As the title states, how do you decide how many kids your Sims have?Do you have an absolute maximum due to the number of Sims you can manage at one time or that your computer can handle?Do you calculate a specific ideal family size and then work towards that?Do you go solely based off the wants of your Sims?For me, I have ACR 2.0 so I can set an ideal family size and then that is used in the mod's calculations for if they try for a baby or not.If 2 Sims have a different Ideal Family Size the one that has the higher one has to persuade the one with a lower Ideal Family Size to have another baby once they've hit that Sim's number of kids. So if Dad's Ideal is 4 and Mom's Ideal is 2 and they have 2 kids already, Dad has to persuade Mom to try for another baby. Same if the Mom's Ideal is 4 and the Dad's Ideal is 2. Mom has to convince Dad to have another kid.I have a formula for that as well that factors in the aspiration, number of kids that already exceed the lower Ideal Family Sim amount, among other things.I posted in detail here as I put it into place for a BACC I'm doing: https://wildwoodheightsbacc.wordpress.com/how-many-babies/

Hello, for me I decide based on the mood I’m in. If I feel like making a big family, I would make a bunch of kids, but if I just want to get straight to the game, I’ll make the parents and maybe one or two kids haha

I usually decide based on the size of the house they live in ? Also based on their personalities and aspirations to some extent, but mostly the size of the house ?

Usually when I miss having a toddler in the house.

i usually go with 2 and maybe a 3rd if one of my kids are old enough to help out

Totally by my whim of the moment and based on how I see that sim and their life. Every time I have given in to the urge to let a sim have a lot of kids, I get overwhelmed and just stop caring, because caring for them gets to be so much like an assembly line and no one can have a life other than childcare 24/7 under those conditions. Or sometimes I take more interest in one particular child and stop playing any other sims, then get obsessed with seeing them become parents but raising babies, toddlers, and kids never changes so doing it once is enough.So I'm torn because I like my sims to find their happily ever after and have little legacies, but then the gameplay shifts from extreme and exciting to extremely repetitive and I lose interest.Anyone have a cure for this? ?

How do you decide how many kids your Sims have?

Lebgirl_18
3 years ago
Hello, for me I decide based on the mood I’m in. If I feel like making a big family, I would make a bunch of kids, but if I just want to get straight to the game, I’ll make the parents and maybe one or two kids haha
MissJosephine
3 years ago
I usually decide based on the size of the house they live in ? Also based on their personalities and aspirations to some extent, but mostly the size of the house ?
Behappy1st
New Spectator
3 years ago
Usually when I miss having a toddler in the house.
JayySimmerr
3 years ago
i usually go with 2 and maybe a 3rd if one of my kids are old enough to help out
ignominiusrex
3 years ago
Totally by my whim of the moment and based on how I see that sim and their life.

Every time I have given in to the urge to let a sim have a lot of kids, I get overwhelmed and just stop caring, because caring for them gets to be so much like an assembly line and no one can have a life other than childcare 24/7 under those conditions. Or sometimes I take more interest in one particular child and stop playing any other sims, then get obsessed with seeing them become parents but raising babies, toddlers, and kids never changes so doing it once is enough.

So I'm torn because I like my sims to find their happily ever after and have little legacies, but then the gameplay shifts from extreme and exciting to extremely repetitive and I lose interest.

Anyone have a cure for this? ?
Simmingal
Hero
2 years ago
Well I do often end up giving my sim couples at least one kid because I am just too curious what they would look like :lol:

and I also like to have sims with long family trees out and about

1-3 is like the usual number really

or maybe they end up having close to infinite number of babies because its way too much fun to find out how the kids turn out to be or i get twins or triplets or alien babes

I only limit when it becomes too much of a chore or I get bored of certain sim genetics like if I have 10 sims that are too similar it tends to turn into survival of the fittest real fast as i start making excuses to make their lives shorter
Rflong7
Rising Vanguard
2 years ago
I bought a 10 sided die when I'm looking for a challenge. I have re-rolled it a couple times because the number was too small. :lol:
M13Vulpecula
Seasoned Novice
2 years ago
For my Veronaville playthrough I'm using a formula to decide how many kids a Sim wants, then when they couple up I'm taking the average of both numbers. One half of the formula comes down to personality and the other half is heavily influenced by aspirations.

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For the personality I double the Sim's Outgoing score and then add their Nice score to it.

As for the aspiration part I multiply the value* of the primary aspiration by 1,3, multiply the value* of the secondary aspiration by 0,7 and then add those two up.

I then divide the total personality score by the total aspiration score to get the final number, which I round down.

Or as written in a formula: (Outgoing*2 + Nice) / (Primary Asp*1,3 + Secondary Asp*0,7) = Number of kids

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*Value
Family = 1
Fortune = 2
Knowledge = 3
Pleasure = 4
Popularity = 5
Romance = 6

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Example:

Spoiler
A default Aries with a Popularity main and a Fortune secondary aspiration

Outgoing score: 8
Nice score: 3
Popularity: 5
Fortune: 2

8 x 2 + 3 = 19

5 x 1,3 + 2 x 0,7 = 6,5 + 1,4 = 7,9

19 / 7,9 = 2,41

This Sim would have 2 kids on their own, but if they would get a partner who wants at least 3,6 kids they can give in and go for more than 2.
friendsfan367
New Spectator
2 years ago
i let my sims decide. which can be scary i set mc to 7 intending to add a dog my sim family decided another kid would be better so 7. i didn't mpnd though cause my real family is only 3 me mom and only goes upat certain points when my brother has my nieces
SimmingPuddin
Rising Traveler
2 years ago
:) Oh gosh, I've played Sims2 in forever. But I do remember having 10 kids in my Bally Legacy. :) I love the genetics of Sims2 and Sims3. Giggles, I love aliens too.