Nothing weirder than a Maxis Nanny
veilchen:
I habitually move in townies for child-care purposes. I use Inge's teleporter shrub, and I have never noticed any problems with interactions with the toddler. But then again, I wasn't exactly looking for problems either. Plus, the townies I move in all have prior good relationships with the parents, and I immediately set then to work on building relationships with the toddler.
Babies I have taken care off by one of the parents. I use the mom's leave, and dad's vacation time until they become toddlers. No nanny for me - ever. They are so seriously messed up, it just tends to feed my paranoia.
Edit: I also don't let them have kids until at least one of them is at the top of their career(s), and they have a sizeable nest-egg. So if worse comes to worse, I just have one of them quit the job.
cwieberdink:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 August 26, 11:31:53
Sims are neither good or bad parents. They are as good or bad as you make them. :) One sim is as good as another. They may have varying personality points, but other than that, they are whatever we want them to be. Especially with the right hacks. ;)
I get your point, Rainbow, about the hacks and of course, we direct the sim families to do what we say, but I do disagree. Some sims just are better parents than others. My ISBI founder couple the dad is an excellent parent. He autonomously will play, tickle, change feed and love on his babies. His wife prefers to sit on the sofa and watch tv while her stinky, hungry screaming babies pull on her knees for attention. Sure, I can tell her to change a diaper or feed a baby, but man, she never even responded to the baby advertising unless I told her to. The dad would come running though. She was a fambly sim, he's knowledge.
C
themaltesebippy:
Yeah I agree with the poster above. I have had very good sim parents and a few stinkers. Doesn't matter what asp they are or how many nice points. The Goths were the worst and wound up talking the dirt nap while their two adult sons and their wives raise their youngest daughter.
RainbowTigress:
I have never seen a sim autonomously change a baby's diaper, unless the toddler asks them to. When I first got the game, I would sit and let the stinky baby/toddler cry, just to see if they would change the diaper (I had the changing table), while the parents went and got bottles for the baby and put it to bed, got it out, fed it another bottle, snuggled and played with it, and even give it a bath and put the dirty diaper back on, apparently, because it still needed changing (!) I couldn't understand this. That's one reason I got the baby controller, because I don't have to micromanage every step of baby care while other family members all fight over who gets to feed the baby a bottle. I figured that changing a diaper must not be autonomous for some reason, because I always had to instruct them to do it. Before Uni, I could take control of a visiting sim and have them change a baby's diaper and put them in the crib, but Uni broke that.
Interestingly, Ask for diaper change is not available as a menu option like Ask for food and Ask for attention are, except in debug mode. But I micromanage everything my sims do. My sims can't take a pee without my blessing, LOL.
cwieberdink:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 August 26, 12:32:13
I have never seen a sim autonomously change a baby's diaper, unless the toddler asks them to.
Rainbow, my ISBI family (mentioned above) does not have a baby controller. The dad did autonomously change the diaper, but he did it in the middle of the bedroom and left the dirty diaper on the floor. Now that's a whole 'nother complaint. LOL. How nasty! But he did change the kid.
C
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