Replacing children?

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.

HDJSBJA I DO SOMETHING SIMILAR
I turn on CAS.fulleditmode and edit them however I want, from scratch.
But at least they conserve all their skills/relationship/jobs etc.

I tend to age my toddlers up to young adults and tweak their genetics until they look acceptable enough to me, and age them back down, but this alters in some of my saves:

-My 100 Baby Challenge: No changing at all until they're YA and ready to age up and leave their home. The matriarch then gives them a full makeover via new clothes and a haircut to try and make them look as good as can be before venturing out into the world of adulthood. As a mum with a multitude of children to take care of at all times, she simply doesn't have time to worry about the kids hairdos, weird makeup experiments or clothing choices.

-Lovelace Legacy: No changing genetics at all, hair and clothes may be customised at any time. Since I'm more connected to the sims personally in this playthrough, I value seeing the genetics be carried through the generations etc. (Minus the current grandma who threw 150,000 simoleans away in return for some plastic surgery in an attempt to find a younger man since her late husband's passing)

-My remodelling save: I have a save where I briefly edit any sim or building that my sim visits that is dire need of help, whether through questionable fashion choices or sims that are begging for plastic surgery or just silly floorplans and interior/exterior design.

Not really, I might change hair and eye colour. Or give them buck teeth (incidentally, we need buck teeth with a gap and less exaggerated uneven teeth in the game). Never do anything else, even if they have an unfortunate nose or chin.

No. I really love to see results of genetics and even if it is an unfortunate mix I just let them be. Unless! It's a huge deformity like no chin for instance. Then when they grow up they will avail themselves of the newest technological advantage in cosmetic surgery, but I don't usually bother with anything else. Big noses, little noses, weird noses gets to stay, eyes that are maybe too close together or even too far apart get to stay, ears are left alone (yes even the dumbo ones), disporportionate faces are left alone and etc.

I might (read: will) trim eyebrows (and maybe even make them bushier) or maybe get rid of unibrows (and now that I think about it, does the game HAVE unibrows?) and definatly change hairstyles to ones that better suits their faces and/or makes them more attractive/cute and even change haircolor but that is it.

"Dreamie209;c-17039995" wrote:

"DevilNDisguise;c-17039375" wrote:
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.

This is me all the way. :lol: I have a bit of a rule in my game: "Whatever happens, happens" for most legacies. Now for random expansion testing, I might tweak townies..but not as much.

I guess it's different if you do an "Official" legacy. I never play anything like that, I just want good looking happy Sims.