too many...?

[sparrow_from_planet_astos]

how many kids do you guys think is too much? what is the maximun kids your sims ever had? my sim joy had about 42 kids. she still bugs her husband for more kids.why does she want so many?

[GeneralOperationsDirector]

I`ll bet she`s a Family Sim.

[Phoeberg]

My family aspiration sim Lizzie had 10, but some were adopted. She kept on wanting more and more but I had to stop her there, she was populating the town by herself!

[cheshirekat]

For me, I find them extremely annoying, so one is too many. None of the sims I created have kids nor become pregnant. Otherwise, they would be permanently binned. My sims invited the entire Roth household recently and I decided to wait to see what would happen. But, I was nice enough to quickly buy a swing set. I couldn't wait for the meal to be over so my sims could say goodbye. Fortunately, the little kid was the first to want to go home. Oddly, he must have gone home by himself. Because the daughter was playing on the swings, mom was watching tv and dad was in the hot tub with my sims. Mom, who was very aloof and nearly unapproachable the entire afternoon/evening seemed almost nice after being in the hot tub and the dad and daughter were gone.

Still haven't decided whether I will let my sims invite the entire family again. I have to get busy making some new families as there are very few playables left to add to the friends.

The teenagers are okay, however. They start off testy, but eventually they work out. I haven't created any family sims. Mine are usually fortune or knowledge.

[iCad]

I've had some quite large families. I had a polygamist household where the guy had four wives and there were about a zillion kids running around, about 20-some Sims living on the lot at any given time. That was quite fun, actually, though I was never fully successful in controlling all of them. None of them ever died from neglect, though. But generally, I allow my Sims to have as many (or as few) kids as they roll wants for. I generate my Sims' aspirations randomly, so I've had numerous Family Sims that have fulfilled the 10 kids want. However, I don't do anything to artificially extend the lives of my Sims. (Meaning, no elixir of life and no "aging off".) I have tweaked the lengths of the life stages, shortening both teenhood and elderhood by a week eachand then adding those two weeks to adulthood, so that gives me more time to have kids, but certainly not enough time to have 42 of them! :lol:

[Elvie]

I stick to realism in my game, so my sim families have 1 or 2, rarely 3 kids like in real life, but not more, and this doesn't interfere with their wants, because I don't have family sims who tend to breed like rabbits.
Actually, I hardly ever make my sims get married and have kids at all.

[slipknot93]

Wow, you must have ageing off to get that many in a lifetime?

My most is Brandi Broke had 10, it was an aspiration, 7 of them were adopted.

[Killbray]

I have never played a sim who had more than 4 children. And usually I make them have two most of the time.

[gazania]

20 was my maximum (yes, to fulfill a LTW for a family sim). Many were adopted, since thought of having dozens of Sims that look similar didn't quite appeal to me, and, as I found out the hard way, EA DOES have a maximum Sim limit, after which the game can get weird. (And yes, that counts all game-generated characters as well .. and EA does MOST of the populating.)

I've both cut down on the number of family Sims, and have decided that if any Sim does want 20 kiddies as a Lifetime Want ... well, he or she will have to live life unfufilled. :)

I believe there is also a hack or two that can reset the LTW, though I haven't tried any of them.

[Killbray]

You can use the aspiration reward ReNuYu SensoOrb and that ins't a cheating. When you change the aspiration of your Sim the LTW gets rerolled. Even if you still want your Sim to have a family aspiration, you can change it to anything else and then again to family. If you are not unlucky your sim will have a different LTW. If you are unlucky... you'll have to repeat another time until it changes.

[Prosthetics]

You guys who've gone over 10 amaze me. I had Brandi Broke give birth to 10 children (not including Dustin, Beau, and Unborn son) and I was just as exhausted as she must have been because I've never done it again.

[Tenielle]

The most kids I have had in one family so far is 5. I have ACR installed, so I let my Sims have 'Risky woohoo' and they determine for themselves how many children they will have. This particular family has three singleton babies and a set of twins. The mother is a knowledge/family sim, and the father a family/knowledge.
Most of my other families have 2-3 kids, and have stopped autonomously 'trying for baby' now that they're getting on in age.

[katya_stevens]

On uncommon occasions my sims have more than three children, and that's usually thanks to ACR's risky woohoo option. One family (the father was Pleasure, the mother was Romance) managed to give me five children -- one single followed by two sets of natural twins. :faceslap:

[ani_]

I once tried the 10 kids want, but it was pain and I didn't even reach it. Now I had 5 in one house, some teens, some toddlers but still too much. I'm always so happy when anybody who has grown up moves out.

[iCad]

You guys who've gone over 10 amaze me. I had Brandi Broke give birth to 10 children (not including Dustin, Beau, and Unborn son) and I was just as exhausted as she must have been because I've never done it again.

*shrugs* I don't know, I don't think it's that hard, if they're spaced out well. It can be hectic if you have a glut of toddlers, because they require attention, but that usually doesn't happen unless you have a bunch of multiple births close together. But the other sub-adult stages are fairly easy to take care of and, if left to their own devices if you have free will on, will take care of themselves well enough to survive, at least. You just have to make sure children/teens do their homework every once in a while to avoid the social worker. Of course, if you want all of them to be star pupils and such, then you can't just leave them to their own devices, but generally I really don't find large families to be that hard at all. Even when I did a polygamist compound lot as an experiment and the guy had four wives all popping out babies like mad and there were about 20 teens-and-under on the lot, I did all right. It was like a big asylum challenge with all age groups involved. :)

In general, I find big families harder if you use nannies, because nannies will let the kids' needs fall totally into the toilet, making it hard to "catch up" when a parent comes home, usually tired, from work. If a parent stays home with the kids, I can usually stay ahead of everyone's needs and things work pretty well.

Of course, I guess I have one thing going for me. I have altered the length of some life stages. 15 days of teenhood is way too much, IMO, so I shaved off 8 days of that and added it to adulthood and also shaved a week off of elderhood and added it to adulthood, so my adult stage now lasts 45 days instead of 30. So, that means I can move teens out faster, either to college or to their own place and, for baby-hungry family Sims, I have more time to space out kids so that it doesn't become overwhelming.

So, all of that said, I can usually do 20-kid wants pretty easily, if I have some multiples, which I usually do in large families. I haven't done 30 kids, except with my polygamist; it was easy to accomplish since he had four baby-mad wives. :lol: But otherwise, even with my extended adulthood, there obviously isn't enough time for thirty kids, particularly if you don't do the teen pregnancy thing and don't force multiples and don't use the elixir, none of which I will do.

[Gonga909]

The most children I've had any given sim have was 7. Followed by the Lothario family, who had 6. I might have a family have more soon, because I have a larger family limit hack and ACR, and the two love trying for baby on every birthday that occurs.

[Prosthetics]

*shrugs* I don't know, I don't think it's that hard, if they're spaced out well.

Yeah, that's a problem. I don't like to feed my sims elixir, and all of my life stages are normal. So I have a lot of babies really close together to account for a 30 day lifespan (sometimes the sim won't get pregnant until the 6th or 7th time, even with risk set at 100%)

[dundoniandood]

Right.....
I had my Circe and nervous get together (Am I the only one who has ever thought to do that?)

and here is the result:

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww293/dundoniandood/Sims2EP82009-08-2119-41-20-75.jpg

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww293/dundoniandood/Sims2EP82009-08-2119-42-01-12.jpg

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww293/dundoniandood/Sims2EP82009-08-2119-42-01-12.jpg

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww293/dundoniandood/Sims2EP82009-08-2119-42-11-26.jpg

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww293/dundoniandood/Sims2EP82009-08-2119-42-11-26.jpg

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww293/dundoniandood/Sims2EP82009-08-2119-42-14-59.jpg

How many pictures are you allowed in one post? Is it 4 or 5? :( I've also posted this in another thread, I hope I don't get in trouble! :)

Ps Circe AND nervos are pregnant!

[Prosthetics]

Circe is a baby factory! Alert the authorities! :P

[CrazyVivian]

I usually have two-three children in a sim household. If I have more, I just get fed up with their whining and kill them. :)

[I_Love_Simming]

My average family would have 3-4 kids but the maximum's 6. Some only have two if thier looks havn't turned out so well (guess im abit shallow)

[supersimoholic]

i dunno the most i've had before, but i've had to about 8 that i can remember, i'm pretty sure ive had more i just cant remember how much more.

but i've have from about 2-6, but rarely 1

[MagicMarker]

I could never have so many kids in my game. Having that many would drive me insane. The most I've ever had was 8 kids. That sim was Nervous Subject too, he always seems to want a lot of kids. The second highest amount was PT9 and Jenny Smith with 7 kids (only because I wanted to fill Strangetown up with aliens).

[HaphazardSim]

In my old game it was 10, so far one family has 4...I'm thinking of creating a family with 6 children in CAS and then having the parent be pregnant back-to-back until she hits elder to see how many she'll have.

[cheshirekat]

I've had some quite large families. I had a polygamist household where the guy had four wives and there were about a zillion kids running around, about 20-some Sims living on the lot at any given time.



What hacks did you use to have a polygamist household? I can't imagine four sims sharing one sim. I don't even have but the pre-made marriages in my game and the jealousy is almost too much at times. I have to look over my sims' shoulders and around corners constantly if they want to kiss, dance or hug on a community lot or even open areas of their own lots because chances are that they have been or are involved with all the people on their block.

Then there are always the surprises ... Since I switch lots so frequently, I forget who has a crush on who until one sim from my carefully planned list of dinner guests has jumped up from nowhere to slap another sim. Since everyone in my hoods has about ten lovers each, it is now to the point where the serious wars and feuds will be starting.

And the only sim that doesn't have multiple loves is the only romance sim I am playing. He is Bianca Monty's husband. I won't let him cheat because they have a kid together. And I already test (didn't save, of course) what the consequences would be of him cheating and it wasn't pretty.

However, Jason Greenman is going to lose his wife. Rose kisses other sims right in front of him. He just turns around and walks away while she smooches.

[iCad]

What hacks did you use to have a polygamist household? I can't imagine four sims sharing one sim.

There are several different hacks that can control jealousy at various levels, from lot-level to neighborhood-level. Since this was a polygamist compound, none of the residents were allowed to leave the lot, so I used the Insimenator to turn off jealousy completely on that lot. Also, since I didn't want to spend the time having the polygamist build up relationships with his wives and didn't create the wives in CAS with him (because I only got the idea to make a polygamist after the fact), the first four "lucky" female walk-bys became his wives. I used a hacked wedding arch that allows for marriage with no relationship. I know there is or at least used to be a link to the hacked wedding arch on the Wiki's content list. And Insim...Well, it's around, but it's not supported anymore.

[starmeat]

how many kids do you guys think is too much? what is the maximun kids your sims ever had? my sim joy had about 42 kids. she still bugs her husband for more kids.why does she want so many?

One of mine had 25 and that was the highest I ever got. Nope, no cheats or hacks.

Personally, I've seen legacies where people can play five, ten, twelve, and still do great. I've even played a family with four and done well, but my Sim families generally don't have more than two. I think anything five and up is just hellish and too much.

Also, this is why I never play Family Sims anymore.

[Phoeberg]

What hacks did you use to have a polygamist household?

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8196.0.html

I have this installed in my game with all expansion packs and it works fine, I tested it with one household, but that's no gurantee that it will work in your game as it hasn't been updated recently, and I think Apartment Life was released after the last update, so you would be taking a bit of a risk.

[GeneralOperationsDirector]

Last night I was playing a family consisting of Betty Blueberry, a Sim I made with a [blue!] custom skin, and Tasha Go, grown up from a Teen months ago and "Joined" to Betty as Tasha Blueberry, and a black cat named Bonkers. Both are Family Sims. Both are Arts & Crafts sims. Both want[ed] to become Capitain Hero [one of them made it]. I used Christianlov`s EasyBed to make them BOTH pregnant by each other. ;) I save my game just before births so that I can quit-without-saving-and-reload if I get BOYS [I always try for girls, yet I still have more males than females in my neighborhood], but Betty had a girl without "cheating" the gender. Then Tasha goes and has TWIN GIRLS without me "cheating" either the quantity or gender.

I`ve had lots with more Sims living on `em than this, but this will be the first time I`ve raised what are essentially triplets.

I thought it would be harder, especially as I usually "cheat" to make infants into controllable Sims [which can`t DO anything, but I can check their stats!] and didn`t do so this time, but handling three infants simultaneously turned out to be far easier than I thought it would be. I`m kinda worried, though, about playing them as TODDLERS next month, though.... Toddlers` requirements are a tad more complex than infants` requirements. ::cringe:: ...but toddlers are soooooo CUTE.... ;)

[christx101]

usually 2-3 I did 6 once and it was hectic especially when figuring out what happens with all 6 kids when they reach adulthood.

[parrot999]

4 is my limit, and I have only reached 3 in all my years of simming.

[Neerie]

usually 2-3 I did 6 once and it was hectic especially when figuring out what happens with all 6 kids when they reach adulthood.

That's my problem right there: figuring out what they will do with their life once they become adults. I suppose that I'll be playing the romance and pleasure aspirations a bit more from now on, or start having some have... bad accidents :Pint:

As for my maximum, the most kids I've had a couple have was 6 to fulfill a LTW and right there I was stuck with the whole dilemma of what to do with them after college.

[Gingerxyz]

usually 2-3 I did 6 once and it was hectic especially when figuring out what happens with all 6 kids when they reach adulthood.
That's why none of my born in game sims are adults. They have too many siblings. Also, I suck at keeping lots in sync so they'd all have to live in the one house. Or else the youngest kid would die of old age while the eldest has just finished college.

[kustirider2]

Most of my sims have 2-3, but if I'ts a legacy usually 3-7. If they roll the 10 children want, I will most likely let them.

[Picos]

It depends. Before, every family had 2-3. Now, there's a populatio limit so the norm is 1 child and sometimes 2. One family will have 5 children, but it's a blended family (2 step-children from each parent and one of their own). Another family had 3 children, but the middle was a product of an arranged marriage that the girl entered into by force of her parents. The eldest was thought to be her *husbands* child but he was actually from her teenage sweetheart (now real husband!).

[christx101]

Neerie
Yeah its so fun and cute when there babies/small children,then once they hit the teen years the cuteness wear's off.Then you start thinking what the heck is gonna happen to all of them.Its too time consuming moving them each all out letting them start there own storyline.I welcome the bad accidents just killed off some spare heirs few days ago LOL.

Gingerxyz
Yeah keeping them all in one house is the better once you start moving them around things get confusing.Its almost like a pick or choose which kids you like best then the spare's unfortunately spend there time in the family bin or I make them townie's.

[GeneralOperationsDirector]

christx101, I go the other way around: I actively recruit Townies to become Player Characters, and whenever a Teen gets old enough to go to University, she goes, and starts a new household when she gets back. I also use the Green Goo of Life to keep my adult Sims as young as possible. I still have my first CAS Sim from over a year ago alive and well. ;)

Correction edit: I don`t send them to University immediately when they`re eligable; instead, I wait until they`ll age into an Adult if they don`t, and send them "at the last minute". Still, I make sure that they DO go.

[RussaNodrey]

Natasha Una has...I think its 14 kids? I think five of them are adopted and she had a bunch of twins. No hacks. I've had a family with 24 kids, but my game failed so I never played them again. My alphabet legacy will have ten kids each generation...I like a lot of sim kids. I like them so much better then real kids.

[Gingerxyz]

Gingerxyz
Yeah keeping them all in one house is the better once you start moving them around things get confusing.Its almost like a pick or choose which kids you like best then the spare's unfortunately spend there time in the family bin or I make them townie's.
But then you have kids meeting their great-great-aunt who should have died ages ago. And when families often have six or more kids (my record is nine. she's going to have more though, it's just that the triplets have only just been born) that becomes a problem. Thats a lot of relations that should be dead but are still walking around the neighbourhood!

[KittyKuba]

8 was my highest! But now I want 10 or 20, this thread has inspired me to aim higher.

[cheshirekat]

My sims are lucky if I let them have one kid. Doing the family/baby stuff is so boring and annoying. I let Bianca Monty and Vince Centowski have a kid and I hated the experience and decided to avoid babies all together.

But then I forced a sim to hook up with a sim I didn't like and couldn't find anyone else to pair her with. He was a family sim and I decided to let him have a baby for putting up with my undesirable sim. But, I let him get another female pregnant so the baby wouldn't have the same personality as the sim I don't like. The baby is now a kid, barely, and I dread playing that family. But I just finished building a new house for the dad and his son.

I'd like to adopt a teenager for one of my sims because I do like teenagers. But I haven't tried adopting for fear I'll get a baby. And it would be nice to adopt a kid with some skills so I can have more fun watching the kid do fun stuff instead of skilling to get into college. I can't even imagine what chaos it would be raising a bunch of kids when I've only played two in game and it's just as bad as real life kids.

[SuicidiaParasidia]

how many kids do you guys think is too much? what is the maximun kids your sims ever had? my sim joy had about 42 kids. she still bugs her husband for more kids.why does she want so many?


dear. god.

i would stop after the 10. >_______> amazing kids would still STAY INSIDE long enough to fully develop after the 10th!!

[RingzTerritory]

There's like no kids in my whole game 0.o I can't stand playing even with one kid xD it just gets boring for some reason ;_: