"auroraael14;c-17740112" wrote:
I've played all four sims games and the sims 2 has by far the best genetics. The game actually remembers if they are born with a certain hair color. I wish the genetics worked better in the sims 4 where it has recessive and dominant genes and the game passes these genetics down through the generations but not with just eye color, but with beauty marks, teeth, and so on. There is so much they could improve upon.
I agree that genetics for recessive and dominate genes would be nice as long as there is a chance for your child to have an eye/hair color neither parents gene's carry mostly because I did take note of her comment that after playing several generations dominate features take over and that doesn't sit well with me cause I like seeing sims eith varying hair/eye colors
I do wonder how ts4 would handle genetics. In ts2 there was only 4 hair colors but ts4 has 3 brunette, 3 red, and 3 blonde. For colors of the same tone family I can see it working on scale like skins. If you mom is deep red but your dad is orange then the child can be any 3 of the red colors but if the mom is deep red but that dad is auburn then the child can only be one of those. For tone vs tone they could make brunette dominate again would all the reds and blondes be recessive, or would one be dominate over the other? Another thing would be if the dad has black hair but the mom has the dirty blonde hair why would the kid have black hair wouldn't make more sense that the kid's hair would be dark brown or chestnut since the mom's blonde hair would genetically cause the child's hair to be lighter then the dad's black? Especially since hair color and all physical traits aren't a simple 1v1 of what is dominate, it's a more complex system with multiple genes at play just for one physical attribute.
The argument could be made the reason sims in ts3 didn't have res, and dom genes is because the fact that you had a color wheel so hair/eyes could be anything so working out genes for that would be difficult. Ts4 doesn't have a color wheel but there's 12 color options for hair not including unnatural colors that would all need to have a genetic hierarchy worked out. Possible? Yes but I don't quite know how it would fully work out to be.
