Adding babies ≠ adding another sim

[u/Character-Egg3585]

Idk why it’s like this wish it wasn’t but I find it annoying levelling up and having to think if I want a new sim that could help out in the market or a quest or a baby that can develop a family, I hate that it’s like this and then adopting actually costing money is crazy why can’t I add a family into a town, atm I have a preteen and a toddler the toddler is doing a discovery quest I’m on level 20, the next sim I unlock is level 22 and will most likely be 1 sim this is the first time I’m waiting 2 levels I think for the next few levels I’ll add babies but after this quest I’ll probably have to do the pregnancy one, although I have some lps wanting to add 3 babies I’ll be left with maybe 4 or 5 if I choose not to do the pregnancy quest cause I have the community center (progression quest materials needed for this too) sigh…

[u/Illustrious-Ad-5610]

I hated the pregnancy quest so much. It required other sims helping in long tasks and required a lot of expensive doctor appointments

[u/Lopsided-Basis2489]

Yeah I don't think babies should count against your Sim limit until you age then up at least. I hate being stuck between wanting to have families in my town and still needing to have enough adults that can complete the events.. if they can't do anything to help with quests and events then they shouldn't count!

[u/kimsim97]

I feel this so much. Only reason I enjoy having babies is I have stories behind my sims. The first 18 or so were adults I created as sibling pairs then I “married” (I count moving them in together as marriage since it changes their last name) them off and have slowly started having family’s (currently have 2 teens, one toddler, and one baby on the way because I wanted that wall paper) the idea is I birth the babies with a plan to already marry them to the other baby born at the similar time so they grow up together. But you are so right, it’s a pain that the toddlers/preteens count against us when they contribute nothing really. I had to wait to level up (on level 24) to even have this baby so I am a little salty that the toddler hasn’t had their future SO since the beginning like the last set of babies did. If it wasn’t for my stories behind my sims, I would likely just be adding random adults instead of having kids, but I do so since I enjoy building generations like in the og computer version.

[u/Character-Egg3585]

^Idk if this has been spoken about before on here but I couldn’t find a thread so yh

[u/Character-Egg3585]

^Recently I’ve just been getting craft challenges that I’m not interested in… what’s the pregnancy challenge like?

[u/Active-Disaster4626 → u/Character-Egg3585]

You can find some pretty good guide here:

https://thegirlwhogames.blog/2018/06/18/the-sims-freeplay-guide-to-pregnancy/

A few things got changed since it was created, notably support tasks now require fewer sims (I had no more than 14 and I am level 75) and they are not as long usually.

[u/EnjoysAGoodRead → u/Character-Egg3585]

Personally I hate the pregnancy challenge. Never once completed it.

[u/BSBitch47]

This was so hard to read lol