FT and super fertility

[Liz]

Lord. Eyeroll indeed. I have been wondering, though, is that soup very filling?

[Emma]

My sims only ever need one serving usually, the pregnant ones sometimes come back for more.

[rohina]

Children can also ring for the nanny themselves if the adult - or god - forgets, I discovered the other day.

Yeah, or if daddy gets abducted by aliens for the umpteenth time...

I think this is the only time I lost a kid to the social worker, apart from death of both parents in unfortunate fire.

[Emma]

Children can also ring for the nanny themselves if the adult - or god - forgets, I discovered the other day.

Yeah, or if daddy gets abducted by aliens for the umpteenth time...

I think this is the only time I lost a kid to the social worker, apart from death of both parents in unfortunate fire.

Happened to me too-luckily he didn't get a memory of the baby being taken away and I got him to re-adopt.

[LadyArgonna]

@ Emma: Did that memory just "luckily" not happen thanks to SimPE?   

[Emma]

No, I think it was because he was busy being probed at the time I didn't cheat-honestly!

[Jelenedra]

That would kinda put all other things out of your mind.

Maybe it's intentionally that way? Since you can't help it if you get abduct-taped and whatnot.

[Emma]

I dunno. I've only had it happen once, so I haven't had any opportunity to test.

[Zaleth]

I have found if you have FT and Family maxed to give more of a chance at twins you actually get them.  One family in FT the women got pregent then her husband got pregant by the alien both had a set of twins to go along with the daughter they already had.  Talk about a huge family and grandpa lived to be 110!

Mos to of the familys that have both parents with xtra change of twins get it or at least with my game.

As for the Nanny I used a hack from http://www.simwardrobe.com/ that keep the social worker from comming when children get hot/cold and found it keeps her off the lot permently.  I found that out when both parents went to work and the daughter got home from school and was alone, no message no social worker has ever showed up!  I even tested this by killing off both adults in another house where there were two toddlers.  No social worker ever.  I used the FT version.

[rohina]

One family in FT the women got pregent then her husband got pregant by the alien both had a set of twins to go along with the daughter they already had. 

What is "pregent"? And what is "pregant?"

I was thinking "pregent" might have something to do with a sex-change operation?

[Faizah]

I've been wondering about the super fertility benefit, may have to carry out my own experiments later, but does the father's benefit affect the twin odds at all, or does the 'mother' have to have it? Also, does giving both parents the benefit increase the odds, or does it only apply once? (If it's just forcing a re-roll at each bump, it may still be using the standard twin odds?)

I have one family sim who I'm planning to let go at it, and see how many kids she gets. She has all the benefits already. Her husband's primary aspiration is wealth, so he doesn't have it. #1 is on the way, single birth, no bump yet. I'll take notes, perhaps report back once she's done having kids.

[eevilcat]

I had a quick look in SimPE and the increased chance of twins seems to be handled by the BHAV "FT - Family - More Twins" which is called when the pregnancy state updates. As far as I can make out it checks first if the mother has unlocked the twins 'superpower'. If she doesn't it then checks if the father has the twins 'superpower' unlocked. Either way as long as at least one parent has it, the game rolls a random percentage (0-100%) and checks if it is below a fixed percentage chance (50%). This would certainly fit in with the pattern of twin pregnancies I was getting which was roughly every other.

[J. M. Pescado]

Well, it's nice that it WORKS, but it's still USELESS. Either you do, or you do not, want twins. If you do, there's a way which is 100% reliable and does not cost anything. If you don't, this perk would be counterproductive. This "perk" is not a prerequisite for anything USEFUL. In fact, family-3 and family-4 are both entirely useless.

[Faizah]

I have precisely one sim with family as the primary aspiration, and I don't really see that changing any time soon. Personally though, I prefer the elevated chance to the 100% chance, I even have a 'fix' for the cheesecake odds. Sims who I want to have single births will have single births, regardless of what they were going to have. But occasionally I like to let a family do what they will, give them a bit of free rein. (Though not free will, I have some standards.)

Mostly I was curious about the odds, and how they're applied. Which I now know.

[Zaleth]

Yeah yeah Yeah I am not the best of spellers.....

[floopyboo]

Yeah yeah Yeah I am not the best of spellers.....

Please try, Brittany.