Clone Surprises!

Here are a few pictures of Annie with the baby:

https://i.imgur.com/xV83gfU.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/mKeBW3i.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2QBMXT8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nhd6h9Z.jpg

Cute baby pictures :smile:

I have had clone Sims before but only in the form of hairstylists or as bouncers :unamused:

:lol: A baby who is a great kisser, that's a riot.

How do you make a clone in game? Does the game recognize them as clone or are they just an acquaintance?

I've been watching Orphan Black and after reading your post I might want to try something along those lines. In CAS I could make several sisters from the same sim, giving them different personalities. But the game would not recognize them as clones.

I've never watched Orphan Black, but isn't the point that they don't know about each other until one of them dies and another sees it? (Spoiler alert; I think it happened in the first episode, so whatever.) You could use CAS to create the sim you want and then place her in half a dozen different houses on the map, give each one a different job and maybe a makeover (or a nraas-enabled personality adjustment), and just see what happens. Would they recognize their similarities? If they were hot-headed or mean-spirited, would they constantly be fighting? You're right, the possibilities are endless and fascinating.

"cwaddell;c-16270857" wrote:
How do you make a clone in game? Does the game recognize them as clone or are they just an acquaintance?

I've been watching Orphan Black and after reading your post I might want to try something along those lines. In CAS I could make several sisters from the same sim, giving them different personalities. But the game would not recognize them as clones.

You can use the science station to clone a sim from a DNA sample. Your sim needs science skill level 9 to clone samples, but they get the interaction to ask for DNA at an earlier level. This will give you a baby.

Or you can use the Clone Drone potion from the alchemy skill. This will clone the sim at their current age span.

There's also a clone voucher LTR which I think gives you a child aged clone of the sim with the voucher.

It's been a while since I've used the 1st two methods, and I've never used the last one. I don't recall the relationship level with the cloned baby or clone drone sim, but they aren't connected to anyone on a family tree.

I don't know what you mean by "recognize them as a clone." In the 1st two methods the traits may not be the same as the source sim, but they will look exactly alike. There's nothing in the sim description or family tree that indicates the sim is a clone. After creation they are just another sim. The clone from the science station is added to the household. I seems to recall that a clone from the Clone Drone potion is not, and I don't think the relationship level is all that high (years ago I once had a sim marry his clone, I don't remember how I added the clone to the household).

@cwaddell To make a clone, your sim must have level 10 in the science skill, and have access to a science research machine. First, they need to get a DNA sample from the person they want to clone. They can't clone themselves, it has to be someone else. Once they have the DNA, they must be on the lot with the science machine. Once there, you just click on the DNA sample in their personal inventory and select to make a clone from the sample. I don't remember the exact wording. They can't do it by clicking on the science machine, only on the DNA sample in their personal inventory. The baby will have the person they were cloned from in their relationship panel, but there will be nobody but themselves on their family tree.

I had one clone who actually got the eye color from her donor's mother. Her donor had grey eyes but her mother had black. I guess even clones are subject to Sim gene logic. :p

Sims learning the science skill will get 2 DNA samples of their own DNA automatically. You can clone those if you want to clone your sim. Or have a 2nd active sim with a high enough science skill get the DNA sample from your sim.

I always click on the science station to clone sims, but I think I need to have at least one other non-DNA sample in my sim's inventory for the DNA sample(s) to show up.

Also, I've been unable to clone in overstuffed households. NRaas mods don't currently remove that limitation (AFAIK).

"TreyNutz;c-16271159" wrote:
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I don't know what you mean by "recognize them as a clone." ...There's nothing in the sim description or family tree that indicates the sim is a clone. ...

Yes, that's what I meant. So there is no advantage to actually going through the game cloning process.


Thanks everyone for the info on clones. Looks like I will need to create them in CAS as look-alike sisters but with different personalities and then place them in different households to get the "Orphan Black" scenario.

"puzzlezaddict;c-16271136" wrote:
I've never watched Orphan Black, but isn't the point that they don't know about each other until one of them dies and another sees it? (Spoiler alert; I think it happened in the first episode, so whatever.) You could use CAS to create the sim you want and then place her in half a dozen different houses on the map, give each one a different job and maybe a makeover (or a nraas-enabled personality adjustment), and just see what happens. Would they recognize their similarities? If they were hot-headed or mean-spirited, would they constantly be fighting? You're right, the possibilities are endless and fascinating.

Orphan Black is my new addiction. Love it.