Perpetual pregnancy redux

[Ness]

Actually, when a sim wakes up to bump to next pregnancy stage or to give birth it stomps the queue - so no rushing off to the bathroom at that point in time.

Where your sim is when giving birth is all a matter of random chance, really.  But people tend to do the same things in each playing session so it is understandable that sims tend to be in the same places doing the same things when they give birth for that particular player.

[ZephyrZodiac]

True, and since my sims often only get up to bed for that much-wanted woohoo at about 2 or 3 AM, then the baby tends to kick them out of bed at 6 am or so, whether they've had their sleep out or not!

[jsalemi]

I hit a weird pregnancy problem last night -- the female sim went into her second trimester just before I saved and left the lot last time (didn't feel like waiting around that night for the birth ). I went into the lot last night, and she's still showing as pregnant, waddle and all, but she's not behaving like she is.  And a quick status check with insim doesn't show her as pregnant at all!  She's 4 days from aging to elder, so I don't know if that farkled her pregnancy, or if something else did it.  I don't mind than she's not pregnant now, since I'm doing some population control on the neighborhood and this was a 'risky woohoo' accident anyway, but I still thought it was weird.  I'm hopping she'll stop looking pregnant when she ages.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Did you try debugging her?  Or giving her a dose of elixir to see if that works.  I've heard of people having problems if they age up to elder in a state of "are they pregnant or aren't they?"

Deleting her from the lot and then reentering it might cause her to reset into either pregnant or not pregnant too.

[jsalemi]

Did you try debugging her?  Or giving her a dose of elixir to see if that works.  I've heard of people having problems if they age up to elder in a state of "are they pregnant or aren't they?"

Deleting her from the lot and then reentering it might cause her to reset into either pregnant or not pregnant too.

Yea, i forced at least three errors on her, and it didn't help. I'll have to try the deleting thing and see if that clears it up.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, it's often worked for me with unclickable toddlers and so forth.  You never know!  If not, you could try checking her out in SimPE to see if anything wierd is going on in her character files.

I had one case of a toddler who, though not unclickable, the parents couldn't communicate with or pick up, and deleting her didn't workm and instead of sitting by the postbox she was just lying there.  A check in SimPE revealed that she was still in the baby stage, but I put her back to toddler and she was fine.  Maybe your sim has been accidentally aged to elder already, and turning her back to adult would fix the problem.

[jsalemi]

Hmmm, hadn't thought of that.  I have to go into SimPE for something else anyway, so I'll check her character file and see what gives.  Something weird is going on...

Edit: Ok, I found the problem in her character file.  Somehow, she was still marked as Pregnant (half) and Pregnant (full), but the Pregnant (Invisible) attribute was unchecked.  Since I don't want her pregnant anyway, I unchecked the other two, so she should be fine now.

I have no idea how that first pregnancy state could have gotten lost like that.  I'll have to keep an eye on my pregnant sims and see if anyone else crops up with this glitch.

[ZephyrZodiac]

I think OFB caused quite a lot of corrupted data of that kind, as did NL.

[jsalemi]

Yea, but I've had OFB since it first came out, and this is the first time I've had this happen.  I'll have to keep an eye on things so my game doesn't go up in a BFBVFS.

[ZephyrZodiac]

SimPE plays you, 'mkay!

[jsalemi]

Yea, I was real intimidated by SimPE when I first got it, but now I can't imagine playing without it.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Same here!  I still don't like the new version so much as the classic, but the classic interface doesn't affect how things are set up now.