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Dead Toddler?
CemeteryDrive
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Okay, so I have a wicked little game I like to play with sims sometimes. When my active sim is male, I find humour in getting him a girlfriend (or fiancée) then getting him the lifetime reward of fertility treatment. After that, I continuously impregnate her every chance I get. When I visit her household, she (and whatever roommates she might have) are overrun with screaming babies and toddlers who they have no control over and they haven't compensated for with any suitable furniture. They never buy cribs or anything, so the whole household is often going insane from lack of sleep due to the children.
Anyway, I started using this method with my family-oriented sim, Jordan. His lifetime aspiration is to raise five children to teenagers (though I wouldn't mind if he had more). I kept them living in their mother's house and terrorising her; deciding that I'd get them to move in with me once they were all at least children (so they had they some independence and didn't need to be cared for 24/7).
They've only had four kids so far (two sets of twins; one pair of toddlers and one pair of babies). I checked the family tree today and one of the toddlers was greyed out - dead! I thought that maybe she'd been taken by social services because the madness of the household had resulted in her neglect, but I realised that all of the children would have been taken in that case, and I doubted that they'd grey her out like that if she was taken, anyway.
Is this just story progression playing its evil game of killing off randoms? If so, is there any way I can ressurect her?
(Sorry for the long post. I'm not obsessive, I just like explaining things from the start.)
Anyway, I started using this method with my family-oriented sim, Jordan. His lifetime aspiration is to raise five children to teenagers (though I wouldn't mind if he had more). I kept them living in their mother's house and terrorising her; deciding that I'd get them to move in with me once they were all at least children (so they had they some independence and didn't need to be cared for 24/7).
They've only had four kids so far (two sets of twins; one pair of toddlers and one pair of babies). I checked the family tree today and one of the toddlers was greyed out - dead! I thought that maybe she'd been taken by social services because the madness of the household had resulted in her neglect, but I realised that all of the children would have been taken in that case, and I doubted that they'd grey her out like that if she was taken, anyway.
Is this just story progression playing its evil game of killing off randoms? If so, is there any way I can ressurect her?
(Sorry for the long post. I'm not obsessive, I just like explaining things from the start.)
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So now I am assuming that the madness of the household resulted in the neglect of the children; particularly one of the girl toddlers who died before social services arrived. When social services did arrive, they took the remaining three children (who are frozen at their current ages until the point when/if they're adopted - which consequently leaves one of the boy twins as a toddler and one as a baby).
The rest of the household will have to show up in the neighbourhood sometime, and then I'll visit and check whether the children are still there or not. The fiancée is pregnant again, so I'll have to be able to see her house sometime.
I don't think you can complete the Surrounded By Family lifetime wish by moving Children into the household. The description of that lifetime wish says to raise them from Baby to Teenager.
They don't die they just get taken away by the social worker,you'll probably see them in the streets as townies whenthey are YA Hope I helped!
After twin girls were born, and the oldest girl was a toddler, I wanted to send the same parents overseas again. This time I had them hire a babysitter, thinking the roommates must in some way be incompetent. The toddler daughter was missing from the household when the parents returned!
I've never recovered the missing children, nor read in the newspaper what might have become of them. No clues could be found, they were simply "Gone Without a Trace".
Needless to say, I've kept all of my parents home. Sadly, this means WA isn't really being used --- although I've really enjoyed it. I just don't like exchanging an adventure for children. :-(
(I did lose two others in my Legacy household due to a glitch, wherein the father sat down to teach the toddler to talk and both were stuck! Mom couldn't take the toddler and Dad couldn't get up from the floor. Mom tended to baby brother, but after a few days it was clear the toddler was starving so guess who shows up at the door! Funny thing was, once the children were gone, Dad was no longer stuck to the floor boards. I never found the Toddler, but the baby boy showed up in town as a teen many Sim days later. He made friends with a younger brother!)
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They just moved to one of the lots of the outskirts of town (I guess they needed a lot more room with all the children). About two days after the little tyke died, it said in the newspaper that she had indeed starved to death. Cruel, cruel story progression.
Oh, and just in response to SketchElder, you can fulfill the Surrounded By Family lifetime wish this way. Regardless of the wording, it's pretty much just asking you to have five children who live to be teenagers. I've fulfilled this wish for fathers who never even met the children they conceived. I've also adopted five sims (who were in the stage of childhood; only one stage away from being teenagers) and the wish had registered as being accomplished come their birthdays.