Townie family generation, curious
Salim Benali has been starting to get a little friendlier with his good friend Tanvi Savalani, who I think is a randomly generated townie. He knew she was a stay-at-home mom. I moved Tanvi and her chi...
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"verlainem;c-17927218" wrote:"derevaun;c-17905489" wrote:
Do you have MCCC? On its default settings it's like it's obsessed with broken homes and non-sequitur affairs. It renames families patrilineally by default. Looking at NPC family trees can be a rude awakening!
omg you are so right. It splits the families I put together with kids and will split the kids between the parents. I need to figure out how stop it
For me it never makes new families from existing randos I've had around. BUT... over time It will slowly have people divorce and if I made a couple where one adult is a biological parent and other a step parent MCCC seems to prefer giving the step parent custody... like, 100% prefer it so far. But my sample size is limited to 3 here because I've only just started giving partners to single parents and the cases where I made the other parent a step parent rather than using genetics to 'fabricate dad' were fewer.
I use the 'WW' mod (Wonderful/... Whims) and I think it is this mod that turned the whole new 'likes' system from Dream Home Decorator into an attraction system... so when I make the 'magical dads' I go in and give each parent a stack of likes based on the other parents appearance, fashion, hair, etc... then I visit the family once with a played sim so everyone 'loads' their relationships - that seems to be preventing MCCC from causing those couple to divorce but it also means I have an unusually high number of 'way too happily compatible' couples...
Like MCCC thinks you either need to be each other's obsessive dream boat fantasy, or it's straight to divorce court if you so much as don't like how much milk to other person puts in their coffee... (I can turn this off BTW - I only turned on MCCC's relationship decay last week, and now that I see how it ends up working I'm thinking of turning it off, because even though I thought I tuned it very low it's over-doing it in the results).
That said... I've tuned down a LOT of MCCCs default "fixing" settings because they "break" rather than "fix" for what I'm seeking. And I've then gone and turned on a LOT of it's other settings - like the ones to clean out makeup and piercings because the game seems to think my Sims is set on the stage of a Drag Queen show in Portland in the 90s... Sooo much glam and piercings in Sim4 default CAS townie creation it's insane.
MCCC is great, covers over a LOT of flaws in the base game; but I'd prefer if they had everything 'turned off by default'.
