Science Babies

"EmmaVane;c-18236780" wrote:

"Atreya33;c-18236724" wrote:
I think science babies are a very good feature to add to the game. It allows for a lot of different stories. It would have been nice if there was an option to let the player choose to experience a pregnancy for the science baby or a waiting time.

Maybe they had to choose one or the other due to time constraints and picked the one that's most versatile.

I think they might have chosen this option, because it’s simpler in terms of coding.

If they had implemented the option of a visible pregnancy then if you played for instance a male couple and you wanted to tell the story that they were good friends with let’s say Bella (as she was used in the stream a lot) and they made arrangements with her that she would carry their baby, then the game would have to recognize that this baby couldn’t stay with her and Mortimer upon delivery. And if say you have GtW then you’d probably like there to be the option of having your male couple accompany Bella to the hospital for the delivery, but it would also mean more coding and again for the game to recognize that the baby should then be transferred to your male couple and not to stay with Bella. Also if you chose to switch households during the time of the pregnancy, and wanted to have her have the baby at the hospital, it might complicate things further in terms of the game having to remember that this baby should actually be handed over to your male couple instead.

I’m not saying it wouldn’t have made for some sweet and heartwarming gameplay that would have allowed players to play out these types of stories to the fullest, but I also think it would have made the coding part a lot more complicated, and they came up with a solution that enables you to create something along the lines of those stories, but in a way which was easier for them to implement.