Don't the original hoods have the exact same starter townies (per hood, that is)? The townies and NPCs in Strangetown or Pleasantview seem to always have the same names/be the same people. Probably different for custom hoods.
(I rarely use townies/NPCs for anything, and have recently installed mods to reduce their appearance even more - but the oens I have noticed usually have the same names every time).

For randomly generated sims, one or two sims ending up with the same name name could be due to chance (statistically unlikely, but still possible).

Separate sets per hood.

I don't always use the changin table especially in smaller rooms .. but I have put a trash can in the babies room .. just seems out of place .. and then also sims do use it as a trash can :/ .. so a trash can/ diaper pail would be the better option .. just a wish

I mean, if you don't use the changing table at all, then there isn't an issue with the changing table having a diaper bin on it, right?

The three basegame hoods all have separate, unique sets of townies, I believe. I think the subsequent ones, along with any custom hoods you create always have the Pleasantview townies.

I suppose then, that I don't understand how it happens or why... I don't roll the pacifier ever. my sims kids all look different and have different personalities. Some even have different skintones. Whatever it is I am doing, it's working. Malcolm Landgraab IV has a different face than his little sisters. Dustin and Angela's kids don't look alike and have different personalities. I got a family of McCoys with 9 kids... none of them look exactly alike. Gotta check the personalities next time i'm in game. Maybe it's not a game defect, and just the side-effect of a common mod I don't use... who knows? I have two brothers who look EXTREMELY different... one's got a face like a praying mantis, and the other's a blockhead. Perhaps I'm just lucky?


-gE
>=)

I noticed it a year or so after the game's release when I was doing a modified legacy challenge (where you start with one Sim and go through 10 generations in the same lot marrying townies but could never have more than 8 Sims living on the lot). I'd modified it so that each generation's "heir" had to have the same blue skintone that my original Sim had in order to proceed. Somewhere around Gen 3, the lot was getting full so I was having to wait for an elder Sim to die before my heir could Try For Baby again which meant that they weren't having more than one kid in a play session.

The pair had 3 or 4 kids in a row with "normal" pale skin and when I checked the genetics and nice/neat/playful/etc points they were all identical. It almost made me fail the challenge. There were no other families in that hood so the RNG was always the same starting out for that couple and they were never going to have a blue-skinned child to carry on the legacy. That's when I discovered the firstborn syndrome problem. Up to that point, heirs either had their blue-skinned kid right away or the lot wasn't so full that they could try again during the same play session and thus get a different RNG.

That's what I meant - separate sets per hood, same set each time they're generated.



Sims still have to put the diaper in the bin, and empty the bin later.
There are one-tile changing tables - you could try that for smaller spaces?

Yes, it probably does- here is where I summarised it:
https://modthesims.info/showthread....177#post5874177

The gender selection does seem to be random, though.
https://modthesims.info/showthread....504#post3897504

This is a good mootilda post to read on her findings:
https://modthesims.info/showthread....338#post3904338
Of course, LazyDuchess discovered how to change that seeding in the exe- by using asi injection.


You would probably only notice it if you run an unmodded game, as it seems many common mods which prevent all of the 'junk' happenings in the game, like loads of townies and NPCs being generated, will suppress the randomisers being triggered upon initial game play, so you're more likely to see this happen.

In the experiment my daughter and I did when testing this, we used two computers with the same gameversion, and we both created a neighbourhood and two test sims (mum and dad) with different eye, skin and hair colours. We made one sim pregnant by the other, and then played up until the baby was to be delivered. Than we saved the game and reloaded, so that the randomisers were reset to baseline. Then we played the birth, and checked the SimDNA of the offspring. We also aged up the baby to adult to check the features. We recorded the results, exited without save and repeated, over and over. So many times! We were sick of it. But, each time we got the SAME SimDNA results, and the same face. My daughter's babies were all identical. My babies were all identical. If we let the game play for any significant time- for example, if I played it long enough ro spawn a papergirl or walkby- we'd get a different kid, because those events use the randomiser, but as long as we used the same conditions for the birth each time, the randomiser always gave the same sim.

https://modthesims.info/showthread....560#post3896560

I was thinking about a plugin for SimPE so really ALL info of a certain sim can be extracted. I know it is possible to have a list of all sims in a hood with a lot of information, but I am ralking about ALL info. Like hidden skills, relationships, favourite food, hidden relationshios (like with their car)...etc.
That would be really helpful if one ever needs to rebuild a neighbourhood or build a custom one.

I saw passports today as deco item. How cool would it be if you can only book a vacation if you have a passport or plain ticket or so in the inventory?
I think it might be even possible to do!

If whoward made drivers licenses over on pick n' mix, this could probably be done, as well... Not sure I understand the need, but whatever... to each his own.


-gE
>=)

I know that passports normally in RL are used to go on vacations, and in the game, they could be tied to the vacation rewards, somehow? It's an intriguing idea on how to use them.

That's a little TOO much realism for my tastes... I use the sims to control the lives of all those around me, in my unquenchable thirst for power!!! for escapism. Adding levels of bureaucratic paperwork to ruin life is so REAL WORLD. Could you just imagine? Call up to book a vacation... 7 days on Twikii Island!! ...the van comes and... WAIT! You don't have your paperwork in order. Your whole family gets dumped back on the sidewalk, and you lose your vacation money. Then you've gotta go online and file for your passport and they charge you a couple hundred simoleons per sim, and then you book your vacation 6 days away because it says it'll take 5 days for your passport to be ready... The morning the vacation van is supposed to arrive, you still haven't received your passports. You have to call to see where they are... It borrows the "check-in with businesses" animations from OfB... you're on the phone for 8 hours. The van comes and goes, and you lose your vacation money again. After 10 hours, they offer to overnight you the passports, for an extra fee 3x the cost of the original documents. You rebook your vacation for the day after tomorrow, so that you have ALL DAY tomorrow to get your paperwork. But it doesn't come, because it's some federal holiday. The van arrives the next day, but still no passports. You lose all your vacation money AGAIN. You call the Passport Bureaucracy back again, and they say, "well they were sent to you. Nothing WE can do about it"... and then the mailman casually waltzes up to your mailbox, whistling the Papergirl Nancy tune from TS1 and deposits your passports in your mailbox. You book your vacation AGAIN for the next day, now that you have them IN-HAND. The van comes. The family files in and it drives off-lot... only to drive back onto the lot and drop your family off on the sidewalk, because you didn't get the passport for your youngest one, and she can't be left home alone because the social worker will come and take her away, so you miss your vacation AGAIN, AND you lose all your vacation funds AGAIN. The Post Office says they already delivered everything to you. The bureaucrat Passport Department says they don't have any records on file that you ever ordered a passport and you have to file them all over again and pay again. Each time you have to call the Passport Department or the Post Office, you have to go through that full 8-10 hours of OfB "check-in with business" anim sequence. And then 3 days later, a neighbor comes and knocks on your door and you get a pop-up, "The Post Office delivered to my house by mistake... hope it wasn't important!" ...and by now, your sims are elders, two of the kids are off at college, and you are broke and can't afford to pay for another vacation anyway.

Exasperating!

I'll pass on the passports! hahahah


-gE
>=)

Ever play Bureaucracy? A (mis)adventure about trying to get your bank to validate your change-of-address form.

I thought of a simple: buy from catalog and only when it is in the inventory or on the lot, the option to book a vacation comes up.
So it is not possible to book a vacation without buying it from the catalog. That's not bureaucracy and definitely not (too much) realism.

I mean then you probably also don't download the laundry mod for the same reason.

To be honest, though, having a passport now in some places in RL isn't used for vacations.

It's used to prove your identity. And it's the only sure fire way to do so.

That's real realism for you.