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Post by laura on Apr 15, 2010 10:25:48 GMT -5
So, I am officially CONVINCED that Sims are MORE likely to get knocked up on ACR birth control than they are off of it with just a low risky rate. I don't know how it's possible, but it is. I have a very unhappy lady right now. She's been fine for six years, and I only just put her on birth control this round because I wanted to make sure she DIDN'T get preggy, and whoops, look, she's knocked up now Not fair! It's like birth control uses a different risky rate, that overrides the already low setting I have them on. Considering age and reduced fertility, and low risky, this particular Sim only had a 130 out of 10,000 chance of getting pregnant anyway. I've only recently started using it, and I've never seen so many oops pregnancies in my life! I don't even need the damn preggo ROS I have this round, because my Sims are doing a fine job of knocking themselves up on their own! I think they same thing might have happened with Mariah and Keri's firsts, and Bella's third. So I am officially taking all my Sims off birth control and just using a low risky rate for the ones who would be careful with their birth control.
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Post by blackcat on Apr 15, 2010 15:15:07 GMT -5
Laura, check with the ACR website that you have the latest version if you're using ACR 2 and be sure to remove the old version before putting the new one in (you can just overwrite ACR 1 with ACR 2 but you can't overwrite an older version of 2 with a newer 2... voice of experience... the new version won't work properly). There is one earlier version of ACR 2 that definitely had a fault in the birth control feature. Almost every sim I put on bc got pregnant - there's a definite couple of 'baby boom' sim years in my hood and a few previously-complete families that got a surprise new addition as a result. It annoyed the hell out of me because the sims I put on bc were the ones that I wanted to NOT have babies and it seemed to increase their chances... Someone on the ACR message boards has commented on having the same problem (and I was surprised there weren't more comments, actually!) and the creator said it would be fixed in the next version. In the latest version - which I have been using at least a couple of r/l months - the creator said it was fixed and that seems to be true. I haven't had any pregnancies at all from sims on bc yet. I was a bit afraid to try it at first but like I said, the latest version seems to work. BTW, the 'cannot have baby' feature appears to have worked properly in all versions - never had a sim get pregnant with that set. The difference is that bc allows occasional 'risky woohoo' pregnancies and cannot have baby doesn't - pregnancy totally impossible. I use that mostly for my sim women who are realistically too old to have babies but too young to be elders, so its just as well it worked properly
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Post by laura on Apr 15, 2010 15:47:19 GMT -5
Oh, okay, I will update then. I'm pretty sure I started out with ACR 2 as soon as it was released, and never checked back for an update, so I probably have that early buggy version. Hope Carla is reading this, because I think she's had the same problem, lol! Yes, what a shame that this ends up happening to the ones you DON'T want pregnant. But wow, the dramatic storylines that have emerged from it. You know I'll sacrifice any character's happiness for a good story, lol! What an evil Sim-god I am! But then, the whole unexpected/unwanted pregnancy storyline is getting old, and boring to write again and again. So a working version will be welcome! I do know about "cannot get pregnant" and I use that for Sims who are supposed to be infertile via nature or getting tubes tied or whatever. I do have a couple of those set to that - and my Ms. Goddess of Fertility (Bella) will be getting that done after her third is born, lol! I only allow that to be set when they're sure they're done, because in my game rules it's irreversible. For my middle-age Sims I have my fertility rates edited to decrease through their 40s, so by the time they're close to 50 (but still in the adult lifestage) they wouldn't be able to get pregnant by risky anyway
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Post by somuchsong on Apr 15, 2010 18:37:39 GMT -5
Ha, yes, I have had that problem! Max and Zaria's Jessica was an ACR birth control failure (and their son Josh was an InTeen BC failure!) and <i>both</i> of Finn and Victoria's kids were conceived while she was using ACR BC.
I'm going to try the updated version. Anyone who reads Sullivan knows I love a pregnancy but I do try to have <i>some</i> control over the population (really, I do!)
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Post by blackcat on Apr 16, 2010 22:12:40 GMT -5
Sheesh, I shouldn't have said that I've never yet had a risky woo hoo pregnancy with a sim on birth control, since getting the updated ACR 2. Or at least, I shouldn't have said it the day I was playing a family who already have five kids. Gonna keep reminding myself of Laura's 'dramatic storyline' thing with this one...
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Post by laura on Apr 16, 2010 23:03:08 GMT -5
OMG, did you just get another one??? Oh man, I was hoping it was fixed, lol! But yes, just think of the drama!
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Post by blackcat on Apr 16, 2010 23:33:18 GMT -5
I think it is fixed, still - the risky thing is supposed to produce the occasional pregnancy to couples using bc (I just wish it had produced the occasional pregnancy for some other couple! ). Like I said, this is the first in a couple of months of gameplay. I had the original one in for, like, two weeks, and I got four or five babies out of it - I don't think any couple woo hoo'd in that time and DIDN'T get pregnant. But, yeah, baby #6 for this couple. All I'm thinking now is, please sim-god, don't let it be twins!
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Post by laura on Apr 16, 2010 23:44:01 GMT -5
That was my first thought too, about the twins, because twins do run in my girl's family to a ridiculous extent!
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Post by blackcat on Apr 16, 2010 23:52:52 GMT -5
That's why I thought it, too... the father is a twin, they already have one set of twins and so does his (twin) sister. His parents had two sets of twins a sim-year apart, the only time I ever used the twin bonus. These guys don't NEED that kind of bonus!
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