Captain Swoopties 50/50 Gender mod
Madame Mim:
A number of people have asked for something to remove the apples and watermelon affect from the game. When they ask they have usually been refered to page 13 of the Awesome Mod Requests thread where Captain Swooptie posted his mod to make the baby gender chances 50/50. With his kind permission I've given the mod a home where it can be direct linked to http://www.genensims2.com/guest/MadameMim/MimiPudding/CaptainSwooptie_5050gender.zip
It doesn't have a page but now that it has its own thread here and a simple link maybe it'll be easier to find for people.
Zouflain:
Watching with extreme caution what my sim eats during pregnancy can be a little annoying, but I always get boys if it's random and I prefer to have a much higher female population than male for some reason. Though the hack is great for those who want it, I like the advent of gender selection, as it allows me to continue at least the active family however I like. Lol, though I hope I don't go so far as I did in TS2, where single females outnumbered single males about 10:1, and it took something like ten reloads to get a female baby. How does the RNG work without apple/watermelon influence in TS3? Does the hack actually do anything more than remove the gender selection influence those foods have?
BrokenRobot:
I've had six girls in a row since installing this hack. Is it a coincidence?
Captain Swooptie:
Honestly, I have no idea if this mod works at all. People were asking for Awesomemod to remove the genderfood effect, but it appeared to be controlled by a basic XML value tweak, so I put it forth as a "Try this and see if it works" kind of thing. I haven't actually had time to play the game much at all, and cranking out babies has never been my style anyway. It's much quicker to just make an XML tweak and offer it up as a science experiment.
From what I've seen, base gender offset is listed as .5, and the two types of fruit add to that offset (by .15 IIRC) to a maximum of a further .5, bringing that gender's offset to 1. So presumably, you eat 4 apple-based meals and you're guaranteed a boy. All I did was change the .15 to a zero, the idea being that the fruits would then have no effect. That's the theory, at least, and that's as far as I'm able to go with it at the moment.
Keep in mind that there can be only one pregnancy mod. If you're using one that makes pregnancy longer or whatever, then it'll conflict, and if the load-order is as per usual, any mod whose name begins with a letter will take this mod's place.
Zazazu:
Quote from: BrokenRobot on 2009 June 27, 16:23:16
I've had six girls in a row since installing this hack. Is it a coincidence?
I've had five in a row, without the hack and while avoiding watermelons and apples. The odds are low, but it's definitely possible. I had longer single-sex streaks in TS2.
FYI, Jonha at MTS did the same thing, and I had a mod of my own I'd done a couple days ago. Small XML changes are dead easy, so we'll probably see a lot of this. Should make some good fights, like with the original no-censor hacks.
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