The closest I've come to giving a Sim ancestors is making a single sim and then creating parents for them so that their future children have grandparents. Creating historical ancestors for a Sim sounds like a neat idea, but personally there's too much unavoidable "modern" aspects of TS4 that I can never get immersed enough in any kind of historical gameplay.
I have an ancestral game save, if that's what you mean. As far as my main save is concerned, I only have the parents and kids. I do make parents for their eventual spouses, though.
I'm actually playing with "Greek gods"!
They're just glorified spellcasters with the immortality trait + bonus traits depending on which god/goddess I've created.
I have MCCC which lets me have siblings/relatives marry each other (they're gods! They technically don't have genetics, HONEST) and so far I have Ouranos + Gaea as the ancestors, most of the Titans (still have work to do), Helios and Selene, the Olympians, their children (eg: Persephone, Despoina, Rhodos, Eros, Harmonia, Enyo, Hebe, Triton, etc.), and a few Neriades/Oreads/other Nymphs.
The Family Tree is definitely a mess.
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In 2, yes for custom neighborhoods. I don't go back to the middle ages, but maybe 2-3 gens back. In 3 and 4 I don't bother unless I'm doing a legacy challenge that goes through different eras, and at that point it's less creating ancestors and more just playing through a family tree.
I get super paranoid about the kids being taken away so I usually avoid having any of them at all. If I do they’re usually raised by a sim outside the active household. I don’t need overly sensitive notifications implying that I’m a horrible monster for not knowing what I’m doing.
Lol
I mean, you’d have to be pretty bad to be getting notifications all the time. Kids are basically short adults and look after themselves in this game.
welp good then @Missmagoo2 that means you really do have some proper Greek mythology drama going on there!
Unfortunately (but also expected), the game/mod glitches and some of the sims lose their place in the family and I have to manually add them back in.
I have to keep a wiki page up, just in case I forget who's related to whom!
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How much do you customize the family tree ? Do you create ancestors ?
If I progress long enough into a family I let the first generations become the Ancestors. I made it to five before my game screwed me up with a sim marrying his cousin's half-sister and the constant fires happening because of a known glitch. I restarted that save and instead of one child, my founders have two: a son and a daughter, so there will be cousins in the next generation.
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Not usually, but I’ve started making a 5-generation extended family. When I’ve finished everyone and built a house for the main ones I’m going to play, I might post a screenshot.
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They're just glorified spellcasters with the immortality trait + bonus traits depending on which god/goddess I've created.
I have MCCC which lets me have siblings/relatives marry each other (they're gods! They technically don't have genetics, HONEST) and so far I have Ouranos + Gaea as the ancestors, most of the Titans (still have work to do), Helios and Selene, the Olympians, their children (eg: Persephone, Despoina, Rhodos, Eros, Harmonia, Enyo, Hebe, Triton, etc.), and a few Neriades/Oreads/other Nymphs.
The Family Tree is definitely a mess.
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welp good then @Missmagoo2 that means you really do have some proper Greek mythology drama going on there!
Lol
I mean, you’d have to be pretty bad to be getting notifications all the time. Kids are basically short adults and look after themselves in this game.
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Unfortunately (but also expected), the game/mod glitches and some of the sims lose their place in the family and I have to manually add them back in.
I have to keep a wiki page up, just in case I forget who's related to whom!
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If I progress long enough into a family I let the first generations become the Ancestors. I made it to five before my game screwed me up with a sim marrying his cousin's half-sister and the constant fires happening because of a known glitch. I restarted that save and instead of one child, my founders have two: a son and a daughter, so there will be cousins in the next generation.
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I have also created a grandmother and
granddaughter, by making the girls parents snd them deleting them. That’s about it.
But nothing like you are talking about.