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23rd Oct 2020 at 11:54 PM
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So I was reading AndrewGloria's Traditional Morality thread and I was a little surprised at the amount of simmers who didn't know about last name mods that let you choose the last name of sims when getting married or having a baby. RoxEllen1965 did post a link to
Marhis' Marriage: Last Name Chooser, but I thought I'd post a psa here as well, as I wanted to highlight a few more:
Midgethetree's Baby Last Name Chooser -
Now you’ll get an additional dialog per baby asking whose last name they should take! Compatible with Birth Options if it loads last.
Midgethetree's Birth Options Mod -
A mod that can generate one of two dialog boxes during birth: 1. If both parents live on the same lot, you get asked which one should get parental leave. 2. If the parents live in separate families and the other parent’s family is playable you get the option to give the baby/babies to the other parent’s family.
And because different family types are easier to make now, you might also find these useful:
Midgethetree's Step-Parents Baby Wants Satisfied -
When a baby is born, their “step-parents” (spouses of their biological parents) will also get baby wants/fears fulfilled if they live with the baby, and their step-grandparents will have grandbaby wants fulfilled as well.
Kestellyn's Name the Father -
Have you ever thought it was weird that when your female sims cheat on their partners and get pregnant, their partner always knows that the child isn't theirs? Have you ever wanted your sims to be able to adopt their spouses' alien children? Do you get annoyed that all aliens are somehow considered related? Would you like your lesbians to be able to adopt their partners' babies by sperm doners? Or do your sims maybe have multiple spouses and you just want the biological parent to not necessarily be the "real" parent? Would you like to have two sims who are merely best friends live together and raise kids together even if the kids are not biologically related to both of them? Sure, you can change the family ties with the Sim Blender after the fact, but wouldn't you like to get to choose which sim gets the memory of having the baby and the Have a Baby want fulfilled? With this hack you can do all of those things!
Kestrellyn's Found Family -
Do you have sims who are raised by more than two parents, but annoyingly the game does not consider the non-biological parents to be family? Or "siblings" who were raised together but don't technically share parents, so the game doesn't mark them as family? Or just sims who are really close and ought to be able to use Family Kiss? This new interaction, which shows up as "Treat as Family" or "Remove from Family" depending on family status, will allow you to make the game treat any two sims as if they were family for the purposes of romantic and family socials, even if they're not otherwise related.
Kestrellyn's Smarter Choice of Parent for Entering College Cinematic -
Do your sims have absentee dads, or sperm donors, or just parents that they really hate? If so, you've probably seen someone completely inappropriate sending your teens off to college during the entering college cinematic. This hack introduces new requirements for parents for participation in the cinematic...
And then a simmer in WCIF reminded me of these today:
Midgethetree updated Maxis arches to have Marhis' Polygamy/Marriage Of Convenience Options and Rebecah's Renew Wedding Vows Option
OR you can use Veetie's update to Midge's mod that
adds convenient engagements to Maxis arches and Mortia alternative wedding arches.
Either is very useful for simmers with story or challenge hoods that have arranged marriages.