Did they remove alien abduction pregnancy?

I was crazy desperate for my Erik Cantrell to get abducted and come back preggers back in Sims3. No matter what I did, the Aliens were more interested in his Bot. I haven't had an abduction for a very long time. Guess my Sims don't venture out enough at night. Are there really any aliens out there? Not so much, I fear. But then again, I don't have that normal-sized telescope either.

"GalacticGal;c-18271575" wrote:
I was crazy desperate for my Erik Cantrell to get abducted and come back preggers back in Sims3. No matter what I did, the Aliens were more interested in his Bot. I haven't had an abduction for a very long time. Guess my Sims don't venture out enough at night. Are there really any aliens out there? Not so much, I fear. But then again, I don't have that normal-sized telescope either.

You don't use a telescope in sims 4, you use a satellite that comes with get to work and you don't have to be outside.

After using the "contact aliens" option on the satellite, you just go about your day, if you get no alien visitors or phone calls from aliens, then chances are high that you'll get abducted that night. If the one who contacted the aliens is male, then there's supposed to be a chance of getting pregnant by a female alien while abducted. However, this has not happened on this family yet.

Note: I took a break from Sims for a long while so coming back, the infants pack and update had dropped so I don't know if that's where the problem is or not. I don't have the pack yet but the update was mandatory so I do have that.

"PenguinFoop;c-18271583" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-18271575" wrote:
I was crazy desperate for my Erik Cantrell to get abducted and come back preggers back in Sims3. No matter what I did, the Aliens were more interested in his Bot. I haven't had an abduction for a very long time. Guess my Sims don't venture out enough at night. Are there really any aliens out there? Not so much, I fear. But then again, I don't have that normal-sized telescope either.

You don't use a telescope in sims 4, you use a satellite that comes with get to work and you don't have to be outside.

After using the "contact aliens" option on the satellite, you just go about your day, if you get no alien visitors or phone calls from aliens, then chances are high that you'll get abducted that night. If the one who contacted the aliens is male, then there's supposed to be a chance of getting pregnant by a female alien while abducted. However, this has not happened on this family yet.

Note: I took a break from Sims for a long while so coming back, the infants pack and update had dropped so I don't know if that's where the problem is or not. I don't have the pack yet but the update was mandatory so I do have that.

Actually, level 7 of Logic skill unlocks "Search for The Truth" interaction on telescopes, which helps to increase the chances of it happening.

I don't know how it is now, but the Internet says that the chance of getting pregnant is 25%.

Oh man. I really, REALLY hope they didn't go and nerf this too. :flushed:

"LiELF;c-18271650" wrote:
Oh man. I really, REALLY hope they didn't go and nerf this too. :flushed:

Same here!

I always save my game at 10pm and can exit without saving if no abduction. Once the sims gets the option to investigate lights just as they are being abducted I save again and then exit without saving if they are not pregnant. When I return to the game, sim is at the point of being abducted again. I used to save as soon as they had beamed down from abduction, but that seemed to stop working so now it is save at investigate lights point. Since GT released, I am still easily able to get sims abducted but no alien pregnancies. I haven’t played a hybrid pair to see if those pregnancies are still able to happen (will head straight to a new game and test this once I finish this post). With my latest game, I have been on the ‘save, play, exit without save’ roundabout for way too many hours of RL playtime now and still not pregnant. Gave up in the early hours this morning, enabled mods, restarted game and used mccc. I had pulled all my mods out of my games and was trying to play without any, but it seems the “powers that be” have decided that players need to rely on mods to play our game the way we want. The Sims 4 developers and by default publishers claim inclusivity, but theirs is a very rigid inclusivity - almost to the point of exclusivity. There is no inclusivity for people who want alien pregnancies, or other forms of paranormal play; no real inclusivity for people like myself with disabilities or other issues… there are hearing aids in the game now - but no earrings if you use the hearing aids. But Sims 4 “inclusivity” is an entire topic by itself!

Alien abduction and pregnancy is an issue that is constantly being discussed by by many of the individuals who are buying and playing the game. The answer seems simple. Why can’t the game options incorporate a sliding scale that goes from no aliens to alien invasion; and an on/off toggle for alien pregnancies? This sliding scale could be duplicated to include werewolves, vampires… It wouldn’t take much coding to do this and would result in all players being able to play the paranormal section of the game the way they want. Everyone wins!

I'm not so sure I like the idea of a tic box for alien pregnancies because I like the random 'will it happen this time' feeling. But it seems to be now a 'what's the point? It won't happen' situation now.
Also as a console player mods are not an option so if they removed or nerfed it, we once again get the screw.

Sorry, did not make myself very clear there. I actually meant the toggle to be Opt in/opt out for possibility of alien pregnancies after abductions. Opt out and you know there will be no pregnancies after abductions. Opt in and you may or may not get pregnant after abduction at the 25% chance rate.

Ah, yeah I can agree with that.

The first household that I played after installing Growing Together was my alien household, made up of the two aliens I had raised due to earlier abductions and one townie alien. One of my kids and the townie already had twins. The other of my kids was in the scientist career. The father of the twins was abducted and did get pregnant. So definitely still happening. In my experience the odds of pregnancy are inversely proportional to how convenient an alien baby would be at the time. This particular father was conceived on the day his father aged to YA and just happened to be abducted.