She had the LTW of Surrounded by Family and had to get one more in before aging up. I moved the bed into the kid's room to see if they would woohoo there for the lulz.
I find newborns to be easy - just feed/snuggle/change diaper/put in crib when they start to cry. Toddlers are self-sufficient if you potty train them first and just put out a ton of books for them to read. All they need if an occasional feeding then it's just like a newborn: snuggle, change diaper, put in crib. I hardly ever teach to walk or talk in this family 'cuz I'm on the random generation of traits kick. I can handle 4 kids (two sets of twins) with one stay-at-home mom. Granted, she's got a moodlet manager to help me, er her, out.

To go with some prior bad parenting pics, I give you "try for baby with 2 infants in the room":

That's how they do it. I've experimented around. This is what I've determined:
- Use inventory over fridge
- Use higher quality over lower quality
- Use first item of that quality in inventory list (since apples are usually the first fruit grown, they are usually the first fruit in the inventory or fridge, unless you move them or clean them out).

Example:
Inventory order:
Great Flame Fruit
Bad Apple
Perfect Life Fruit
Perfect Watermelon
Sim makes Life Fruit pancakes.

In order to keep the flame fruit bonus on all cooking sims, I make sure they have only a lower-quality flame fruit along with higher quality other fruits. That is if I let them make pancakes at all. Usually I just have them "eat" under the supreme commander.

So I guess I'm happy that I have to run 1.2 and AwesomeMod by changing the date on my computer to 7/31 every time I play. I'm so torn, I want the Awesome Story Mode and such, but I don't want and can't get the Mac 1.3 patch (and I have never gotten the Unholy Hybrid to work). After reading your experiences Mahris I'm happy to be doing what I am for now. I caught myself looking at a PC at the store the other day thinking "just for gaming" and about shot myself on the spot.

I have the Mac digital download version. There is no 1.3 patch for my version, EA admits on their site that they don't have one yet. So, since I can't get the Unholy Hybrid to work at all, I am going with previous AwesomeMod version (and not mentioning any bugs or problems) until I can figure out a way to patch. Even Mac patches on other sites don't work. Ugh. Any suggestions - either for getting the 1.3 patch somewhere that works for the dd version, or else to get the Unholy Hybrid to work - would be very welcome.

Or else you can turn on debug commands (or is it debug interactions? I forget, I have them both on all the time) and shift-click the sim and select "modify traits for active sim" and you get the trait selector box. I found that to be much easier than 'addtrait' or 'droptrait' to use. I also use the shift-click to age-up the sims. I hate the fucking birthday cake.

But they won't go extinct thanks to the JMP Same Sex Baby Factory at the Landgraab Science Center!

"For just $29.95 you too can have a genetic child with your same-sex love interest! Coming soon to a Mod near you!"

Edited to add: I'd actually like that for my legacy family - I'm playing a commitment issues centered family (among other issues with them) where almost every sproglet has been conceived at the science center. On the 4th generation and or the roughly 25 kids, about 20 have been from "try from baby in test chamber." It would be great to have a popup "order child with..." for this fambly instead of the current method.

Thanks for these links, but for some reason they won't work with the direct download version (yeah, I know, I bought it ugh). There is bitching and moaning at the bbs about the direct download version needed a different patch that is not available yet. Do you know any workarounds or do you think I'm stuck waiting for EAxis to fix the latest fail?

It sure does. I had a death at the first birthday party I threw. He left his car parked on the street as I didn't have a driveway then. Now, 3 generations later, I still have that damn car parked on the street. Someday I'll get off my lazy ass and figure out how to get rid of the clunker.

Search is your friend. There is already a thread on this in this section.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15645.0.html


BTW - no "e" on the end of AwesomeMod - although, by installing AwesomeMod, TS3 runs in AwesomeMode.

I've got this with one family. The grandfather was an astronaut, and all his descendants have the"salute" option. I'm thinking of making up a challenge for myself where I'd have to get all the hidden traits into a single individual - obviously without using the addtrait command. So, I'd have to marry (or become) a burglar, cop, fireman, maid, astronaut, pizza deliverer, etc, etc. Anyone know of a command that shows hidden traits?

My family has finally expanded enough to see this. I have a set of first cousins once removed (his grandmother is her great-grandmother). They get the romance interactions and don't show a family relationship in the relationship panel.

Buy one of your sims a moodlet manager and go around curing everyone you see. You'll have a town of wide-awake and happy sims to play with. Silly workaround, I know, but I've been having fun doing that for a day or two. It will get old, soon, I'm sure.

Tested this last night, had my "Renaissance Sim" gaining cooking and gardening while she was actually fishing. She got to level 10 in all 3 skills around the same time, cooking and gardening from the tv glitch, fishing by actually fishing. It seems like the tv glitch is slow, but I could watch both bars increase over the course of a day (or night while she slept). I haven't tried it for all 3 at the same time, will do with the new generation sometime this weekend. I'll report back.

The the "skill - paint" task from Supreme Commander on AwesomeMod. The painter will automagically take the painting and put it in inventory and start a new one. The only control is that you can't pick the size, but that wouldn't affect the rate of skill gain.

I seem to recall (at work and don't have all my files, sorry) that painting at the gallery sped up the skilling for painting. Maybe a 3-way test - home, library, gallery all identical traits and moods as close as you can get? I'd run this for a test but I won't have time until Friday. Stupid that I let work get in the way of my fun.

I change the configuration mid-game all the time, especially on some stuff I leave off and then want on for a bit (overstuffed houses, debug commands mostly). I've never, not once, cleared the cache. Have fun!

In my current game I have moved 3 pregnant sims, all show the proper ties to the father in the family tree. This is my legacy game, moving the extra daughters out after I knock them up. Fathers all live on other lots to begin with. I have a few move of these coming up in the next few days, I'll keep an eye out for lost family links.

I believe that the Natural Cook will not set fire to the kitchen, but can still burn meals when learning. That's what mine did. Once they get good, they get really good. I took Zazazu's advice and had my level 10 NC make a bunch of food and store it in that fancy fridge from the culinary career for his kids when he died. They ate for weeks without cooking.

I spent an hour importing houses (I suck at building so I used the EAxian ones that came w/ the game and some downloaded ones), used wandhere to depreciate them, familyfunded all the homeless so they could afford houses (some got 250k so someone should have moved into the now vacant Goth Manor). If I entered the runstoryaction nothing happened, I just got the error code. For a few nights in a row I got move in notices, but that's stopped and the game is still spawning homeless families. I have about 10 open homes ranging from $20k to $250k in value and the homeless have plenty of money to buy them. Arrgh.

You can woohoo and make out at City Hall, the Mausoleum, the Theater or Science Center. You do get the option for "try for baby in test chamber" at the science center if the relationship level is high enough - barely friends seems to work all the time for me. My legacy founder had 7 kids in 6 pregnancies by 4 guys and never had a romantic interaction with any of them.

That's what I did when I moved out a spawn and his new wife. I dumped a couple of paintings in his inventory, switched to his house long enough to sell the paintings so they had about 10k, put them on SupCom for whatever I wanted them to be doing for the next week or two (skilling logic), and left. Haven't gone back yet as I'm playing a different 'hood, but will do so next week sometime and see.

Not quite asexual, but my current sim is making some random guy a friend (barely, as soon as it hits friend, stop talking), taking him to the science center and "try for baby in test chamber" with him. So much easier for a loner, commitment phobe to deal with. She's got like 4 total friends (all the fathers of her children) by the time she reached 90.

I haven't tried Indie Stone yet, I'm too hooked on my Supreme Commander to go elsewhere. I read their thread on MTS and I like some of how they work. If you could include something that combines Awesome's sacred families with features like "Encourage romance/marry/bear children/work/study/paint/write/fulfill ltw" with "reverse above for sacred" I would be over the moon.

My current family founder just got the Omni plant opportunity at age 89. Of course she's had the steak plants for about 30 days so I've had the 10 outstanding steaks in her inventory for about 25 days. She's ordering Omni seeds every day until she dies - this family will have a whole garden of Omni plants. She got to gardening level 10 as a young adult, so this took a long time. I had her refuse every skill-related opportunity unless she could fulfill it immediately with stuff in inventory. You'll get it eventually. Good luck!

Thanks, that's the best laugh I've had all week. I'll still rely on your posts for information - you have some very well-written and easy to understand posts about gameplay that have made my learning this much easier. I played Sims 1 without any expansion packs for about a month, never touched Sims 2. This is all new to me.