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Why can't my toddler in the Sims have two dads in CAS? If I try and change them one to father, the other relatiobnship switches back to household member! This is really stupid and annoying, a Sim sho...
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I've seen this too, but in my case it was with females and trying to have two mothers. I have been unable to manually reset the relationship to 2 mothers using ingame methods or through the MCCC mod. I can set 1 as mother and as soon as try to set the other one to a mother, the other flips back to roommate. But it is not consistent as I do have several other sims with 2 mothers and another with 2 fathers.
I don't think it really matters but I did notice that the one I had trouble with and never have been able to reset was a case where the sims weren't living in the same household at the time of birth. The actual birth mother was an NPC who had the child and then I moved both mother and child into the other mother's household. That's the only reason I could come up with for it not working.
In another case where it show 2 mothers correctly, it was my active sim who was the birth mother but I did move the NPC into the household before the birth occurred. All my other same sex families were already living together before anybody got pregnant and all those show either 2 mothers or 2 fathers as they should.
@CGrant56 I always enjoy reading comments like this because I always learn something new! Thanks! It's weird how it works in most cases but for all cases. All of my testing was done with either creating a family from scratch in CAS or adding a child to an existing family like the Brant and Brent Hecking in Brindleton Bay. In the case you found where it is not working, what happens if you use MCCC to first sever the relationship between the birth mother and the child (so that the child has zero parents) and then use the same to add both females as mothers? Do you still get the same result?
Btw- I once used MCCC to make an NPC family (parents and younger sister) for one of my adult Sims. Then I made them all members of a "family-only" club so I could use club gatherings to get them to spend holidays together and have family bowling nights. Very cool! :D
@RandomBuzziness I agree on the reading thing. Even though I've been playing this game since day 1, I am still finding things I didn't know about too.
To answer your question on MCCC. When I tried to use it, it wouldn't let me have two mothers either. I did basically the same thing that CAS did. I could only end up designating one mother. At first, it wouldn't even give a choice to choose a 2nd mother, only a sister. When I used it to delete all relationships with the child, after I created the 1st mother relationship, then it did give me that choice again but as soon as a created the 2nd mother relationship with the child, it deleted the first so in the end, it wouldn't do it either. The family tree ended up showing a mother and that empty portrait you get when the game doesn't have a second parent.
Yeah, MCCC is really good for that. I use it a lot for certain things. I was looking for one of the maxis sims that shows up in one the pack demo videos in the gallery and I came across a bunch of Sims 2 sims they had made including the Pleasants. Daniel and Mary Sue and teenage versions of Lilith and Angela. So since DU gave us YA versions of the girls, I added them to my game, deleted the teen versions of the girls and used MCCC to set all the family relationships and now have the entire family in my game living in the Brichester house.
Did the same thing with the Fengs a while ago. In an earlier save, I had just left them as not played NPCs and because I like MCCC's story progression, they had 6 kids, 5 girls and a boy, who by the time I stopped playing that save, had aged up to teens. In my current save, I've played the Fengs a lot (you would not believe what I've done to them <grin>) and even had 4 more girls who are now grown and married and got kids of their own so I went back to my library and added the teens back in and reset all the relationships and the family tree and rel panel looks like they've been there all the time. Why I mention it is that I did the same thing you have and there is a Feng family club as well as a few others like it for some of main families. I also use a mod that allows up to 20 sims in a club and it works really well for the most part. Their gatherings can really get hectic with the whole bunch in one place at one time though. But it's fun.
@CGrant56 I'm guessing the relationship.add_bit {yoursimID} {targetsimID} {relationshipBit} cheat would not work in this case either? About a month back I had suggested trying it in a similar situation where a Sim moved in with her fiance and her child from another marriage. It was marked as an accepted solution but I never really got any feedback other than that (I had also suggested trying MCCC).
Btw- I never had Sims 2 when I was younger but I do remember Daniel and Mary-Sue Pleasant being newlyweds in Sims 3. I sorta made them break up & now that I realize they were supposed to have kids I am feeling a little guilty. Sorry Lilith & Angela!!! xD
@RandomBuzziness I've never tried using that one so I don't know if it would work or not. All the sims are still in my game though so I might just give it a try just to see if would make the family tree look right. I don't like having those empty portraits. Does that cheat work if the sims are in separate households? The mothers are now in different households (one became a vampire sort of by accident thanks to MCCC's risky vampirism option and hooked up with another female vampire) and their daughter is a YA going into 2nd term at UBrite. I tend to go with the flow when things like that happen in my game and don't reverse things when things like that happen very often. I also have quite a few vampires now too. 🙂
I loved 2 though. It had it's strengths and weaknesses though. Was prone to crashes and boy, was it slow to load into the game if you had a lot of cc. But I really liked how you could build custom neighborhoods and create any kind of game environment and story lines you wanted and weren't locked into just what the devs provided.
