Do you look to see how a kid will look when they are older?

Hi, everyone. I'm igazor, and I am a lousy weasel. The kind of kid that slithered down the stairs like a snake and cut slits in my gifts on Christmas eve to see what I was getting. I should be ashamed. :D

Except that I'm not ashamed in the least. I use Play With Genetics and its sneak peeks on sims when they are toddlers and children (not usually babies although that works too) somewhat out of curiosity but usually so that I can run the re-rolls in case some horrible combination of mismatched features were to be in the works. Or, as said in that other thread, too many single-parent clones. I play so ridiculously slowly that often enough I can't even remember what I've seen on PwG by the time the sims become teens, merely that I took some action so that whatever the kids turn out to look like I would deem them to be acceptable plus or minus some wardrobe and hairstyle fixes when the time comes. This applies to both actives and inactives whom I would never play.

Sometimes I use PwG on some random sim already in-game using two sims as genetic donors who don't even have or will never have any kids together, they may not even know each other, just because suddenly I'm curious as to what their kids would look like if they did ever reproduce together. It's all just for fun and in instances like this of course I wouldn't save the results.

As for the legacy households, again actively controlled or inactives (somewhat controlled, let's say guided), my rule is first born unless there is a really good reason for them to pass on the honor, perhaps I see them living in a different world when they have grown up (Traveler mod), be disqualified for trait-related reasons, or it's pretty clear that they aren't going to have kids themselves. When one of the kids in line was adopted, I really have to pause and think about it for a long time especially if part of the point is to carry the genetics forward from the family's founders. But sometimes the adoptees can win me over and the genetic carriers end up living elsewhere and continuing the genetic line on their own within the same game. In a household with 12 kids for example, there were five disqualifications for all different reasons and number 6 was the winner.

Looks don't even enter into that particular equation. All of my sims are special (to me), whether they would impress judges at a beauty contest or not is irrelevant. :)


Disclaimer: Also irrelevant, but we didn't/don't exchange gifts on Christmas anyway as it's not our holiday so the slithering snake stuff needs some slight adjustments.

I almost always take a peek. I'm just too impatient to wait for them to grow up. Especially since I make such slow progress these days lol.

Like I've had the same baby/toddler in my game for literally 2 years (and a bit)... I wouldn't have made it 2 years without a peek. Though it has been 2 years since I took a peek so... it's pretty much a surprise now anyway, my memory's not that good. Just kidding, he's the spitting image of his mom and his grandpa, I won't forget how he looks.

I also like to make adjustments based on that. Not like anything major, just like adjusting jaw widths and stuff like that if they take after the opposite gendered parent since that often doesn't transfer well, so I try to adjust it to more realistic proportions. But I prefer to do that early on instead of just changing my sims appearance later on when it's noticeable that I've done so.

Sigh. I broke. I peaked. I feel like I cheated. Lol

I take a peek how the look like as YA Just after they are toddlers. Acctually it is a first thing I do haha.

I wait for the reveal a love the surprise on their birthdays and wait from their cross-eyes lol :)

Nope. I wait to see how they develop. If something needs 'fixing' I have them save up their simoleons for a trip to the plastic surgeon ;)!

I peek when I think I’ll be playing that couple for a while...or curiously gets me! I peeked when I had a few of my couples go ITF and get the genetic kids.

Sometimes I peek :p I like long lifespans but sometimes, my curiousity gets the better of me and then I must look!

I peek. Always. And usually immediately after birth, lol.

@MKSizzle I almost never age my sims up in CAS to see what they look like.