Question about SimLogical teleporter-plus & adoption feature
Regina:
I thought I'd ask here so I don't have to be registered at dozens of different forums, and if no one here can help I'll bop on over to SimLogical and do the sign-up thing and ask there. :)
Anyway, I made my sim-hubby and sim-self and made myself a Family sim (it's the closest thing although I haven't wanted 10 kids since I was something like 18 years old, LOL) and made hubby a knowledge sim since that's the closest fit for him. Well, my sim-me has a lifetime want to marry off six children and you all know how knowledge sims are with things like abductions and such. So, I got a wild idea but don't know if this will actually work or not, so if anyone's tried something like this please let me know.
Okay--here's the plan. I know to fulfill my sim's LTW she'll have to give birth to at least the first and last children in the family with at least four in between which means that some or all of those four could be adopted. The thing is, I want my sim hubby to have some alien babies (oh if RL hubby finds out about this he'll strangle me! LOL) but I also want sim-me to be their mom. So I was thinking that sim-hubby could get abducted, have a baby, then once the baby reaches toddlerhood I'd put it up for adoption using the teleporter-plus shrub. Then I could call the adoption agency and adopt a toddler and that toddler should be the one they put up for adoption.
So, does anyone know if this plan should work? I'd sure appreciate anyone's input. :)
Motoki:
It should work, but seems to me there's got to be an easier way. Since with NL the no longer have the Pollination Tech as the other parent apparently, it should be possible to add sim-you as the second parent. I know there's a relationship adjust with the Insiminator, or you could simply set the parent child relationship with SimPE.
aqualectrix:
Ah, I see Motoki's got here first. Just in case you haven't got Nightlife, or there are still weirdnesses with the way the bush puts kids in the adoption pool, I'll post my reply anyway:
Yes. Ish.
That will indeed be the toddler they bring when you adopt a toddler. However I've run into some wackiness involving toddlers put into the adoption pool by the teleporter plus shrub. (It could be just general wackiness with going into the adoption pool; I've never had the social worker take kids so I don't know.) Sometimes they aren't marked as family properly when you adopt them (through the social worker).
I find I am able to fix this problem in SimPE. The best time to do it is after you have put the tot up for adoption but before you re-adopt it. In SimPE, remove any links it has to its father(s) in the family tree, and uncheck the family checkbox in the Relations tab. Go ahead and mark the father(s) relationship as "Unknown" instead of "Parent", too.
I haven't done this in a while, so I could be missing some stuff or just plain crazy. Therefore, the age-old warning: before even putting the tot up for adoption, back up your game. Then try putting him up for adoption and re-adopting him. If that gives you funny results (as has been my experience), return to the backup, put him up for adoption, do as I said in SimPE, re-adopt, and if that doesn't blow up in your face, you're home free. If it does blow up in your face... I was never here, I never said anything. Return to backup.
You might also want to look into Twojeffs' Have Child/Adopt Child Want Fixes:
http://www.variousimmers.net/vsimforum/showthread.php?t=555
Motoki:
I think it's probably just general weirdness with the adoption pool. I had issues with it a LONG time ago when I had two male sims that I wanted to have genetic children (this was before hacks) so I went through this convoluted process of making kids with the templates of them (I had made them in the bodyshop so their templates were still in the CAS). I made one into the female version of himself as the mom and the other the dad, generated several kids in CAS, deleted the clone parents, made a dummy sim mom, moved them in, had her killed, had the social worker take the kids away and then my male sims adopted them.
Only one got parented and for the longest time the other was never recognized as a parent until SimPE added that ability and I was able to do it in there.
aqualectrix:
Yeah, I never bothered reporting it to Inge because I figured it was just general adoption weirdness. Good to know it's not just me, though.
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