Oh, I guess that isn't the mod I'm thinking of then. Because I feel pretty certain that what you're asking for already exists, but if it's not Piqwi's, IDK where to find it.

Thank you I realized the easy solution to my uncertainty would be to try it out. And if you want the game to move slower, you need to increase the number rather than reduce. So half the speed, would be 30. Thanks for the push to just try and see what happens.

If you edit BHAV 0x2552 in that mod to change the false target on line 0x1 to be 0x3 it will run the platonic interaction for sims who aren't family. Unless you make the other change I mentioned, they will still fall in love, though.

That is great. Thanks a lot! I already made the other alteration, so I'll add this one to it.

Is there a way to make a Teenager-Only household without having to create (and then kill off) a parental Sim?

Turn the parent into a townie instead?

I have done this, and it's almost as cumbersome: Make a family of adults, load them, age them down to teen. They will all have an F grade.

Unfortunately I wanted a child in the household, too, and the social worker came for her immediately due to the grade! I had to quit without saving, do it again, pause nearly instantly, then act to change her grade.

If you use the Sim Manipulator, rather than the AgeSimsCheat to age a Sim down, they don't get an F grade. I think they usually get a C.


In my Baldrair Bluffs custom 'hood, Alastair Gunn's parents moved out while he was at school. So he came home to an empty house. I understand that his father thought it would be character-building. His parents then had the nerve to keep 'phoning him to complain that he wasn't keeping in touch.

Now he's quite settled. He fell in love with a townie girl who helped at that time, and they went steady and she moved in with him. With the help of a Squinge mod, they have adopted a younger girl.

Very random question, but... do you people play with your kids?
HOW?

I had not played much lately, but the other I picked a populated hood and decided to enjoy a little gaming.
My 9yo came over as soon as he saw me, and wanted to know everything that was going on, what is this, what is that, what is this Sim doing, can they do this or that, what do they say, why do they react like that. He does not even understand the texts because I play it in English (not out native language) so he asks a lot of questions.
Honestly, it kinda killed the "relaxing moment" vibe I was looking forward, but on the other hand it thrills me to see him interested in the kind of games I enjoy...

And I tought, some of you surely have kids older than mine and have been through this in the past.
How did you involve your kids into your games? Or you just did not, and set them their own games?

Well, I tried to show my son the game when he was younger. He played for a little while, spent a long time making his family complete with a teenage boy, and then he moved them into a house. He was clicking on stuff, figured out he could send the teen to watch clouds, and you can guess what happened! Satellite. I, on the other hand, have never had that happen to any of my Sims in all my years of playing. I don't know if that was the reason, but he didn't play anymore after that, although he's a huge gamer now and into all sorts of games.

Just a few weeks ago, my niece was over to visit, so she made a family with me. It was a very cute family named Moon: a scientist father with big glasses named Quantum, a mother named Autumn, and a teen girl named Eclipse who wants to be a biologist when she grows up. Also, a black cat with white stars. I hadn't even played that much with making pets in CAS, so I didn't know you could make them with patterns like that. She moved her family into the old Specter household, which I thought was fitting. It was fun making the family with her, but I think if we really did play the game together, I'd have to take out a bunch of my mods. I'd be embarrassed if there was some unexpected woohoo happening.

Awful parents.

What's the name of the off-world controller that controls the college timers?

(Additional context: It's stalled on unplayed lots, best guess is due to me updating the slow time controller after the initial lot load. Batbox to force error on off-world objects fixes it. Would rather just crash the specific object.)

If I disconnect the family ties an alien abduction produced child has to the default PT in simpe, does that cause any problems? I want to have more children this way, but it messes with who's related to who sometimes really easily.


Branching off this question: I want to make a family where one of the kids is an adopted homeless, but if I separate the ties, I'm assuming they still keep the parent's genes? I'm not advanced enough with SimPE to know how to alter genetics, if I should at all that is.

No. I believe Name the Father does something like this while setting the 'family' flag on the biological father. They'll keep the original genes.

So if I got this straight, sims only carry their parents' genes if their relationship has the "family" box ticked, or is it that their relationship is labelled "parent/child"?

Once the infant is born, the genes are set based on the Sim giving birth and the biological father. Changing family relationships afterwards doesn't touch the genes.

Does the same apply to CAS made sims?

If you use create-a-child, I believe so. If you create them, they have the same genes as both dominant and recessive.

Thank you for your reply, @sturlington !

I still don't know which kind of games he'll be into when he grows up, but I'm into the kind of simulation/strategy that involves management, and I've even installed some simple android games to play together. Things I won't dislike, but simple enough for him to manage.
TS2 is way more complex, but I guess he could create a family in one of my old hoods (one of those I know I won't be back to but I can't actually delete) and see where it goes, as I did ages ago in TS1, where my first Simmies died in the most idiotic ways
I imagine them dying would frustrate him quite a bit though....

I don't use any autonomous whoohoo mod or anything like that, so at least I'm safe in that account
My son is at that age that he rolls eyes whenever he seems something barely flirty (he even hides his face anytime Brock seeis a girl in the Pokemon series! ) so I suspect his Sims would never ever find a romantic partner

If you want to age sims down (rather than up) you should always age down to the age stage before the one you want, and then age them up with a mod. That should set all of their data correctly. Unless you want toddlers, in which case you can't do that.

Nope, genetic information comes from whoever is passed to the initial baby creation function when the baby is first created, that doesn't have to be a sim that ever had any family flags or family relationship with the baby. Setting up those relationships is separate, which is how Name the Father/Sperm Donors/Surrogate Hack/etc. work. I remember there being some kind of mythology that there was some genetic link between a sim and their biological parents, but this isn't true - once the baby is generated, its genetic information is just values, not something that is linked to any other sim. You can change it all in SimPE and then that sim will have different genes. They have links to the sims that show up in the family tree, but that's it. Having the family box ticked is actually just a bit of state set on a relationship (SREL) resource that mentions two sims and I wouldn't necessarily call that a "link", either, and the SRELs do not necessarily even correspond to the state of the family tree.