I made two young adults, and had them try for a baby. The mother got pregnant the first try, and later had a little boy. After coming home from the hospital she got right to it and gave birth to two little boys.
She tried for another baby as soon as she was home, now she's pregnant again.
Doing this, how many children do you think you could handle? The infant stage is 2 days, the toddler stage is 7, so keep in mind if you have twins (like me..) you will have a few toddlers and infants at the same time.
How many could you get to grow up well? (All skills learned etc..)
I'm going to keep playing this way to see how many I can handle. And yes, I did use money cheats. (Motherlode, kaching)
"Cute" Tip! - You can place stuffed animals inside your baby's crib. Aww :)
~ Update
Ahhh! She had twin girls! I'm going out of my mind lol. Three toddler boys, two infant girls!
June/5 -- 4 toddlers, 1 infant, 1 child. Done!.. but crazy. X_X
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The Sims 3 Tips - Gardening and you(r sims)
The sims 3 has a much more relaxed feel to gardening in terms of where you can place your produce. Instead of being limited to set patches of garden, you can plant anywhere in anything. I really like the freedom this game gives you, even in little everyday tasks.
Attending classes and reading books help your sim increase his or her gardening. You can also plant seeds and tend to the garden to gain more skill points. If a sim is has a "green thumb" then they are automatically rewarded with one gardening skill point to start off with. Gardening can be a great way to earn a bit of money - just take what you grow to the grocery store and sell it there! Sometimes, you'll get little tasks as well linked to gardening from neighbors who don't know as much as your green thumbed sim, so take those when you can!
As your garden grows, you'll notice the different plants take different shapes. The trees will start out as tiny little sticks, but in a few days time they're towering over your sims! My sim planted an apple tree, and in maybe 5-6 days, it had grown over his head. Right now, he's only at level 5 gardening so I'll keep working on it!
Gardening is available for teens, young adults, adults, and elders.
With each level you gain, you're granted a special thing you can do with your plants. For example, at level 6 you can "revive plant" so you can bring a plant from death's door to full life once more.
You can find seeds outside, while on a walk, or you can buy them from the grocery store. If you made your sim live in Riverblossom, there is a community garden where you can harvest seeds (or at least, that's what I was told)
When you find seeds, you can plant them to see what kind of plant they are. Once that plant has grown, you'll be able to recognize the seeds you see on the ground as long as you've grown them.
What I did, as suggested by the sims 3 prima guide, was I made my sim handy so he could have the sprinkler on auto-sprinkle .. but I never did do that. I actually like watching him tend to his garden, so I'm regretting the wasted trait. At least my sim can have auto-cleaning objects now, which will help out since his wife is popping out babies left and right. (Oh god, why can't I stop myself?)
Only sims with the insane or green thumb trait can talk to plants, it's no longer "badge" related.
Here my sim is starting out his garden. The little apple tree is covered in weeds :(!
Attending classes and reading books help your sim increase his or her gardening. You can also plant seeds and tend to the garden to gain more skill points. If a sim is has a "green thumb" then they are automatically rewarded with one gardening skill point to start off with. Gardening can be a great way to earn a bit of money - just take what you grow to the grocery store and sell it there! Sometimes, you'll get little tasks as well linked to gardening from neighbors who don't know as much as your green thumbed sim, so take those when you can!
As your garden grows, you'll notice the different plants take different shapes. The trees will start out as tiny little sticks, but in a few days time they're towering over your sims! My sim planted an apple tree, and in maybe 5-6 days, it had grown over his head. Right now, he's only at level 5 gardening so I'll keep working on it!
Gardening is available for teens, young adults, adults, and elders.
With each level you gain, you're granted a special thing you can do with your plants. For example, at level 6 you can "revive plant" so you can bring a plant from death's door to full life once more.
You can find seeds outside, while on a walk, or you can buy them from the grocery store. If you made your sim live in Riverblossom, there is a community garden where you can harvest seeds (or at least, that's what I was told)
When you find seeds, you can plant them to see what kind of plant they are. Once that plant has grown, you'll be able to recognize the seeds you see on the ground as long as you've grown them.
What I did, as suggested by the sims 3 prima guide, was I made my sim handy so he could have the sprinkler on auto-sprinkle .. but I never did do that. I actually like watching him tend to his garden, so I'm regretting the wasted trait. At least my sim can have auto-cleaning objects now, which will help out since his wife is popping out babies left and right. (Oh god, why can't I stop myself?)
Only sims with the insane or green thumb trait can talk to plants, it's no longer "badge" related.
Here my sim is starting out his garden. The little apple tree is covered in weeds :(!Handy Tip - Want to see ghosts? Go to the graveyard! Want to get chased by bears? Go INSIDE the graveyard's mausoleum.
Monday, June 1, 2009
The Sims 3. Pregnancy tips, and increasing your chances for twins or triplets!
Hello, again. I just got my copy of the sims 3 Prima Guide, and I'm here to tell you some things I've learned and tested out about pregnancy, and multiples in the sims 3.
The sims 3's pregnancies are very much like the sims 2. It is three days long, day one being morning sickness day two pregnant.. day three pregnant.. then *suddenly* your sim gives birth to a boy, girl or combinations of those.
In the sims 3, there are ways to increase your chances of having a boy or a girl. If your sim wants a boy, she should eat at least 3 servings of apples. If she wants a girl, she'll need to do the same to watermelons.
Now, if your sim wants more than one baby (and who doesn't?..) your sim needs to turn the radio on to KidZone, and also watch TV. Doing both at the same time increases your chances of twins or triplets. I won't lie to you, the noises that come out of the radio and TV combined are enough to drive you crazy. So, unless you want to be crazy, MUTE IT!
Aside from that, if you read both of the pregnancy books (Totally preggers: An Expectant Mother's Tale and Baby Incoming: Preparing with Vilgilance) and keep the mother's moods up (her wants etc wouldn't hurt, either!) then you should be able to pick the baby's traits. Alternatively, if you don't do either of those you'll most likely get negative traits assigined to your sim.. if you're somewhere in between then you'll get positive traits, randomly assigined. Your sim will not name the baby, you get to.. unless you are not playing the family the time the baby is born.
Now that that's out of the way, lets meet the test couple of this entry.
It took a surprising amount of time for them to warm up to eachother, but eventually they both agreed on "woohooing" eachother for their chance at becoming parents ... of baby girl triplets. Or at least, that was the goal their player had in mind when picking them..
After they were done, thankfully she was pregnant. Another couple I had, it took them a few tries. Thankfully this guy has strong swimmers.. :P
The first thing I did with her was to have her go to the bookstore. While there, she picked up the two pregnancy books and since the grocery store was right there she also got some watermelon. This would be the time, of course, that she rolled her want for a boy. Too bad! We're going for girls, here.
Once she was home, I had her read her first book. Thankfully, these books are not very long so she did get to finish the first one on her second sitting. Pregnant sims, in the sims 3, do not have nearly as much decay to their needs as they did in the sims 2. This goes as well for non-pregnant sims.. it's much more evolved.
When your sim is pregnant, she will roll wants to buy things - baby objects. Also, she'll get food cravings. Some of them strange, some of them normal. Try to give her as many of those foods as possible.
For the most part, if you're going for several babies, most of the time should be spent either reading a pregnancy book, or listening and watching those horrible things I mentioned above. The children's channels. What I did, was I left the radio on 24/7, so that every waking moment she listened to the station. When she wasn't reading, eating, or bathing she was watching TV. She ate watermelons three times, once a day.
Finally, the time will come that your sim must have her baby. She may have the baby at home, but the hospital seems like a better option to me.
If your sim has a baby at home, she will spend 2 hours contracting until she gives birth.
If she goes to the hospital, she'll spend the same amount of time but there will be cool hospital noises happening should you be zoomed in on said hospital. Daddy should come and "be with the mother" as soon as possible if he was not in the lot at the time of her going into labor.
My sim's husband was one of the men who I did let go to work. This was a mistake, and I'll tell you why.. my sim DID have twin girls, and she cannot carry both babies. So, Daddy was supposed to carry out one of the babies and he wasn't there. Thankfully you CAN cancel out work, and have him go back to the hospital to a very unhappy baby then have him catch his own taxi home.
(For a laugh, just look at his face!)
I hope some of you found this helpful, I know someone was asking me a few blogs ago about the forcetwins/triplets. I bet this will make a good alternative to the cheats that do not work.
For triplets, maybe get the fertility bonus then follow this guide.. I'm sure she'll pop out an extra one!
Fun Fact : Your relationships with family members are now much more defined. Instead of "Family" your sims are now "mothers" and "sons" as well as "father-in-laws". This is a change that was much needed, and very much enjoyed by me! I hope this clears up a few of the problems the sims 2 had with incest.
The sims 3's pregnancies are very much like the sims 2. It is three days long, day one being morning sickness day two pregnant.. day three pregnant.. then *suddenly* your sim gives birth to a boy, girl or combinations of those.
In the sims 3, there are ways to increase your chances of having a boy or a girl. If your sim wants a boy, she should eat at least 3 servings of apples. If she wants a girl, she'll need to do the same to watermelons.
Now, if your sim wants more than one baby (and who doesn't?..) your sim needs to turn the radio on to KidZone, and also watch TV. Doing both at the same time increases your chances of twins or triplets. I won't lie to you, the noises that come out of the radio and TV combined are enough to drive you crazy. So, unless you want to be crazy, MUTE IT!
Aside from that, if you read both of the pregnancy books (Totally preggers: An Expectant Mother's Tale and Baby Incoming: Preparing with Vilgilance) and keep the mother's moods up (her wants etc wouldn't hurt, either!) then you should be able to pick the baby's traits. Alternatively, if you don't do either of those you'll most likely get negative traits assigined to your sim.. if you're somewhere in between then you'll get positive traits, randomly assigined. Your sim will not name the baby, you get to.. unless you are not playing the family the time the baby is born.
Now that that's out of the way, lets meet the test couple of this entry.
It took a surprising amount of time for them to warm up to eachother, but eventually they both agreed on "woohooing" eachother for their chance at becoming parents ... of baby girl triplets. Or at least, that was the goal their player had in mind when picking them..
After they were done, thankfully she was pregnant. Another couple I had, it took them a few tries. Thankfully this guy has strong swimmers.. :P
The first thing I did with her was to have her go to the bookstore. While there, she picked up the two pregnancy books and since the grocery store was right there she also got some watermelon. This would be the time, of course, that she rolled her want for a boy. Too bad! We're going for girls, here.
Once she was home, I had her read her first book. Thankfully, these books are not very long so she did get to finish the first one on her second sitting. Pregnant sims, in the sims 3, do not have nearly as much decay to their needs as they did in the sims 2. This goes as well for non-pregnant sims.. it's much more evolved.
When your sim is pregnant, she will roll wants to buy things - baby objects. Also, she'll get food cravings. Some of them strange, some of them normal. Try to give her as many of those foods as possible.
For the most part, if you're going for several babies, most of the time should be spent either reading a pregnancy book, or listening and watching those horrible things I mentioned above. The children's channels. What I did, was I left the radio on 24/7, so that every waking moment she listened to the station. When she wasn't reading, eating, or bathing she was watching TV. She ate watermelons three times, once a day.
Finally, the time will come that your sim must have her baby. She may have the baby at home, but the hospital seems like a better option to me.
If your sim has a baby at home, she will spend 2 hours contracting until she gives birth.
If she goes to the hospital, she'll spend the same amount of time but there will be cool hospital noises happening should you be zoomed in on said hospital. Daddy should come and "be with the mother" as soon as possible if he was not in the lot at the time of her going into labor.
My sim's husband was one of the men who I did let go to work. This was a mistake, and I'll tell you why.. my sim DID have twin girls, and she cannot carry both babies. So, Daddy was supposed to carry out one of the babies and he wasn't there. Thankfully you CAN cancel out work, and have him go back to the hospital to a very unhappy baby then have him catch his own taxi home.
(For a laugh, just look at his face!)I hope some of you found this helpful, I know someone was asking me a few blogs ago about the forcetwins/triplets. I bet this will make a good alternative to the cheats that do not work.
For triplets, maybe get the fertility bonus then follow this guide.. I'm sure she'll pop out an extra one!
Fun Fact : Your relationships with family members are now much more defined. Instead of "Family" your sims are now "mothers" and "sons" as well as "father-in-laws". This is a change that was much needed, and very much enjoyed by me! I hope this clears up a few of the problems the sims 2 had with incest.
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