Most of my adults are born in game but if I make a love interest for someone, I don't use the story mode. I create their appearance first and then decide what traits I think they might have. Like Simmerville I do try to make a facial feature that might be passed down genetically. I have a lot of sims with lavender eyes because that got passed down from a sim I created. I keep trying to get freckles, but that must not be that strong genetically. I don't try to match the traits with the sim I am creating them for (mainly because I don't remember what that person's traits are and I'm too lazy to stop and go check). I don't give them any skills or money or degrees or likes or dislikes. I usually use the randomizer for a name until it stops on something I like or don't have someone already named that. And I don't do the free real estate unless I would have to for some reason. They will marry into money so they go in a small house to start out.
