The Birth Control Mirror
Buzzler:
Quote from: tjstreak on 2009 September 22, 21:30:45
I have played around with this for a while now. It does seem to lead to an ever increasing population.
Your population size started at 90 and then increased to 200? How long did this take? How did the amount of fertile adults develop?
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This may be due in part to the SLAM lifespan package, which I installed (centi - Real Life).
I'm not absolutely sure about it, but this shouldn't be the case. All calculations are based on the actual values.
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This might actually be a more simple formula for maintaining a population. A sim dies -- another sim gets pollinated.
This would work, yes, but to me this awfully smells like cheating. Nevertheless, if you really want, I can implement something like that. You'd have to test it, though, 'cause I really lost interest in TS3 in the meantime; I didn't play more than an hour after releasing V5. That's why it took me so long to answer and why there's no other mod from me. ;)
Finiksa:
Would it be possible to have the options to specify a sim to be pollinated by a random male, and to be able to specify a sim that will pollinate a random female?
Sometimes I have a sim that is either near the end of their fertility or life and want them to have one more kid beforehand, but would prefer not to choose the partner all the time.
Buzzler:
Quote from: Finiksa on 2009 September 29, 13:47:55
Would it be possible to have the options to specify a sim to be pollinated by a random male, and to be able to specify a sim that will pollinate a random female?
Well, technically that would be possible, but I don't really see how that would be useful. If you specifically pick the mommy, it can't be that much of a hassle to pick the daddy too. To pick the daddy first might be useful - although it might be sexist and seems kinda weird to me - but since I'd have to boot up my cerebrum to do that, I want a petition of at least three people who claim they would find that useful. ;)
LVRugger:
I, for one, would find that useful. This is my current way to have a male impregnate a female:
- Use Twallan's computer to pick a female (no partner, no kids, right age group), selected at semi-random
- Pick the male I want
- Inseminate using that computer
Using your mirror to pick a random female for my chosen male would make the process a little easier and more random for me.
Buzzler:
Wanted to release that a lot earlier (the stuff about the petition was actually a joke), but I was low on time, low on mood, and high on migraine for the last week.
Updated to Version 6. See first post for changes.
'Sustain-on-Death' is the sustaining method outlined by tjstreak. I added a counter for births and deaths, so SoD only auto-pollinates Sims if there are more deaths than births. The configuration of Sustain-o-Mat applies to Sustain-on-Death too. Like announced this one is pretty much untested, because I simply don't feel like playing the game for a couple of hours to see if it really does what it's meant to do. And it's still too cheaty for my taste. ;)
Be aware that 'Second Victim - Random' really means random. Unlike in 'Sustain-o-Mat' there's no bias towards closer releationships!
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