My game exploded and now clones are taking up my genetic possiblities...
dnilecosplayer:
Well I kinda exploded my computer. So after installing everything (All eps to free time, no sps) and putting my extra old back up downloads folder in, (Which was missing lots of things to say the least.) I started playing one of my families not noticing until the 4th kid that all of them look like their dad (Which was cool, cause he was good looking but anoying)...exact clones... So i remembered like maybe a year or 2 ago there was a fix for this, but I don't remember where I got it, or the name of it. I was thinking it was from here since all awesome things come from here. Can anyone tell me what will fix the clone babies?
Also I'm a noob to actually posting here. So I may be in the wrong place....
maxon:
AFAIK there is no hack to prevent physical clones though why that should be happening in your game, I don't know. Unless, of course, they just look very like their dad rather than being identical. There is the first born effect (for which you use the Lot Debugger each play session) but that is not to do with physical clones - only personality-clones.
Grugly:
There's also the old-fashioned non-awesome way of just re-rolling the Create a Family babymaker a few times to clear it up (assuming it's just the stuck genetics effect and not something weirder.)
Kyna:
The reason sim siblings tend to be similar in looks is due to the way genetics works in the game.
- Some hair colours and eye colours are dominant. If you have a CAS couple, one with black or brown hair, and one with red or blonde hair, then their offspring will always inherit the same hair colour as their dark-haired parent.
- It's the same deal with eyes, some colours are dominant over other colours.
- Then there's the dominant facial regions. Most sims normally have some dominant facial regions (e.g. brow, nose, mouth, cheek, jaw, eye shape, ears). If one parent has a dominant nose, and the other parent doesn't, then the offspring will always inherit the dominant nose.
So, while the appearances of siblings are very rarely 100% identical, the offspring will tend to inherit at least some of the same physical characteristics from their parents.
Appearance is not subject to the "first born" effect, so is not affected by re-randomising the sim generator on the lot debugger. Personality is affected by the "first born" effect, and is why Pescado added the re-randomise option to the lot debugger.
For more information on the "first born" effect, and how it affects the personalities of the offspring, check out this thread in the War Room.
dnilecosplayer:
Well for the most part I understand the genetics aspect of it. (Which is the whole reason I play the game to test out different genetic possiblities between parents.) It just seems that looking at all of them, in side/front view they have the exact same nose(which is a bit wonky in some places specific to his face that the mother's face might fix...which I was hopping for), eye color(which i can deal with), same facial structure completely as their dad once they grow up(Even the girl they just had is showing the same signs, which makes her look like a japanese child tranny somewhat). His azn face couldn't be completely dominate over her fat maxis face could it? Since i do so much "breeding" in game, something like this is just weird... But thanks for the help. Hopefully their grandkids will look different when other genes are mixed in. Or I'll just nuke the family. I love asians, but I have too many for the neighborhood to handle at the moment.
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