"SimsLovinLycan;c-17664492" wrote:
"DaWaterRat;c-17664435" wrote:
Is there really time to meaningfully play babies, though? I mean, I'm solidly in the "Babies as objects is fine" camp - maybe be able to name and dress them in CAS, and move them between basenette, bouncy chair and playpen, but I don't need any serious improvements. If we were to get some major changes to babies, I'd probably just skip over to toddler stage.
But even if we were to get these changes, is three days long enough to justify it? Especially the skills needing to be actively learned. Three days, especially when you're juggling other sims, doesn't seem to be enough time for really meaningful play. And you can't just assume that everyone who wants to play with babies is willing to switch to long life or aging off.
Well, the life stage could always be extended to 5 days. But, to me, it doesn't make sense to free the Babies from the crib without massive improvements to the lifestage, since they don't do anything interesting either way. There's no interesting emergent gameplay with them, since they're all exactly the same. There's nothing interesting to do with them outside of the nursery, so might as well keep them there. It's not like our sims have to go to the grocery store or whatever, so having strollers and baby harnesses is pretty useless. On normal lifespan, it's only 3 days, so why does it matter if it's 3 days in a crib if they don't do anything in the first place?
the primary reason I want to be able to move the baby to a bouncy chair and/or a playpen is so that I don't have to have a parent quit whatever task I have them doing, and then go to the baby's room to take care of them. This way they can tend the baby's needs in the office/gym/kitchen/garden/what have you. I don't need to take them anywhere outside of the house.
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