(I'm sorry if this is posted in the wrong place, I couldn't find anywhere to post this)My friend keeps having this issue in her games where her other played households in the same save file keep having a lot of babies when she's not playing them. Like, she'll be playing in one household for a while, then switch to another one that is saved in the same file/world to check on them, and all of the sudden there's too many babies for a sane person to handle. A lot of the time, the babies come from other fathers 😬 It happens to her in EVERY one of her games. It hasn't happened to me at all (yet, who knows) but I've been desperately trying to find answers for this issue for her. She does have MC Command Center. Someone on the EA Answers HQ forums suggested "skip played family" in the MCCC settings but I could only find "bypass played households" which is set to enabled. She has aging set to "only active household." I'm really at a loss here... this has been happening to her ever since she started playing the sims 4 just a few months ago. At first it was funny but now it's starting to get concerning

What do you mean by a lot of babies? Are we talking 7+ or 3, because if it's 3-4 then that's pretty standard for a single female sim if you're using the default settings in MCCC. At least, it was for me before I changed the MCCC settings.In MCCC there's an option to set the pregnancy percentage. For instance, you can set the chance that a YA will get pregnant to 10% and change the chances of an adult getting pregnant by 5%. Just go to MCCC > MC Pregnancy > Pregnant Sim Selection > Pregnancy Percentage. Set it for 0% for all ages if you don't want random pregnancies, because the default is 20%. MCCC also chooses who impregnates who at random if you have certain settings. Make sure your friend has set the option to bypass active romances, meaning sims in a relationship won't just get pregnant by whoever, and disallow homeless sims as eligible when a sim randomly chooses who to have a baby with. Also, it might be helpful to turn on the notifications for all sims to alert your friend of a pregnancy. That way, if one happens, she can immediately find that pregnant sim and stop it.

@gemjas I'm talking one of her sim's husbands had 6 babies at a time in his household... that he had with another sim o.o Sometimes it ends up being 6 or 7, but most of the time its 3-4 babies at a time. I've only had triplets once in my game and I rarely get twins, so it was really shocking to see her constantly getting triplets and more at one time. I gave her your advice, though! Thank you so much!

You’re welcome :) And, by the way, you can also reduce the triplets with MCCC. Go to MCCC > MC Pregnancy > Offspring > Maximum Offspring. This limits the number of babies you can possibly have at once.And to clarify something else I said: you will never get a notification about other households until you go into the notification settings and manually set it to “all.” If a sim you don’t want pregnant suddenly is, summon them and then select the sim and go to MC Pregnancy > Pregnancy Phase > Pregnancy End. I hope that helps! MCCC is a huge mod that can do sooo many things, but it’s also the likely cause of the many random pregnancies. Just adjust the settings and things should get better. If you go to the overview page (https://deaderpool-mccc.com/#/doc/overview) and search for the word “pregnancy” you can see all the functions.

Wow! I might just have to look into adding MCCC to my game. My play style is exactly the same as the OP's friend. I play one household but most of my other households are relatives that I invite over for get togethers but rarely do I load those households. I was planning on adding children to some of them and thought I'd have to play through the pregnancies. With MCCC are you able to name the child when you receive notification of the birth?

"simgirl1010;c-16894983" wrote:Wow! I might just have to look into adding MCCC to my game. My play style is exactly the same as the OP's friend. I play one household but most of my other households are relatives that I invite over for get togethers but rarely do I load those households. I was planning on adding children to some of them and thought I'd have to play through the pregnancies. With MCCC are you able to name the child when you receive notification of the birth?It's a terrific mod. I have yet to fully explore all that it can do. But, I love it.

Other PLAYED households progressing and having kids when not played

16 Replies

kaeyresky
7 years ago
"ValentineSimmer;d-953572" wrote:
Like, she'll be playing in one household for a while, then switch to another one that is saved in the same file/world to check on them, and all of the sudden there's too many babies for a sane person to handle.

This is very vague. Surely she isn't opening up households which just suddenly fill up with babies? Are people getting pregnant? Are there notifications for the pregnancies? For the births? What exactly is going on? Is it just MCCC or are there other mods?

With just this information, the only advice I can really give is standard troubleshooting. Take out the mods, delete localthumbcache, repair the game. Go read through the documentation for whichever MCCC Modules you wish to install, and install them fresh. Then go into the game and reconfigure the settings from scratch to do whatever you want them to do.
gemjasmine
7 years ago
What do you mean by a lot of babies? Are we talking 7+ or 3, because if it's 3-4 then that's pretty standard for a single female sim if you're using the default settings in MCCC. At least, it was for me before I changed the MCCC settings.

In MCCC there's an option to set the pregnancy percentage. For instance, you can set the chance that a YA will get pregnant to 10% and change the chances of an adult getting pregnant by 5%. Just go to MCCC > MC Pregnancy > Pregnant Sim Selection > Pregnancy Percentage. Set it for 0% for all ages if you don't want random pregnancies, because the default is 20%.

MCCC also chooses who impregnates who at random if you have certain settings. Make sure your friend has set the option to bypass active romances, meaning sims in a relationship won't just get pregnant by whoever, and disallow homeless sims as eligible when a sim randomly chooses who to have a baby with.

Also, it might be helpful to turn on the notifications for all sims to alert your friend of a pregnancy. That way, if one happens, she can immediately find that pregnant sim and stop it.
eterhnite
7 years ago
@gemjas
I'm talking one of her sim's husbands had 6 babies at a time in his household... that he had with another sim o.o Sometimes it ends up being 6 or 7, but most of the time its 3-4 babies at a time. I've only had triplets once in my game and I rarely get twins, so it was really shocking to see her constantly getting triplets and more at one time. I gave her your advice, though! Thank you so much!
eterhnite
7 years ago
@Cupid
I guess it's hard to explain but I'll try to further. She likes to play her save files by placing in multiple households but really only focuses on one household at a time, often times really only playing the one household and using the others that she placed as relationships for her main sims (such as friends or family members that live out of the house). What we both did recently was completely erase every sim in the save file's population and place households of our own to make up the entire population instead. Since she's not playing the other households and is only focused on one, she lets them just exist in their homes in the neighborhood while she focuses on one family. Sometimes she'll hover over their names of the other households and notice that someone is pregnant or there's the baby bottle icon. She's not playing them so she's not trying to get anyone pregnant. She never gets the notification that anyone is pregnant or giving birth in the extra households because she's not playing in them when the pregnancy happens. And as far as I know, she only has MCCC.
gemjasmine
7 years ago
You’re welcome :)

And, by the way, you can also reduce the triplets with MCCC. Go to MCCC > MC Pregnancy > Offspring > Maximum Offspring. This limits the number of babies you can possibly have at once.

And to clarify something else I said: you will never get a notification about other households until you go into the notification settings and manually set it to “all.” If a sim you don’t want pregnant suddenly is, summon them and then select the sim and go to MC Pregnancy > Pregnancy Phase > Pregnancy End.

I hope that helps! MCCC is a huge mod that can do sooo many things, but it’s also the likely cause of the many random pregnancies. Just adjust the settings and things should get better. If you go to the overview page (https://deaderpool-mccc.com/#/doc/overview) and search for the word “pregnancy” you can see all the functions.
simgirl1010
Hero
7 years ago
Wow! I might just have to look into adding MCCC to my game. My play style is exactly the same as the OP's friend. I play one household but most of my other households are relatives that I invite over for get togethers but rarely do I load those households. I was planning on adding children to some of them and thought I'd have to play through the pregnancies. With MCCC are you able to name the child when you receive notification of the birth?
GalacticGal
Legend
7 years ago
"simgirl1010;c-16894983" wrote:
Wow! I might just have to look into adding MCCC to my game. My play style is exactly the same as the OP's friend. I play one household but most of my other households are relatives that I invite over for get togethers but rarely do I load those households. I was planning on adding children to some of them and thought I'd have to play through the pregnancies. With MCCC are you able to name the child when you receive notification of the birth?

It's a terrific mod. I have yet to fully explore all that it can do. But, I love it.
burnished_dragon
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Great mod but I still have trouble with settings too. I still have not figure out how to get it to bypass certain families or certain sims. I took a few "relatives" off my rotation and low and behold they decided to have another child. I haven't checked yet but they did have 3 boys, wonder if this one is a girl lol. My biggest thing is the played households aging up when I am not playing them. I thought I had the right item checked but it seems to still be happening. Miss a few milestone birthdays. Still though my elder sims seem to be living forever
JaggidEdje
7 years ago
"simgirl1010;c-16894983" wrote:
. With MCCC are you able to name the child when you receive notification of the birth?

Yes, @Simgirl1010, that is one of the options you can turn on in the mod. It is disabled by default though, so you have to go in and turn it on when you start using the mod.
simgirl1010
Hero
7 years ago
"Stormkeep;c-16895192" wrote:
"simgirl1010;c-16894983" wrote:
. With MCCC are you able to name the child when you receive notification of the birth?

Yes, @Simgirl1010, that is one of the options you can turn on in the mod. It is disabled by default though, so you have to go in and turn it on when you start using the mod.

Thanks @Stormkeep. Do you know if you're able to specify the child's sex before birth? Most of my families are based on real life people I know so I'd like to keep it authentic.