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Really loving the features of ASM though! I'd rather live with this than have to play vanilla, but I'm hoping someone else has this problem or knows what to do about it.
This is EAxian in nature - poor genetic mixing. I'm on the 5th generation of one family. I've married in handymen, maids, firemen, townies and more. Every single female looks the same, just with different hair colors. I have some more variation in the males. I have a portrait of each person and I have to do the "view" action to tell who it is because they all look so alike.
Well shoot, I just did some searching on the official BBS and discovered that there are plenty of people complaining of the same problem as me. I just assumed it had to do something with my own actions (as in installing mods) since my game wasn't always like this. I have a suspicion that this actually started around the patch release, since it fits into the range that the first sims I noticed this happening to were born in. I wonder if there is anything to be done about this other than waiting for EA to screw up the game in little ways some more. Though, for me, this is no longer little. I need genetic mixing if I'm going to play this game
It's that or I'll be playing my newest 4th gen sim, who when turned female through CAS is an exact replica of his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, only with lighter hair and blue eyes.