Has your Sim ever changed their name?

"NRowe;d-1002932" wrote:
The most peculiar thing is happening on my road to finding my ‘ultimate Sim’

This weekend I made a Sim named Jackie Hill (randomise name in CAS til I found one I liked…) and her mother, Alice Hill.
Game starts Sunday of course and on the Saturday ‘Jackie’ moved to U-Brite to study history.
Only when I went to bed RL and then thinking about my Sims game (as you do) I keep thinking of her as Lindsay. It’s like she’s telling me her name is really Lindsay and I got it a bit wrong. Anything like this ever happen to anyone else; or just me??

Not in my game, per se, but I keep trying to call one of my Beagles, whose name is Trinkett, Kaitlyn. :open_mouth: She's four years old, so I'm not sure renaming her is a good idea. However, in your case, go ahead and change her name. The mother of my Godson asked me if she could change his first name. I said I didn't see why not. She kept the original first name as his middle and Christian name, so all is good. The point is, we sometimes change our minds. I once named a set of triplets in my game: Kayleigh, Hayleigh and Regina. The rhythm was right in my head at the time. But when I brought them back into a renewal save of my Cantrell family, I decided to name them Kayleigh, Astrid and Sandi, since in the book where this family was originated, Aaron was already married to Sandi, and Joey was very near to his own wedding to Astrid.

In the REDUX version, I went back to the original names for the identical triplets and only had Erik marry into that family. I found the families of both Astrid and Sandi among my households and brought them back.

I think your Sims is telling you her proper name.

"NRowe;d-1002932" wrote:
The most peculiar thing is happening on my road to finding my ‘ultimate Sim’

This weekend I made a Sim named Jackie Hill (randomise name in CAS til I found one I liked…) and her mother, Alice Hill.
Game starts Sunday of course and on the Saturday ‘Jackie’ moved to U-Brite to study history.
Only when I went to bed RL and then thinking about my Sims game (as you do) I keep thinking of her as Lindsay. It’s like she’s telling me her name is really Lindsay and I got it a bit wrong. Anything like this ever happen to anyone else; or just me??

Hah, that sort of happens to me. Like some of my sims have their official in-game name but when I'm playing them I'm calling them out loud by a different name which, I guess, subconsciously suits their character more.

"Simexpert123;c-18173528" wrote:
Sometimes I do change their names, I will think of them as another name, so sometimes I change it, but it's rare. Most of the time I just leave it. It depends.

Same here. If I do, it's often more the way it's spelled, rather than one of the random names.

Like changing "Merissa" to "Marrisa" or "Merresa" or "Maressa" or "Meresa" etc. ;)

No, I can't say I've ever changed a name after picking it out. Their surnames change through marriage though.

I definitely changed a new sim's name a couple times - either a born sim or a CAS sim, but I guess I mostly changed my mind during the same gaming session. I normally don't focuse a lot on names though, they are just a bit of the sim that helps me seeing their full personality. If I don't like it a lot, I'll learn to like (or dislike) that sim anyway. However, I often realize that some of my plans etc must be adjusted, and those eureka oments might just as well come to me in bed, or while doing something RL-ish.

The only time I've done so was when I was testing a mod and Angela Pleasant rolled 'nonbinary'. Angela became Andie and I got used to it.

Very rarely; I honestly can't think of the last time I did it. Names are not really a thing I consider too much. I did change the surname of my Sims 3 legacy founder because I thought the original name was cringe, but that's really it.

Also, I've kind of played a household of vampires for a long time, as in the same immortal sims for many in-game years, and not as much mortal family gameplay. And, the one trans sim that did happen in the mortal sim gameplay I have done in TS4, already had a neutral name, he needed no change. My other trans sims were OCs I straight up made in CAS, their names were already changed - I don't know their deadnames.

I've finally started to play more with mortal sims again though, so that may change soon.

This happens to me fairly often, but I usually use "randomize name" too. Once I play for a while, sometimes I realize randomize doesn't know my sim as well as I do :)

When the game decided to give my Aaron Cantrell's son the name of Hobart, you can bet your sweet Bippy, I went over to that lot and changed the Toddler's name toot sweet? Who gives a surname of Hobart as a first name? Talk about saddling a kid. Sheesh.

Now, as far as changing names, that is about the only time I've done that. However, I got a tad vexed when Erik's children were born, out-of-order. I set up for the second baby to be identical twin girls (as happened on its own in the Main Save, that is long-gone), but the game decided, on its own, to make it three babies, instead. After that I just threw in the towel and let the game generate the next two kids. Instead of Erik's six being three boys and three girls, I ended up with four girls and two boys. I wasn't happy at all. To the point I almost stopped playing his household. So, after seeking some advice, I took the family into cas.fulleditmode with the notion I would change the youngest child to a boy, and then trade places with the third triplet so I would have Boy: Twin Girls; Boy: Boy and Girl. I should have made the switch with the triplets, first. After I made the youngest a boy, I had no more options. House was full. Face/palm. Had I thought about it a bit more, I would have deleted the youngest, which would give me the wriggle room I needed.

Well, that's my story. :)