This just sends a cold chill down my spine, I'm still getting over all the cock-ups from the Xmas pack which I had to remove - £15.99 straight down the drain.  I still haven't bought OFB yet as my game's playing well right now (thanks MATY ) so I'll be giving this one a definate miss.

Yes, the genetics of the facial characteristics are confusing. I used to be under the impression that once a certain feature, say, and eye shape, is labelled dominant, it stays dominant throughout the generations (that's what it says in the guide... ). But then I noticed that when Brandi had her third son, a male clone of herself, his listed dominant facial features differed from hers. So, apparently, the dominance of each feature is reassigned for each sim, and an eye shape that got inherited as dominant may turn recessive, and so on.

I just checked the guide on this. (Keeping in mind that the guide has inaccrurate information on some other genetics issues) it says that, when a sim is made in CAS, each region of the face is randomly labeled dominant or recessive, but the chances of a certain feature to be labeled dominant depends on the gender of the sim. A male sim has a 66% chance of his brow, nose or jaw being labeled dominant, and "only" a 50% chance with eyes and mouth. Vice versa for females (but there are more features listed in the DNA in SimPE than these five mentioned, so it's incorrect at least in that regard).

About the chances of the features being passed on, the guide says that if one parent has a dominant feature while another recessive the child has a 66% chance of inheriting the dominant one. When both are dominant or recessive, then the chances are 50/50.

But, considering how correct the guide has been on some other issues, I wouldn't count on this information.

From what I know, the inheriting of facial characteristics does not depend on the gender of the child, but rather which features each parent has labelled dominant. A dominant feature has something like a 60% chance of being passed on. With each sim, the chances of a feature being labelled dominant or recessive depends on their gender, yes. So, a female sim has a higher chance of her eyes being dominant, for example. So, she has a higher chance of passing on her eye shape to her kids, either male or female.

Noted. Will add to my list of "Things NOT to do in OFB". This list is getting pretty long.

Maybe they're autonomously buying them from kiosks now. Having two cellphones is good, though: When a sim draws his cellphone, it gets removed from his inventory, which means you can't queue a second call while the first is in progress, unless you give him a second cellphone, which also suppresses the possibility that "buy a cellphone" appears while it's in his hand!

Mayhaps, Motoki, the same thing happened to your sim that happened to one of mine.  A sim married her professor.  His hair is brown, hers is blonde, and their baby has blonde hair.  I don't know enough about messing with genetics to have created that on purpose, so it seems to have been a fluke.

Another thing to note is that for old neighborhoods, at SOME point in the distant past, all sim genetics got munged, and sims all became homozygous for whatever they visibly had. I think there was a thread about this, and nobody ever entirely figured out why this happened, but I recently discovered it in my neighborhood via SimDNA, and had to reconstruct everyone's genetics back to genesis again by hand. Some people actually had to be changed when I discovered that with any correct sequence, the outcome they had would have been impossible.

Actually, I make a killing off of selling craftables. You just need to jack up prices to make it worthwhile. At, oh, say, about $50K a Servo, you can make a decent killing off of them. And $50K is certainly what I consider a fair price for one!