Head of Family Achievement not flagging
Can anyone tell me if this achievement is still doable? Everything I have read is from years ago. It is the only achievement from the base game I have not been able to get, and it is completely frustrating. I really do not like playing multi-family homes or children, so trying this over and over again has been torture. I use no mods or CC, and have only the base game installed.
Here are my attempts so far:
Creating a couple in CAS, having a child with them, and aging child to adult using the cake. The first time it was a male, so I just had him go all over town impregnating everyone he saw. Made sure original couple was still alive, and that all 30 grandchildren were listed as grandchildren in the family tree.
Second try, same as above but got a female child. I aged her up and found her a husband, so both sets of couples were living in the same house. I gave the female the fertile trait and started pumping out children. To make it go faster, I neglected the children so that services would take them away and I could get started again. Again, all 30 children showed as the original Sims grandchildren, but still did not flag.
On the third try, I did the exact same as above, but instead of getting the children taken away, I aged them up and moved them out when they were old enough. This time I got to almost 50 grandchildren before I gave up.
This past try, I created an adult father and teen son. Let the son age up, sent him all over town Trying for Baby with everyone. I ended up with 41 grandchildren, 36 of them actually showing as the father's grandchildren in the family tree. I turned aging on so the father was now an elder, and all 36 grandchildren are actually children.
The try I am on now: Created an adult female with teenage son. Set all the age groups to 2 days, except for young adult, adult, and elder. As soon as the teen Sim aged up I got him a girlfriend. Instead of trying with multiple women at the same time like I have done in the past, I kept doing the Try For Baby with the same girlfriend until her house was full. Then they would break up, and he would start again with a new girlfriend. It seems for every few grandchildren listed as grandchildren in the family tree, another one would lose that tag. I have no idea why that happens, or if it affects the flag. I would just keep going until I had more than 30 actually SHOWING as grandchildren in the family tree.
I have not rotated households during play, I am using only humans, no mods, no cc, only used resetsim once when dad got stuck in a wall. Please tell me if there is something I need to be doing, because I HATE this style of play and I am only doing it for the achievement. I would much rather be having fun than doing this nonsense. Was there a patch or something that makes this not possible any more?