Just wondering: First Born Effect & Refreshing
BastDawn:
Quote from: aubreylaraine on 2007 June 30, 15:28:28
Quote from: BastDawn on 2007 June 30, 08:18:12
...I forgot to use the debugger once fairly recently and wound up with a Pisces.
did you have seasons for this birth?
No, this was in OFB. But thinking back, it might have been an Aquarius -- I remember being relieved that it was one of the personalities I like playing, and not yet another Aries.
Quote from: Kyna on 2007 June 30, 17:20:24
I've found the first born in a playing session (if I haven't rerandomised) will have 6 out of the 7 personality traits matching one of the parents.
Not me. My sim kids tend to have personalities more extreme than their parents. My base game kid sims were born to sloppy, playful, very nice parents. They all were very mean, very neat, and had no playful points at all. ??? I think they were 10 neat, 10 outgoing, 9 active, 0 playful and 1 nice, while the mother had 7 nice and active; the father was some lazy, sweet-natured townie.
Quote from: FinkTheFuzzy on 2007 July 01, 00:46:21
Oh, no I've been saving during the birth, exiting the lot, and re-entering to get a new kid (or what I thought was a new kid.) The same way you'd do if you wanted a different sex. It hasn't been necessary to do it more than once or twice but I seem to be mistaken as to what should actually be happening.
A lot of my Sims do turn out as Aries, but not with the exact same personality as their siblings. I assumed that's because most of the Sims I created were Aries, and this continues to carry down the line.
Saving during the birth, saving just before the birth, and saving three days before the birth will all work exactly the same regarding the issue we are discussing. I would have been clearer if I had said "quitting the game without saving after a baby is born." It's not until the "stand by, creating a kid" message pops up that anything is decided -- well, I suppose the data is created a few ticks after the message comes up, but before it closes.
Count Four:
Since this a baby talk thread...
I randomize after starting the game and all that. I get enough personality variety that it doesn't get boring.
I'm curious though about just how random gender is--totally random or is it weighted in some way? I've got a same sex male couple right now. I let ACR have its way with them (or let them have their way with ACR) for awhile because it's a new mostly empty neighborhood and they had five kids in short order. All five of them are boys, all single births.
It doesn't bother me at all. I kind of like having all boys in this family, they look like something out of Pink Floyd, all headed out the door in their private school uniforms.
I've had similar families before, with long runs of same sex children. It doesn't bother me at all, I've never exited without saving to get the other gender. It just makes me curious when they have a bunch and they all turn out same gender, because that can happen in real life. Some guys shoot more sperm for one gender than the other. My folks had seven girls and two boys (Catholic and before birth control so, Yeah, really.)
But I suppose that would be too realistic and awesome for Maxis to pull off.
edit: to clarify what I was a trying to say or something
Sagana:
The game tries to even up gender balance. It counts every sim - townies, NPCs, dormies etc. in the game when it looks to see what you need. Then it's sadorandom.
Count Four:
Ah, that would explain it for this family. New neighborhood, playables and my custom townies are pretty balanced at the moment--but nearly all the NPCs are currently female. I like the effect, though; makes it seem more realistic.
eaglezero:
So it's not even that each birth has a 50% chance of being male and a 50% chance of being female? That would seem to be the logical way to do it. Maxis must have been overthinking and trying to figure out how to balance out a profusion of CAS sims of a single gender, or something, to make the game more "real," which ironically resulted in less realness. Typical.
This makes me wonder if KnightSkyeKyte uses the pregnancy-for-all mod and if all her sims' spawn are female.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page