He did apply for the culinary job, and he landed in the "Host" position from his experiences and skills. I guess his boss wants to give him another chance, too!

I think I'll have Arielle make a law to put all supernaturals (Exception for harmless werewolves who plan to buy a cure and harmless vampires) in prison-like institutions located in another sub-hood.

@ Phantomknight

To me, personality is not important here, because I don't think wanting children has anything to do with being nice or mean or outgoing. I also don't think being engaged has anything to do with it, since I don't think children have to be a part of every persons life just because they are in a serious relationship.

Alicia got invited when her would-be-niece grew in to a toddler and she ignored the whole thing. Didn't interact with the baby or after it turned toddler, or the mother who adopted her. She is my hood's street performer. I think I listed her incorrectly as popularity, she's pleasure. She really just wants to be free to do whatever whenever she wants. She loves music, so that's why she makes her money by going around town performing. Not interested in getting a "proper" job where she has to be places specific times and do what others want her to do, she wants to play when she feels like it where she feels like it. A child would very much disrupt that freedom of going where she wants when she wants. She recently bought a vacation home, with spare beds for guests in the hallway, but no room or plans for a second bedroom.

Henrik is my hood's outing-instigator. He calls most of my playables suggesting they go for an outing. He's extremely social, but in a very grown up way, wanting to stay up all night and have a good time with friends. There are never any children or teens in the groups he forms when inviting to outings, and most of his friends that he's made in the background are part of the "party all night"-crowd of my hood. I plan to have him build and run a bar when he becomes playable, because I think that's something he'd enjoy on his spare time.

But sure, I can list personalities Henrik is 5 neat, 6 outgoing, 3 active, 7 playful and 4 nice. Alicia is 5 neat, 6 outgoing, 8 active, 7 plauful, and 5 nice.

I don't see Alicia as the type to do it in secret. Why would she? Neither of them wants kids, and they are happy together. Not really trying to cause drama, just trying to figure out what suits these Sims best. And no, don't have any supernaturals, and while I enjoy some degree of realistic misery in my Sims lives, I don't want kidnapping-level of misery.

I'm pretty sure I don't want to make her have an abortion, so I'll just keep playing the rotation and see what happens. My pregnancies last 12 days, so there's plenty of time for the game to give me more ideas, or for someone to post an interesting idea here.

It has never been any kind of issue for me - if there is a baby, the parent(s) will raise him or her. Social Sims will perhaps have more parties at home. Besides, a nanny can be hired for a night out.

Romance Sims make quite good parents imo, though Pleasure Sims may need some help. Playful Sims love playing with their children, so they may lack other qualities, but that make for good relationships. Social Sims love meeting their new babies too . I find it rather interesting to see how different Sims handle children.

To each their own You play one way, I play another. I don't think children are a necessary part of life, especially if you don't want them. And I certainly don't think Romance Sims can't be good parents, just don't think this particular Romance Sim is very interested, based on how he's appearing in my game.

Of course not everyone wants to - or should - have kids in real life, I was strictly talking about my Sims - and what I do in my game. I am also normally very curious to see what the kid will look like.

@gummilutt, I guess I shoulda clarified. I didn't mean personality as in points, but personality as in what kind of person they are--goals, likes, dislikes, all that jazz. But you gave me that anyway. I think adoption might be the best option here, cuz otherwise I see some serious neglect and/or resentment about to happen, from what you describe of Alicia and Henrik. But if the couple does keep the baby, they could also be very hands off--always have a nanny/butler around, or a family member, to take care of the baby (if they live in an apartment, there's a hack to let anyone watch kids) and then, as soon as the kid's old enough, ship him or her off to boarding school. Having two sightly neglectful, party animal parents would make for an interesting childhood at least.

I've known a few real free-spirit musicians who have had a baby, put him in a baby carrier, and carried on with things. The kids tend to turn out really competent and happy. The main thing for a baby is to be loved, after all. You'd have to do a lot of hacking to pull anything like that off (two-baby stroller?), but you could get good results. The children who grow up like that aren't generally very childish ever, and often really don't fit well with other kids, but where you've got a pair of them, that wouldn't be much of an issue, they've got a built in playmate.

Sunbee, that could be interesting - you are reminding me of the band we have here - they are twin brothers; their parents were in a band and they slept in guitar cases backstage

She is very even personality wise, 6 everything except for being very messy. She is knowledge/family and her fiancee is knowledge/pop. She was the teen I used for the runaway teen challenge so she ran away from home fairly young and was quite resourceful. She was recently reconciled with her mother so her mother is somewhat in her life now. Her mother moved in with them but the place was too cramped so they moved out and left her mother with the trailer home. Her mother I made into a townie during the challenge. So far the daughter has no children yet and has rolled no want to get married although she wanted to be engaged. I think she is a bit scared of marriage. I think she would see looking after her little half sister as her duty because she knows what her mother is like as a mother- lousy.

Well, if she is going to have her daughter raise her sister, she should at least, I think, pay some maintenance

Actually be responsible? That would be interesting. Her mother has a small nest egg and lives off dates. I don't know if she would pay maintenance willingly. She didn't even pay for a room at the motel on her last date, preferring the hot tub, because hey it's free. I see her as more of the type to breeze in every now and again with a lavish gift and then leave. I think it will be interesting whatever way it happens, but I think I will have the daughter raise the baby.

Well then I think the sister is a good option and as Justpetro pointed out there could be drama with the sister wanting the mother to help with the bills. Particularly with paying the nanny haha.

Yeah she could pay for day care, hood doesn't have a nanny. Actually what she would like would be good schools for her sister since she is a knowledge sim who missed out on uni due to having no home.

She could sell some of her date gifts

She does-for herself! Maybe this could be a case for my local court system...

Now you're talking

I thought I'd report back on my dilemma. I said I'd give it time and see if the game might give me clues on what to do, and it certainly has.

As it turns out, Alicia does not tolerate pregnancy well. She didn't get much morning sickness, but her motives are dropping very quickly. I've had to make her house-bound for the time being, to keep her safe. As the free spirit she is she usually spends little to no time at home, so it's quite a change for her. Henrik has moved in to help take care of her since the pregnancy is making her so sick. Their rotation ended with Alicia half-way through second trimester.

I am currently playing the household of Isabelle and Andreas. Isabelle also got pregnant by accident, and her pregnancy made her very sick. Her hunger dropped so quickly she could barely get it up by eating, and by the time I got it to half full she was about to faint, and she could never get her energy past half because by then she'd be at the point of starving and had to wake up and eat. She and Andreas decided to deliver the baby prematurely, for Isabelle's sake. And guess who walks by their lot when Isabelle is home from work, if not Alicia! Andreas is a childhood friends with Elna, and university friends with Max. He's met Alicia at parties hosted by Max, so he will have heard about her getting pregnant against all reason and he will have told Isabelle about it. I had Isabelle greet her when I noticed she was walking by, as I figured she'd sympathize with her over getting pregnant despite using contraceptives. They quickly became friends, in my mind bonding over shared experiences both with accidental pregnancy and having a rough time of it.

Now a few days later Alicia has invited herself in, showing up and walking straight in to their apartment. Andreas is home alone, staying home from work to take care of the baby. I imagine she wanted to talk to him and hear his perspective on things. What it was like having a sick girlfriend, and how he feels now about the decision to deliver the baby prematurely. In my mind Alicia is considering it as well, given how rough it is for her and that she never wanted it in the first place. Next thing I know Isabelle is coming home from work and she brought a friend home with her. Julia I'd like to think Andreas texted her that Alicia was there, suggesting she bring Julia with her. His family, Elna's family and Julia's family were very interconnected, and all the children were good friends with each other growing up. He'd know all about Elna and Max deciding to give their baby to Julia, and he'd know Julia comes from a family with lots of children and I think he might suspect she'd want more eventually. So it seems to me the game is telling me what to do. Isabelle and Andreas will encourage Alicia to have the baby prematurely if it's making her ill, and they invited Julia home so the two could talk about the possibility of Julia adopting Alicia's twins as well. Situation solved

I have a dilemma in my hood now, two Sims have had a want to interact or to fall in love with the inappropriate person. In one case a married Sim who wants to flirt with her old time university boyfriend and the other one wants to fall in love with her Greek house brother, that one of her best friends also is in love with.

So my dilemma is if I should allow them to follow their wishes and create some drama, ignore it in order to keep my perfect little world. One idea might be to let a sim learn couples counseling and then let it go wild.

But.. Unsure. Both of the wishers are fortune Sims, one recently had a baby and the other one found her (in my opinion) perfect soul mate. So it might be a whim.

I have a few questions first.

What's the history between the married woman and her former boyfriend? Why did they break up? Was one cheating or did they just grow apart? What is her current marriage like? Sometimes, married sims need a little 'attention' from their spouses or they'll roll wants to flirt with other sims. I know your sim is fortune, but all my family sims behave that way.

As for the one in love with her Greek house brother, who is the guy in love with? If he's not in love with her best friend, she has a chance. She could go for it, but his feelings will decide how things turn out. (I'm not sure how the game will respond to the situation, but I don't think jealousy will be involved unless the guy is in love with her best friend)

It was some cheating involved.. Her ex (Jesper) had/have an affair with Maya who is her current husbands sister but I do not think she found out before she got engaged to Adam, so she might have had lovetags left. She is currently also in love with mr Big and some random sim from university. I have not corrected their lovetags. Adam (her husband) is a family sim much older then her and her whole pregnancy (and before, and after) he just swarmed her with attention, he is a farmer so he was at home the whole time and gave her a lot of food and juice.

He is in love with her best friend, and she is close to Mary Poppins, perfect in almost every single way, romance/knowledge nice witch who likes pottery. And all of them have 99/99 relationship. So my sim might just want to turn friendship into love.

The Beginning of Pleasantview Dilemma (Choice has been made)
 

Here is what I got.

I am doing the "Pleasantview Epic Challenge" http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=582636 but I am starting with my "The Beginning of Pleasantview" hood. http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=521653

Out of all the named sims in there family trees I have 2 females that never married according to EA.

Instead of just keeping the main names going for 10 generations I will also keep all the secondary names going. IE: Crumplebottom, Newbie, Simovitch and so on by have each family have kids till they get a male to carry the name forward.

Well I am not going to go with EA version and keep the 2 female unmarried so this is what coming up.

1. Send all the secondary names carriers and the 2 females to a lot and let them 2 scoop room and take the highest bolts.
2. Send the 2 females downtown and scoop room until they find a downtownie to marry.

The 2 females are Frida Goth and Agnes Crumplebottom.
At this time there is no townies in the main hood but there will be once all the named sims are born in "The Beginning of Pleasantview" hood.

I will also not kill off sims like EA did but I will fulfill all there wants, if they get a want to get struck by lighting then so be it.

Brian Marsh was chosen by Frida Goth and now they will carry the Marsh name foward.
Terry Al Mahmoud and Agnes Crumplebottom will carry the Al Mahmoud name foward.

how do you feel about going slightly out of sims 2 canon? At least with Agnes she did have a brief marriage to Erik Darling so maybe recreating him is a possibility?

For Frida, in sims 3 canon there's something about a unsuccessful forced marriage into the Landgraabs so maybe a spare in there can suit her.

I already got to many families to play as it is to bring in another one.

I want to keep it simple and only have the 2 extra females marry one of the secondary names carriers.

I have taken off option #2 but if any one has one of the secondary names carriers in mind let me know.

Frida Goth (Choice has been made.)
 

Ok here is Frida Goth with her suitors.

1st pic is of Frida.
Isaac Fiorello 2 bolts and keeps on trying to flirt with her.
Martin Danders 2 bolts.
Terry Al Mahmoud 2 bolts.
Brian Marsh 1 bolt.
Robert Crumplebottom.
Loren Darong.
Brian Ruggbyrme.
Danny Simovitch.

No others have tried to flirt with Frida but for Isaac.

Brian Marsh was chosen by Frida Goth and now they will carry the Marsh name foward.
Terry Al Mahmoud and Agnes Crumplebottom will carry the Al Mahmoud name foward.