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imanazzubair
Seasoned Newcomer
14 hours ago

Create Family Trees

Hi all,

With the launch of Royalty and Legacy (the dynasty system in particular) I've been looking for a solution to a specific style of play I want to create - and I think it should be something available through CAS or similar.

I would like to be able to create family trees in game for flavour; i.e. I want to create a new family/sim, but to me it feels inauthentic to create sim 1, load them in and have them just exist with absolutely no one except themselves on the family tree.

I have played around with MCCC and Expanded UI to create families, add connections and kill them to add a slightly filled background for new families but I find I spend an entire day or three doing this and then all the sims I've created are depressed because 6 sims in their family just died (even if I made one of them a great-great uncle or something).

anyway, could we implement a system of 'adding' to family trees, even if just a label, without their portrait for story telling purposes? kind of like the forge connection from R&L, but real. like it could be user set up through the UI or CAS rather than sim-driven gameplay, but I'm finding it immersion breaking when I want to move onto a new family idea and they're just... there. 

similarly, I'm very grateful for the newly filled family trees of old townies (eg Goths), but I want it to be full, and to have Agnes Crumplebottom, Lady Ravendancer, etc. and find it too difficult to work around doing it myself for a new save (I'm slowly working on a forever save as a side note)

also if anyone has any tips for how to streamline 'back story' creation in lieu of this getting picked up as an actual feature EA might implement, I'm all ears! Mac player, don't mind mods too. 

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  • HollownessDevour's avatar
    HollownessDevour
    Seasoned Ace
    4 hours ago

    Yes, I have been asking for this Edit extended Family Trees | EA Forums - 12261207. I'd also like very much to add the Grim Reaper to existing and created Grimborns, atm I can't seem to add him via cheats (I assume due to R&L) my game keeps crashing. But I want Nyon and my main to be half-siblings via Grim Reaper gosh dang it!

     

  • borin777's avatar
    borin777
    Seasoned Traveler
    7 hours ago

    That’s exactly what I think too! I really thought the latest update and expansion pack would finally make this possible, but it was such a disappointment. I wish we could start the game with a single Sim while still giving them a backstory through the family tree — adding pre-existing relatives and established family connections.

    That said, the recent updates have made it a bit easier to work around this. I usually create the whole family in CAS — parents, grandparents, siblings, and my main Sim (turning some of them into ghosts depending on the story). Then I start the game, remove the ghost Sims from the household using cheats, and move the other relatives to different lots, leaving only my main Sim as the active playable character.

    Still, I really wish CAS offered more detailed family relationship options.

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