Yes, a change to the primitive 'Make New Character' so that it uses a gender parameter is the best solution, but I'm trying to think outside of the box here.

Ahah - Bad assumption on my part.  All of my twins (maybe six now) have been boy-girl.  Rules out one more idea for baby gender choosing.

Yep - But as a hacker, I'm looking for an in-game BHAV modification based change.  Wouldn't it be nice to have a hack that lets you choose the gender of your new baby as it is born?

I've thought about the baby gender problem for a while, and I've come up with two different ideas, both of which are unappealing.

1. Brandi Broke Effect : If there is only one parent linked to a pregnancy, the baby will be the opposite gender.  This kinda sucks because then the resulting baby genetics are one sided.

2. Twins Effect: Make every birth a twins birth and discard the unwanted gender.  Rather draconian and leads to BFBVFS.

Nope - You should be good to go.

I'm sure that Maxis didn't include skintone because then you could make sims racist - something they want to avoid.  Racists don't need any help.

Eyecolor would've been nifty, though.

Yep - I had that happen when I first installed the Daily Gardner.  You've got to fire the regular gardner and re-hire a new daily one.  But yes, you've got to be quick to catch the original before she drives off.

Well, we're working on the human cloning thing.  Just give it time.

I've looked all over in SimPE and can't find where Dance skill is listed for a sim.  Am I blind, or just looking in the wrong places?  Maybe I've got the wrong plugin viewer or the order wrong in the plugin heirarchy.

I think you can use Inge's teleporter to make dormies, as they should just be on-campus young adult townies.  Crank out a batch of eight in Create-A-Student, plop them on a temporary campus lot that has Inge's shrub, and make them townies.

An older version of the Daily Gardner hack messed up the MatchMaker's phone dialogue.  I think there's a fresh and shiny NightLife version available, though.

Which is why you can do this kind of inbred family:



Picture rotated by suggestion from eaglezero.

I need a clarification here - If your founder was a single mother and is long since dead and buried and finally the legacy heir dies of old age without ever marrying or having kids, did you complete the challenge successfully or lose automatically?

Do Ethiopians have propane for the flame jet thingy?  And if so, are they allowed to toast marshmellows with it?

For the descriptions:
1. Open the object's package file in SimPE.
2. Find the Catalog Description resource in the resource tree (upper left) and select it.
3. The first line in the Text String Editor (below) will have the object's name (which you can change).
4. The second line will have the object's catalog description (which you can change).
5. After making your changes, hit the Commit File button (on the far right).
6. Then save the package (From the menu: File/Save).

On a somewhat related note, I once came up with the following plan for a nuclear inbred family:

Six starting sims (A through F) pair up and marry.  Each marriage (indicated by flat diamonds in the picture) spawns two kids: a boy and a girl.  Then you breed/braid these three family lines together into an inbred knot of family togetherness.  You can keep going as long as you want - the pattern repeats.  The game allows this kind of thing because it doesn't look farther back than grandparents for family relationships.

Okay - Here's another guess: Vampiric Toddlers!  I'm going to go try that now and see if it works.

Followup: No, it didn't work.  You can't bite toddlers.  Disappointing, really.

I'll take a guess that you're supposed to just let the babies starve, but somehow prevent the SS from showing up.  Seems rather cruel even for J.M., if that is the case.  And I've seen those social workers walk right through a brick wall without blinking before, so it has to be something more hackish but still on the approved list.

Interesting.  Any hints on how to keep a newborn alive until they can go to school and eat?  Better yet - Any hints on how to keep a pregnant mother (or alien father) alive for three days without food?  Can toddlers eat from the trashcan?

Wait until wintertime (when the air is very dry), put on some rubber-soled shoes, shuffle your feet on a woolen rug, and then touch a doorknob or a light switch.  You should get a nice zap from the static electricity.  Rubber gloves and a cat work well too.

So spaghetti is just a culinary conspiracy?  (Quote paraphrased from Rozencrants and Guildenstern are Dead)

Hey now, I'm a grown person (38) and I juggle.  I even live in your lovely state of Ohio.  You never know - your best friends may be jugglers. 

Pay attention to my family for a change?  What family?

Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire: http://www.classroomtools.com/voltaire.htm

Motoki - Please don't let the opinions of a few people prevent the rest of us good folk from receiving your knowledge, wit, and wisdom.