Awesome Story Driver Beta-Testing reports
Falin:
I simply cannot coax any of my non-played sim families to breed. Nothing I do makes any babies happen.
I even created a new married couple, both with the "Family-oriented" trait, and both with the "Surrounded by Family LTWs. I put them in a house together with spare bedrooms and a crib and a kid bed in it, and so far they have gone though all of Young Adult and about 20 days of Adult without having a baby.
I haven't had a single baby born in my neighborhood. What can I do to make this happen, short of jumping into all my families and forcing Try for Babies everywhere?
moondance:
If the story mod spits out a notification to the player that a sim is pregnant, and the player does not go and add a crib to the sim's home, the mother could just have a spontaneous miscarriage. Like internal dingos. That would work, AND it would offend various people (BONUS!). More realistic, too, because IRL, people generally buy cribs after they become pregnant, not before.
Seriously though, I'd prefer to just have the ability to globally set a maximum number of children per household, and maybe be able to set some special cases individually. My reason is that if my neighborhood starts to get overpopulated, I don't want the "solution" to be that I have to run around from house to house deleting cribs...and then add them all back again when the neighborhood isn't populated enough. It seems that the result is the same either way--adding or removing cribs is simply a clunkier way of raising or lowering the maximum number of children per household setting.
How about some sort of evil compromise:
We can configure the maximum number of kids per household.
If we select and make active a household that has babies/toddlers and no cribs we have 2 sim hours to add cribs.
If cribs are not added in the allotted time, the social worker comes--or the dingos, whatever--and takes not only the babies but also any other children the household has--because it's an unfit home.
The parents are sent to jail on child neglect/abuse charges.
The repo man shows up and confiscates most of the family's net worth--to pay fines and lawyers.
The sims are forever after randomly boo'ed and hissed at by random sims on the street, and occasionally attacked. They find it VERY difficult to make friends. They are also unable to get a job in medicine, law enforcement, or politics. Their job performance climbs VERY slowly in ALL careers--as a consequence of their bad reputation.
All this can apply to houses that have children and not enough BEDS, as well, because that's just as bad, really.
This way, those of us who play the entire town have a real incentive to make sure that there actually are cribs and beds, while people who play legacy style with just one household aren't bothered with buying cribs for sims who are--for them---NPCs.
Motoki:
Quote from: Falin on 2009 August 10, 00:46:38
I simply cannot coax any of my non-played sim families to breed. Nothing I do makes any babies happen.
I even created a new married couple, both with the "Family-oriented" trait, and both with the "Surrounded by Family LTWs. I put them in a house together with spare bedrooms and a crib and a kid bed in it, and so far they have gone though all of Young Adult and about 20 days of Adult without having a baby.
I haven't had a single baby born in my neighborhood. What can I do to make this happen, short of jumping into all my families and forcing Try for Babies everywhere?
Nothing. You wait. That feature hasn't been implemented yet. In the meantime you either manually make them do it or you can run Indie for a while then you will plenty of babies, trust me. :P
rhodaloo:
I noticed that I was continually getting notices that two families are continually trying to find a house to move into and fail. Since I can't find a house with their name on it, am I to assume that they are homeless? I finally configured awesomemode so that I don't get notices as I was tired of the popup. Now when a sim reads the newspaper, I see 5-6 notices each that Family "X" and Family "Y" has moved. Is this a bug or a feature?
spatdrastik:
rhodaloo are you using indie? because it spams multiple copies of every family in your library into your town, they start out homeless but many will end up in houses. Within a generation or two there will be dozens of them.
**No babies born in my hood either, but plenty of cribs...My child sims at this point only know each other and there are only 3 teens in the entire neighborhood(from a few days with indie) that I can find that don't belong to my main family. Not much in the romance/marrige dept either, the single sims are still single and the few who have married are old and childless.
At least I don't have swarms at the school lol
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