Rotation with Babies Question.

Babies don't age up on their own, it's just the pregnancy. Unless you have aging on of course.

If you're playing rotationally, make sure you have aging on for the active household only. I play with 10 families, and the babies stay babies until I come back to the household.

"NRowe;d-971925" wrote:
I made the mistake in a previous project of leaving a pregnant Sim (or two) when it was time to rotate to the next household.
This can lead to the disappointment of the baby being born (and subsequently named) while ‘away’

What I can’t remember is if babies (being essentially objects and not Sims) age up while playing a different household?

Yes they will age-up if away. Like @MVWdeZT said, you can turn off aging-up in un-played households in game settings. Since I manually put up the aging, I don't mind if they age up since I may just let a household do their own thing while I play others. I get what you're saying though. That was a problem for me when I started. I didn't know you had that option to turn on or off so I manually just kept increasing the age span for each age group. I even have pregnancy at 12 days now because I don't like having babies spamming all over the place all at once, lol!

And yes it is kind of nice to be there when the baby is born, and to age up the baby to toddler while playing a current household.

As for the names, you should be able to change it to whatever you want in CAS. (Where you edit households)

I'm changing Olivia Kim-Lewis and her offspring to last-name Kimlew.

"MVWdeZT;c-17383604" wrote:
If you're playing rotationally, make sure you have aging on for the active household only. I play with 10 families, and the babies stay babies until I come back to the household.

This, if you turn aging on for your played sims you need to choose the active household only option then your sims only age while you’re playing them once you rotate away the aging process freezes until you return. If I don’t feel like dealing with infant sims, I mark the family unplayed and rotate away until the baby ages up.

I turned off aging, but it has not solved the issues that I have sending my Sims to college.

"Lquinn;c-17383823" wrote:
I turned off aging, but it has not solved the issues that I have sending my Sims to college.

Are you saying your active Sims are continuing to age, even though you have aging off? Hm. Have you checked to see that you don't have it set for active household only?

I've yet to put my own 'fix' into place. I will be having four siblings attend university at the same time and stay in the same dorm. When I first played DU, I misread how to select classes and thought a Sim was limited to two courses, tops. I have since learned otherwise. Now, I may change it to three courses to help expedite the education process, but since the eldest will age to YA and then two Sim days later the next one, wash, rinse, repeat, until all four are of age, this will make the eldest at least eight days into his YA years, and that's before they enter uni. My intention is to, in the opposite order, age them all back down to YA, wiping the time spent away. Some degrees only take four years to complete, and many start uni at age 18. Therefore, they'd still be YAs with years ahead of them by the time they graduate.

Thanks all! B)

You can always just rename the baby testingcheats on cas.fulleditmode and then hold shift and click on the baby and select modify in CAS

"Dannakyri1;c-17384016" wrote:
You can always just rename the baby testingcheats on cas.fulleditmode and then hold shift and click on the baby and select modify in CAS

Without using testingcheats, you can change the name once the baby is no longer a 'thing', but rather a 'person' as a toddler.

Without using testingcheats on cas.fulleditmode, you're stuck with whatever gender, traits, and "genetics" the game put in though. But at least the toddler's trait isn't permanent.

What I do with the rotational games is that once someone becomes pregnant I concentrate on that Sim family for 7 days. I meet the needs of the mother during pregnancy and then spend 3-4 days with mother and baby, dealing with the disruption and the needs of everyone and then on about day 4 of the baby's life, age it up to toddler and then the household routine and work can continue.