I'm very unhappy with how my Erik Cantrell game save is turning out. I didn't intervene with the birth of his children, inasmuch as the first child was a boy. I did try to make certain the second child would be the twin girls, I got unexpectedly in an earlier save — the point I'm trying to get back to — the twins ended up as triplets, to my chagrin. I failed to check the gender for the next two pregnancies. I did get a boy as the 'fifth' child, but the sixth child was another girl. Now it was sweet that the parents named her for her recently deceased maternal grandmother, but still. I'm really very unhappy with it. It occurs to me I could take them all into cas.fulleditmode and change out the name of the last girl and change the gender of the third 'twin'. Or I could roll back the save to when the couple has their very first child and try again? What are your thoughts?

Or Should I just have them go for Ten kids?

If it matters that much , I would edit them.But who knows how your high school save turns out?

Maybe keep everything as is, then work that into the story, like say a dream one of the parents had, that way these kids are technically part of your story and if you go back to your other save and want to keep playing that, then it makes sense in your current story about who these kids were

You should certainly do what feels right to you, but maybe play the Flashback save and see if something new and interesting takes shape.

You've been playing this same sim over and over for several years, right? So it seems like a safe bet you'll return to him again and again for future saves. Given that that's the case, if you want every save to be exactly the same, you should edit the kids, but if you don't care whether this particular iteration is a little different, you could just roll with it. There's always next time, or the next after that.

Should I Edit My Sims' Children? RESOLVED!

GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Or Should I just have them go for Ten kids?
Ellupelluellu
Hero
3 years ago
If it matters that much , I would edit them.

But who knows how your high school save turns out?
Chicklet45368
Rising Traveler
3 years ago
Maybe keep everything as is, then work that into the story, like say a dream one of the parents had, that way these kids are technically part of your story and if you go back to your other save and want to keep playing that, then it makes sense in your current story about who these kids were
luciusstorm
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
You should certainly do what feels right to you, but maybe play the Flashback save and see if something new and interesting takes shape.
amapola76
Rising Vanguard
3 years ago
You've been playing this same sim over and over for several years, right? So it seems like a safe bet you'll return to him again and again for future saves. Given that that's the case, if you want every save to be exactly the same, you should edit the kids, but if you don't care whether this particular iteration is a little different, you could just roll with it. There's always next time, or the next after that.
User_577435777
3 years ago
I don't think you should be stuck with the looks or traits you don't want. I got a mod that lets me add locked traits on Sims and lots, and I love it. My hero witch can be brave and have an ancient bloodline without even being born in the game. Even better, I am no longer subject to just three traits.

In other words, play it your way. ;)
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
"Gamer_34567544;c-18146706" wrote:
I don't think you should be stuck with the looks or traits you don't want. I got a mod that lets me add locked traits on Sims and lots, and I love it. My hero witch can be brave and have an ancient bloodline without even being born in the game. Even better, I am no longer subject to just three traits.

In other words, play it your way. ;)

Thank you for that. I think I'll continue to mull it over for now. I took a look at the baby Kayleigh is carrying, currently. It's a boy, but that gives them seven children. (Yeah, I have a mod for that.)

ETA: Oh, the kids are beautiful, it's not that at all. It's the gender and the birth order that has me vexed. I could feasibly go into cas.fulleditmode and make Cadence, the third triplet, into a Toddler, again. Change Carina into Peter, even if I have to delete her and have the parents generate another biological child in CAS. (I hear sometimes changing a Sims' gender in CAS can cause problems.) Don't know if that's true or not, but why go to all of the trouble, when I can create a whole new Sim Toddler for them, right? Before I would do this, I would carefully write down their skills/levels et al, so they are the same, only different.
NateWhiplash
Seasoned Vanguard
3 years ago
TS4 is a fantasy game, a dollhouse if you will; I say make them look however you'd like them to look
DaniRose2143
Hero
3 years ago
Go ahead with the flashback story and see what comes of that. If you don't get what you're looking for, then go into CAS and make the changes you need. I wouldn't roll back and lose all that Erik has accomplished and have to redo it all. CAS is your friend, your assistant, and your fixer-upperer.
Daephene1
New Spectator
3 years ago
If you change the gender in CAS, make sure you edit the voice also and it would be a good idea to age them up in CAS and edit their features if they were going to grow up with a particularly masculine or feminine facial structure. Then age them back down. Some of that stuff is set when they are toddlers and doesn't change just because you switch the gender tag.