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Dannakyri
Rising Veteran
5 years ago

Every time an Occult and Human have A Baby

Anyone else ever notice that every time an occult and a human have a baby it always seems to come out occult? I was under the impression that it was a 50/50 chance but I have done a mermaid legacy family (bad idea, turns out elders get a lot of extra days of life it sit around and be bored) and a spell caster family where I always had the legacy Sim marry a human and every single offspring was always a spellcaster/mermaid.

I us MCC Command so I was actually able to track the entire family tree, not just the ones actively living in my house and all of their descendants, ever last one, was a spellcaster or a Mermaid.

Did the nerf the genetics because people were sad the human/occult babies sometimes turns out human? I wanted to play a legacy family there the first born occult carried on the line but they were always all occult no mater what. frustrating. Now, as I type this out I am am starting to bet this is something I can fix myself with MCC Command...... but I will leave it anyways to see if it's just me or others have experienced this too.

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  • "Loanet;c-17776399" wrote:
    It's a coin flip. However with coin flips you do ironically tend to have more one than the other. Sims 4 doesn't have half-occults like Sims 3 did.


    Even then they weren't really half occults, but they more or less carried a genetic trait that could then ensure that their grandchild could be born a witch or a werewolf. Kinda wish that was a thing in TS4. I do miss having true hybrids though, my zombie-plant sim-vampire-werewolf was the most hilarious thing my nine-year-old self had ever made.
  • The only occult I play is spellcasters, and I use MCCC to keep the chance of spellcaster offspring born with humans at 10%. I used to leave it at the default 50%, but I really didn't want my worlds overrun with spellcasters, and that was indeed beginning to happen. :o

    Oh, and I almost forgot, another MCCC setting you can use to influence the number of occults born is to set a limit of how many (of each) can exist before more are allowed to be born. The game might spawn more, depending on other mods you might have or other factors, but it won't allow more to be born if the number of a given occult already exists at or above your limit. I have mine set to a very restrictive number, but if I recall correctly, the default setting is unlimited.
  • 2 of the last 5 human/occult babies in my game came out occult. I don't use any mods that affect that.
  • loquaciousleo8's avatar
    loquaciousleo8
    Seasoned Adventurer
    5 years ago
    I have a mermaid legacy too, all my mermaid heirs married humans, even had twins who were both mermaids so I just assumed I would always have mermaids but I just got to generation five and was actually surprised the baby wasn't a mermaid!
  • Change your settings in MCCC so that there are fewer. Maybe from 50% to 10% and lower the max population for that occult too.

    I've not had a problem with it and have had 5 of 19 children with an occult parent be an occult sim.
  • you may have a setting in MCCC that changes these chances. it is probably in MC Occult. maybe even in MC Pregnancy or MC Population
  • Mindofy's avatar
    Mindofy
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 years ago
    My family with 3 spellcaster kids just married their partners and moved out. So far, the oldest kid and his muggle wife have twins, one magic and one muggle. The next kid married a spellcaster,so she currently has 3 spellcaster kids,of course. The third kid married a muggle and they have one magic son. So, just looking at the magic/muggle pairing it's 2:1 in favor of magic kids.
  • RySBI's avatar
    RySBI
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    It sounds like you must have just had a string of strange luck here!
  • I've currently got a Alien/Spellcaster hybrid in my game & depending on what mood the game is in she either looks half human half alien, or she looks human, or she randomly changes colour and eye shape in her alien form.
  • My alien and a human had half-alien triplets. (Purple skin but no powers)

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