Replacing children?

I haven't replaced any children, but I have edited them in CAS, so I can understand why you do. My main sim couple adopted their baby, and once she became a toddler, I aged her up in CAS and made a few little tweaks before ageing her down again. This wasn't just to ensure she looked cute, but also to ensure she looked how I envisioned her in my head, e.g. blonde hair, blue eyes, freckles etc. and was now my own 'creation'. I often have a picture in my head of how my characters/sims look, so I will edit them if needed to get as close to that picture as possible.

I have another couple that I plan to have a daughter. It will be interesting to see how their genetics mix and come into play. They're both very beautiful, so their children should be beautiful too, but I'm not sure how true that is in The Sims world. I wouldn't replace her if she wasn't, but I might give the birth a few tries before saving until I'm happy with her. I wouldn't want to edit her face as I want her to look like her parents, but I might then change her body shape, hair and eye colour if needed (these would all still match one parent though). I later plan for her to have a son and want him to strongly resemble his grandfather, as this is a important part of the story. Therefore I might clone the grandfather if needed/the genetics aren't right and make the clone the father - I know that's pretty messed up, but if I do this I will delete the clone once the baby is born and make his father in CAS - perhaps using play with genetics first, then editing as needed. Something else I sometimes do, if I'm happy to skip the baby stage, is use play with genetics and give my couples children/toddlers in CAS. I hope in the future we will be able to create babies in this way too.

I have definitely done this. For some reason, the sims has a habit of making all the new toddlers in my game redheads.... While I don’t dislike redheads, I also would like more variety in my game. So I tend to go and edit the kids to look more accurately like their parents.

No, but not because of any altruism on my part. Its merely because I want to see the end result and I can't do that if I alter the progeny. I want to see how the end of a thing turns out (even if I have no clear cut idea when/why I might end a save.) Unfortunate looking sims don't necessarily always have unfortunate looking children. Sometimes the odd mix they either inherited or just randomly 'lucked' into, make all the difference in the next generation. :p

"Elaineenicolee;c-17039266" wrote:
I have definitely done this. For some reason, the sims has a habit of making all the new toddlers in my game redheads.... While I don’t dislike redheads, I also would like more variety in my game. So I tend to go and edit the kids to look more accurately like their parents.

Do you often use unnatural hair colors for your adults or cc hairs? This might be why you have many redheads. I find in my game that Non Maxis Match cc's or sims who have blue, green, or pink maxis default hairs often have redhead children for some reason. Not sure why... Its actually how I determine if a kid was supposed to have a specific sim's genetic markers. A red head gets born to a sim with green hair and a spouse with some other, non red hair, I figure was supposed to be green but since child and below sims can't have green pink or blue hair, it defaults to red.

Nah. I’m very strict with myself on keeping the genetics going in my game. When it comes to my own Sims, I don’t really edit their appearances.

I do edit their faces most of the times, even if it's just small tweaks, but I never replace them with a completely different and random sim.

Well sometimes when you age them up in CAS they will look one way, but if go out of CAS and back in and repeat aging them up they most times than not look completely different from the first time you aged the child up. I know ive peeked on a few of my toddlers, like Paolo Rocco’s kids; the first time I aged his daughter up she was very “manly” looking inheriting his chin. So I went out and back in, and the second time she looked more like her mother, which was a relief. So it can be changed if you are unhappy with initial turn out.

I don't think I could replace a sim of any age once I've played with it a few minutes. Delete and forget, yes, but not replace with a new actor.
To prevent that I hardly ever go through natural pregnancy. Most of my sims' offspring gets created via Play with genetics (as teens, so that I get a good impression of what they will look like, then aged down while still in CAS). I have a preference for sims who are a near-average mix of their parents, not fond of them looking too much like one of them only.

So, yes, I get where you are coming from!

I am usually fine with how they turn out and only very rarely change how they look.... Unless it's a total disaster in which case I make the few tweaks I need to, change the age back down to the toddler stage and voila :D Crisis averted. That being said, I actually almost never take a peek, so it's still really rare that this happens.

"JasonPogo;d-958520" wrote:
So I have fallen into the habit of checking what my sims kids will look like as adults once they become toddlers. As many of you know the often get an unfortunate mix of traits from their parents.

So now I will just use cas to randomize a good looking kid and replace the toddler with the new one.

Dose anyone else do this? I kinda feel bad about it but at the same time like not having a bunch of scary looking sims around....

Definitely. If weird looking enough. In this game apparently Lucy's genes (despite having a pointy cute chin) her genes decided that 90% of he children would have zero chin. Zero.

Honestly, I didn't know one could do this until just now. So my answer would have to be no. :p

What I have done is check what the kiddo will look like in CAS, and tweak some features if needed. Can't find any pics, but had to do a serious overhaul on a friend of one of my Sims. Poor girl had no chin, but monstrous lips. Looked like a fish before I worked my magic.