Science Babies

"Amapola76;d-1006849" wrote:
First off, I want to say that I love this addition, and I am very excited about the gameplay opportunities this will add. I'm looking forward to using it in my game, and also I'm looking forward to all the creative ways everyone else will find to use it.

That being said, I was a little sad that in the livestream, it sounded like they said that the science babies just instantly appear as soon as you make the selection.

@EA_Cade, can you clarify whether that is correct or whether I just misheard/misunderstood? And if it is the case, I would be very appreciative if you could pass on the concerns below.

My concern... and I want to be very clear, with this particular group of developers, I don't think this would be at all intentional, and could just be an oversight, which is why I wanted to point it out.. but it makes it feel like the message is that our single parents by choice, or same sex couples, or platonic besties who decide to co-parent, don't deserve the full experience of a pregnancy, baby showers, birth in a hospital, and all the usual things that go into preparing to have a baby. And that makes me a little sad.

Again, I want to reiterate that I am thrilled that the team was thoughtful enough to include this option, which we haven't seen in previous Sims games (outside of cheats or mods), so I am hoping that either I misunderstood or this is something that could be tweaked.

You do understand that you can be pregnant in this game right now with single parent and same-sex couple, right? Just go into CAS and change one person’s ability to get others pregnant/become pregnant. Make single person woohoo with the partner then ask to be friends or broke up and boom, done. This option is for sims who physically can’t get others pregnant or carry the pregnancy (and players want to do it more realistically) or just sims who want to have a baby but no belly for 3+ days. If you like pregnancy, just don’t use this option, but please don’t try to take it away from other players.

There is actually a group of people that don’t like pregnancy and don’t want their female sims to change physically or go through this. Or people who play trans sims. And up till this point the only option for us was adoption or making a baby through CAS.

It’s great this update allows bringing baby via gameplay as people who don’t like pregnancy and say it out loud seem to be always portrait as villains. If devs change it, because of that kind of complains as yours, I’m sure me and a bunch of people would be very, very disappointed. Unless pregnancy is a choice and we still have the ability to just bring science baby home, I will just make my sims adopt and ignore the updated feature.