What's on YOUR Wish List?

[cwykes]

In base game you couldn't merge households, so any family you created had to be moved into a lot on it's own.  I guess they haven't touched the coding for CAS since they added the merge household function.  That was Uni I think.... a long time ago!

Extending Tsarina's point a bit further, it's annoying that parents and children have to be in separate age groups.  I want to be able to make an elderly couple with elderly offspring, or an adult couple with an adult "child" as well as a teen/kid and baby.

[Inge]

Well it's easy enough to age up the offspring you want to be in the same agegroup as their parents.  Not so easy to make a teen parent though.

[Zazazu]

Spawn the sim modder and set age...teen on the parent.

[Tsarina]

I think she meant adult parents having an adult child AND a teen child.

[talysman]

That's just another permutation. Make an elderly parent, an adult child, and a teen child. Change the age of the elderly parent to adult.

[Inge]

No it's easier the other way round.  Make a parent and two teen children.  Then age up one of the children to adult as soon as you get into the game.

[Ellatrue]

I'm frustrated that you can't have an adult sibling caring for a younger teen, etc.

[cwykes]

What I was really getting at is that it's annoying having to find a work around to create the family you want to create.  CAS ought to let you do what you want in the first place.

[Kazzandra]

Exactly. Just last night I created a Sim I will have to delete properly so that she could "have" a bunch of toddlers that were third-generation in my old hood. That way I could deliver them to their proper parents. If memories mattered, I would be screwed.

[kuronue]

I hate when, mid-movie, I revise the script to include a flashback to childhood or toddlerhood - I can easily grab my pre-made sim and age her down, but I can't just make that one sim and add it to the family >.> for babies/toddlers ,since they look so generic, I tend to use the tombstone to spawn a new family member or (if there's going to be closeups) impregnate the sim with someone with similar looks and then use the mirror to ensure the appropriate hair and accessories get on the kid. I also can't make more than 2 generations of a family in the same house without SimPE, or in multiple houses without simPE - once I went in and adjusted all the relationships and ages so they were staggered, the older teen sibling had less days than the younger teen sibling, et cetera, but it took a long time and eventually I decided it was too much work to do on a regular basis. And then there's the issue of making stepparents - I can't set the child to be the wife's daughter without making her also the husband's and vice versa. No half-siblings? *sighs*

[notveryawesome]

What I was really getting at is that it's annoying having to find a work around to create the family you want to create.  CAS ought to let you do what you want in the first place.

I take it, then, that CAS won't let you create a family the normal way, and then age certain sims in CAS once the children are created? I've never actually tried aging parent or child sims in CAS (as opposed to single sims), so I don't know if it would work, but CAS does allow you to change a sim's age once the sim is created (before you save to the neighbourhood, of course). I'd think that if, say, you wanted elderly sims with a teenage child, you could just create two adults, create a child, and then age everybody appropriately. Does this not work in CAS?

ETA: I wish that regular CAS worked the way Uni CAS works. I like to have extended families living together, but it's such a pain having to create the bride's and groom's families separately, move them in together, have the wedding, have the children, etc. It would be so much simpler if I could just create separate sims with different surnames and different family relations in one big group, like in Uni. I don't know why EAxis never implemented this. It seems like it would've been simple to do.

[maxon]

I take it, then, that CAS won't let you create a family the normal way, and then age certain sims in CAS once the children are created? I've never actually tried aging parent or child sims in CAS (as opposed to single sims), so I don't know if it would work, but CAS does allow you to change a sim's age once the sim is created (before you save to the neighbourhood, of course). I'd think that if, say, you wanted elderly sims with a teenage child, you could just create two adults, create a child, and then age everybody appropriately. Does this not work in CAS?

No, in CAS if you have a child you HAVE to have an adult to be the parent, not an elder.  Parent-Child relationships in CAS only go one step up or down the age groups.

[Liz]

I take it, then, that CAS won't let you create a family the normal way, and then age certain sims in CAS once the children are created?

The problem comes when you go to "set family relations" before you save the family and exit CAS. If there are any children (toddlers to teens) present, it prompts you to assign them a parent before you exit. You can, after you set this, change the adult parent to an elder, but that automatically breaks the ties you've set. The kid will be parentless again, and the dance starts over. Given that female sims can have babies until right before they age up and males can father spawn until the day they die, it'd be nice if they remembered that the game itself allows for elderly parents of toddlers and coded CAS accordingly.

Then again, it'd be *nice* if they did a lot of things that make sense... 

[Liz]

*not double-posting; it's been 2 days*

Taking one of my sims to my remodeled Crypt o' Night Club, I've just been forcefully reminded of 2 more items from my Wish List, and they're both dance-related. One, for a way to keep sims from getting stuck with that horrible, constipated Spockface after they Dance With someone. Two, something to smite that task-stompinating "cuckoo" gesture that every single person in the club is Shanghaied into doing every four fricking seconds when there's a spaz on the dance floor. There's *always* a spaz on the dance floor. Give the twirlyfingered ridicule a rest and talk to your damned date already.

/vent

[Heodez]

My one wish would be to have the Community time hack available without EPs after OFB.
Sigh.
It's the best hack ever I found on this site along with no20Khandout.

[Blueblood]

I thought of something I would like to have last night. I suck incredibly at thinking of names for spawnlings, so I was thinking it would be awesome if a random name showed up in the Baby Girl/Boy box, like how Servos spawned from debug mode already have a name attached. That would save me a lot of looking around at everything in my room for five minutes in the hopes that a great name will suddenly come to me. But then I end up with something lame like Steve.

[floopyboo]

Not quite what you're after, but this is what I use when I'm stumped.

[Kyna]

Also not quite what you're looking for, but I use Hook's randomiser.  Somewhere in that thread you'll find name lists that people have posted.

[LadyArgonna]

With damn near every family in my custom hood dropping twins, I second, heartily, that random name suggester. But I keep a baby name book and a phone book handy to find first and last names in a hurry.
I would also like to see the Exchange problem fixed, so I could download some nice families and give them a try. (I am way too unAwesome to know exactly what the problem is, but I do know it is a VBT.)
And is it me, or did the wallpaper and flooring sections sort themselves by custom first, lowest to highest priced, then the rest of the selection, lowest to highest priced in base game? I could have sworn that before Nightlife, I saw this in the catalogs. Now, they're jumbled in any old which-a-ways. Would be nice if that could get fixed.

[notveryawesome]

The problem with installing ready-made families from the Exchange is that, if any member of the family has met any other sims from outside the family (or been gossiped to about them), then they have a memory of those outside sims and/or a relationship with them. When you install the family into a different neighbourhood, those other sims that they've met aren't there, and this can corrupt the sims' memories, as well as all kinds of other stuff, eventually leading to a BFBVFS. Don't do it. Ever.

[Lerf]

To be able to sort commercial lots from residential lots in the houses bin.

[Ambular]

To be able to sort commercial lots from residential lots in the houses bin.

You can.  Read this entire thread for the info: http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php/topic,263.msg7379.html#msg7379

[FourCats]

I wish:
to be able to precisely control the ages of the sims made in cas.   I make a couple, but what if I want him to be 3 days older than her.  I give them lots of children, but  I don't want them to be twins, triplets, etc.

So on and so forth.

[Kyna]

I wish:
to be able to precisely control the ages of the sims made in cas.   I make a couple, but what if I want him to be 3 days older than her.  I give them lots of children, but  I don't want them to be twins, triplets, etc.

So on and so forth.

Once you have the family on a lot, shift-click on the lot sync timer while in debug mode.  It has the option to add/remove days from the currently selected sim.

[jsalemi]

to be able to precisely control the ages of the sims made in cas.   I make a couple, but what if I want him to be 3 days older than her. 

There are tools to adjust sim ages in the game. Insimenator is one, and my favorite is TwoJeffs' Sim Blender, which doesn't have any global hooks or functions.