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Pegasys:
Unfortunately, :-\ and this is the biggest drawback, it does not pull in any data, so you need to enter in all the data manually. I have to confess it is a bit time consuming (extra for me, because every time I've added a record I have found a new thing to tweak). If you have a lot of Sims it will take awhile. Now that I've entered in my data I can see I am managing about 40 Sims, and 15 households plus a couple of dorms. I know many people have a lot more Sims than that. It's time for some of these Sims to transition... ;)
However, once most of the data is in there, it is a breeze to update. :D If your Sims aren't having twins every other hour, no problem.
I do wonder whether a tool like SimPE has a function whereby some of the data could be exported out, but I have to confess I tend to use very few hacks/mods and have not yet installed this software. If it turns out there's enough interest in it I will pursue it further.
jenflower:
Oh - that is so great! Awesome!
I have been wanting something like this for a while. I designed some charts in Microsoft Word and printed them out to keep track of my Sims, but all those papers get a little disorganized on my desk. I was toying with the idea of trying a Visual Basic version...but I tend to lose steam mid-project, so I doubt I would have gotten very far. ;D
The layout you have looks very user-friendly...let me know if you need any help testing it out. :)
Kyna:
I have so much paper on my desk - family notes, thoughts on where I'm going with each sim, future spouse possibilities & whether they've met yet, where they'll live when they do marry, family trees printed in a genealogy program, etc.
A database I could access by alt-tabbing would make my desk so much neater! This is a great idea, hope it's released soon!
witch:
Yes, I'll be in too. Though I downloaded a geneaology program - Legacy - the other night and that's quite handy. I'm running 20-30 sims at the moment so it wasn't a big issue to enter data. What is not suitable in a free gen. program, is that I can't create custom fields to track my genetic data and the birth and death dates are irrelevant, amongst other things.
I'd be much more keen to try a custom made database for the sims. :) Pick me too!
gynarchy:
This looks so much more useful than the notepad file I've been trying to use! I'm only playing one family and even then I have a hard time keeping track of them. Just out of curiousity, how would one go about using the date of birth/marriage fields? Would you just note the day in-game the event occurred or use the RL date? Very cool indeed. ;D
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