Mod The Sims - Twins! Triplets! Quads! Oh my!

HystericalParoxysm

17th Jun 2007, 03:04 PM

Oh those bouncing bundles of joy, and so much more joyful when you get several at a time!

We have a lovely game guide to Pregnancy that covers information on twins, triplets, and quads. You can view it here:

Game Guide: Pregnancy (http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Pregnancy)

If you have any other info and tips about twins, triplets, etc., post 'em here. If you have any questions about twins, triplets, etc., you can ask them here too.

Please be sure to check the Game Guide before posting to make sure that your tip or question isn't already covered there.

AngelFrouk

17th Jun 2007, 03:07 PM

If you have twins/triplets or quads, Place a fridge in their room. This will make the feeding better. Also get two changing tables, that way both mom and dad can change their kids at the same time.
And don't feed them at the same time. If you do that, they will get hungry and need a clean diaper at the same time every time.

Modestgurl88

23rd Jun 2007, 08:27 AM

If you don't mind a little help, there is a hack where it makes the babies and toddlers sleep all through the night until 11 the next morning. I love it because it gives the parents/parent time to rest without calling the nanny

JaimeA

23rd Jun 2007, 08:36 AM

Toddler Blankets that can be laid on the ground, that the toddlers can use to put themselves to bed can be MAJOR lifesavers. If you don't mind using hacks/hacked objects you can get the bottomless bottle from simlogical. Also you can get an object that lets you set the type of school for the kids, set the teens to flexi school, they can get their school work done in the morning and help out with the tots when needed as well.

chaotess

23rd Jun 2007, 05:40 PM

The Sims Mod Board has sorta a diaper basket that I believe refreshes hygeine or maybe bladder, haven't used it myself yet. Usable by all, including toddlers. This is good though, because it is not a global hack, just a hacked object. So you choose when and where to use it.

http://www.pc-sims.com/smb/showthread.php?t=50

I also like the DMA nanny. DMA has some free service sims, and some pay. The Nanny is one of the pay ones, though. She's really helpful in the case of Quads. I personally did subscribe and got the donater set, but I believe they are available at the booty.

http://www.valdea.com/ for full description and stuff...

I also think Squinge's breastfeeding mod really helps. Especially the one where they will do it autonomously.

Also I find this is a good time to use those paid vacation days your sim has accumulated. When the caretaker who is still home is exhausted (or if all of them are) sometimes I will have them call the nanny and go to bed. The nanny shows up and at least makes sure the kids are fed, while the caregivers get some much needed rest. Leftovers in the fridge is good, as is Jello on the counter to prevent caregivers starving to death. However, I currently have no help for when four babies all try to age transition at the same time, inexplicably all calling the same person to help them. Usually that person nearly dies in my game. Any advice on that for me would be good.

Peace

1st Aug 2007, 10:35 PM

Sims Mod Board also has a toddler couch and chair that improves motives and raises their aspiration.

Lemon&Lime

9th Aug 2007, 01:16 PM

For twins/quads/triplet's birthdays -

Using the boolprop cheat, set one of the babie's birthday to that day when they are not long born. Then, buy a birthday cake and get one of the parents to take them to the birthday cake. Then repeat the process with each of the babies. Or, wait until it is there birthday and get the parent who isn't being harassed by the 'help with birthday' command to take each baby one by one to a birthday cake. This method should also help to get the other parent away from the babies to watch the cake and then eat some - I had a big problem with hunger going down when it is the babies' birthdays.

SilentPsycho

12th Aug 2007, 02:08 PM

When you get the messages saying 'So-and-so is going to grow up in one day', you can use the birthday cake at that moment onwards to grow them up one at a time early. That way you don't have to worry about all the babies trying to get one person to grow them up.

MissTech

16th Aug 2007, 03:08 PM

The ONLY way to get triplets and quads is the hack created by TwoJeffs correct?? Or was there something EA put into one of the EPs to make trips and quads possible??

I only ask because ever since the installation of Seasons, every time I have a birth with the Triplets & Quads v2.6 hack in my game, when it comes time for the pop-up box announcement "There is/are # of new members...." the game crashes. Births of singles and twins are no problem without Triplets & Quads v2.6 installed. (Full version.) Do I have the wrong hack, or is this hack now obsolete because of something EA added to sims? Any help would be great, and sorry to the mods if this was the wrong place to post.

SilentPsycho

16th Aug 2007, 03:18 PM

Have you got the version that's been updated for Seasons?

MissTech

16th Aug 2007, 04:04 PM

Have you got the version that's been updated for Seasons?
I am guessing not perhaps? I have V2.6 and everything I've found in the WCIF on this site points to the same thing... linking to V2.6. Is there a version after V2.6 or is V2.6 the correct version??

I was thinking that maybe Seasons made Trips and Quad possible in the actual game without a hack being necessary and that is why the game crashes for me with the hack installed.

Daisie

16th Aug 2007, 04:11 PM

MissTech

16th Aug 2007, 06:12 PM

MissTech, the only thing I can think of that might be causing your problem is if you have both the full and random versions of the hack installed, as v2.6 (http://box156.bluehost.com/~aestudi1/forums/inteenimater/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3) is compatible with Seasons. Have you run the Hack Conflict Detectin Utility (www.simwardrobe.com (http://www.simwardrobe.com/))? If the problem persists, you should probably ask for help in the thread I linked to above.

Thanks! I had no idea about that program from Sims Wardrobe. DL-ed it and did have some things that apparantly conflicted. So thank you very much for your help. Going to go back in now and see if it works. Again, thank you! :D

Daisie

16th Aug 2007, 06:41 PM

You're welcome! I hope it works. :)

MissTech

18th Aug 2007, 11:32 AM

Well, I tried, but no good. This time the game crashed when it came time for the pop up box to name the baby. I give up! Guess not meant to have trips or quads in my game. Thanks everyone for all your help! :)

Peace

26th Aug 2007, 03:47 PM

How do you name and dress your twins, trips and quads? I try and give them similar names and the same outfits just in diffrent colors. I gave my last quads jewel names, Diamond, Emerald, Opal and Ruby. That darn random button gave them quad siblings. I gave them color names, Crimson, Indigo, Lavender and Slate. I hope im not alone in this! Kinda makes me feel like a dork! lol

Update.... Now the two sets of quads have siblings! I went with the seasons this time. Twin girls Wynter and Summer!

chaotess

26th Aug 2007, 04:53 PM

I like to give them names that begin with the same letter. Like Dean, Derek and Diana, or Mark, Mathew, Merilee and Margaret. I do themes if their parent is in some way special, like a plant sim, a vampire, royal, or something.

Lemon&Lime

26th Aug 2007, 07:37 PM

I like giving my twin/more sims names beginning with the same letter. I also had a family who had 3 seperate children, all girls, and all their names began with 'Sa'. Samara, Sally, Samantha. I love naming traditions :) I often name children after their grandparents or great-grandparents if I can't be bothered to look through the baby names book I keep near my computer desk for the Sims!

DancingSimmer

27th Aug 2007, 12:46 AM

I just name my twins whatever I want. I have 2 sets of twins in my new neighborhood, Amberville. Their names are:

Zachary & Craig
Francesca & (I forgot his name)

cosmough

27th Aug 2007, 05:17 AM

beeps

27th Aug 2007, 05:22 AM

can u pls give a link?
Sims2Wiki is a beautiful thing.
http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Content_Lists

cosmough

27th Aug 2007, 05:25 AM

Sims2Wiki is a beautiful thing.
http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Content_Lists

thank u very much :jig:

Willocrisp

15th Sep 2007, 09:10 PM

Put a lounge chair or a bed in the room with your babies/toddlers- just in case their parents need a nap. ;)

queenrebecca

9th Dec 2007, 06:52 AM

For some reason natural twins seem to run wild in my game. At least one in three of any given sim's pregnancy seems to result in twins! And of course they just keep birthing more and more twins since it appears to be genetic... I So a question: does creating two children of the same age in create-a-family give them both the little twin token thing since they are technically "born" at the same time?

~Charlotte~

10th Dec 2007, 10:09 PM

I find having snapdragons and using smartmilk make raising twins so much easier. And also have that toddler bed by Atavera helps too, saves having to bed the babies to bed :)

Lemon&Lime

12th Dec 2007, 04:30 PM

Whats a snapdragon?

Scout

12th Dec 2007, 04:44 PM

It's a flower you can craft in OFB. It releases puffs of smoke which raise motives.

Lemon&Lime

12th Dec 2007, 04:49 PM

Oooo.... I shall have to try that now.

HunterGreen

16th Dec 2007, 06:27 PM

QueenRebecca, I have had the same issue with my main neighborhood, soo many sets of twins, far more than the one in ten odds (including one set fathered by the burglar Gordon King, which is what I get for playing around with making a sim fall in love with the man who robbed her dorm, those are some UGLY kids). None of the existing twins had had twins themselves, however, which is strange.

I like giving my twin/more sims names beginning with the same letter. I also had a family who had 3 seperate children, all girls, and all their names began with 'Sa'. Samara, Sally, Samantha. I love naming traditions :) I often name children after their grandparents or great-grandparents if I can't be bothered to look through the baby names book I keep near my computer desk for the Sims!
I do that too. Two brothers in my game married wives with the same first two letters as themselves (Andrew married Anna and had Antonia, Antheia and Anita; Alexander married Ally and had Alfred).Its also fun trying to create names for the children out of the parents names (Austin had son Dustin, Maurice had son Reese, Alice had Alec and Ally (the same Ally from above)). Oddly enough, the twins in my neighborhood usually don't have similar names, I name them just like any other sim siblings.

Daisy2007

20th Dec 2007, 05:40 PM

Take advantage of the extra vacation days and DON'T hire a nanny. She does too much that's really counterproductive...she seems to want to tend hunger above anything else even when other motives are closer to distress.

Have a dollhouse before you buy any of the skilling toys. The ability for 2 to use it at once makes it a space saver and also keeps them busy even when their mood is less than good.

Be diligent about potty training them and lock the potty train want if they have it. If you manage to always get them on the potty then they should be trained by the time they grow up and the aspiration that gets them should be enough for them to grow up well.

The no baby harassment (not sure where this comes from) mod is very helpful. It will keep adult sims from pestering the little ones and feeding them 40 times an hour instead of doing something productive.

Nightwater

20th Dec 2007, 05:57 PM

The no baby harassment (not sure where this comes from) mod is very helpful. It will keep adult sims from pestering the little ones and feeding them 40 times an hour instead of doing something productive.This hack comes from More Awesome Than You (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/), more precisely from here (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/bv/hacks/nobabyharassment.zip). Note that I've given the BV version. There's also lobonanny (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/bv/hacks/lobonanny.zip) if you want to make your nannies smarter and not so annoying. Again BV version :P

Ferret

7th Jan 2008, 07:10 PM

I find that the best combination for teaching toddlers skills is to do it in autumn/fall, feed the toddlers the smart milk and make who ever is teaching the toddlers wear the Thinking Cap. They'll learn skills (especially potty training) really quickly and this is especially helpful if you have multiples :D

X-Lea-X

8th Jan 2008, 04:54 PM

I put my twins/triplets/quads in separate rooms.That way if one walks up he/she wouldn't wake the others up.:!!:Remember if a baby is crying with a room with more babies he/she will wake the others!

SofieAmalieN

8th Jan 2008, 07:16 PM

Oh, I really love multiples! And I love watching two toddlers play together with the dollhouse, it's the cutest thing ever!

With multiples, smartmilk is even more usefull than with just a single baby. Try only feeding your little ones with smartmilk. It's been said that if a toddler has more than 10 bottles of it, he/she will be a faster learner for the rest of Her/His life.

Peace

28th Jan 2008, 02:55 AM

My Loner Legacy Neighborhood has gone twin crazy!!!! Ajay's grandson, Dante, had 6 kids....... a set of triplets, Wish, Willow and Wystan. And then three singles, Natasha, Yamir and Khadija. Well they got married and Willow, Natasha, Yamir AND Khadija all had natural twins!!!!

Dante's brother, Xavier married Ophelia and they also had 6 kids. 4 singles and a set of natural twins, Zion and Zander. Well guess what Zander had twins!

Thats waaaaay to many twins in one game! 4 of them are boy/girl sets. One boy/boy set.

No twin hack, just the trips and quads.

angelthatishonest

18th Feb 2008, 08:38 PM

I was playing the ottamas family today. Their twins are kids now, Ugly kids! anyway She had TRIPLETS!! I think I am going to die.

squzalkitty

20th Mar 2008, 03:05 AM

is there any other "natural way" to have triplets and quads

beeps

20th Mar 2008, 03:08 AM

is there any other "natural way" to have triplets and quads
Nope. Triplets and quadruplets weren't coded into the game, only twins.

melethana

18th Jul 2008, 07:31 PM

Lemon&Lime

18th Jul 2008, 07:56 PM

I've had 3 sets of twins within the same large family.

Estelle, a CAS made Sim and the first Oakley, had 2 sets of twins (both of them InSim; she has the want to have 10 children so she had to have twins at least once). The eldest set are teenagers - a boy and a girl - and are called Palladin and Penelope, and the youngest set are toddlers - also a boy and a girl - and are called Reuben and Rosette. Estelle only seems able to have a boy if its a twin! She has 8 children and 6 of them are daughters!

Anyway, Estelle's oldest daughter has not long had natural (yay!) twin girls, Gabrielle and Gwendolyn, still toddlers as well.

Poor family. 3 sets of twins and they're only on the 3rd generation.

kustirider2

18th Jul 2008, 07:59 PM

The Freetime twin boost thing is very effective. I used it on one family and they had 5 sets of twins in a row!

IceAngel12891

18th Jul 2008, 08:01 PM

sumpsychochic

19th Jul 2008, 03:49 PM

My legacy founder and her husband both had super fertility and they got 2 sets of twins in a row.

FlyingKiwi

20th Jul 2008, 11:16 AM

The Ramaswami's have just had twins in my game (completely naturally), the only other time I've had twins was in my first game where Lilith and Dirk Dreamer had twins. (also natural)

PuX- 80's

28th Jul 2008, 05:24 AM

A big tip about getting twins, triplets or quads.....Don't.
:P
One is enough, two pushes it, three...hire the nanny.

They are all very adorable, but the waking up once momy and daddy go to sleep...isn't cool.
Tip:
Try to get a routine for everyone.
It's helped me very much.
Set a bed time.
Set wake-up time.
Set who tends to the baby and who makes breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner.
Set baies down times and play times.
I usualy have the mother stay-home and tend to everyone.
Try to know how long the baby sleeps through out the night and plan when the adults should get a good enough sleep before the turd wakes up. (Make one go to sleep before the other)

Cassandra_107

1st Aug 2008, 02:56 AM

My tips are:

* "No baby harassment" from MATY is essential! - Without it family members will be dragging toddlers to the fridge continuously. Further more, tot's do not ever go into the kitchen for a bottle, get one of the bottle only fridges here (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,10753.0.html) or here.
(http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/MsBarrows/downloads/sims2/sets/objects/753884/)
* Have at least one parent stay at home, I usually use the Mother. I will also have recent uni graduates move in with their older sibling, so they can act as a Nanny & get practice for when they have kids.

* Have any member of the family buy the SmartMilk. First family member that hits platinum, makes all the SmartMillk in the dispenser. Put several bottles in Mom's inventory, a few in Dad's & a few in the helpers. I also out a few in the Tot's own inventory as soon as the change into a toddler.

* I always feed a tot SmartMilk when their hunger & bladder is at 25%. They will get the full hunger filling of the bottle & the bladder being low enough will give them the opportunity to train bathroom skill directly after being fed. Now that I type that I realize that that is quite realistic, most tots bladder need drops just after feeding.

* I use a large "baby barracks" area. This area has as many floor blankets as their are babies. Extras I store in Mom's inventory (i.e. Baby blankets all go in Mom's inventory once the group becomes tots), that is also where I store extra kids beds. All sleep stations are separated by the fence that came with pets. If you encircle each bed with wall & fence, when one wakes others will not, this works for all blanket, cribs and beds.

* In the center of the barracks I place several skilling objects. I use many custom toys I have found all over the internet. It seems each tot picks something they like best. One got hooked on the creativity blanket, he only wanted to play on that one, there were two others in the same room. Once when his blanket was occupied by another tot he threw a fit; he made it very clear that he did not want some other blanket, he wanted his blankie! I consider this a good thing, by the time he reached childhood he already qualified for one scholarship.

* If you do not want to do barracks, consider building a toddler containment area. I use the stage thing that came with ofb. Build a staged area, 4X5 squares or more, put one set of stairs there and fence the rest off. I usually add a fence around it & a locking gate. If the toddlers do not need any thing lock the gate, no fussing over the tots if sims can not get to them.

DancingSimmer

1st Aug 2008, 04:22 PM

I know this is random, but this is how I take care of kids in my game:

1. Boys and Girls are usually seperated (meaning they both have seperate rooms) even if they're twins, triplets, etc.
2. I tend to not hire a nanny, but there have been a couple times where I'm desperate.
3. I find it helpful to have atleast one grandparent live with the family if the family has atleast 3 kids that are either in the Child stage, Toddler stage, or the Infant stage. If they're in the Teenager stage, I'm pretty sure they can take care of themselves a little more.
4. I usually have 1 parent stay at home, and the parent who wants to go to work (meaning, the parent who has a lifetime want that involves a career) goes to work and does their job while the other stays at home. If both parents want to work, I randomly choose a parent to work and have the other one stay home until atleast one kid is in the teenage stage. That way, the teenager can stay home alone OR take care of the younger kids (if they have any).

I tend to actually plan how many kids I want the families to have. I build their house according to my plans. For example:

My Pribynski family in my new custom nhood currently has 1 infant and is planning on having twins. No matter what, I'm making the kids have seperate rooms (I like doing that, lol) so they can express their individuality a little bit better. After twins, they might have another child, or use the extra bedroom has a guest room, office, or family room with some games and stuff.

My Carson family is a young couple, fresh out of college. They are both already very high in their careers and plan on having 2 or 3 kids... and apparently, they got their wish. They are planning on having triplets. Yes, lucky aren't they? rofl.

Nate2008

8th Nov 2008, 05:03 PM

I've had a number of sets of twins and that's hard enough, I can't imagine triplets and quads!

horcrux4571

9th Nov 2008, 01:57 PM

If you have a ghost on your lot and your sim is pregnant, and if the ghost scares the pregnant sim it may result in the Umlimted Babies Glitch. Note: I don't download any hacks or mods!

musiquefille_SC

9th Nov 2008, 05:52 PM

What's the unlimited babies glitch?

kustirider2

9th Nov 2008, 06:00 PM

Its where the display says only one baby but the sim has a load... It happened to me and bandi broke, she had about 24 babies before i decided the lot got too laggy :P

miclab312_SC

10th Nov 2008, 03:43 AM

My sim gave birth to alien triplets just a few simdays ago! Boy they were a handful! Now they are children, and easier to handle.

longdaysend

10th Nov 2008, 03:54 PM

If you're not adverse to cheating (and so many of us aren't) you can always use InSim to make the babies/toddlers motives static (i.e. they stay full and don't degrade) so you can easily set them to skill building, being taught the basic skills (potty,talk,walk) and you don't have to worry about them needing food sleep or diaper changes. of course this is mega ultra cheating and only for those who just want to get them to childhood as painlessly as possible :)

me personally? well my best case scenario is to have a teen sibling or grandparent in the house particularly when dealing with 3+ babies. as someone said before, make sure one of the parents is unemployed or at the very least not the main breadwinner in the household and DO take full advantage of the days off the game gives you. if suzy sim is given 4 days off to tend her spawn use every single one of them. if you have FT take the work related extras until you get the one that lets you build vacation days more quickly and be sure to get as many as possible PRIOR to getting pregnant.

seriouscookie

14th Dec 2008, 11:55 PM

Is there any way to make twins *not* happen? I have one of those games that just seems to love spitting twins at me. They happen at least once in every family I play!

maven2379

15th Dec 2008, 12:54 AM

seriouscookie, do you have the triplet/quad hack from TJ? or Have you used the aspiration "benefit" for family sims from Freetime? If you are using the hack from TJ you can adjust the the percentage for twins etc, the Freetime "benefit" will also give you a higher chance of twins. Without these things twins will still happen, just not as often. If you have neither check to be sure you don't have a hack conflict that is causing this, and if you don't consider yourself "lucky" :lol:

seriouscookie

15th Dec 2008, 02:13 AM

maven, it's been doing this since I first installed the game. The highest EP I have is Nightlife. The only hack I'm running is the newest version of Gunmod's camera hack. I guess I'm "lucky" but I wish I wasn't. I would probably enjoy them more if they were rare for my game.

maven2379

15th Dec 2008, 03:19 AM

Sorry to hear that. I have only had twins in a couple families without any hacks involved or aspiration benefits involved. I only recently installed TJ's triplets and Quads hack and took it out very soon after.:smash:

I have only had one family to be cursed by twins so far. The first time I had them without hacks, I was so excited..... then... they had another set of twins, followed by a single birth..... then more twins!! :banghead:

simsample

15th Dec 2008, 03:42 AM

Twins can be passed down as a hereditary trait, so that could be what is happening in your game.

seriouscookie

15th Dec 2008, 05:49 AM

Could be. Meh - at least my most recent set have become teenagers and Momma has made it through two subsequent single! pregnancies so that household is starting to not be as chaotic.

Yikes, Maven - I feeeeeel your pain! That's what kept happening in my orignal neighborhood families! (I was playing Veronaville.)

devmars

13th Jul 2011, 07:35 AM

if you have Pets, and if your family doesnt have any pets, buy cat beds. toddlers will sleep there if they are neglected. They do it automatically, so you can care for all of your kids!

ai haibara

15th Jul 2011, 08:47 PM

Tip:dont have your sim get a work while pregnant, she will not have any extra
vacation days to tend 'em.

by the way, could someone please tell me what do i have to do to
have quads or triplets?

Peni Griffin

15th Jul 2011, 09:03 PM

That's a hack; downloadable here, I believe, but I don't use it so I could be wrong. Look in the WCIF (Where Can I Find) board if you can't find it via the search engine.

Although twins can be really hectic, if you wait till they're almost teens to get pregnant, the next toddler will be a breeze!

Julieryc

15th Jul 2011, 10:35 PM

The trips and quads hack is by Twojeffs, and can be found on Simbology. Link: http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=18.0

ai haibara

15th Jul 2011, 10:52 PM

The trips and quads hack is by Twojeffs, and can be found on Simbology. Link: http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=18.0
thankyou :anime:

TUL

16th Jul 2011, 06:46 AM

Does anyone know if werewolves are more likely to have twins/triplets/etc?
I've been plagued over and over by my werewolf couple by twins and triplets with each pregnancy - the only single birth was their first child, and before the wife became a werewolf.

ai haibara

16th Jul 2011, 03:49 PM

The trips and quads hack is by Twojeffs, and can be found on Simbology. Link: http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=18.0
could someone please tell me which of the two are best to
download?
the regular or the random only?
and is there, somewhere a sort of EASY tutorial to tell ya what exactly
happens and what exactly you should do?

TUL

16th Jul 2011, 10:24 PM

could someone please tell me which of the two are best to
download?
the regular or the random only?
and is there, somewhere a sort of EASY tutorial to tell ya what exactly
happens and what exactly you should do?

The "regular" one comes with a little pop-up when your Sim gives birth, asking you to choose if you want a single baby, twins, triplets, or quads. The random, as the name implies, chooses randomly what the birth will be.
Personally, I like the element of chaos the random version has.

Ynouva

16th Jul 2011, 11:12 PM

Is it true that pregnant Sims who eat cheesecake will have twins? Has anyone ever tried this? I currently have a pregnant Sim and I'm going to give her a strict cheesecake diet to check if this is true.

TUL

17th Jul 2011, 12:19 AM

Yep, pregnant Sims who eat cheesecake will have twins. It's a well known fact. :)
Although, any rumors about pregnant Sims eating hot dogs(it was a rumor quite a while ago, but you don't hear about it so much now) are false.

Ynouva

17th Jul 2011, 04:16 AM

@TUL I just came back after testing it and...YES! I HAVE TWINS! :lol:

I tried playing a backup of that family and when I didn't make the mother eat any cheesecake, she gave birth to a single baby. Cheesecake really does work!

ai haibara

17th Jul 2011, 03:05 PM

Holliday

19th Jul 2011, 05:47 PM

could someone please tell me which of the two are best to
download?

I like using the full version, not just random, because you still have the option of giving your Sims a random birth, but you can also choose how many you want them to have. So if I have a plan for a Sim family and I really want them to have, say, triplets, I can just click triplets when she's about to give birth instead of changing the triplet odds up very high and then having to change them back. Also, one family I clicked the random button for their first two pregnancies and they had a single followed by quads. Then the wife accidentally got pregnant again (risky WooHoo) and I clicked a single, because I couldn't handle another set of multiples when their quads were still children. But that's just me!

I also have a huge amount of twins in my game. When I first started playing the game (which is when it came out) I played for at least a year without even knowing that twins were possible, because I'd never had them. Then one day I had twins and I knew you could. After that there was another dry spell. Now my Sims are popping out twins for what feels like 50% of their pregnancies! And I never boost their twins fertility in Freetime benefits, because it would just make my twins problem even more intense! But I've gotten pretty good at handling them, so twins is now a piece of cake. My suggestion is to get them on the same schedule. As soon as they're born, feed them both a bottle, bathe them in a sink, and then put them to bed. That way, your Sim only has to get up once a night to change diapers, not twice. This works great even if your parent Sim is single.

Question to others: If I click the random button on a Sim that is more likely to have twins genetically because of twins in their family, is this taken into account? I'm thinking it's not, and that it just goes by how you have the percentages set, right? That's the one big reason I don't always like to use the settings to make the birth random, because I hate to think that the Sim was going to have twins if I didn't mess with her and then I click random and she ends up having a single instead.

katya_stevens

21st Jul 2011, 09:54 AM

Question to others: If I click the random button on a Sim that is more likely to have twins genetically because of twins in their family, is this taken into account? I'm thinking it's not, and that it just goes by how you have the percentages set, right?

I've heard from other people that it's supposed to recognize natural twins, but when I tried it once my sim ended up having triplets (exited without saving and went back in to give her the twins she was programmed to have). Because of this, when I know a sim is pregnant I check using the ACR adjuster or Sim Blender to see how many children they're expected to have: a singleton means they get a random roll on Trips&Quads, twins means I choose original number of children.

Julieryc

21st Jul 2011, 02:31 PM

IIRC, the mod will take into account that you have twins, but that means twins at a minimum - it won't give you a single if you have twins naturally, but you might get trips or quads.

Gingerxyz

24th Jul 2011, 12:33 AM

I've heard from other people that it's supposed to recognize natural twins, but when I tried it once my sim ended up having triplets (exited without saving and went back in to give her the twins she was programmed to have). Because of this, when I know a sim is pregnant I check using the ACR adjuster or Sim Blender to see how many children they're expected to have: a singleton means they get a random roll on Trips&Quads, twins means I choose original number of children.
That's a really smart way to handle it. I think I'll do that from now on. Thanks for the tip!

annoainthere

18th Aug 2011, 07:58 AM

Alright, so I did the worst thing imaginable! One of my families had Quads, arrrrggghhh... What the *expletive* was I thinking when I clicked the button?? Well now I've learnt my lesson, no more quads for me (well no more quads without using hacks/mods/custom content).

I was very lucky at the time to have two adults and their teenage son, otherwise it would of been a disaster that much I'm sure of. I had a few close calls with the social worker when the quads were babies but nonetheless made it through without using any hacks or cheats on the family and no custom content!

I managed a rotation - which made the quads sleep 2 times a day for ~4-6 hours each time.
While the quads slept, anyone in the house slept. When the quads were awake 1 person would be awake.
Luckily they were born in the early morning so they all got fed and cribbed and Dad and Son had enough time to eat and run out the door for school/work.
Then the Mum was on duty till the Dad/Son came home. Then Mum was on strike fulfilling her needs while the guys took turns with the kids. Mostly the quads would sleep through the latter part of the night and the middle of the day. So that's when Mum slept. Only once I had to call in the nanny - totally useless though.

Then the quads became toddlers, and well I decided it was time for Dad to get some quality "Sick Time" in with the quads. It was easy enough if I let them sleep on the pet mats and left bottles all over the floor for them to drink. When they weren't being skilled by Mum and Dad they were playing with the teen or with each other. The Son was also useful to clean up/potty train and bath while Mum and Dad were skilling the two of the quads.

So never again! Lol

devmars

21st Aug 2011, 09:36 PM

i use the triplet and quad hacks paired with inSim. My sim has like, 55 kids, some in college, some at home...

Chronicle

22nd Aug 2011, 12:53 AM

I've been playing an ISBI lately, using a color theme for each generation to keep things interesting. (I love decorating, so recoloring everything in the house once every generation is always fun, even if my laptop is too weak for much clutter. <3) I have ACR and a triplet/quad hack, so that's loads of fun.
Want to know how much fun?

Two generations in a row -- Red and Orange -- had quads.
Yeah.
Quads.
Two gens in a row.
With only ONE controllable sim to take care of them, thanks to ISBI rules.

Somehow, they all managed to survive, but it was a very near thing at times. I think the major thing was that both times my controllable had a LTW that involved staying at home or not necessarily NEEDING a job (Max 7 skills, and... Reach Golden Anniversary, I think?), so I basically ran my controllable into the ground taking care of those babies. XD Lots of passing out.
When the quads hit toddlers, I broke down and bought smart milk and some hacked refilling pet food bowls. (The smart milk probably wasn't such a huge 'cheat', since I really drained my sim's aspiration points using it and leaving the milk out, but I'm fairly certain the pet food bowls were over the top.) So barring complete AI stupidity, the kids would at least be fed. Not gonna lie, I don't think they would have escaped Social Services without all that food.

So yeah! That was very... interesting. Thankfully, yellow gen just had 2 sets of twins, (a real breeze after 2 straight gens of quads) but you had better believe I was on the edge of my seat every time that "TWO babies" window popped up. (Because that window is a LIAR and pops up even for triplets/quads. Eeep.)

the mazoku

3rd Sep 2011, 11:09 PM

So I somehow magically got twins. and I don't know, it's driving me insane... and my child turned teen had a crappy birthday party thanks to the births. Argh. I'm going to avoid multiple babies at all costs from now on.

clautjejoepie

3rd Sep 2011, 11:30 PM

Yeah... multiples are a pain...

devmars

4th Sep 2011, 12:18 AM

i can handle them somehow, though. i might make a video on how to manage multiple babies. i should do sim tutorials.

NatteryakToad

10th Sep 2011, 03:14 PM

I just had my second set of born in-game twins. Both parents had the Fertility Apsiration bonus. All the game says is that it will increase the chance of twins, but by how much? Anyone have any experience about how often the Fertility bonus will give you twins?

I have a family where both parents have the Fertility Aspiration bonus, and they had three sets of natural twins, two boy/girl pairs, and one girl/girl pair. Beyond that, I haven't had much experiance of it, as after that I decided not to use it and just use cheats when I actually wanted twins.

I have far too many sets of twins in my neigbourhood; in the second generation of a family there were two sets of twins and one set of quads, and then in the third generation I currently have nine sets of twins and one set of triplets, most of which were created randomly by the game.

shoo_flee

11th Sep 2011, 11:13 PM

Soooooo downloaded the mod for triplets and quads carried on playing as normal and then Nina went to give birth i thought id click random after setting the odds quite low, and lo and behold she has triplets! I was in so much shock i couldnt even think of good names! Shes already had 3 kids, she is soo not in the right place for this right now :faceslap:

Aegagropilon

12th Sep 2011, 12:00 AM

Circe Beaker is a terrifying twin producer D:

She and Loki had twin boys who are now adults, and I had her and Loki try for another kid just to see what would happen. What happened was that she got pregnant with twins AGAIN. I made a shrill noise and exited without saving.

I decided that two Beaker children were enough for any game (especially since one of the boys is the father of two and the other is the father of one with another on the way).

frankokomando

12th Sep 2011, 12:17 AM

One time I had this sim I created sleep with Goopy and he knocked up my sim with twins D: They were really ugly so I killed Goopy and my sim in a fire and let the twins get taken away by social workers.

The SimWhisperer

9th Aug 2012, 03:54 AM

I just wanted to say to those of you that have the triplet/quads hack are crazy! :cry: I had a taste of it when I moved Cassandra in with Darren. Cassandra had twin infants, and Darren had twin alien infants. After having Cassie, Darren, Dirk, and nannies going back and forth for feedings and diaper changing. I decided for my sanity to use maxmotives towards the end seeing that I originally cheated and subtracted the quads ages, so they'd only be babies for one day. However, I forgot that I had turned aging off in the Dreamer household, so the jokes on me, I had another 24 hours with all of them! I had considered dl the triplet/quad hack, but not after this. Luckily, Darren is in a bigger a house, and I had room to put the babies all over the place. Now, I have to deal with four toddlers, and Cassandra wants another baby! I think I'm going get her at least married to Darren first, have the faux quads be children, and Dirk in college before that happens.

julmoo

9th Aug 2012, 04:15 AM

Question to others: If I click the random button on a Sim that is more likely to have twins genetically because of twins in their family, is this taken into account? I'm thinking it's not, and that it just goes by how you have the percentages set, right? That's the one big reason I don't always like to use the settings to make the birth random, because I hate to think that the Sim was going to have twins if I didn't mess with her and then I click random and she ends up having a single instead.

I know thread necromancy is bad and it's 5am BUT:

You can always just see with the pregnancy controller of your choice what number of children is expected.
ACR has a pregnancy scanner that tells you how many babies are expected. InSimenator's pregnancy controller tells you that too if you ask it about the pregnancy info.

Gcgb53191

9th Aug 2012, 05:17 AM

Orilon

9th Aug 2012, 06:54 AM

I know thread necromancy is bad and it's 5am BUT:

You can always just see with the pregnancy controller of your choice what number of children is expected.
ACR has a pregnancy scanner that tells you how many babies are expected. InSimenator's pregnancy controller tells you that too if you ask it about the pregnancy info.

From what I've read, because the player can either hit random or original number of babies, the ACR scanner isn't 100% accurate when the Trips and Quads mod is in. From stories I've read even though it may say 2 the birth ends up being 2 or 3 or 4 depending on the percentage.

julmoo

9th Aug 2012, 07:44 AM

As far as I've understood it, the mod only kicks in at the moment of birth and edits the number of children then.
How else would you be able to choose the number of babies?

The "supposed" amount of babies is displayed during pregnancy so you can tell if the Sim was supposed to have a single baby or twins. If you want you can still randomize the number at birth or pick quads/trips/whatever

Katya Stevens

9th Aug 2012, 09:02 AM

Yup, trips&quads only kicks in at birth. I always check the number of babies expected and if it's one, let trips&quads run; if it's two, I choose to have the original number of babies.

Of course, in my current 'hood half of the pregnancies have been twins or triplets so I've reduced the odds majorly -- still possible to get multiples, but much, much less likely now.

Yaoilicious

12th Sep 2012, 03:24 AM

This is late and pretty self-explanatory, but make sure that you remove any and all phones from the room where your babies are sleeping. ...Or at LEAST silence them.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a48/DW121586/ifitssims/snapshot_75910ab6_9593ba31.jpg

Also, the nanny can and WILL be your best friend... but be warned. You might have to try your hand at a bunch of different nannies before you find your perfect match (i.e. one that cleans and doesn't leave your smelly babies crying for hours on end)

Anaticula

13th Sep 2012, 04:38 AM

Just had my first ever set of random Quads. I hope the family can handle them, luckily both parents are unemployed right now. I think I'll begin aging them each up as soon as the game lets me.

Fivey

13th Sep 2012, 06:04 AM

I've only had one set of quads, and the mom and dad were college kids. http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/Smileys/Set1/ahh.gif

Luckily, the mom's cousin and his girlfriend were also living with them, so they assisted with the sproglets.

I've had a few triplets, and tons of twin births.

Gcgb53191

13th Sep 2012, 03:13 PM

I havent had anything beyond twins yet unfortunately! Though with my luck the Davis household will get quads sometimes soon xD (They're already dealing with twin babies and 1 toddler living in a really tiny apartment lol. )

Vimpse

13th Sep 2012, 05:54 PM

Pascal Curious' start-of-the-game-pregnancy just resulted in quads in my new Megahood... so not ideal or what I had in mind at all. Sometimes those 5% odds seem to just be out to get me.

Anaticula

13th Sep 2012, 07:40 PM

The couple that had quads (all boys) are all over each other due to ARC and by the time the quads aged to toddlers she was knocked up again. I was like noooooo you can't take care of the babies you already had why are you having more?! It turned out okay tho, per rules of the challenge I'm playing I'm not allowed to start actions between parents and kids other that changing diapers or giving them bottles, so that was exactly what happened with the quads. In fact, the parents cared so little about them that they would actually point and laugh when the toddlers passed out on the floor. The new baby turned out to be just one, and I can tell he will be the favorite. The parents chose to teach him to walk and talk on their own and even though they hated changing the quads they will automatically give the new toddler baths and cuddles and they love reading to and playing with him. I guess they figure that after the first four grew up in aspiration failure that this one should be treated a little better, lol.

Sunbee

13th Sep 2012, 07:42 PM

Samantha Ottomas gave birth last night--Dora has achieved her lifetime want! Rather than twins, Samantha had triplets. All boys--Sharla's not sure if she's happy she doesn't have to share a room or wishes she weren't the only girl. David is hastily filling out college applications.

Katya Stevens

14th Sep 2012, 11:21 AM

I've had one set of twins born in Cresdale since I dialled down the odds, much better than the odds I was having. I still remember my first set of triplets and my first set of quads:

For the quads, the family had terrible luck getting pregnant or, once pregnant, having miscarriages. She is in my six-odd years of playing with ACR, the only sim I have ever seen be given the "+20 for no children but in her thirties" to the trying to try roll. She had at least two miscarriages, one in her first trimester and one about three hours off giving birth. She eventually gave birth to a single boy but still wanted another baby/kept on trying and failing. I forced a pregnancy on her once her eldest became a child, only to see her have quads. They'd been living in an apartment until then, saving up money for a house which I quickly moved them in to. As soon as the quads became children...

...in another house in the same 'hood, a sim gave birth to triplets. She'd gotten pregnant from a random fling at university, and I decided to have her drop out (she wasn't exactly academically minded, hated her family [especially her father who slept around]) and move in to a trailer apartment. Well, not long after moving in she had triplets, and it was okay until they became toddlers and became attention-seeking pests. She couldn't hire a nanny for too long, being poor, and I eventually gave up on that family.

And I used to think raising twins was hard :lol:

mirjamsim2love

15th Sep 2012, 02:40 PM

I never had triplets or quads in one go, but I did let one Sim family have one baby after another with aging off as a cheat in play. In my former hood.
So in a way, they díd have quads. I can tell you, it was busy...but I did like it. Although, after a while, the crying is getting on your nerves. When you had put the fourth baby/toddler back in bed, the first one woke up again. To repeat the whole cycle of caring again. As soon as they had four, I put aging on back on. When they all were children, the couple got twins. Full household, haha but somehow they managed.
I would not recommend this for every Sim family you have but if one family is that big, it is interesting, busy and far from boring.
They did have a nanny because both parents were also working.
I have this construction already in mind again for my Bakalov Family. They are halfway now. Third is underway.

NatteryakToad

15th Sep 2012, 07:25 PM

For some reason, my game seems to be going on a twin spree at the moment. In the last two days, out of the last 8 births, 5 have been twins:

Jamie & Iwan Ottomas
Maisie & Melekah Dalton (not technically twins - Melekah is Glen Dalton, aka the black Tricou,'s alien daughter, whereas Maisie is his daughter with his wife, Allison).
Armani & Ashanti Ibori
Edward & Arthur Beare (sons of Kevin Beare and Tiffany Sampson)
Madeleine and Harry Heath-Couderc

And there's another set of twins due next rotation, to the Ibori twin's aunt and Gavin Newson.

I'm not entirely sure why my game has gone so twin crazy at the moment, although I was just complaining that I hadn't had any twins in ages (a whole season between these new sets of twins and the previous set)

M.M.A.A.

15th Sep 2012, 07:35 PM

Jamie & Iwan Ottomas

If they're the unborn Ottomas twins, then don't count them with the others, because Samantha is programmed to have twins.

beafish123

16th Sep 2012, 03:55 PM

The multiples mod I have hates me. I had a sim give birth to a baby, and then got her pregnant again so that she could have "twins."(with different fathers...) but on the second pregnancy she had QUADS. Soo now she has quints.

Also, a while ago in a different neighborhood I had two brothers whose wives were pregnant at the same time (in the same house) and they both had quads.

I think I might want to lower my odds.

NatteryakToad

16th Sep 2012, 04:11 PM

If they're the unborn Ottomas twins, then don't count them with the others, because Samantha is programmed to have twins.

They are and they aren't - I have downloaded versions of the Ottomas' in my game, so Samantha didn't start out as pregant, but I got her pregnant as soon as possible and used Trips & Quads to make sure she had twins... so yeah, I guess I shouldn't have counted them. Even so, it's still an awful lot of twins...

M.M.A.A.

16th Sep 2012, 04:37 PM

In my game, I try to keep the no. of twins low, as much as one set per generation, because its a neighborhood, which it would be highly unlikely to have several twins among a small community.

Kristin76

16th Sep 2012, 05:10 PM

I am on my 2nd generation (after the original -- Lothario, Caliente, etc) and so far I have had one set of twins, Anthony and Andrew -- descendents of Darren and Allyn (a townie) Dreamer. Out of 21, 2nd generation households, only one with a set of twins so far. Also oddly enough, all descendents of Samantha Ottomas have NOT rolled the baby want yet, which is sad because I love playing the Ottomas' family.

Gcgb53191

16th Sep 2012, 05:22 PM

In my game, I try to keep the no. of twins low, as much as one set per generation, because its a neighborhood, which hit would be highly unlikely to have several twins among a small community.

You've obviously never heard of this ! (http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-28/health/land.twins.brazil_1_candido-godoi-twins-mystery?_s=PM:HEALTH) :giggler:

They are and they aren't - I have downloaded versions of the Ottomas' in my game, so Samantha didn't start out as pregant, but I got her pregnant as soon as possible and used Trips & Quads to make sure she had twins... so yeah, I guess I shouldn't have counted them. Even so, it's still an awful lot of twins...

You know you can lower the stats on how often they'll appear? I personally thought they were a bit too high so I just googled the stats and changed them to that :P

M.M.A.A.

16th Sep 2012, 05:47 PM

You've obviously never heard of this ! (http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-28/health/land.twins.brazil_1_candido-godoi-twins-mystery?_s=PM:HEALTH) :giggler:

Which is why I keep the no. low, its scary! :giggler: Cool mystery though! :up:

ella_in_wonderland

16th Sep 2012, 05:49 PM

In my game I'm on fourth generation and so far I've only had two sets of twins: Stirling and Persiphone Larson, and Emily and Rachel Jacobs. One of my couples once had quads. Unfortunately they lived in the teeeny-weeeniest apartment (I think it was the City Centre Lofts) and didn't even have enough money or space to buy four cribs. I've never had triplets.

NatteryakToad

16th Sep 2012, 07:40 PM

I've never had natural triplets or quads, only pleanty of twins and several cheated higher order multiples. One family had sextuplets, after trying for a long time to concieve a biological child, having one just after they adopted a little girl, then adopting the girl's half-brother, and then deciding to try again for one more (with fertility treatment, of course) and having sextuplets. They're all adults now, five are married (the last one will hopefully be married soon) and have 11 children between them.

Their eldest sister had triplets, after two boys, who are now teenagers.

In an old neigbourhood I had a set of quads, one of whom went on to have a set of triplets, another family who had three sets of twins in a row (I didn' t realise how powerful the fertility aspiration bonus was), and an inexplicaply mad family which I'm not entirely sure why I made like it was (It involved a set of triplets, closely followed by a set of twins and a singleton, then a massive gap in which everyone grew to teen except the singleton who died, and then another set of twins, triplets, and then more twins. At one point I had seven toddlers, which was a nightmare, even with Mum Dad and two teens to look after them.)

ieta_cassiopeia

20th Sep 2012, 12:07 AM

Jenny Smith in my game is unusually prone to multiple births, which is part of the reason why she's had 15 children and counting (that total is also boosted by adoptions). As far as natural births go, she's had, in order, two singletons (including Johnny that starts the game as Jenny's child), a quad (the only one I've seen in my game), two pairs of twins and a singleton.

Other than that, I've had no quads. In fact I've yet to have triplets either, though the Triplets & Quads hack is installed. I have three sets of twins: Ishneet and Ishmeet Aspir, Ciliegia and Circolo Valgochimicia, Alys and Sean Bell.

ieta_cassiopeia

20th Sep 2012, 12:17 AM

As for a tip: the ability to split the quads between 3 houses (mother Jenny, father Pollination Tech #9 and oldest brother Johnny and his wife Ophelia), has proven very helpful. Once they were teens, they were reunited at Pollination Tech #9's house.

Kristin76

22nd Sep 2012, 12:27 AM

Just had my 2nd pair of twins this generation. Odd thing is, their parents are Ames and Andrea (Hogan) Dreamer .. both dark hair and skin, their children, the twins, Anthony and Andrew, blond hair and red hair (with darker skin tone) quite a surprise I tell you.

Trixie39

22nd Sep 2012, 02:16 AM

Where can I get the mod from because I would really like it? It sounds like it can be quite interesting!

i<3penguins

22nd Sep 2012, 07:10 AM

Where can I get the mod from because I would really like it? It sounds like it can be quite interesting!
http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=18.0 The link should work i hope. Make sure you get the right mod for your game :bunny:

mirjamsim2love

22nd Sep 2012, 03:39 PM

I have this construction already in mind again for my Bakalov Family. They are halfway now. Third is underway.
We are a bit further in time now, so the mentioned family: The Bakalovs already had that 'third' child. It happened to be a third ánd a fourth. Twins.
These are the third twins in the neighborhood since I started this hood.
Without cheats, tokens, parents that are twins etc.
It's still the first generation multiplying.
In a way it's a bit much for just 8 families and only the first generation but that's Sim life I guess.