[PS4] Triplets

I tried for 16 hours yesterday, the entire day, and still no triplets. I guess EA wants you to fork out another $35 for the City Living expansion, or otherwise be locked out behind a paywall (AGAIN) in order to get Triplets and the associated achivement/trophy. Plenty of people over console message boards/forums have reported similar experiences where the possibility of getting triplets is so miniscule and you just need to pray luck is somewhere there.

Hi @The_R3aper007,

What do you mean when you say you tried for 16h? Keep in mind saving the game just before the Sim gives birth, and then reloading the game at that point over and over is not going to change the number of babies. You would need to 'repeat' from the 'Go for a baby'.

I don't think I've seen other players reporting this, so please, feel free to share links (as long as the links respect Answers HQ rules: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Answers-HQ-Announcements/New-EA-Forum-Rules-amp-Guidelines/td-p/6075534).

I can let the team know so they can look into this just in case - as I was telling zomgkitten, chances are the same than in PC base game, sadly, bugs can happen. In the meantime, I would keep trying. And by trying I don't mean having pregnancies and pregnancies... just keep playing 🙂 If it's just bad luck, you will get triplets sooner or later.

This is a bit like with baby gender - what's the chance of a woman having 6 boys in a row? Low, but still happens - you can have triplets as well 😉

-Mai

@EA_Mai
Yes I'm well aware of the fact that reloading before birth doesn't change anything. So, what I did was setup a neighbourhood with 5 separate girls with Fertile trait in 5 separate homes alone and made a save here (Save1) I then had my main Fertile sim "Try for Baby" with all 5 of them, then made another Save (Save2) I did get twins here and there, but never triplets. I would reload Save1 and repeat all the above again, for 16 hours I did this, you read that right. The idea was if any of the girls had triplets, I would reload Save2, and move that girl into my main sim’s house and then have her give birth to the triplets, since, as you rightly pointed out, the number of babies is already determined after “try for baby”

This issue has been cropping out in other gaming message boards, and in particular Trophy/Achievement sites because of how this is entirely luck based and with extremely low possibility of getting triplets

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/214128-the-sims-4/76097486
https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/214128-the-sims-4/76045267
https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/the-sims-4-a/320974-triplets-trophy.html
https://forum.psnprofiles.com/topic/55035-tripple-play-trophy/

As you have surmised, there's nothing you can do apart from getting the Fertile trait. After that, the results are entirely up to luck.

UPDATE: After the first day, I increased the number of potential mothers from the initial 5 to 8 with the same Fertile trait. I repeated the same steps again, and after another 8 hours, one of them finally produced triplets. I proceeded to load Save 2 and play as the mother was going to give birth to the triplets, and voila.