a ton of older sisters. If he is the lone boy, he gets everything. This also means that if no boy, then the sisters have to share all you have. The first of them who mothers a boy will become the main line of succession.
As I said it's a weird thing that happens. Just try it. It's no different than quit without save in order to hope the game generates one or the other.
2 move parents out, during school hours if necessary to avoid crying/tantrums
3 move parents into new home
4 try again, following TS2 version of carrots. I forget what that is offhand This provides ample sim room cushion
Another way to get space, if you have Simpe, is to tinker with ages of the older kids so you can ship them off to college.
I- this takes place in prehistoric times... there was no college.
Anyways, y'all can stop answering because I abandoned this save.
No way in Sims 2 to influence gender.
In prehistoric times, there was likely no concept of "last name". And no real heirachy unless you were the alpha male of the clan. But the other males and the female(s) not chosen by the alpha male would likely mate and have kids with each other.
So I wouldn't really consider prehistoric times to really follow patriarchal rules.
So I'd say just roll with it if you get all females until you start getting into the times where it would make sense for their to be a more definite inheritance.
If you haven't already gotten out of prehistoric times, that is.
This would work in The Sims 4. However, if you look in the gray bar above the first post, you'll see that the discussion is about The Sims 2. I don't know what you meant by boarding school, because that isn't in The Sims 4 or 2.
Don't worry. Everyone makes mistakes. We'll forgive you.
> This would work in The Sims 4. However, if you look in the gray bar above the first post, you'll see that the discussion is about The Sims 2. I don't know what you meant by boarding school, because that isn't in The Sims 4 or 2.
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> Don't worry. Everyone makes mistakes. We'll forgive you.
Ah, silly me! I swore I was on The Sims 4, thank you!
> This would work in The Sims 4. However, if you look in the gray bar above the first post, you'll see that the discussion is about The Sims 2. I don't know what you meant by boarding school, because that isn't in The Sims 4 or 2.
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> Don't worry. Everyone makes mistakes. We'll forgive you.
Forgot to mention about boarding schools. By that I meant rounding all the kids up and dropping them in a different household, my most common antic.
Ah. Thank you for explaining that.
--T