Just wondering: First Born Effect & Refreshing
Soylent Sim:
Quote from: FinkTheFuzzy on 2007 June 29, 17:09:01
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 June 29, 17:04:42
The method you describe is acceptable, but produces a relatively low degree of entropy, since saving and reloading by hand would only likely use the first few numbers of the generation sequence. This is enough to give you spawn with different personalities from each other, provided you always choose a different sequence number, but doesn't really SPIN the thing.
Oh, I see. So continuing to do it for each birth should give me a different number, then?
If you reload N times for each birth, where N is the number of children already in the family, then yes you'll get a different result for each child. You also have to watch the loading screen 2N times, once each reload to go to neighborhood and another time each reload to go to the house. People who are fond of this method usually create their N random sims by going into CAS and clicking the dice button however many times.
FinkTheFuzzy:
Quote from: Soylent Sim on 2007 June 29, 17:34:38
If you reload N times for each birth, where N is the number of children already in the family, then yes you'll get a different result for each child. You also have to watch the loading screen 2N times, once each reload to go to neighborhood and another time each reload to go to the house. People who are fond of this method usually create their N random sims by going into CAS and clicking the dice button however many times.
Once or twice seems to do the trick. It seems as if the next child is always a copy of the one immediately before it, rather than of its eldest sibling. That being so, it doesn't seem necessary to reload based on the number of children in the family, as the sequence seems to start from the last born (maybe..??)
BastDawn:
No, the sequence starts over from the beginning every single time you load your game up. So if you go to the neighborhood screen without saving twice for each child and always keep the third version, you will have a set of identical children who are all at the #3 spot in the sequence. In that case, you would only get non-identical children if you had twins, in which case the second twin would be type #4 for your breeding couple.
aubreylaraine:
i think something changed in seasons. ima twit and always forget to "spin" and ended up having to alter their personalities, but i think when hair and eyebrows started coming up different so did personalities.
*will go check simpe
ok, i just looked at the last 19 births, first three are from pets the rest are from seasons.
pisces, virgo, virgo, virgo, libra, capricorn, gemini, sagittarius, gemini, libra, gemini, aries, aries, virgo, sagittarius, gemini, aries, gemini, scorpio.
it appearently doesnt vary much, but all of these are single births from different households. each birth was a new startup with out going to cas. plus i have 3 or 4 more babies in waiting in other houses.
Ancient Sim:
Seems silly to go through all that messing about when all you need to do is click the Lot Debugger. I use this for all my births and it has created some interesting progeny. Fricorith Tricou, for instance, married another sim who was highly playful like himself (they are both Pleasure) and although their eldest child took after them, the youngest is totally different. He has only 2 points in Playful and literally the second he turned to child he was straight to the auto-study bookcase. By the time he went to Uni he'd maxed-out 4 skills and almost maxed-out 3 more. All he wants to do is study and he's always ready for his next exam almost as soon as he's taken one. He's as different from his parents and sister as he could possibly be. I've also had kids who were ultra-neat when both parents were slobs and several who were extremely outgoing/introverted when both parents were the opposite. I like this element because sometimes kids do turn out like that, but you have to go quite a way down the line to get these differences. They don't tend to come unless the randomiser is in the twenties.
On the odd occasions I've forgotten to use it I always come up with a kid who's a carbon copy of one of the parents and I hate that.
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