How to get twin babies

[sexierjess14]

I've seen postings that some players had sims that got twin babies, Im wondering how do you get one, is it at random or what? :confused:

[killgorian]

My question would be how not to. So far Ive gotten two out of three twins from two differant and unrelated families. And believe me, I have NOT been having fun with them. :(

[Cassiepeia]

It's random, you can't control it.

[sexierjess14]

awww..gee..I guess Im not lucky enough..I just thought of getting twin babies for once, coz I keep getting only one child at a time.. lol.. has anyone ever gotten triplets or something? :p

[Cassiepeia]

awww..gee..I guess Im not lucky enough..I just thought of getting twin babies for once, coz I keep getting only one child at a time.. lol.. has anyone ever gotten triplets or something? :p
I had a sim that had quads (4 kids). There are pictures of these alien babies (exactly the same as normal babies except they're green and their "mother" is a man LOL ) in another thread.

Cass. :bunny:

[sexierjess14]

quads?? *faints* Im having trouble with only one child lol I tried having a toddler and one baby and I was having a hard time taking care of them even with the nanny :mad: for now both my sims are staying without kiddies lol Im having fun with them having the highest rank in their job :p

[Kristalrose]

Twins? Quads? GEEZE!!!!!!!! I have so far had two mothers each have babies, and it's been a nightmare each time! Mom almost dies before she gives birth from hunger and exhaustion!! Then trying to keep the baby fed and changed and the toddler happy, as well as taking care of the other children in the home has been very difficult.


I'm starting to wish for a hacked "Magic Mirror" like I had for TS that would refresh the entire family's needs! LOL

[killgorian]

Well, my twins have been nothing but a problem. However I minimised some of the problems with a bit of creative parenting/schedualing, but it still took alot out of my SIMS lives.


I started by rearranging my SIMS scheduals so that they could alternate taking vacation days from work to help maintain their green status. I also began using rewards to help trian my toddlers. The most effective I found was to use Smart Milk on one of the kids and the Thinking Cap on the parent. This allowed me to potty train/teach to walk and talk much quicker so as to have time to work with both kids.

I also put the toddlers in their own room so their crying wouldnt wake both parents and then manually awoke the parent that wasnt working the next day to tend to their needs. I even tried calling a nanny in the middle of the night, but she didnt do much to help other than stand in my way and groan. Two nannies during the day didnt fare much better.

Anyway, I found that with some trickey schedualing and much use of the pause key, I was able to raise two reasonably well adjusted twin brothers. Just remember, if it gets frustraiting, take a time out and play a funner SIM for awhile. :winks:

[FaeLuna]

Can you rearrange your sims schedules? I see where it shows I have X amount of days off coming to me, but I didn't know you could control what day(s) you had off when?! This could help a TON if it's possible to change your days off! hahahaha... :p I never realize my sim has the day off or not till the pop up tells me!

[HelloKit]

On the Skills & Career panel you see 7 letters representing the days of the week. The ones highlighted (lighter blue) are the days your sim works, and the dark ones are his/her weekly days off. These are separate from Vacation Days, which can be taken anytime you want either by just missing the carpool or calling in sick (and sometimes you can get away with calling in sick and they believe you're really sick and don't charge you a Vacation Day). To call in go to a phone and Call -> Work -> Call In Sick. This can only be done within the hour before the carpool shows up.

[FaeLuna]

I only called in sick the one time, to be able to take care of the twins... and the boss said I sounded sick so I guess I wasn't charged a vacation day! Cool! :D

[sexierjess14]

So far Ive not gotten twins yet lol but I was wondering if there was some buggie in it, I hired a nanny and she was supposed to leave at 4pm when the wifey comes home from work, however, she is still stuck at my house and even sleeps there and the next day a new nanny will come over and Im stuck with two nannies! :eek:

[HelloKit]

So far Ive not gotten twins yet lol but I was wondering if there was some buggie in it, I hired a nanny and she was supposed to leave at 4pm when the wifey comes home from work, however, she is still stuck at my house and even sleeps there and the next day a new nanny will come over and Im stuck with two nannies! :eek:Did you try dismissing her?

[FaeLuna]

If you can't dismiss her, and can't ask her to leave or say goodbye, you might want to use the move_objects on cheat to go into Build mode and select her and delete her.

[sexierjess14]

I tried to dismiss her but she still walked around my house and the only selections left was "chat" and "shoo", and the nanny even irritated both my simmies :mad: so yeah I used to move objects cheat to remove her for GOOD :mad: and now Im never gonna hire a nanny ever again unless its only for that day :p

[FaeLuna]

Sorry you couldn't get her dismissed, but I'm glad you got rid of her if she was bothering your sims!!

[sexierjess14]

It was preety annoying because she liked to get stuck at the bathroom with a full bladder :eek: and she'll be complaining and whining till she gets to use the bathroom and always likes to swim in my swimming pool, besides that when she got stuck and slept over, she just walked around the house taking care of my toddler in her undies :eek: not a preety sight for a granny :p

[FaeLuna]

Oooh dear!! :eek: Granny Nanny in her undies! What would the Social Workers say if they showed up?!?! :p Hahahahaaaa :D

[Pixie]

Well my main sim has had two sets of twins and four other kids... and for me, all at one time, I had one teenager, two twin children and a baby i was taking care of... and honestly, it's all about being one step ahead of the mayhem :) I hired a nanny, a maid and the mom quit her job.... i even got most of the todd's wants fulfilled like learning how to walk and talk which takes a lot of time...... i guess i'm just a pro ;-) hehehe

[sexierjess14]

yah granny nanny in her undies :eek: what a terrible sight *shuts eyes* :p I actually wanted to make mommy sim quit her job, but I've taken so much time to make her study and study till she has full skill points (same as her hubby) to actually not let her work :p I actually wanted to keep them both as pure working couple, but I selected family inspiration, so they both kept wanting a baby :eek:

[killgorian]

Personally, I found that having a teen daughter at the time of my twins toddler stage was actually a big help. She was able to take care of training, etc, while my adults were "greening up" sometimes after work. I just had to make sure she did her homework first.


As for the nanny, I hired two for the days my SIMS worked and I caught both of them in their bathing suits at least once as my SIMS were getting off work. Them moving in and wandering the house in their underware only goes to further support my insistance that we should be able to drug screen them. It is obvious to this SIM parent that they are either senile or have serious drug dependancy issues....

[litl_mama1971]

Omg I got a good chuckle at the granny nanny in undies. That is too funny. I give up on babies and toddlers for now shew. I'm just no good at keeping up. I haven't had twins but I had a toddler and a baby at one time and shew thank God for the nanny so the mom could sleep more than two or three hours at a time. And boy it takes so long to teach them everthing it's hard to do it all before the turn into a child. Last few families have either just been couples who have knowledge aspirations. Or a mother , child and Aunt living together and they all were focused on money.

[sexierjess14]

how do you hire 2 nannies? I've never tried before, only had one nanny and yes she always takes a dip in the pool when the baby is sleeping :eek: and when its time for the baby to be fed, she will be walking around the house in her bathing suit. I dont really mind these problems, only dislike it when she actually stays over :mad: she cooks in my house, eat in my house and irritates my simmies :mad:

[sexierjess14]

Im still hoping to get twins despite how difficult it is, just for the fun and experience :p wana see what they both look like when they grow up, how bad it is in taking care of them etc etc lolx :D so far all my simmies have given birth but no sign of twins yet :( *crosses fingers* hopes for a pair of twins :p

[HelloKit]

I haven't done it, but would assume since the Nanny always tracks the schedule of the parent who actually makes the phone call, that having both parents call for one would result in two being hired - one for each parent's schedule.

[sexierjess14]

ahh that could be it! thanks! :D but prob is I only have one child lol, I still wanna try to have twins..curious to know what they'd look like when they're grown up etc :p

[Supernova]

The nannies are horrible... But not as bad as the maid! This one time, the maid picked up the toddler and cuddles it, then she went back to her van and drove away. With the baby still in her arms. And then the picture disappeared and the baby was gone forever!

[sexierjess14]

:eek: .................................... :eek: *speechless* that could happen?? *faints* thank God the maid never touches my kids! lol next thing I know missing baby alert :p but if you had twins, and they we're such a nuisance, maybe the maid could do it and take one away and make your life easier :p

[SolidSnake_19]

The nannies are horrible... But not as bad as the maid! This one time, the maid picked up the toddler and cuddles it, then she went back to her van and drove away. With the baby still in her arms. And then the picture disappeared and the baby was gone forever!
ahahaha. Dang. I didn't know they could do that. I'll have to be careful with the maid I hired.

One thing that I've wondered about the nannie is does she normally set herself on fire when she's working? Mine set my house on fire twice (while also catching herself on fire).

Oh yes. I do have twin babies - got them on the first try. :D

[sexierjess14]

:eek: almost everyone seems to be getting twin babies on their first try :eek: Ive been trying many times for all my simmies but no twins :( and so far the nanny hadnt burnt anything in my house nor almost burn my house down lol but she was standing in my bathroom with a bubble above her head which shows that she needs the loo badly, but cant seem to use it :eek: I was so afraid she'd die in my house and Ill be having a ghost wandering in my house that I had to use the move objects cheat to delete her :p

[Mirelly]

Crumbs. :eek: This game gets curiouser and curiouser. Baby-napping maids? Pyromanic nannies! When can we expect to see a child begin keeping an imaginary llama as a pet then? Or maybe that's the big secret? Santa's sleigh is pulled by a team of pink-nosed llamas ... that ... er ... eat babies and do pee-pees all over the roof ... yeah that sounds about right. :D

[sexierjess14]

lolx! :p Ive decided to stop having granny nanny services because Im afraid she'll gt stuck in my house again and Ill be having a few nannies in my house again :eek: most of the time the nanny I hired will always swim in the pool, once she feeds the baby and puts it to sleep she'll go for a swim, one the kid wakes up, she'll feed it and put it to sleep and go swimming again till the sim parents come home :eek: I guess that explains why my kid grows up to be a plum teen :eek:

[FaeLuna]

The maid kid-napping your baby sounds pretty exciting!! :eek: Now I'm glad I've never hired a maid! And I'll keep a closer eye on her when she comes over to visit as the "friend" the sims I know invite to come over with them when I call... wow... I remember her picking up my baby and the baby liked it.... hmmmm....

Should I be worried now about the Pleasant girl, Angela, when she comes over to the Broke household and picks up the baby and plays with him?!

[FinalFantasy4ever]

Im wondering now.....If she stole your baby but then you married her would she still have the baby? lol

[sexierjess14]

lol good question.. Im wondering how it would be like also *grins* :p however so far none of my sim friends ever picked up the baby only the nanny.. the maid and other npcs never plays with the baby either lol

[Sadie]

I haven't gotten any twins yet.. Which I'm glad.

Twins are chaos... even though I haven't had any in TS2, I've had lots of expierience.

[Sylla]

I've had 3 sets of twinsthe first ( 2 boys), occured after ALOT of trying for baby, and was in one of my later families, so yeah, took me a while to get my first set.
The same parents then went on to have another set of twins (boy/girl), but my darling husband tripped out the power so they where lost forever (trust me, I was not happy with him).
The parents then had a baby daughter.
The daughter grew up had her own set of twins a boy and a girl, was very happy when that happened, they have just turned into children.
So I'm thinking that there may be a family genetic thing happening here, aswell as some randomness thrown in to simulate real life.

But a trick for you all that are finding having twin babies too hard, buy the birthday cake and blow out the candles, makes them grow up, you can do it any time you like with the babies because their age time is so short anyway, for toddles and older, you can get them to grow up any time after recieving the first message that their birthday is in 2 days.

~Sylla~

[sexierjess14]

maybe because the parents had gotten twins before, so their children might get twins in future when they grow up and start their own family? so far none of my families ever gotten a pair of twins lol

[Trinasis]

Personally, I found that having a teen daughter at the time of my twins toddler stage was actually a big help. She was able to take care of training, etc, while my adults were "greening up" sometimes after work. I just had to make sure she did her homework first.


As for the nanny, I hired two for the days my SIMS worked and I caught both of them in their bathing suits at least once as my SIMS were getting off work. Them moving in and wandering the house in their underware only goes to further support my insistance that we should be able to drug screen them. It is obvious to this SIM parent that they are either senile or have serious drug dependancy issues....
Do the Kids have homework or is it just the Teenagers?

[zydeco]

Yes, the kids have homework. I think it's a little too much homework, too! lol Since their fun meter drops at the same rate as the homework is completed, they spend all of their time playing console games and homework. I still can't tell if private school kids have more work than public school students though. I haven't had twins yet either. I'm not sure I could survive the homework routine with multiple kids. I DO wish you could designate where they put that blasted homework, too. I've had to pause and go room by room looking for it. I then have to physically move it to a desk every single day.

[sexierjess14]

I think theres no difference between going to private school and going to public school. The only difference is :

Private school:
1. Your child goes to school an hour later and comes home earlier.
2. Your child's grades go up slower and plunges down faster and WILL get kicked out of school if the grades remain a D.

Public school:
1. Your child's grades go up faster.

So far theres no difference in homeworks lol

[Bookworm42]

Well, I didn't realize it was so easy to get twins on the game...I'm grateful I just got one kid and even then I found it hard to keep up everyone's stats with both parents working and the kid ended up turning into a Bothersome Brat...sigh....plus the nanny I got was totally useless at looking after the kid...she'd go upstairs and wander about complaining about not enough comfortable chairs and leave the kid playing in the toilet!! A couple of times I made the Mom stay home to supervise and everytime she'd put the kid in the crib that dopey nanny would take him out, put him on the floor then leave him...one day she went home at 4 p.m., left the kid playing in the toilet and neither of my adults got home until 5 p.m.!! Man, in real life I would have canned her in five minutes...is that the only nanny available?

[PhooshQT]

I just got my first set of twins today...it was a surprise (2 girls). I have one main family going and they have 4 kids now...and that will be it seeing as I only wanted 3 in the first place ;) I've played out 4 different pregnancies in the game and the 4th was twins. So the mother and father have a teenage boy, a toddler girl, and two twin baby girls. It is definetly hard keeping everyone's needs met when there are 3 small children to change diapers and feed all the time. Luckily the teenager is old enough to help out the parents! His grades are now slipping a bit because of it though. Oh well. The nanny has been doing a pretty good job with them. It'll be interesting to see how the twins turn out looks wise...anyone know if there are both identical and fraternal twins in the game?

[sexierjess14]

Im not sure about that, but I heard that there is a high possibily that both your child would look really alike, or maybe a slight difference which cant really be seen lol so far my sims NEVER even gotten a pair of twins yet sigh and I dont like the nannies either, the nanny I hire seem to like to swim in my pool and put the kid to sleep lol

[zydeco]

I found it hard to keep up everyone's stats with both parents working and the kid ended up turning into a Bothersome BratI wish the nanny would work on potty training, walking and talking a little. If I had a nanny in real life I'd expect a little effort on his/her part! lol I have to turn aging off frquently to get my kid trained in everything. :( Geez..I bet with twins it would take ages. I try to get them at least one logic, creative, and charisma stat during this time, too. I always get precocious preschoolers. Perhaps I should quit being so controlling. What does a bothersome brat act like in the game? lol

[sexierjess14]

So far Ive gotten a brat YET* lol, I wonder how a bratty kid behaves like :rolleyes: I usually keep my kids as toddlers for a WAY long time before I turn the aging back on. So once my sim kid has grown up, he has quite alot of mechanical, charisma and creativity skill :p

[saucebox]

I think we've figured it out.

Read here.

http://atforumz.com/showthread.php?t=246387

Meditate!

[J. M. Pescado]

I think theres no difference between going to private school and going to public school. The only difference is :

Private school:
1. Your child goes to school an hour later and comes home earlier.As far as I can tell, this is a myth, one that is widely perpetuated and false. Both public and private school teens have school from 0900 to 1300. Public and private school children attend from 0900 to 1500. The hours are exactly the same: However, teens return from school earlier than children do.

2. Your child's grades go up slower and plunges down fasterI suspect this is a myth also. Not attending at all is still a single letter grade, attending in platinum increases by a grade.

and WILL get kicked out of school if the grades remain a D.Cannot confirm this one: Usually a family has to have its act pretty well together to even make it into private school, so I've never had one fall apart this badly.

The primary difference between private and public school appears to be the uniforms, and the random events. Public school events always give money, private school events tend to give skillpoints, although some still grant money.

[sexierjess14]

oo I think I made a boo boo on the time, the sim kid comes home earlier and not goes to school later :p but for the grades, my sim kids grades doesn't seem to be going up although she goes to school everyday with a platinum mood, however her grades goes down real fast when she doesnt turn in her homework :confused: so now my child is stuck at a grade C+ with no improvement but it keeps going down although she attends classes everyday and does her homework all the time.. weird :confused: and once she reached a D, a pop up box appeared and said that if she doesnt improve her grades she will be kicked out of school :cool:

[J. M. Pescado]

oo I think I made a boo boo on the time, the sim kid comes home earlier and not goes to school laterNo, no, no. This is completely a myth. You do not get fewer school hours for going to private school. Period. The hours are exactly the same for both public and private: 0900-1300 for teens, 0900-1500 for children.

but for the grades, my sim kids grades doesn't seem to be going up although she goes to school everyday with a platinum mood, however her grades goes down real fast when she doesnt turn in her homework :confused: so now my child is stuck at a grade C+ with no improvement but it keeps going down although she attends classes everyday and does her homework all the time.. weird :confused: and once she reached a D, a pop up box appeared and said that if she doesnt improve her grades she will be kicked out of school :cool:Are you using the aging on/off cheat? I have heard that this impedes grade-improvement as well. I have not confirmed this one way or another, however, since I have not observed this behavior myself either way. Homework + platinum generally nets you about a grade to a grade-and-half.

[Flameangel]

my sims are pretty poor , and my mommy sim had twins i was gonna make her quit her job to take care of the babies while the dad worked but then the dad died so now i need anannies maids and help from the teen and still send the mom to work so she can keeep food in the fridge! and ontop of it all the daddy sim is haunting alll my other sims i dont know what to do!:knockedout:

[J. M. Pescado]

Man, you HAVE to teach me how you people get into some of these messes. I can never manage to do this. I mean, it sounds fascinating and all, but how do make this sort of thing happen? All my sims, regardless of conditions, succeed.

[zydeco]

The primary difference between private and public school appears to be the uniforms, and the random events. Public school events always give money, private school events tend to give skillpoints, although some still grant money. . There are events? Like the ones you get for jobs? Geez..I've never gotten one of those. :(

saucebox, I've wondered what the "meditate" was for..it only seemed to be an option when pregnant. I tried it once and thought who has time for this? lol That could come in handy, thanks for the info!

Man, you HAVE to teach me how you people get into some of these messes. Because we are control freak gods who are too benevelent to allow them to get so out of control? I made a hippie commune and..honestly I tried..to let them live entirely on free will. I just couldn't stand it! LOL! I HAD to stick my guiding hand in just a little. It then became more until sheesh..I restored to the beginning and controlled them like puppets. I'm pretty sure they will all become business tycoons and famous athletes by the time I'm through...kind of defeats the whole purpose of the hippie commune, huh? I have wondered how much our gameplay style reflects our own personalities.

[J. M. Pescado]

. There are events? Like the ones you get for jobs? Geez..I've never gotten one of those. :(They're not quite like the ones you get for jobs: There's no interactive choices involved, you just get stuff. For free. There are no "bad" options.

saucebox, I've wondered what the "meditate" was for..it only seemed to be an option when pregnant. I tried it once and thought who has time for this? lol That could come in handy, thanks for the info! Meditation is handy when pregnant, since needs can be frozen indefinitely, and you'll probably learn to teleport in that time, and a popular pasttime of old, retired geezers (like myself), who have nothing better to do.

Because we are control freak gods who are too benevelent to allow them to get so out of control? I made a hippie commune and..honestly I tried..to let them live entirely on free will. I just couldn't stand it! LOL! I HAD to stick my guiding hand in just a little. It then became more until sheesh..I restored to the beginning and controlled them like puppets.Heh, know that feeling. Actually, I ran an experiment like that once: I created such a commune, furnished abundantly with all of the things needed for Sim to meet its needs and survive, and just left them to be while I worked on a home improvement excavation in real life. 2 days later, I came back to check on them, and they were all dead.

I'm pretty sure they will all become business tycoons and famous athletes by the time I'm through...kind of defeats the whole purpose of the hippie commune, huh? I have wondered how much our gameplay style reflects our own personalities.Well, it's safe to say that without your help, all of your Sims would perish in total misery, even if given everything they need to survive.

The problem is, even when it is my will to sow chaos and misery, the sims defy me by refusing to become chaotic and miserable! The cuckolded husband stubbornly has no apparent desire to break up or fight: Instead, his wants are to flirt, talk, and otherwise make up with his wife. I think that in my attempt to mold his personality into being likely to become miserable when mistreated so, I may have also inadvertantly made him a spineless, whipped pussy.

[zydeco]

you'll probably learn to teleport in that time
Where do they teleport? I know on TS1 there were items to meditate with but I never played with them.

[J. M. Pescado]

If you've meditated for a total about 14 hours or so, you'll start to float. After that, anytime your sim meditates for about an hour, he will again begin to levitate, and the option to "teleport here" will appear anytime he's selected and you click on a patch of ground. Note that the first time he floats, he won't be able to teleport until you restart meditation and meditate for an hour until he levitates again.

[PeophinGal]

About not getting twins, on this one Sims 2 fansite, you can download a hack that you can have twins all the time. I think its TheModsims2 has it.

[sexierjess14]

well I knew that when your sim meditates he/she will float, but I've not encountered the "teleporting" thingy :confused: maybe it's coz I made her stop meditating because when she started to float I kinda freaked coz its the first time Im seeing it happen lolx

and yes I turned the aging cheat off when I play my sims. Is that related to her grades? Im starting to worry because the social worker took my sim child away for having bad grades once :eek:

about the twins issue, is there really a mod tool for the twins thing? I've not seen it there so far :confused:

[soulofsilence]

yeah there is :) and it's worked so far for me.

[sexierjess14]

yeah I just found it thanks :) and so far it worked for me too. Really awesome hack. Im having fun with twin babies. Although it was a little tough having to take care of 2 babies when sim dad is exhausted after work and needs to sleep only to have the babies crying and screaming and he will wake up :eek: and I gotta make sim mom bring the kids downstairs one by one :rolleyes: , so the dad can have a peacefull sleep. LOL. But its really fun, maybe it's because its the first time I have a pair of twins in one of my sim family :p and mom is relying on the "energizer painting" to not die of exhaustion :p

[xSpoiledPrincessx]

This twin hack sounds great, I'd love to get it! I know it can be found @ TheModsims2, which is what I believe one of you said. I've typed into Google, Yahoo, and even the Sims 2 site, but I just cannot find the address. Please share it and let me know it ASAP!

Thanks so much. :D

[Mirelly]

I just googled mod the sims and found the site you want without any trouble.

[Honjo]

After experimenting with several families, I have been having one child, waiting for it to grow into a kid, then have another baby. However, I have had about 10 boys and only one girl. Is it completely random or what? no twins yet, I hope i never get any.

[sexierjess14]

just type in "mod the sims 2" in your search and you could find it :) the twins hack is under the forums section :D but a serious warning is it can be rather tough raising them, especially when they turn to toddlers, because toddlers just love to scream once they are awake to have their parents take them out of the bed :eek: and as a result the parents will wake up too

*ps. the toddlers live in the same room as the parents, but you could put them in a different room :D my house was rather small so there wasn't enough space for another room lol

[Mirelly]

Just another thought to keep this lively thread ticking over. I just had my second set of twins. Argh! No cheats or hacks involved but I realised that both times I had set up the nursery before the babies were born. (As I usually play without cheats money is nearly always too scarce to buy anything before it is absolutely needed ... besides I'm kinda corny and I like to color-coordinate the nursery furniture to the child ... and $15 for recoloring is $15 too many when ever $$ counts :p

Now I am not being paranoid but it occurred to me that it is possible that the AI has been programed to increase the chance of twins if a single cot is present ... kinda like the Maxoids decided to tease those players who like to count their hens before the eggs hatch ... ;) Anyone think they can confirm (or confound) this slightly screwball theory? :p

[GrindLine33]

Mirelly, that's interesting about the nurseries, but unfortunately I think it was probably just a coincidence. I've had 21 Sim pregnancies and only one set of twins (the 3rd pregnancy). And more often than not there's already a crib on the lot when the baby is born since I save them and just move them to the "attic" with my families when they are not in use.

Though actually in a few of my houses there is more than one crib... either there was a baby and toddler at the same time in the house in the past or in a couple multi-story houses that have extra space there is a crib in the upstairs nursery and one in the living room. So maybe the game won't give me twins because I'd be prepared for them with extra cribs? Who knows!

At first I didn't much care that I wasn't getting more twins since the first pair were a bit of a trick to raise. But recently I've wanted to get twins again as I'm playing a couple families moddled after RL friends, both of whom have twins. But no luck. And I've tried the "tricks" I've come across. Like the cookies/chips and the meditating the whole pregnancy. Neither worked. I'm considering using the mod to get twins for those families, but I haven't done so yet.

As far as I can tell twins are truly random. :ermm:

[sexierjess14]

Random? I doubt it :mad: I had I can't remember how many pregnant simmies I had, with NOT even ONE set of twins, therefore I thought it was like in sims1 where you only get ONE child, till I see people posting about getting twins and more. I only used the hack once to test having a pair of twins for once in my sim life and later on I took the patch out to test if I'll be lucky enough to strike having twins without needing the patch but NOPE no twins either :( and to make matters worst, some of my sims are having trouble getting pregnant although I've tried the "try for a baby" option like a gazillion times :eek:

maybe the game hates me :(

[Mirelly]

The "infertile couple" scenario is interesting, Jess. I have had something like 35 pregnancies.

One died on day 2 with hunger deeply amber -- she died next to plateful of omlettes. :(
Two ended with twins.
Almost all pregnancies were started on the first attempt. 4 or 5 needed a second go. One needed 3 tries.

I have one couple that has been "at it" like rabbits for a week and still they can't get the nursery music-box jingle its way through Rock-a-bye, baby ... I guess as IRL some sims just don't have what it takes. ;)

[sexierjess14]

well I actually gave up on 3 sim couples I made because they we're having problems having a child :eek: I opted for adoption but the social worker took the child away because of falling grades :eek: it's quite sad to see your sims not getting a child even. One of the couples, tried having a child more than 10 times I think, but it still wouldn't work till grandma was so tired of it that she wound up hugging a pillow thinking its her grandchild. For a moment I was worried she'll go nuts because she does that everyday and now grandpop is picking up the habit :( and when the adopted child was taken away by the social worker, grandma and grandpop was having a hard time accepting it :(

[jacinda]

I found that if I start a family, man and women that are married and they have the family goals then the try for a baby in a double bed, they get twins!

[Mirelly]

~ and when the adopted child was taken away by the social worker, grandma and grandpop was having a hard time accepting it :(

<sob> that story just breaks my heart, Jess. A pox on all social workers, that's what I say. Nothing but a bunch on interfering busy-bodies. There's not a single one of them has a clue what it's like in the real simworld trying to raise children. I mean ... it's not as if they come with an instruction book is it? (Eh? Waddaya mean "Strategy Guide"? :p )

[sexierjess14]

its quite sad and crazy watching grandma and grandpop cry over the loss child everyday and grandma even lectured my sim parents once in awhile, talk about tough old lady :p but yeah, Im still stuck with grandma and grandpop hugging the pillow every now and then and going gaga over the "grandchild" :rolleyes:

[Kristalrose]

(shivers) This grandma/grandpa mourning over the child taken by social services is too close to real life for me! I swear, this game makes these people wayyyy too real!!


I have been trying out both the energizer theory and the meditation theory with no luck. So far I cannot figure out what the "trick" is. I have used the energizer only once during the pregnancy, used it all 5 times during the pregnancy, and not at all but meditiated, or used it once and then meditated. Still no more twins.

[aldara13]

Twins? Quads? GEEZE!!!!!!!! I have so far had two mothers each have babies, and it's been a nightmare each time! Mom almost dies before she gives birth from hunger and exhaustion!! I've found that if you buy a pizza and the mom can just eat that it works very well indeed.

[aldara13]

Oh yeah, I had problems with them two... I had gotten through a family that had four toddlers, but the two adults weren't married yet, then the kids grew to children and I got the parents to fall in love and get married, I didn't know that they were going to leave after the marrige and the social worker came and tried to take one of the two boys away, I got so mad that I scrapped that session and had to start over again.

[sexierjess14]

I myself don't even know what the trick is either. There are players who have been getting twins without even trying and Im stuck not having any when Im trying! :eek: lolx therefore the twins hack really made me happy finally! but I only tried it on one family which I rarely play because I wouldn't wanna make my favourite family's lives topsy turvy when they already have 3 kids! :D

[PeophinGal]

Hey everyone! Sorry about the misleading information about the twins hack. I wasn't sure the name of the fourm/website, but now I'm sure that its called: Mod the Sims 2 and that if you go on the Sims 2 site and go under fansites, you cna find it near the top of the list and thats easier than looking under google, I think.

[penguinbananas]

ive been playing this game for weeks hoping for twins. trying everything (meditation etc). but i still hadnt had twins so i gave up and started a new family.

so today i was playing my new sim. i decided to go ahead and have her knocked up by the mailman.

and of course its my SINGLE MOTHER family that gets twins. that'll make it easy :rolleyes:

it only figures.

[J. M. Pescado]

It can actually be surprisingly easy to raise kids on a single parent instead of two parents: With only one parent around, the kid, once a toddler, rolls wants for ONLY that parent, which means you don't have to drag in both parents to fill wants, since normally, in a two-parent household, the kid will roll about 50/50 for both parents. This means a single-parent child actually requires less attention, since after the usual snuggle/tickle/talk routine, you'll roll "Gain a Skillpoint". This will put the kid off to a good start both aspirationally and skillpoint wise. So there are actually distinct benefits to raising kids on a single parent, even with twins. The only tricky part is maintaining funding, but money trees usually can fill that one. I managed this on a single mother, a romance sim to boot, with less bank than the Brokes, and a job that couldn't be attended because nannies cannot be trusted with babies.

[sexierjess14]

I totally agree. I had to get both parents to attend to the toddler just to fulfill his/her wants. Which was quite difficult. When I had the twin babies, I had to make both the sim parents attend to each child, one after the other just to keep its "Wants" and boost its aspiration meter. It was quite difficult especially after dad comes home from work awfully tired.

Moreover, there was once, I didnt know why either, my sim toddler hates his sim mom. He dislikes it when his mom plays with him. When I checked their relationship meter, he had a "-2" relationship towards his mom. Thats really odd. Has anyone ever encountered this problem?

[Mirelly]

Yeah I've had a sim kid hate his mom, too. LOL ... not a lot I could about it until I managed to at least get them interested in enough of the same things so that every conversation did not become a minefield of --'s :p

Incidentally I also had a totally mismatched set of twins once. Baby A always wanted attention from Parent X and Baby B from Parent Y. The trouble was the parents always wanted to interact the opposite way around. (Y with A and X with B). Also if baby wanted a tickle, parent only wanted to snuggle or talk ... aaaarrrrggghhh!

[KevinLT]

That's funny Mirelly! But like to this thread a lot of peole are saying taking care of babies is hard... I honestly don't think it is! All you do is have the baby if the mother doesn't die in the process and then just watch it carefully and do all the things you need to raise it! I love when on of my "mom's" in the game gets pregnant, which has been every time we try for one LOL! If you look at the attached thumbnails, I've included some pictures of one of my familys..! This couple started off with no kids, but had Michael and Kelly as twins and now they have a new born Maria and the mother is pregant again now as we speak! I hope you guys enjoy! :)

[sexierjess14]

its horrible to know that both your sim kid wants different parents . I encountered that problem once too, but I had a double problem, which was the sim mom was the only available parent all the time when they needed a snuggle or something. Therefore the sim kid who wanted daddy, have to be snuggled by mom (the kid hates mom btw) and his wants will remain the same till daddy snuggles him. :rolleyes:

and yes, taking care of babies can be quite difficult, however I prefer taking care of "babies" than "toddlers" . This is because, when the baby wakes up, he/she wouldn't start yelling and waking everyonelse too! :p however so far none of my sim moms ever died while being pregnant, so Im not worried about that part, unless a sim mom finally died while pregnant, then only Ill start to worry lolx

[SexyShelly]

I find maintaining my sim family is just like maintaining my real life family. Sure it's hard, but let the little one cry for a min while your sim grabs a bite to eat, then feed the little one. I guess since I got kids and stuff in real life, I learned (the hard way i might add) how to maintain a family & myself. Another hint, wait till your first little one is almost a child before having another one. Or, it takes a male sim to have a baby, right? there's no "virgin mary" babying having in the sims is there? Well, tell dad to help out some too. Alternate who deals with the child. For example, when my sims had their first baby, i would first of all pay close attention the the sims & the childs asp wants, the child may want mom to potty train him/her and dad to teach him/her how to walk and/or talk. ok, first, have dad teach him/her how to walk, then have mom potty train him/her, then have dad teach him/her how to talk. I like to do it this way, if it's a male, dad potty trains, if it's a female, mom potty trains. My sim family has 3 children now. first was a daughter, 2nd was a son whom was born on daughter's birthday into childhood. Now both of my first two children are teenagers with jobs and well, we just had another one. Now dad wants to have 10 babies. Dad's lost his everloving mind, lmao. both are on the verge of um...becoming elderly. haven't tried yet, since the baby was just born last night right before i went to bed and haven't play this am yet, but maybe the teenagers can help out mom & dad with the new baby girl. mom & dad both have maxed out all of their skills. So that's more time for the baby. to keep your sims from starving or passing out, have them eat good hearty meals and have them nap while the baby/toddler is asleep.


anyway, i'm gonna hush now, giving away all my secrets, lmao.

[sexierjess14]

10 kids? Ive heard of it being in the "wants" section, but I've never encountered it. How do you get it? :p I only have grandma and grandpa wanting a child in the family so bad that everyday you can see them hugging the pillow and sometimes they will nag the sim mom :eek:

but Im serious.. how do you get the 10 kids wants thingy? Ive never even seen it in any of my sims's wants although all of them have the "family aspiration". :confused: so far the max of kids I have in each sim family is only 2 children. Does having 3 children or more trigger that wants? :confused:

[soulofsilence]

yeah, I never usually get that in the 'wants' until about my 4 or 5th child. :)

One of my family has i think 13 kids, and they want 20 grandkids :eek: I have 7 more to go before 20, lol.

[sexierjess14]

13 kids? in one family? I thought there was a limit of family members in one family? correct me if Im wrong :confused: but 13 kids sound crazy. Having 2 alone is quite difficult although one is a teen and the other a toddler. But yeah having a "20 grandchild" wants? that happens? Ive never seen any of these before :confused: can someone enlighten me? :confused:

[soulofsilence]

yeah, you can only have 8 family memebers at a time :) I've had most of them turn into adults and move out by now.

yeah, once you get a couple of grandkids that popped up for me :)

[FinalFantasy4ever]

for me i just had the parents get divorced and the mom was the one who moved out with no kids, leaving 6 at the other house. then she got married to her new hun and had 6 more lol

[sexierjess14]

:eek: meaning in total you have 12 children? *Just wondering* how does your sim woman's family tree look like? since she has 1 husband and 1 ex husband? and 6 children from each husband? I never tried having a sim marry 1 person, and divorce and marry another so I don't know hwo the family tree will look like :rolleyes:

[FinalFantasy4ever]

yeah it shows all her kids when u have her selected and depending on the kid a diff dad and then dependin on the dad diff kids

[sexierjess14]

erm, is it ok if any of you who has this kinda family scenes post a picture of your family tree? Im just curious to know what it looks like :p

I tried having both my sims argue to see how the divorce thing works, but when the wife was "argue-ing" with him, I saw the " + " sign above his head. And after all the hard work to make the relationship go down, it went up again :eek: is it a bug? has any one experienced it before?

[soulofsilence]

Sorry, can't help you there :( never had a divorced couple, or tried for that matter really.

here are just some random pics.

the first is of Aymee and her husbadn and their 4 youngest kids eating dinner in the new house.

Second: Vanessa and Ryan with their 5th and 6th kids, twins, Hayleigh and Jacob.

Third: Hayleigh and Jacob with younger sister Raegen

Fourth: Hayleigh and Jake talking

fifth: Vanessa, Ryan, Jericho, Aymee and Jessika moving into their first house

:rolleyes: I have a lot of the twins, lol.

[sexierjess14]

wow how did you manage to keep up with all the kids? Im having trouble controlling 4 members in the family *mom,dad,1 teen and 1 child* and I was having trouble with a pair of twins in one family. Sometimes they are preety easy to be taken care of, but not when they both want to cuddle with both parents one after the other :eek:

btw, thanks for the pictures. You have a cool family :D

[KoolAnime7]

wow that's alot of kids ive never hade twins EVER

[sexierjess14]

ok, so looks like Im not the only one that has never gotten twins except with the help of the twins hack lol :D

but how could any of you guys who have maybe 5 members in the house, control all of them? I already have trouble controlling 4 of my sims. :eek: The teen is always on the phone or playing games on the computer or cleaning toilet bowls :p , child is always jumping on bed *especially after he wakes up in the morning,first thing he does is jump on the bed*, and mom and dad loves to raid the fridge even when they are not hungry? :eek:

I can imagine myself going crazy controlling more than 4 people at this point in time :confused:

[soulofsilence]

Do you have free will on? cuz it makes it somewhat easier. :)

having all 8 family members kinda slows the game down, at least on my puter, so it gives me more time to figure out what everyone is doing and where who is going when and that fun stuff :p plus, ,I use the trainer and other stuff which . . . . definatly makes it a lot easier. though I do have a lot of families that I don't use any cheats on, those are more challenging with all 6 kids.

[Mirelly]

Also there is always the trusty pause button ... ;)

[sexierjess14]

what does free will do to your sims? I've not explored that far into the game lol, and yes sometimes I do pause the game, but sometimes when you are busy attenting to the rest, the other sim might do something on their own. Example, I wanted the child to watch tv with mom, next thing I know, she ran out to hug the dad because he came back from work :eek: another time, I was attending to the parents while the children we're sleeping, the teen woke up and started to eat :cool:

[Mirelly]

Free will is under the game options. By default Free Will is set to 'on' which means that Sims can make their own decisions if no orders are pending. I haven't yet tried turning free will off but then I don't have any serious problems controlling my sims.

[sexierjess14]

oh now I know. So far I've not tampered with those lol. Only thing I ever used was the screenshot and camera options :p but yeah sometimes I do have problems controlling my sims. Because there was once the sim dad entered the pool and I was busy attenting to the mom and children. Next thing I know, the sim dad is about to die because the pool has no ladder :eek: and at that time, my sim mom was having a pair of twins (thanks to the hack :D ) and it was preety difficult controlling them especially when they we're toddlers.

and sometimes, sim children can be a pest also. My sim kid has a full "outgoing" bar :eek: and he likes to do weird actions and his mom will lecture him almost everyday. One thing I've noticed is, although I gave the sim mom things to do, it just cancelled automaticly and she'll just lecture the son. Is it a bug?

[aliendrone]

i donno how you make your sims have family and kids and stuff. i try with my guy and there love meter would be 100 love but no hart icon. heck i try to make the sims guy and his girl friend take a nap in the same bed but she play games and eat all the guy food and goes home. oh well i'll try again soon with this family thing.

[Mirelly]

Some sims just don't hit it off, Alien. I'd make them some new playmates if I were you while there's still time ... :p

[aliendrone]

hey Mirelly long tiem no see.
ya i think i'm going to do that next time i play the sims2. but i need a bigger harddrive for my computer.
if worse some to worse i'll make my guy adopt a sim child.

[sexierjess14]

adoption can be preety fun. I made a sim female and get her to adopt a baby. This is because she is single and her wants are only filled with "love" thingys. And I couldn't get her a lover because she can't seem to get along with anyone and I don't know why. :confused:

so I opted for adoption. She was having her wants fulfilled with the baby around :D but when the baby grew up to a child, I was erm...shocked? because the child *cough* mind me for saying this, the child turned out like some alien that's been rejected by the entire alien race and thrown to earth. :eek:

sometimes is risky because the child you adopt don't look "nice". lolx

[Kristalrose]

LOL!!! At least when you have the social worker take some kids in the neighborhood, you know what you're getting.

[sexierjess14]

LOL!!!! Good one :p I tried the adoption thing on my family last night because their child got taken away once. But after she was taken away, they had another child which was a girl also. When I did the adoption, I was lucky and I got her back. Now it looks like I had twins. And to make matters worst, both of them have the same name :eek: its so odd. Wouldnt it be impossible to have two children in the same house with the same name? :confused:

[chaoticbaby]

there is a cheat. while ur sim is having a child type "twinsr2cute".
hope i helped.
xox

[sailorchiiavalon]

Twins are just a natural occurance! Sometimes it happens if you try for baby twice like it happened in my game!

It was weird because Kaylynn Langerak was the mother and their father was an elder named Lasagna Lovegood!

Now I'm digressing :D you get twins randomly but I think it's slightly increased if there are twins in the family.

[surprised_by_witches]

I had a household where twins were guaranteed, but no other house in the hood had them.

The twins cheat is a myth from what I've heard though there's a rumor that if you have OFB you can eat cheesecake to increase your odds.

I've got two sets of twins in my current neighborhood and that's enough for me.

[magorienX]

Actually they added a twins cheat in OFB its "forcetwins" while you have a pregnet sim in the house hold. I've tested it twice and it worked both times. Make sure you have OFB or it is not avilable.

Twins are.... hard to take care of. When they're babies and toddlers their moods seem to fall in almost total syncrnization. :)

[MegRen]

Also, try cheesecake! I had a sim eat cheesecake before they conceived, and then had her eat cheesecake on her last day of pregnancy, and voila! Twins! I got this from the chat. Someone said Cheesecake increases the chance of twins to 100%

[sexierjess14]

I read about the cheesecake issue somewhere at the sims2 official website, I think it was implemented in the OFB expansion or something? I no longer plan to have more than a child at once, because my sims could hardly take care of 1 toddler at times, what more 2 :p

In total I think in my sim gaming history, I only experienced the twins thing twice, once when I wanted to try and see whats it like, another was unexpected and not wanted actually :p :p

[surprised_by_witches]

I shall remember to avoid the cheesecake when pregnant. Twins are a lot to cope with ... though I suppose getting your entire family over in one go has something to be said for it.

Or, you could do what my sims did, have him stargaze with telescope when she's pregnant already ... their kids might as well be twins although they look nothing alike, since one is green!

[sexierjess14]

You mean that when pregnant sims get abducted, they get thrown back to earth with more than one child? :confused: Or did I misunderstand your meaning? I hadn't tried anything to do with the telescope because I was worried about the aliens :p

[jupitershana]

No, she means the wife was pregnant, and then the spouse was abducted and he got pregnant. Close enough so that they should be twins, but they aren't.

[surprised_by_witches]

Yes, that. I also had a family adopt a child the day after their first child was born, and they may as well have been twins, too.

Just saying, if you want twins there are many ways to go about it ...

I never had a sim abducted until I started playing Stella, the binned alien college student from La Fiesta Tech. So if you WANT to get abducted you might try that, if you have uni.

[sexierjess14]

Oh! Now thats something I never knew about till now lol, thanks for clearing that up :D

Well I guess there's many ways to get twins without having the poor sim mom do it all by herself ;)

[hwes]

Yeah... first time I ever got pregnant on the game, I had twins. *shudders* It was horrible. Personally, I'm fine with having them one at a time.
I would like to know... can you get identical twins?

[Mirelly]

Good question, hwes. The issue of twins is settled at the moment of conception (because twins cannot be born to house where there are 7 people in residence. Nor can you move in a new sim to house with only 6 people and one is pregnant with twins ... the only non-cheat way to find out if your sim is having a multiple birth.)

However the gender and, I believe, the genetics of the baby, or babies, is decided at birth, as anyone who has reloaded and replayed a birthing scenario over and over will know you can change the baby's gender.

I imagine that since sim DNA is limited in scope and range identical twins are not impossible ... but I don't believe the game is specifically geared to create them deliberately.

[surprised_by_witches]

I haven't even had same sex twins, yet, though my daughter had them in her neighborhood. We can't tell if they're identical yet because it takes her forever to raise a baby and she won't play that house because twins are too hard. The last time we looked in on them the father was passed out on the floor.

I guess I should offer some assistance. :D

[Eleyia]

My frist pregnant sim resulted in twins. They weren't quite identical. They look almost exactly alike except one had a shade darker skin than the other. I've only managed to have twins twice out of all my pregnancies, and that's a shame. I've about perfected raising sim babies. The more the merrier! :silly:

[jupitershana]

I've only had one set of same gender twins, boys, out of probably about 10 sets of twins born in game. They were not identical, one with red hair, one with brown.

[sexierjess14]

In my case, both twins cases, were of different genders, both times a boy and a girl. I hadn't thought about identical till now :p

It would be cool to have identical twins although I doubt I would ever want my sims to experience having to care for 2 babies at once! Babies are fine, but when they reach the toddler age .. :eek: :eek: I totally lose control :o

[Sacharissa]

I've had three sets of twins so far - two boy/girl sets and one set of identical girls. I find the baby stage the hardest, 'cause they always seems to want to be fed at the same time! At least with toddlers, you can tell one to go play with "Mr Charisma Wabbit!

I also created a family with identical triplet girls! THAT was one tough toddlerhood! (But boy, were they adorable!)

[surprised_by_witches]

In my old 'hood I created the triplets of Belleville as toddlers. Thanks to a dollhouse and three Mr. Wabbits they got through toddlerhood just fine. They were all the way to adulthood and had babies of their own when I had to start over.

I am good at raising sim babies, but I admit the current Nova family has me swamped. I quit playing them to let the other kids of the parents' generation catch up, and because it's HARD. One child, one very neglected toddler and a brand new pair of twins. EEEEEEEE!!!

The parents are about to plotz. What's really funny is his brother showed up, the not-nice romance sim brother, and he's helping out autonomously! It's like the game said, OK, this family needs help. I had little Riley ask Antonio for a bottle and he even got a pat on the head to go with it. His uncle may end up being his favorite adult, LOL.

[Dee]

My sister had made triplets for one of her families and they caused her absolute havoc. I myself had one couple have 2 sets of twin girls one after the other. I kept them in the high chair all the time till they needed changing or sleep. That way way they were always ready for feeding and didn't get on my nerves too much. They are grown up now though. Thank god!

[sexierjess14]

I prefer the baby stage because I just have my sims feed them and leave them in the crib, wherelse my sim toddlers, they tend to LOVE playing with the bowl :eek: and whenever they are awake, they yell and cry and wake the simmies up (all my sim babies/toddlers sleep in the same room as the parents). So somehow I find the baby stage easier for me :p

But one thing for sure is, it's tough caring for twins! One is enough to drive me insane, two? :eek: :white:

[Chee-Z]

After having 3 sets of twins in the course of playing this game, I've gotten used to them. With Hoenheim's twins, I had the teen sons and the parents involved in feeding, potty-training and rearing the toddlers. It made the walking/talking thing simple by having the parents train both at the same time, with smart milk of course. When I had twins for the first time, though, God that was awful. I had to move in the mother's sister and brother-in-law in in order to raise decent kids. They made it through easily after that. :o

[sexierjess14]

Looks like Im the only one who's having problems raising just 1 child from toddler age :p :p

I still remembered one of the incidents where my sim got twins when I did not plan to have one was after she did meditation the whole day :eek: I had my simmie meditate because I had to attend to the teen and child and husband which I was having trouble controlling :rolleyes: and she ended up having 2 children, which almost made me fall off my seat, so I replayed the family without saving, and she had 1 child :rolleyes: ;)

[surprised_by_witches]

Toddlers ARE harder than babies, Jess. It's all that mobility and their more demanding natures.

Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it. No one's that good at it at first.

I'm in awe of Chee-Z getting them both all trained up. With my babies if there's twins potty training's about as much as they can expect.

[Mirelly]

I agree that toddlers are more difficult than babies, but not dramtically so. Unlike real toddlers you can turn down the volume when they are screaming for attention and they only really get wildly upset at being caged up with nothing to do (in a high chair with no food or in a crib basically). Leave them with a toy and they'll play contentedly until either bladder or energy runs out. If they stop because of hunger ... well! :eek: boy! have you ever got game-play issues :rolleyes: The toughest part of the toddler raising challenge, fo me, is not so much managing the kiddies but managing the parents' aspirations so that one is always available in gold, or better mood, to make up the smart milk.

I just concluded a marathon session with a branch of the Simmonds family. Norton and Lila were expecting their third child (a late baby ... both have since retired while baby Tyrone was still toddling - he's grown to child now, though). Into this madhouse came their eldest daughter, Taylor and her bashful new groom, former Llama All Star Dorkerooney, Ricky Andrews. Taylor got pregant accidentally on purpose after graduating and when Ricky graduated later, Norton made him come over and do the decent thing :p Taylor gave birth to Macca about 8 hours before her Mamma Lila gave birth to Macca's uncle Tyrone. Taylor got pregnant again immdiately after giving birth (it seemed like a good idea at the time ... :rolleyes:) so the third boy in in 80 hours was born. Welcome to the madhouse, Tebay!

Anyway. Macca got his first A+, Tyrone has 8 charisma points and it's Friday night so he'll have 8 cooking points and 8 creativity by Monday and l'il Tebay should be able to go to school on Monday, so I'll have the HM over on Sunday and get them all into private school.

Mind you! I don't wanna repeat that experience again in a hurry :rolleyes:

[sexierjess14]

Wow .. by far my largest sim family only consisted of a max of 4 persons .. I could never handle more :( I tried once with a grandma, grandpa, parents and 2 children, I had problems controlling them so I had to keep pausing the game to give them each tasks :p

But about aspirations level, I cheat at that :( I use the energizer painting each time the aspirations reach gold level ;) Im such a cheater in games :rolleyes:

[Mirelly]

That's OK Shana. The cheats are there to be used. I'd be lost without the pause key, though. Also, I always play with free will off because I never like the dumb things sims do when they have freedom. The odd occasions when they do do something really cute is when you're not looking anyway .... what's the point of that! :eek: All told it makes for slow playing but hey, I'm not in a race. :o

[jupitershana]

That's OK Shana. The cheats are there to be used. I'd be lost without the pause key, though.


Huh? Did you mean Jess?

[Mirelly]

:o :boggled: :blush: :ashamed: :guilty: ... that's another fine senior moment I just had ... :dopey: :smirk: :covereyes: :sorry: :footinmouth: :old:

dang anyone know a good electrolysister ... erm ... did I just make that word up? :laugh: :laughing: :silli: :yes:

[Your Mom]

My sister had made triplets for one of her families and they caused her absolute havoc. I myself had one couple have 2 sets of twin girls one after the other. I kept them in the high chair all the time till they needed changing or sleep. That way way they were always ready for feeding and didn't get on my nerves too much. They are grown up now though. Thank god!

Oh dear God, yes, the Sandwich triplets (Molly, Olly and Polly). What made things worse was that it was just their single dad, Arnie, looking after them throughout their toddlerhood. Not to mention they had a tiny house. Heaven knows how I got them through it. I think it was the charisma bunny toy which saved them from being taken away. XD
I eventually got tired of their small house and moved them into a bigger one, and gave them a stepmum (Wendy). Arnie and Wendy had another child, Eloise, and the triplets are now at college.

[Dee]

Dear god how I hate multiple births. I almost cried when my mum sim gave birth to twin girls 20 minutes ago.

[sexierjess14]

Lol the cheats are wonderful and the pause key is what I rely on practically the entire time I play the game! I hadn't turned "free will" off before because I keep forgetting what it does and hadnt bothered to fiddle with it :p I guess that explains why my sims keep doing things I never asked them too once in awhile :o

And Dee, are you keeping thw twins? When my sim had twins I didnt save the game and replayed back to the time she hadnt gotten pregnant :p :p I think I handled my sims in sims1 better than sims2, I used to have a large family and had no problem controlling them but now I do :(

[surprised_by_witches]

It just takes practice. And sometimes even that doesn't help, much like in real life. I'm pretty good at handling large numbers of sims but every once in a while everything goes haywire, especially if babies or toddlers are involved.

Guess that's what keeps the game interesting!

[PlayLives]

I've learned to just let them be instead of running after them all the time (like in real life)...if they cry, let them cry it won't kill them, besides, they can get out of the crib by themselves...if they try to play in the toilet...bathroomusesyou will kick them out. I get them potty trained and walking real fast and as long as they are not hungry or tired, I don't worry about the toddlers too much (even if they pass out on the floor they don't get a bad memory of it, it's kind of funny actually). After they get tired of trying to follow everyone around, they eventually get back to playing with their toys. LOL.

[zeedudette]

I've seen postings that some players had sims that got twin babies, Im wondering how do you get one, is it at random or what? :confused: i know its mainly luck getting twins etc. but if you eat alot of spaghetti there is more chance, i tried it and it worked twice out of about 8, so its good

[sexierjess14]

Wow spagetti? I heard about the cheesecake but not the spagetti, maybe I should try my luck with it when I learn to handle more sims at once :D :D

[surprised_by_witches]

From what I've read, spaghetti doesn't change your chances for twins one way or the other. It was just a coincidence.

Cheesecake, on the other hand, supposedly does increase your chances.

But you need to be a good cook to make it.

[sexierjess14]

Oh, well I think I read somewhere around the forums (mts2 forums) and they said if the mommy does meditation when she's pregnant, she gets more than 1 child too, like twins, triplets etc. Does anyone know if this is like the cheesecake issue or just a coincedence? (sorry I don't know how to spell that :p )

[surprised_by_witches]

I am fairly certain that before OFB there was no way to enhance your ability to get twins. Meditation, spaghetti, and any cheats have been proven to be "old sim's tales." I do know, at least in my experience, that once a household has twins it's more likely they'll have a second pair of twins. I may test this on the Miguel family if I'm feeling mean. :D

With OFB there is cheesecake, which supposedly boosts your chances. I have not tried the cheesecake thing yet, has anyone else?

I don't have an official pipeline or anything, this is just what I've read.

Edited to say: I think there is a hack out there that allows you to have twins when you want to, also triplets and quads. I'm just talking about the game, unenhanced.

[jupitershana]

I did the cheesecake, worked like a charm. The cheesecake is something that Maxis developed, so it is for real. The rest, like SBW said, is all "old sims tales". And, unless you have a hack, the max amount of babies born in game are twins.

[Mirelly]

I am absolutely ceratin. There was no cheat and no special protocol (dietary or otherwise: eg woohoo in certain way) prior to OFB. If you have OFB then eating cheesecake does increase the chance of having twins. I haven't tried it myself. Twins are seriously overrated. A friend has just had real live twins: a boy 5lb 11oz (2.590Kg) & a girl 5lb 12oz (2.61Kg) ... now that's not something I care to think about except maybe under the influence of valium :eek:

[surprised_by_witches]

Cheesecake does indeed work and I have the twins to prove it. :D

Sim twins, that is, not RL. If it was RL I would not be smiling quite so much.

[ineedhelpPlay]

hm...i thought i read about it somewhere...the cheat i mean..


it's something like TwinsR2Cute or TwinzR2cute


imnot too sure.

anyway...if ur a new player...it'll be super hard to take care of them...i hv a toddler and a single parent and boy...is it ever so demanding!

[Sacharissa]

Cheesecake does indeed work and I have the twins to prove it. :D

Sim twins, that is, not RL. If it was RL I would not be smiling quite so much.

Had a good friend who had triplets in Real Life - Her response upon finding out that she was indeed having three babies was:

At least with twins, you have an arm for each kid...What am I gonna do with THREE???

[ineedhelpPlay]

cool...the toddlers can pass out?...i've only got them to sleep on the floor since they were so tired..and all i got was the parent looking at them with a worrying look on her face.

[Mirelly]

hm...i thought i read about it somewhere...the cheat i mean..


it's something like TwinsR2Cute or TwinzR2cute


There is NO cheat code that will produce twins. Stat. Finito. End of story.

Twins cannot be forced to appear by entering a cheat code.

Cheat codes for the production of twins in The Sims 2 with or without an combination of expansion packs will not work because they are mere rumours that were put around in the early days before we knew better.

WE NOW KNOW BETTER

The only way to get twins is by:

Patiently waiting for them turn up randomly
Feeding cheesecake to the mother in a game with OFB installed and in a family with room for 2 more, or
Using a hack.
Hacks are not cheats
Hacks are chunks of code that change the way the game works
Good hacks don't cause your game to explode
Bad hacks mightAn unmodified game will never produce more than twins.

More than twins is impossible.

GOT IT?:coolnessl:

[ineedhelpPlay]

yeah..i tried searching for it..turns out the website is suspended...

[surprised_by_witches]

Had a good friend who had triplets in Real Life - Her response upon finding out that she was indeed having three babies was:
At least with twins, you have an arm for each kid...What am I gonna do with THREE???


LOL, Sacharissa, that's what the dog is for. Make him a little carrier. :D

Kidding.

[surprised_by_witches]

cool...the toddlers can pass out?...i've only got them to sleep on the floor since they were so tired..and all i got was the parent looking at them with a worrying look on her face.

FYI, that's called passing out.

[HelloKit]

There is NO cheat code that will produce twins. Stat. Finito. End of story.

Twins cannot be forced to appear by entering a cheat code.
Yikes... at the risk of inviting Mirelly's wrath... ;) a slight correction...

There is no cheat code pre-OFB that will produce twins. OFB, in addition to the cheesecake, added a "forcetwins" cheat.

*ducks*

[jupitershana]

Yikes... at the risk of inviting Mirelly's wrath... ;) a slight correction...

There is no cheat code pre-OFB that will produce twins. OFB, in addition to the cheesecake, added a "forcetwins" cheat.

*ducks*

Lol, if you hadn't said it, I would have myself...hello kit is right, that is a cheat that was included in the Prima guide, but it only works if you have Open for Business!

*runs and ducks behind Hellokit* whaaaat....you started it!

[sexierjess14]

I tried the cheesecake with the sim mommie in another family, and it worked!! :D I mean Im not exactly happy it worked nor am I to upset about it but I thought I'd just try since it's stated cheesecake does raise the chances, but when I tried to control them (note the family only consist of sim dad, mom and now the twins) ... lets say it went the wrong way ;)

However, one thing that did make it an easier experience compared to my 1st time, was the pause button, I think I clicked it every 2 RL minutes :p :p so I continue playing the family, and while I wasn't paying attention to the sim dad, he burned the kitchen down including himself :eek: so its left with sim mom with bad bad depression and 2 babies that she can't seem to control (err I mean that I can't seem to control :p ) so I left the game without saving. :D

I guess that's enough twins experience for me, no more forever lol ;)

[Mirelly]

However, one thing that did make it an easier experience compared to my 1st time, was the pause button, I think I clicked it every 2 RL minutes :p :p

Crikey, Jess! How restrained of you :p I think I use the pause button every 2 sim minutes! :o :rolleyes: :p :eek:

[Sacharissa]

Crikey, Jess! How restrained of you :p I think I use the pause button every 2 sim minutes! :o :rolleyes: :p :eek:

Ah - If only we had a pause button in REAL Life! (Although even though we don't, I still find myself reaching for it every so often!!)

[surprised_by_witches]

Yeah, me too, even when it's not necessary.

I'm a pause-button-aholic, I think.

Edited to say: That was a reply to Mirelly, not Sacha. We posted at the same time.

And LOL, Sacharissa. Don't I wish.

[sexierjess14]

Well I can't do it for every 2 sim minutes because I actually play the game in the fast mode, the highest speed lvl, because sometimes the sims take a LONG time to even prepare a salad :p

Maybe I should play at the normal speed so my sims wont end up dying :eek:

[surprised_by_witches]

I only speed it up if my sims are all trying to get skill points at the same time, and sometimes not even then.

Or if I'm playing someone in college and I'm bored. My sim Sylvie went through college in fast forward. I knew she'd be more interesting once she graduated, since I already had her life mapped out somewhat.

College can be a bit boring if you're already engaged to someone who's graduated, LOL. No chance for drama unless you want to cheat or something.

And I do like a little drama.

[Cassiepeia]

Glad someone mentioned the cheesecake. Since I got Nightlife I've only had one set of twins born, until yesterday when I had the sim eat almost an entire cake on her own. LOL So glad it worked!

I play my sims on all three speeds. I use pause every few seconds. LOL So that I have less chance of messing things up and high speed is used sporadically throughout, when I get impatient for them to do something. :D Usually I play most of my game on the second x2 speed.

When do you use the 'forcetwins' cheat? Before she shows her first "baby bump", when she goes into labor or at any time during the pregnancy?

Cass.

[HelloKit]

I haven't used it myself, but my guess would be anytime during the pregnancy, before labor starts.

[AlisonSBurke]

Theres always the inSimenator, which you can download, and it works for me... I can't remember the website, but just google it and it'll come up.

I too am a pause-o-holic, and I have to take a picture every few seconds, which makes for very slow gameplay! If you're sick of twins, try quadruplets! I can cope with twins alright, but quads can be... interesting!

[Mirelly]

When do you use the 'forcetwins' cheat? Before she shows her first "baby bump", when she goes into labor or at any time during the pregnancy?

Although it contradicts your own experience with 4 alien babies birth to the Curious sim you might like to know there is no twins cheat and never has been ... (Re your own experience I put that down as the xception that proves the rule :rolleyes: or a pre-patch bug :p )

http://forums.worldsims.org/showpost.php?p=101330&postcount=2

[HelloKit]

you might like to know there is no twins cheat and never has been ...
Mirelly, you must have missed my post and a few others' further up this thread... you are right in that there never was a twin cheat before, but OFB did in fact add a 'forcetwins' cheat - that's fact, not rumor.

[jupitershana]

Mirelly, you must have missed my post and a few others' further up this thread... you are right in that there never was a twin cheat before, but OFB did in fact add a 'forcetwins' cheat - that's fact, not rumor.


Hehehehehe....

YIKES!!! :ducks:

[Mirelly]

Drat, drat and triple drat ... and you can shut up Muttley! If there's one thing I can't stand it's being wrong ... :o

Well said, Kit :D You can have the Coke that SBW says she owes me :rolleyes:

I have now edited my "definitive" post on the subject that was linked to above ... thanks again for reminding of that, Kit. Twins are something I often try to avoid (most often by filling up houses with temporary residents so that try for baby can only yield one) and although I have had half a dozen or so pairs I still hate it when it happens. So, poor excuse though it is, that's why I more or less instantly forgot about the new OFB cheat ... it wasn't something I was ever going to need and the only reason I knew about the cheesecake was because I need to be darn sure not to let my female sims anywhere near the stuff. :p

[sexierjess14]

I can imagine them having implement the "forcequads" cheat .. OH the HORROR!! :eek: :eek: At least for me that is :rolleyes: :D

[HelloKit]

Yes, I won't be using the cheat either... I'd rather leave it up to chance. In fact I almost wish I didn't know about the cheesecake. I did download TwoJeffs' hack to change the cheesecake odds to 50% instead of 100% though, so maybe I'll just have to force myself to chance it. I have actually never had a set of twins yet. I wonder if Sims, particularly pregnant ones, ever roll wants for cheesecake... (I pretty much play based on what my Sims need and want.)

[surprised_by_witches]

I tried it, just cuz. I knew I wanted my sims to have two kids, and I thought, why not just get it all over with at once? So I had her eat cheesecake.

Guess I should haved named the kids Cheese and Cake, huh.

Twins isn't so bad, but when my first two babies after installing OFB turned out to be two sets of twins I panicked a little. Wouldn't want them EVERY time ... fortunately, other than Cheese and Cake I haven't had any others. :p

[sailorchiiavalon]

I just had twins in my game. Ohh my gosh! These are the children of Lazlo Curious and Crystal Vu.

To go with the Vu theme, I named one Ocean and the other boy Tyler.

Luckily they turned into toddlers on their parents' day off so they now know talking and walking!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/serenicevanescence/tylerandoceanlearninghowtotalk.jpg

Aren't they adorable?

[surprised_by_witches]

I want same sex twins! I've only ever had boy/girl twins.

They are cute. I've got a cute toddler in my game right now, too, but she's just one kid, not two. :D

[Sacharissa]

I want same sex twins! I've only ever had boy/girl twins.

They are cute. I've got a cute toddler in my game right now, too, but she's just one kid, not two. :D

I currently have a set of girl twins in one of my Legacy Families...They are children now, and have very different personalities, which I find a lot of fun!

Ironically, the only other set of twins I've had were in my other Legacy family (different neighborhood). They were a boy and girl set, however.

[Mirelly]

LOL I have just had twin boys. The last set I had was twin girls and before that one of each. Talk about improbably balanced statistics :rolleyes:

Although no special measures were taken to ensure twins (had too many already :eek:) I couldn't resist naming the two new kids on the block:
Edam (http://www.cheese.com/Description.asp?Name=Edam)
http://www.holiday-market.com/cheese/cheese-wine/images/edam.gif

and

Madeira (http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,madeira_cake,FF.html)

http://jodelibakery.netfirms.com/cakes/madeira%20cake/madeira.jpg

:rolleyes:

[surprised_by_witches]

LMAO! That's perfect.

[sailorchiiavalon]

Lmao! Good names you've picked there Mirelly :)

I think I've had boy/boy, boy/girl and girl/girl. The two boys are obviously Ocean and Tyler, the boy/girl were offspring of Nina Caliente/Aiden Todd and the girl/girl were Kayla and Keira.

[cheys23]

I have had heaps of twins after i installed the inseminator lol, even though i didnt use it at all for that, it just seemed after i installed it i got twins more often than not.

Dont know if this will help but EA Games sent me a game tip after I installed OFB saying want twins? try eating cheescake i dont know if it works havent tried it.

[surprised_by_witches]

Yes. If you had read this thread you would know this has been discussed already. :rolleyes:

Hey, everyone, I had another set of twins last night, no cheescake involved.

Maybe it's just my game but it feels to me like the base chances have been upped a bit. I've had three sets of non-cheesecake twins since installing OFB, zero before that.

[sailorchiiavalon]

Ever since I installed the inseminator in the game I have had more chance of twins.

I only use the inseminator to keep the motives average whilst handling the twins!

I wouldn't mind getting OFB just to try out the cheesecake hint :p

[downhearted]

I've seen postings that some players had sims that got twin babies, Im wondering how do you get one, is it at random or what? :confused:

when my sim is about to give bith, i made her hunger level full..she ate too much for this and i always had twins when i've done this..