This was all excellent advice. I was really struck by your comment, "Let Sims be ugly." I have a real problem with this. It all started when I decided Vlad should have children of his own. He married Cat Cove. A beautiful and evil vampire. Together they produced the ugliest Sim child I have ever seen in my entire life. No words to describe the thing. It was just hideous. I tried very hard to nurture it, but I just couldn't. I scratched the save. I then decided to try again to give the couple some children. This time I had an idea to make the children in CAS, something I've never done. After adding the parents in the genetics and pressing random child approximately 1000 times a beautiful, adorable boy appeared. So cute, with pointy elf ears from his mother. So I kept the child, and then for what felt like several hours later of clicking random child again, I was able to produce a beautiful teenage girl for a big sister. But then I started to do this for so many other ugly Sims. Now all the Sims in my save who have children have very cute children. I like so much how they look, but there is this feeling of loss in me. I didn't get to play out the pregnancy aspect of family game play. I didn't get to play them raising the children from toddler years. And now I want to start a new save for the new pack, but I don't know what to do. When I download my families and their cute kids from the gallery into the game, I miss the pregnancy and raising of them. When I don't, and see the ugly kids they create themselves, I miss the cute ones waiting in the gallery. I am conflicted now. What should I do?
