Pet Genetics

I played with genetics a bit, and have concluded, that there is no gene mixing for pets, you get Coat from parent A or Coat from Parent B, if it is any of the preset breeds with predetermined coats you can get those coats in a couple colors but they are otherwise the same as parent just sometimes different color if that coat has alternate colors. And as for manually painted 'designs' or 'coats' you can have that coat pass but it will always be identical to it's parent... Super disappointing... As much as I love this pack, id have to say the genetics for the pets is just, the most shallow. I wonder if it is bugged or something?

Yeah, I'm really disappointed by the breeding genetics. I remember making wild colored animals in Sims 3 and it was exciting because you never knew what the babies were going to look like. I mean, that's most of the fun of having offspring in this game, right? It wouldn't be as exciting to have kids in the game if every time they either looked exactly like their dad or mom. I had been waiting for this expansion for so long, and it's just a bit of a let down. Hope maybe this can be tweaked at some point to allow for mixing of the genes when using crazy colors, patterns, stamps, etc.

I'm guessing it's just the nature of the two different CAPs. TS3 had those layers and stuff so what parts came and went was easier for the game to decide. I kinda wish you could layer in TS4 too then markings would pass on more easily. I don't even think custom markings on top of the presets are inherited unless it's with the coat it was originally painted on but I might need to test that out more. As for the presets, I suppose it's a bit more realistic. The same breed can produce any coat that's typical for their breed when bred together but leans more toward the parents' coats and variants of those. I actually don't mind that but the custom coat thing does sadden me! Ah well. Maybe we're lucky and it IS a bug. If not then. . . Hm. Mod potential? I dunno.

If CAP had layers that we could create, then in theory breeding would be more exciting, cuz then they could inherit the layers from each parent randomly and it would make for interesting outcomes. Maybe we will get layering later on if we are lucky oo.

I haven't had time to experiment with this yet, but I don't want the next generation to look identical to the older one and I would like to have a chance to inherit custom painted colors. Keeping an eye on this.

i havent tried it yet either but that would be nice to have pets inheriet custom paint colors.

It works the same way it does with human sims....the offspring get various parts from one parent or the other. Expecting them to somehow blend custom paint jobs on pets? That's not a very realistic expectation.

"JamesterCK;c-16158485" wrote:
Yeah, I'm really disappointed by the breeding genetics. I remember making wild colored animals in Sims 3 and it was exciting because you never knew what the babies were going to look like. I mean, that's most of the fun of having offspring in this game, right? It wouldn't be as exciting to have kids in the game if every time they either looked exactly like their dad or mom. I had been waiting for this expansion for so long, and it's just a bit of a let down. Hope maybe this can be tweaked at some point to allow for mixing of the genes when using crazy colors, patterns, stamps, etc.

The pets don't look exactly like their mom or dad either...they get a mix of features from each...for example, they may get their ears from their mom and their tail from the dad.

Color and marking variety in humans is a bit more limited than those of dogs and cats. I just think it could've been handled better to provide more genetic variety as well as extending the use of custom paint jobs. I love the paint mode so it would've been even nicer to see those details passed on in some variation, etc.

Yeah as it is now, if i were to breed the cat in my picture to say a tabby cat, its possible the kitten would have the tabby cat base as it is on the tabby cat, underneath the black markings of the cat in my picture, because her base is pure white base and it was not paint bucket, so she essentially has a marking overlay on her base coat, but its not possible to get the tabby markings over the paint, and it is also not possible to get a custom paint marking over or under another custom paint marking, it is only one or the other, and varied based on what ever their base is before the custom paint. And of course it would inherit a variety of physical features from both parents naturally.

I still don't have the game in my hands, because there was a -deadly to me- delay with the pre-orders in my local shop, but from what I've seen in other videos, I think it works just like the way it does with human Sims. Some siblings are born identical (monozygotic twins), other siblings get various traits and characteristics from both of their parents. I think, in some videos, a couple of puppies/kittens were born completely identical in numerous occasions and, to be quite honest, I'd prefer a little more variery. I haven't tested the genetics system on my own yet, though. Happy Simming, friends!