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I seem to remember that someone, somewhere had made replacement aliens - not the skins, but the faces.  Anyone happen to know where these went?  I searched MTS2 and came up with nothing.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=71852&highlight=pollination+technician

I use the pollination tech from this thread:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=31780&highlight=pollination

I almost always get attractive alien children. Scroll down to Motoki's post for an actual pic of the tech.

I think you can use sim surgery now to easily make your tech more attractive, but I'm not positive, I haven't tried it.

You know, people keep talking about "attractive" aliens, but frankly, I just don't get it. Maybe it's a psychology thing, but I simply find that I am unable to apply standards of attractiveness to aliens. I see them as fundamentally alien and can't really attach the "attractive" label to them as if they were merely green humans. They're ALIENS. They're not like normal-people.

I agree JAM, but you still have to rest your eyes on them and *shudder* breed them and I for one prefer green humanlooking sims to hideous monstrosities. I've got enough of those with the Maxis made townies.... ::)

You'll just have to grab a copy of Nailati's face template replacements once she is done and then you won't have any regular monstrosities  :P

Amen to that!

I wouldn't mind the monstrosities if using the plastic surgery machine was linked to the dna, so that they wouldn't go on to breed ugly kids!  Ricky Cormier, for example, grows up with a nose that would put Concorde to shame, but get rid of that and give him a normal size nose and he's really quite attractive.  I just hope when he and Lucy have kids they take after Lucy!

Thanks for the link, liegenschonheit!

Zephyr, there's a tutorial to make the changes genetic.
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=56241

Thanks Syera - I'll have a go at that when I play Ricky again!  (Not to mention Orlando - he was soooo UGLY till he had the surgery!)

I regularly change the features of ugly townies and update their genetics in SIMpe. Even for the SIMpe-challenged, it is a rediculously easy fix, and it makes neighborhoods much more attractive in the long run.

Just curious...was there any solution to the one line rather than two issue?

Hey, you gotta unload your uggos somewhere, may as well be unloading them in the direction of sims which are immune to ugliness anyway.

Not all alien kids turn out ugly!  I think a lot depends upon which facial template the sim parent is made from.  And I do prefer my aliens to look like aliens, although I do occasionally adjust them a bit with the surgery table.  But a lot of Maxis-made sims need that kind of help anyway.

The only thing about the Default Alien Template, since Aliens have those huge eyes wouldn't the next generation spawn have those huge eyes too?  It would become a non-issue if they become a permanent townie or don't have children but I could see where a default template replacementcould help out in the long run.

I don't think they necessarily inherit those eyes.  Try marrying your alien sim to a sim created with the elvish face, I had an alien marry one, and their daughter not only had the pale skintone but normal sized eyes and quite a large nose - it was her personality she got from her father!

Yes, again with the disappointment of dominant traits that are NOT DOMINANT ENOUGH

I want my third generation alien offspring to be green, dammit! And to take over the neighborhood!

Greenness obviously isn't THAT dominant!  If one parent has two genes for the same shade of normal skin, and the other has one green and one normal, chances are pretty good that many offspring of the couple will have normal skin and not carry the green gene into the next generation at all.

I s'pose you could always make custom green-skinned Sims for your neighborhood and get them and/or their children into politics...

Yes, but my original plan to have them take over the neighborhood by simply out-spawning all the normal sims was foiled!

That, and the fact that all of the alien offspring were related.

I believe you can download a PT with different DNA so you can then have some of your alien kids marry other alien kids (but they'd still only have kids who were 50% alien!)