DNA & family trees in TS4
Starting this thread with the upgraded family trees and plenty of genetics to debeate, in mind. I'm currently busy preparing families for the R&L pack.
In TS4 I think sims just pass on one gene per feature, and the sims's gene will be either from father or mother. Because dyed hair will be passed on too, I mostly make sure to make notes of my sim's genetic hair color, because the game doesn't seem to keep track on it, but will pass on blue hair. Most of my female sims will not dye their hair while still having babies...
Did this change?
I see so many weird dna results in the family trees representing lore. They could be explained if we had two genes from each parent, but seems impossible if we only have one gene per parent.
Also, how happy are you wioh the family tree upgrade? I love it, althugh some of my 10 years old trees are a bit messed up - I can live with that. It seems the game struggles a bit if one parent dies and the widow/er remarries. I found one case where my sim's stepmother is his genetic mother (stepmother is even younger than him), meaning all her family is listed as true relatives, which they are not. It might be caused by my save being old, and me designing some of the family relations in CAS rather than through regular play. And, maybe those who died eight RL years ago were culled, breakin the tree. I'm sure it will work better from here and onwards.