Some Pet questions - mostly about genetics and memories
cwykes:
I'm making something for download and want to be sure I don't bork the thing. So what have I got wrong here?
1. Pets don't get any memories involving a count. No "5 pet friends", no "5 sim friends" and no "had x puppies"
2. Only the mother dog remembers having puppies - dad just gets "x added to pack".
3. Pets don't get memories for "had grandpuppy" just "x added to pack"
4. Breeding small and large dogs isn't borked, you just get a clone of the mother - no problem if that's intended.
5. 25,000k is a hard earning target for a pet. (50k would take forever and be boring)
6. The outcome of pet fights is totally random or sado-random. Aggressive pets aren't more likely to win. Pescado's fight hack is just for sims and doesn't affect pet fights.
7. Registering a breed doesn't change anything about the pet you made. It just lets you make more of them.
8. Pets don't remember their puppies being sold, given away or given up for adoption.
9. Pets don't have that 2 paw icon for pets outside the household however good the relationship
and a couple of questions
1. Can you fix pet genetics so the fur colour is inherited? How? I've looked at genetics in SimPE, I can see the bit where eyes etc are marked to be inherited.... can I put fur in there in some way?
2. How do you get a pet to run away rather than be taken by the Pet SS? Bad relationship with the sim & low needs sounds good, but didn't work for me. Starvation brings the PetSS hotfoot. Do you have to fence them in to force the social bar low? Does it depend on the pet character?
I reserve the right to add other unawesome questions when I remember what they were. ;D I just found the old thread with those bizarre alien pet pics in it. Mine's green, but not in their league!
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,10714.0.html
Zazazu:
Ok, I can only answer a couple of your questions.
Quote from: cwykes on 2008 March 21, 08:39:26
7. Registering a breed doesn't change anything about the pet you made. It just lets you make more of them.
Correct, and correct. It also makes it so that strays can be spawned from the same breed, which I found out to my chagrin when I registered a rather odd pet and got a clone stray later.
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1. Can you fix pet genetics so the fur colour is inherited? How? I've looked at genetics in SimPE, I can see the bit where eyes etc are marked to be inherited.... can I put fur in there in some way?
I thought the fur color already was inherited. Puppies/kittens are a bit odd, but when they reach adulthood they always have the fur color of one of the parents for me.
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2. How do you get a pet to run away rather than be taken by the Pet SS? Bad relationship with the sim & low needs sounds good, but didn't work for me. Starvation brings the PetSS hotfoot. Do you have to fence them in to force the social bar low? Does it depend on the pet character?
I have had a pet run away due to a fight with a stray. Basically, you can have the pet make enemies with another pet and repeatedly lose fights and they will run away, regardless of how strong their relationship is with how many family members. Also, I had another pet run away after her dad died, even though she had near 100/100 relationships with all family members excepting the dog.
cwykes:
Thanks for those answers.
The puppies grew up with daddy's fur, so it's not borked. But I'm hoping there's a way to fix the genetics so they all get mum's green fur. SimPE says my dog has "nose,mouth,eyes,ears," as dominant facial features. Can I put fur in there somehow? It's my breed and I'd like to decide for myself what is passed on as dominant! Now wouldn't it be clever if the "register breed" option let you do that!
Extra question
Is there a hacked bath out there for pets only? If I put a bath in the kennels for the dogs, I don't want sims stripping off and using it if their hygiene is low. Yes I suck at google..... and I'm new to Pets.
maxon:
Quote from: cwykes on 2008 March 22, 08:46:51
Is there a hacked bath out there for pets only? If I put a bath in the kennels for the dogs, I don't want sims stripping off and using it if their hygiene is low. Yes I suck at google..... and I'm new to Pets.
Yes, there is .... I suppose you want me to tell you where it is. mmmmm ... I'll have to find it. IIRC there is one at ATS - I think there are at least 2-3 baths for this purpose.
Edit:
http://www.aroundthesims2.com/objects/single_pets/001/index.html
Edit 2 - you're right Kyna, she does.
Kyna:
I think Inge may also have one, over at Simlogical.
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