What do you do with dead baby's??

Submitted by Leiela on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 01:04.

Ok this is abit grusome, but when you have charecters that has a baby that only lives a few days so you need to generate a "baby" for pictures but the baby isn't destined to live too long what do you do with it??

I'm becoming more wary of killing off the baby's in my sims game because im worried about the number of charecter files i'm begining to store.

For a while i used "a mock" baby, basically i had one baby i sim-surgeried to death to allow it to stand in for whichever baby i needed. Unfortunatly this only works when the mother isn't a major storyline charecter and isn't seen in pictures pregnant. However when they are seen/needed pregnant i'm finding insiminator isn't a reliable way of terminating a pregancy, it tends to bug alot and no matter how hard i try i have been struggling to get rid of the baby bump before the birth and yet another file is generated.

I know you often sim-surgery charecters that have died to create new NPC's etc which is something i have done a few times in the past. But i don't often add new charecters and i currently have enough "spares" to last a lifetime and im at a lose as to where to go from here.

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On the rare occasions that's

Submitted by Lothere on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 04:37.

On the rare occasions that's come up for me, I've "borrowed" a baby for it. There's usually another couple with a baby I can use. Also, I am getting less worried about having lots of characters. I already have over 1000 character files. (Some are townies of course.) I have so many "extras" that I can easily grow up the dead baby, change his looks with plastic surgery, and use him for some totally unrelated character.

I've had some problems with InSim and pregnancy too. If you only need the baby for pictures in a single chapter, you can always make the baby with InSim and then quit without saving. I even do that for pregnancies, since I've had problems -- I make the Sim pregnant with InSim, switch to 2nd or 3rd trimester, take my pictures, and exit without saving.

Yeah i think my main problem

Submitted by Leiela on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 09:19.

Yeah i think my main problem is that i currently have lots of "spares" so i didn't really want to keep too many more at least until i've used some of these.

However the idea of using insim to make them pregant but not saving for pictures rather than leaving them pregant is a much better idea as i do know a good deal in advance who is getting pregant and who is keeping or losing the baby etc so it wouldn't be too hard to fudge pictures etc.

Thanks

Oh while sorta on the

Submitted by Leiela on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 23:02.

Oh while sorta on the subject i heard Sims go's abit wonky after you get to a certain number of charecter files, is there a perticular number or is it dependent on what your system can handle?

Its reassuring to know you have over 1000 and are still ok, i've got 800 so judigng by that i should be ok for a while longer yet, i don't plan to make anymore sub-hoods so hopefully there will be no need for sim2 to generate anymore townies etc. so hopefully i've got at least 200 more sims before any issues.

I've not had a problem with

Submitted by Lothere on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 04:05.

I've not had a problem with over 1000 character files. As far as I know the problem was with the unpatched base game, where the filename was like Character_001.package. It couldn't go higher than 999. Now it's Character_0001.package so we're good up to 9999.

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