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4 years ago

How traditional are your female sims?

Happy International Women's Day!

Want to contribute to a not-so-serious survey?

My guess is that in most sim families the mom has higher cooking skills than dad. Not because the game requires it, but because you more often send your female to the kitchen. Let's find out if this is reality! :)

In your game please check 5 households that you played actively for minimum a sim week. Elderly couples might be the better, but no restriction.

The criteria is:

- Household must be in Willow Creek or Oasis Spring (If you don't play these worlds look elsewhere, but pls state what world you checked).
- Household must contain a formally established male/female couple (married or not, kids or not).
- Household shall not have a butler or any sort of live-in servants.
- Neither the Female nor Male can have a Food related aspiration.
- Check Cooking skills of Female and Male.
- You get 1 point for each couple where the Male has higher cooking skills than the Female.

What's your score?
Any comment on your result?

55 Replies

  • Very rarely, if ever, have I played a 'traditional' family with a stay-at-home Mom who cooks for the family. Most of my game play is challenges beginning with a single male or female. If this Sim gets married or has a partner move in and they have children together, whichever gender began the challenge would logically have the most cooking skills and make group meals for everyone. Meal preparation is based on skill level, not gender and/or whoever happens to be home when the fridge runs out of leftovers.

    In my current save I am playing a year long challenge with a female teen who is a Spellcaster this month and lives alone, very non-traditional. She's maxed the cooking skill. When she ages to a YA next month, her boyfriend will move back in with her. They will get married and since he's a Super Sim with the Fresh Chef trait, he will prepare their meals.

    However, they will be living in Britechester and she will be attending Uni. If I send her to live in the dorms, they will prepare their own meals until she returns home after graduation. They probably will not have children until some time after she has graduated. I might even wait until August when they are adults and she becomes a vampire so the children might be vampires. I've never had a vampire child in my game.

    There isn't much 'traditional' at all about my game play. I don't play to recreate real life, I play to be creative and have fun. I'm not saying playing real life scenarios isn't fun, it's just not the way I personally play to have fun. :)

    Happy Simming! <3
  • Charm Family, Glimmerbrook = Martha (3)+Darrel (5)=1 point (Actually there's also Gemma+Morgan Ember but they both have cooking at 1 :D )

    Munch Family, San Myshuno = Diana (6) + Wolfgang (1)=0 points

    Le Chien Family, Windenburg = Alice (5)+Joaquin (was it?) (3) = 0 points

    Beaumont Family, SE World (Yeah, that guy from choices, TRR :D ) Marion (3)+Maxwell (2) = 0 points

    Straud Family, Forgotten Hollow= Charlotte (1)+Vlad (no skill) = 0 points

    Aww, I get only 1 point in total :'( However this might be because I don't start with families and usually get my sims married to some pre-made after some time, then I assign all the chores to the poor guy/girl. Pre-mades have almost no skills initially so my main characters have a headstart.
  • I really do ot care which of my Sims does the household chores like cooking and taking care of the children as long as they cook for the whole family. The first one up in the morning make breakfirst, the first Sim home from work makes dinner. Only the very rich in my game like the Landgraabs have a butler, but that is a question of status not practicallity
  • Since I play mostly single sims and if they do have kids it's not until they are at least at the beginning of the adult stage. I don't want my parents being younger than their kids...unless they are vampires or spellcasters who are usually very long lived. I do have a couple of couples and both do the cooking and chores, whoever is free. Oh and I've never had a butler for my sims.
  • I'm actually far more likely to send my males to cook... But 0 points cuz I cheat all their cooking skills to LVL 10 asap so they are all on par LOL

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