Strange Family Ties
Witches:
Quote from: Trepie on 2005 October 03, 00:51:54
Speaking of strange family ties, I never quite understood what was up with the Singles/Curious family trees in Strange town. Lola and Chloe *should* be half sisters to the Curious brothers and Jill Smith, but there's no family ties between them what so ever.
Heck, I'm not even sure how Johnny and Jenny Smith are related to them. They're the kids of their father and half sister...so that makes them their siblings *and* Niece/Nephue... o_O
I've been playing Strangetown, and my computer shows the Curious brothers and Jill Smith as family when I play Lola. Which is why I started digging.
I've been trying to figure out the strange family tree, twisted as it is. It looks like Pollination Tech #9 is the father of his wife's twin sisters, Lola and Chloe. Lola married Ajay Loner and they had a daughter, and as far as I can figure Johnny and Jill (and their new brother, Roswell) are her aunt and uncle(s) as well as her cousins, because their father is her grandfather while their mother is her aunt. Which means Johnny and Jill are Chloe and Lola's nephew and niece as well as their half sibs.
If you look at the photos (fun, by the way) it looks like the birth order of the Curious family is Jenny, Lola and Chloe, Pascal, Vidcund, Laslo ... they all should be named Curious BTW but due to limitations with the original game they have their household names instead. Looks like Kitty Curious was none too happy to acquire alien twin daughters in such an unconventional manner. Maybe that's why they changed their name ;D
Also, it looks like Loki Beaker and Erin Singles are sibs, which means Erin should be Erin Beaker. So Kristen Singles is the only "true" Singles.
I plan to have General Buzz explore his feminine side. Still trying to get Laslo Curious abducted. Right now I have two depressingly normal looking Curious tots ... Johnny Smith is at college and his parents are trying for 10 kids. I'm sadistic enough to let them try ... good thing it's easy for family sims to run up the aspiration points. They'll need lots of green stuff. And some money. He's unemployed, and she's just a nurse. May have to send her to work for one day and hope for a promotion between pregnancies ... can't adopt with the dough they've got and I don't like to cheat.
Sorry. Off topic again ... anyway, back on topic things get even more twisted when you add a new generation. :D
cabelle:
Eww, I'd completely forgotten that Lola & Chloe are actually half-siblings of the Curious brothers and Jenny Smith. I'd never really paid attention to the family tree and thought at most they were distant cousins or such. Before my reinstall Lola was married to Pascal, raising alien step-son Ulyssess and their twins William and Anne. Chloe had son Trevor by Lazlo Curious before he settled down with Crystal Vu. :-X I haven't touched Strangetown yet since the reinstall, maybe it's time to go in a completely different drection before I gross myself out entirely. I may still marry Vidcund Curious to Erin Singles though, they seem to get along quite well.
Dark Trepie:
I've seen those pictures and it does indeed seem that Lola and Chloe are twins. But when you first start playing the Singles household they're different ages. With Lola being the oldest of the four and Chloe being the youngest. So realisticly the timeline should be Jenny, Lola, Pascal, Vidcund, Lazlo, and Chole. However, that doesn't hold any water when you compare all of that to the pictures availiable in story mode...
Whoever's in charge of making the neighborhood stories over at Maxis took this one out of the oven before it was fully baked.
baratron:
Quote from: Witches on 2005 October 03, 17:15:03
I've been playing Strangetown, and my computer shows the Curious brothers and Jill Smith as family when I play Lola. Which is why I started digging.
I've been trying to figure out the strange family tree, twisted as it is. It looks like Pollination Tech #9 is the father of his wife's twin sisters, Lola and Chloe. Lola married Ajay Loner and they had a daughter, and as far as I can figure Johnny and Jill (and their new brother, Roswell) are her aunt and uncle(s) as well as her cousins, because their father is her grandfather while their mother is her aunt. Which means Johnny and Jill are Chloe and Lola's nephew and niece as well as their half sibs.
How confusing! Makes parts of my family tree look entirely normal :D.
Regarding the original topic, I went through with SimPE and marked all of the three Curious brothers + Jenny Smith + Lola and Chloe Singles as "family" and "siblings". Yet, despite being seen as family, Chloe has options to Flirt with Vidcund and Lazlo. I don't know whether this is a bug in the game, or a bug in SimPE (could it be that although I ticked the box in SimPE, the game can't read the correction?). I have a similar problem with Ophelia Nigmos and Nervous Subject - I want them to be seen as family for when one of them gets the "Talk to a relative" want (it's difficult to fulfil this if you only have one relative), but while Nervous sees Ophelia as family, the reverse isn't true, despite my having ticked the box.
Erin is indeed Loki Beaker's sister. I renamed Lola and Chloe to have the surname Curious-Smith (although I wondered whether Smith-Curious sounded better), and Erin to be Beaker. Kristen's real surname is Loste.
Process Denied:
The family dynamics of this game baffle me. I guess Maxis wanted to give us something to try to figure out. Why does most everyone in the original neighborhoods all have family ticked in Sim pe but oviously they aren't family. I also had a couple that had all the romantic options but when it came to the hot tub,they were considered family. The girl's Dad(who she had never met) married the guy's Mom. They met in college and I never thought of there being a prob with the family ties. It wouldn't have mattered except they were both romance sims and they were getting quite insistant. The same Dad had gotten his high school sweetheart prego right off the bat, but they didn't end up together cause he couldn't keep his hands of her mother. Well, even though they had a baby together after he got married to her mom,they no longer could have romantic relations even though they had never lived in the same house together. Her child was aunt and sister to the new children they had together. He was my 20 woohoo guy and he ended up having 17 children with various women. That neighborhood had gotten way too complicated-Kinda glad I lost it.
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