Barefoot, pregnant, and at the mercy of InSIM: testing genetics

[strangetomato]

Recently, I tried fiddling with the recessive genetics in Strangetown, using SimPE, since madame_ugly was nice enough to explain it all to me a while back. The return of InSIM made it easy to test them out, so that's just what I did, using my favourite approach - the HANDS ON method.

Yes? Is there something you all wanted to tell me?




That's right, my friends. You got knocked up via InSIM, and you'll have no idea who the other parent is... oh, wait, yes you will. The green ones are Johnny's.




Ophelia: Okay, it's time to clean up these babies, guys! Get to work and start picking them up.

I love how the children of Ripp and Ophelia have such a wide range of skintones, instead of just ending up averaged out (that seems to always happen for me).

Even with all of those babies, I didn't get any kids from Johnny with red hair, so I'm not sure if I correctly changed his genetics. I'll have to test it out again. All of these kids had blond hair, so Ripp's recessive genetics are definitely working (I had some grey eyes too).

It's so nice to have InSIM back. I'm not sure if my sims agree, though.

Comments

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

AAAAHHHH, too much "science".

What next? MATH?

If you really wanted to figure it out, I'm sure someone somewhere has fully documented how sim genetics works. I bet there's a MATY thread about it (a long and boring MATY thread that will make your eyes roll back in your head and pray for the sweeeeeet release of death--ever notice how a lot of MATY threads have that effect?)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Next up... our guest lecturer, Pascal Curious, teaches us about quantum physics. *snicker*

Yeah, maybe I should look it up (and try to stay awake - though it shouldn't be a problem because it fascinates me), though I'm sure I did read that about which genetics are dominant and which are recessive. For eyes, the brown and dark blue are dominant, and the green, grey, and light blue are recessive. All alien features are dominant. That's true, from what I can see.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Ooh, let me throw THIS monkey wrench into your works.

Gunnar Roque's alien daughter has NORMAL eyes. So maybe alien genetics aren't always that dominant?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Nope, that still makes sense. Gunnar has brown eyes, which are also dominant, so you had a 50/50 chance of getting brown eyes. Alien eyes aren't more dominant that the dominant eyes - they're the same.

Alien skin is dominant over all other skins, though, unless you're using custom skin, which is about equal.

*snicker* Can't stump me...

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I didn't realize that "brown trumped alien". This is like playing poker. I just need to memorize what beats what and I'll be fine!

So when sims have twins I guess the game just throws you a bone and you get a good chance of getting one of each (in the case of green + nongreen skin OR competing hair/eyes)? (at least in my experience I've had a lot of "one of each" twins)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Well, it doesn't trump it as much as it can go head to head with it. It took me ages to see an alien sim born with non-alien eyes like that.

I guess you just get one more shot at the random genetics with the twins, so you can often hit on or more of the recessives.