"sazzieJ;c-16845506" wrote:
YES YES YES! ALL THE YES!!! i also only play one household per save and get super annoyed that my sims have generational legacies but no-one else does. the townies and neighbor sims just hog up houses and die then becoming ghosts also hogging up said houses. its ok in forgotten hollow, because vampires, but other developer created families like the goths will just die out and be lost to annuls of time.
this however IMO covers the fine line that is story progression Y/N and allows a neighborhood to constantly refresh new sims and continue premade sims legacys
Good to hear you like the idea! Rather than lose ones composure in the ever present battle for S.P, I thought about a compromise that would be easier for the Guru's and DEV team, whilst allowing us, the simmers, to feel they've actually taken on board our requests and delivered to some extent.
It's not perfect, obviously the design and coding teams will need to see what can be done with all of this, BUT, I imagine it working sort of as a biological clock, of course you design who can procreate and such, but for those ABLE to have families, the game goes by whose closer to passing that time scale. or perhaps it goes by traits and aspirations!
Say you have a sim who wants a big family or they have a certain trait which could be added via patches such as nurturing or something like that, the game looks at those traits and decides who most likely will have a baby, whilst also occasionally cursing those with the anti kids trait to suffer a surprise pregnancy.
Personally, I like the biological clock concept, game counts down the days to ageing up and thinks "OH PLUM SO AND SO IS GETTING OLD, TIME TO POP A BUN IN THAT OVEN", again, you get to choose which households can and can't have babies, then the game does its thing and bing bang boodles, baby time! Twins, single or triplets, that is as random as it is usually.
Maybe, for a joke, you can witness a childs conception (That sounds wrong, lemme explain): Say you have a party, one couple sneaks off, you hear that familiar rattling of a bed, closet, bush, vault, etc, and they come down all happy and loved up, then once they leave you wait a day or so and maybe bump into them on the street, and speaking of bumps, you notice one partner is expecting, yes this works as long as one partner is able to become pregnant whilst the other is able to make others pregnant, so man, woman, neither, both, whatever, long as you have both components, it can happen.
For more puns, maybe you get a phonecall either thanking you, blaming you or simply announcing your party was involved in the creation of little Jim-Bob-Buttons, The gags go on but you get the idea.
Feel free to add more concepts but this, for starters, is just how I imagine it working.
Again, happy to hear you like it!
