I have already written this in the "Feedback" forum , but I want to write it here again in order to know how your experiences are.
I have a problem with the babies. Or better said, their parents.
It's bad enough for me that there are no toddlers, but I cannot change it anyway. :(
But what is also very sad for me ..... My Sims don´t react to their babies. Even if they are in the same room, and the baby is before them and is crying. If they do something at all times (which is more than rare), then they do it wrong. Instead of changing the diaper, or to feed, they talk to them or hug them. Then they put it back in crib and walk away. And the baby is still crying . I cannot understand this, they are their BABIES, they have to love them and take care for them. Not only when I command it. Voluntary. In Sims 3 it worked. They have immediately responded to the crying, and automatically interacts with their baby. Cuddle, playing, give bottle, change diapers .. they did it several times at a day ( also if the babies dont cry ) and without my orders. And they did always exactly the correct thing. Why not in Sims 4 ? Why ? I love it to play familys and I really love it to watch my sims when they have their free will turned on. But it makes me sad that they barely interact by themselves with their babies. Very sad :'(
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And sim children can't do anything for a crying baby really, and when you have a houseful of sims, you'll have 5 sims fighting to shush the baby, while you're trying to get to it to take care of it. Then you have to go on each sim and cancel the action and tell them to do something else just so you can properly care for the little tyke.
Why can't children give a baby a bottle? I can *kind of* see the diaper thing, but they can't even give a crying baby a bottle?
And why is it a houseful of sims will shush the baby, but not change the diaper? They all know the diaper needs changed cause they are all waving their hands across their nose saying the baby stinks.
Ugh, don't get me started on the lack of care sims have for babies.
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Fixes all of that
Ah, I'd forgotten about that mod, nice one. I used it way back earlier in the year, I think when I last had a baby to deal with
I better get that installed in case of any unexpected surprises.
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@Logisitcs that mod says it was last updated for the May 4th patch... do you know if the creator intends to update it anymore?
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The baby objects seem to provide all the negatives of a real baby and none of the positives.
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Maybe their needs also played some part to it? Low needs for a higher chance to shush a baby than to deal with it and vice versa?
Recently in a new save of mine, my sims weren't cold to their babies, but there were only 2 YA sims in the house and one would be at work when the other was at home. I could try to test it later, maybe, unless others have more findings. It could also be something that broke with the recent patches.
Some of my babies cry for no reason, and some are just quiet. I actually like the babies like this since irl babies do different things. I do think it's annoying when the whole household goes to the crying baby, though.
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I was six when my baby sister was born, my older brother, eleven. My parents would sometimes leave him in charge to go out, briefly. Guess who was told to change the babies' diaper? That's right, my brother refused to do it, even though he was the 'babysitter'. So, at the tender age of six, I learned really quick. This was back in the days of cloth diapers, and diaper PINS, too!
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I believe it. That's why I said *kinda*. When my middle child was born, my oldest (6 years old at the time), would give his newborn baby brother a bottle, change his diaper, and put on fresh clothes because he thought momma needed more sleep in the mornings. Always stressed me out, but he was determined to let me sleep. He did amazing, too.
Before that when there were more visiting sims to my sim's house before EA tweaks it the visiting sims acted like if they were nannies. So it made my sims take care of their own needs. Sometimes two or three visitors would want to take care of the baby and they keep waiting until the other one finishes with it first!
I really miss the visiting sims. Is there a mod or something allow more visiting sims like before?
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It still works. I'm using it and my sims react to when the baby is crying appropriately, either feeding it, changing the diaper or interacting with it.
I love video games because of the things that I could never do in real life... For instance, in the sims you can get a job and a house.
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Yes it's still working, but sometimes there can be hidden problems. I'm back to modding for a bit, so I did check it a few days ago and it doesn't require an update.
Edit: I'm not saying they're always doing the exact right thing the baby needs, but I like that they're showing effort. TBH it bothers me more that everytime there's unpleasant surroundings the first thing they do is take out the trash even if that's usually never the problem... That affects the game all the time whereas the baby only for a short time.
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My observation are that some sims are natural born caretakers. It's not always a parent more often it was an older sibling. In the Blackbird clan the Gen. 1 mother of seven, her firstborn (male) and the firstborn of Gen. 2 (female) were always fussing over the babies, while the rest of the sims ignored them.
Perhaps once a sim has by chance performed an action on the crib, the game is more likely to force crib interactions on that sim in the future? Like in Sims 2 and 3, when repeatedly performed actions generated wants for those activities?