choose sex of baby hack? (pretty please)?

[veilchen]

darn it, thought that might work but I tried it and it still won't open.  Thanks for the suggestion though

Sorry about that. The BodyShop is one cranky, buggy and annoying thing isn't it? Oh well, maybe maxis will have that fixed and purchaseable in another Ep

G.

[Liss]

actually...I found out by actually walking away from the computer for a while  I was just being too impatient.  It does eventually load up, just takes forever 

[taichikitten]

That is not random. If you self-pollinate a sim with itself, the resulting outcome will always be the opposite gender. No randomness here. The logic of *WHY* this was done this way eludes me, but that's how it is.

Is this true of boolProp-ing any two Sims of the same sex?  Will having two male Sims as the parents always result in a female baby, and will two female Sims as the parents always result in a male baby?  The reason I ask is that I have one particular Sim... a male... first he was abducted (obviously got a male PT), and he had a girl.  Then I used boolProp to mate him with the other male Sim in his household... the result was again another girl.  Then I mated a male Sim from a different household with him... and ended up with yet another girl.  Is this all a silly coincidence, or is that the way it will always happen?

[moonluck]

No thats why its so comfusing. If two males have a baby it can be a boy or girl but if a male clones himself its always a girl.

[J. M. Pescado]

Not confusing at all: If sim is pollinated with another sim, it is random. If a sim is pollinated with himself, or an invalid sim (defaults to self as a result), it will be gender-inverse.

[SimsHost]

How do you get a sim to self-pollinate?  The Tombstone of Life and Death?



Aside (because my mind jumps every time I see this): Words have gender.  People have sex.  A sim's "gender" preference would indicate whether that sim wanted to be addressed in the masculine or feminine, which may or may not be aligned with a character's implicit plumbing.  Nobody ever accused Maxis of being particularly literate.
-- Conan the Grammarian

[Liss]

yeah greg. TOLAD is how you self-pollinate.