Questions Regarding Kids

You need to install the Returner mod from NRAAS.

The only info I follow is where someone asked how to completely stop them from getting an imaginary friend. They were told to change the chance to 0. So I change it to 1.

https://nraas.wikispaces.com/Members%27+Retuner+Settings#NoIF

The path you need to use is:

NRAAS > Returner > General > By Tunable XML > Sims3.Gameplay.ActorSystems > OccultImaginaryFriend
kChanceToGetImaginaryDollsOnChildBirth > 0

I think the default is 0.75 - you'll be able to see it when you get into the path. If it's 0.75 then change it to 1. But if it's 75 then change it to 100. It is just shifting the decimal point.

You can download Returner from their site too.

"Chi5678;c-16302050" wrote:
@puzzlezaddict Yeah several times. All that's in there are bills I can't afford. XD Is there anything special I'm supposed to do with the mailbox or just click on it and look for a Get Mail option? And is it possible for them to get it later in life? Like as a toddler?

Your sim just needs to check the mail for the IF dolls to be placed in the infant's inventory. That's if they get them. AFAIK it's not possible for them to get one later in life, and the setting Karritz is referring to probably only works for newly born sims, not existing sims. If you really want existing sims to get an IF doll you may have to try the buyable IF dolls mod.

edit: For your other question:

1. With NRaas SP I think the mod will try to relocate children, toddlers, and infants to a relative. Teens can live alone (with younger sims). I don't know what EA's SP would do. If no relatives are available I think under NRaas SP the social worker essentially takes them, but I'm not 100% sure.

2. I have no idea. I've had 1 or 2 motives of toddlers in the red at once and no social worker showed up. I've also had the social bar of a child get bottomed out (he had the Brooding trait and lost a friend) and I got a notice about an impending social worker visit. I used TCE to increase the child's social bar and then removed the Brooding trait. The Brooding trait is not normally available for children, I had created my own tuning file allowing for more traits to be available to younger ages. After that experience I changed my tuning file so Brooding is only available to teens and older.

@igazor My sim is already in the carpool before I even call the sitter (It prompts me to) so she's long gone. After checking, Candy did have the kleptomaniac trait. I took it off. As for the radio it's gone but I cheated a tiny bit to afford another one lol

Update: Candy came again after I removed the kleptomaniac trait and stole 3 more items and set one of my babies down on an invisible surface.
https://i.imgur.com/SsIrPhE.jpg
If I turn it to the right angle it looks like a giant baby on the bed lol.
https://i.imgur.com/N79vh9v.jpg

"puzzlezaddict;c-16302127" wrote:
While we're on the subject of NPC service sims, I've noticed that their age transitions don't always work normally, at least without nraas SP. Babysitters and newspaper deliverers seem to stay listed as teens and children, respectively, well past their expected birthdays, until you invite them over (socially), at which point they show up in their new age category. I've actually had babysitters that stayed teens—listed in the relationship panel and on the menu for selecting invitees for a party—until suddenly, they were full adults, skipping the YA stage entirely.

This would just be a harmless (I think?) quirk, except that it comes with one other consequence: NPCs have a really hard time dying. I'm sure I could kill them off as efficiently as anyone else using MC, but without intervention, they refuse to go away. I don't mean that they stay the same age but rather that the game rolls their death days (with a notification just after midnight), and then 24 hours later, they're still alive. In my last save, I was told that Kate Pistachio (housekeeper) was about to die at least three separate times, days apart, and nothing ever happened to her. I suppose I could have invited her over, made her stay, and let Grimmy do his thing, but then I'd have had to deal with the urn or tombstone, and my household was complicated enough already. Is this normal? Or should I be doing something to cull the NPCs?

These things are always a bit quirky without NRaas SP, which I believe you are not using. Before I used SP for progression myself, I tried to have my teen (aged up to YA by then) date his former babysitter. Next thing I knew, the former sitter aged right up through Adulthood to Elder. No way that could have happened to a resident sim. It was never going to work out anyway, so I just moved on from there.

Even with SP though, sims can't age up or die if they are in total hibernation as homeless NPCs tend to be when their services are not called upon and they can easily get age-stuck. This might be why they rarely seem to age up evenly. Or they get stuck when they are supposed to be dying. If they have no real connection to my sims and my story, I tend to use MC's Total Annihilation (TA) on them and pretend they had long ago moved out to another town.

"puzzlezaddict;c-16302127" wrote:
Also, are babies and toddlers supposed to age more quickly than my custom settings when they live in someone else's house? I always thought that this was due to each life stage starting at 1 day in rather than 0, as it would for my own household. But I just saw an infant age up to toddler the day after she was born, even though the infant stage is set for three days. It's not a huge deal; I'm just wondering if this is the way things are supposed to work.

No, that should not be happening. But again without SP, you are relying on EA's aging manager for all sims in town and it can do unexpected things. So can having thrown any of these sims into a non-MC version of CAS if you don't have MC Integration installed.

"Chi5678;c-16302166" wrote:
Update: Candy came again after I removed the kleptomaniac trait and stole 3 more items and set one of my babies down on an invisible surface.

Sorry, but I have no idea what is going on there. Maybe someone else does?

The floating baby issue actually might very well be caused by MoveObjects on. Better be careful with that one.

@JoAnne65 It only happened once and it was no big deal lol I am concerned about the stroller one though, especially cause the adult's faces look super disgusted right afterwards.
@Karritz No, I hate the cheat that much that I never use it. I like building but if the build calls for that cheat I'm either like "nope." Or I say okay and never play the household, lol. I could go in and flatten the lot if you think it would help any, but then I have to redo my ponds out front lol I doubt it's that though. I have a feeling it's cause the NPC Service sims can teleport when trapped and I'm thinking it's cause I needed a baby sitter for less than a sim hour, the babysitter probably picked up the baby and walked a few steps before I returned so they teleported out, thankfully leaving the baby behind, because when my sim got home I didn't see the babysitter leave.
And here's just a picture of my house, there's nothing really special that I would have needed CFE for.
https://i.imgur.com/zarxneh.jpg

The only one I might be able to help with is the question about the Imaginary Friend.

The game, by default, gives a 75% chance of a baby getting an imaginary friend. I find it usually turns up the following day but sometimes it seems to be the next day. I suppose it depends on the time of birth or something.

I use an NRAAS mod to set the chance of a baby getting an Imaginary Friend to 100%.

@Karritz ooh where do I go to change that chance? And is there anything I can do now? It's been like a sim week since they were born...