Offspring personality points
Kibble:
I have had offspring in the game with as many as 32 personality points, a stark contrast from the 25 alotted for CAS sims. Based on anecdotal evidence (i.e. I haven't tested enough to be sure), this seems to be based on the mood of the mother during pregnancy. A mother who spends her entire pregnancy in a platinum mood seems to have higher-point-total sproglings.
So, for example, a family sim mama gets knocked up. Pregnancy is spent largely in a green mood, because the family is new and poor and focused on scraping together a living. Child is born with 26 points, mother is ecstatic. Gets knocked up again ASAP, same papa.
Second pregnancy is spent in a platinum mood, energizer used freely to keep the mom happy, free time is available to do things she *wants* to do, meaning that platinum mood stays platinum throughout pregnancy. Remembering to roll the pacifier before the baby is born -- the kid comes out with 31 personality points. I have noticed similar trends in other families, but this was the most clear.
Soooo.... am I on crack here? Anyone else notice this? Could it simply be a side effect of the energizer? Could it be an effect of sparkly Seasons EP food? I do tend to use both of them often during pregnancies.
Li'l Brudder:
Wunderkind.
Kibble:
Quote from: Li'l Brudder on 2008 August 31, 21:31:49
Wunderkind.
Hmmm.... is that a comment, or an answer? I could read that to mean "The idea of a superior child amuses me", or I could read it to mean "The game was just weird at that particular moment, do not expect to see this again".
If it was the latter... I've seen high-point-total children many many times, but it definitely doesn't always happen, and rarely happens with a first child (for me).
maxon:
The higher points is common in born in game sims - nearly all mine have more than 25. I don't think it is anything to do with the mother's mood since we know that the personalities of children are always the same (first born effect) which is why we do the random rolling on the LotDebugger before a birth so the kids don't end up with the same personalities.
Quinctia:
A decent proportion of my sims are 30+. I don't necessarily see more points as "more better," but I've got a pretty big neat and outgoing streak running through the one family. (I have a fondness for the occasional mean or shy sim--so I'd stop breeding my sims if I thought that would keep me from getting one of those again.) Looking through my oldest hood, it seems like they top out at 35.
If you wanted to test your theory, the easiest thing would probably be to look at the quantity of points natural (tokened at conception) twins get, and see if they're identical. Over the course of multiple sets.
My twins haven't always had identical numbers of points, just so you know.
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