So on Millennium Sims there was supposedly a birthday cake that had the same function as the Age of Instant charm from Makin' Magic in that it made children grow into adults. Since Millenium Sims is down, I was wondering if anyone could find this cake and if they would be able to give me a link. Thanks in dvance!

I would also like this. I have a very ugly child and I'm hoping to just age her up over and over until I get an adult I like. Edit: I HOPE that's possible.

Why didn't they just let us customise heads and bodies in the main game?!

You used to be able to customize heads and bodies with Simmorphosizer from Sims Wardrom. I say "used to" because the program doesn't work anymore on my computer. Not really sure why. Instead, I create Sims in the Create-A-Sim menu and move them in via the move-in bush from Simlogical and then delete the unwanted Sim using the move-out bush from Simlogical. Before I had the bushes, I would save the game before a baby turned into a child and exit the game without saving after the child aged if I didn't like the result. To get the heads menu to scroll through the options, I would have to play a few minutes differently each time.

Here you go! You need Makin' Magic to make it work correctly.

OH YESSS Thank you! I've been looking everywhere for that! *insert that happy emoji here*

Thanks!

@sugoisama @LDL Hey, you're welcome!! I'm glad to see I've been of much help (and have indirectly spawned some new challenges for TS1, seeing as this cake is used for some of them!) In any case, all recognitions sholud go to MilleniumSims and Sims-extremos; I've just been lucky (or obsessive) enough to preserve this download for more than 10 years or so tee he. I will eventually put it in the "Look at this awesome thing I found" thread

I know I'm not going to get a lot of likes for saying this, but I believe this was actually done on purpose in the first Sims game. There was a lot more focus on realism in the very first Sims game, and the idea that you can't edit (choose) your family members or who your child is going to be and how they are going to look plays into these deliberate restraints that mirror reality.

Later Sims games did away with this, allowing players to customise literally everything in the game. This can be both a pro and a con, depending on how you look at it. It gives players more control, but it takes away from the original gameplay experience.

You may have a nasty or an ugly child, but they still deserve love. And that is the real takeaway here, I think.

Everything in the original Sims game actually mirrors real life. It's a caricature, and it's stereotyped, but it still closely adheres to real-life principles (at least as far as that was technically possible to achieve then).

(I am of course discounting Livin' Large in this perspective -- which was quite an odd EP in the original series, until Superstar and Makin' Magic came along.)

There are some other aspects you could not force in the original Sims as well -- for example if your designated sims to be paired like each other or not. Or that you couldn't edit Downtown and Vacation Island real-time (the deliberate decision over which is actually hinted upon explained in the help/tip prompts). They were all designed to make you feel that you can't be at all times 100% in control. Life is unpredictable.