Ummm... what?! (A slight legacy-related problem)

[strangetomato]

I'm really blowing this legacy thing, guys. Like, really, really effin' it all up. Well, for one, I'm still playing, and it's supposed to be done on Friday, but I think I can get it all together by them. It's really near the end. But... well, I'm doing something a little unconventional, and making my own judgement call on how to work it. I think it all still works out fairly by the rules, but I've had a last-minute "oops" and I'm wondering what to do.




Okay, I'll cut right to the chase. Some of my potential heirs are plantsims. I assume it's "legal" because the ideal plantsim is Maxis stock, just like the PT. The way I made it fair from a character development point of view, is to have the plantbabies born much later than the other candidate for heir (who was a teen before they were sprouted). I decided to allow the plantsims to continue to linger on as adults until the "normal" sim became one. I figured it was only fair that they could continue to live and develop their stories too, since they have such a short lifespan from toddler to adult (though, obviously, they have a clear advantage in the skill point department, so I'm not intentionally skilling them much).

So that seems fair, right? If not, well I've blown it already, but we'll just have to deal with it.

The REAL issue here is this:




Freakin' Ira Inada. (Cool name, though.) He's the sort of modified Face One, Michael Stipe look-alike cowboy who gets summoned out of the magic wishing well to be your sweet little baby boy's true love. Oh, and his BABY DADDY too. Cy was a TODDLER only days earlier, and I had no idea he was gay (he wasn't set, so the well decided for me... or maybe it was ACR).  I completely forgot that I added the Preg For All Genders hack for the purposes of alien and half-alien breeding, and, well, I really didn't expect Cy to TRY FOR BABY his very first time.

They weren't even in love yet. o_O

But his secondary aspiration is family, and he seems to have had a 62% chance of wanting to try for baby. Did I check that? No. Did I remember that I set the risky woohoo at it's max level? No. (Not that it mattered. I NEVER get the risky woohoo babies. It's always the sneaky "try for baby" ones.) I wasn't even thinking about him getting mpreg, because I haven't been playing with that hack in place much... at least not with many same sex couples, so it didn't come up.

This is what I get for trying to be clever and using plantsims, but I really wanted the pointy ears and Nyssa didn't get knocked up by any of the townies I generated that had them. I even had that gothic fairy downtownie guy, but she didn't meet him. So plantsims seemed like such a good idea at the time.

So... what would you do here? I love the twist, and the sim breeder inside me refuses to just abort the pregnancy. It might be a bit much to try to work into the story, but I'm sure I could (the story is WAY convoluted as it is, so it should fit right in). Do you think this is okay, as long as the baby stays behind? I think I could make it make sense.

Or... I could let him have the baby, but keep it completely out of the story and "official" legacy entry.

Advice? I'm all ears.

P.S. Ira Inada is one of those extra downtownie templates, so you could spawn one of your very own, if you like him. Watch out, though. He has those sneaky "creep out of the well and impregnate your innocent plantsim" ways. And he rocks a cowboy hat like nobody's business.

Yessir... ACR sure does make things interesting.



 

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I only put the Preg for All in recently, for someone in my prosperity hood, and I really did completely forget about it, since it hasn't been relevant at all yet (thankfully, college kids can't get preggers).

Oh, really? I didn't know that. I was wondering if it randomly assigned it. There's a setting for that somewhere, though, right? You can decide the percentage of different sexualities, I think.

My dormies are always half gay anyway, I swear. I think it's built in by Maxis.

The idea about inheriting the mother's preference is interesting. They are alike in most other ways (but not zodiac or hobby, or a number of other small details).

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

I've checked a ton of dormies' sexuality and I think all of them start out as having no gender preference at first. I guess that's why they always seem half gay, since they can be very easily swayed one way or the other.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

But all sims are supposedly like that, and yet I see way more same-sex heartfarting in uni (before they even flirt with anyone). Is there something in the air that sets preference? Is one of the uni interactions secretly set gender preference? Maybe it's the ventrilo-fart. :P

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe the cow mascot?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's probably it. The cow mascot seems to go after everyone equally, just to cause chaos, and any interaction could set the dormies.

You're pretty sharp. ;) (There's a little cluck of the tongue to go with that wink. It's a Newfie thing. :P)

[(Anonymous)]

From the adjuster, it's Misc->Gender Pref; you can set individual sims or set the percentages for the hood and then roll for everyone who either doesn't have a preference, or doesn't have a crush.

I have this great screencap of one of my sims sitting on the dorm couch studying; next to him, two dormies are having ACR-induced sex. Kind of reminds me of the first dorm I lived in, actually.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I've looked at the individual options, but I was a little afraid to do the whole hood. So it only affects those that are already set... that's a good feature.

*snort* Oh, I know what you mean. Usually, there was a wall between me and the "ACR" action, but sadly, it was often paper-thin.