How many children have your sims had.....LOL

[Saltypaws]

I must say that I have been a simmer since day one and have every sim game and ep made.  Well, back to the post.  I made a sim and she had the lifetime wish to raise 5 kids to teens.  Well, I got obsessed and she got her lifetime wish and then kept going.  She had two sets of twins and triplets and a few singles.  Altogether they had 11 children and then the husband got a wild hair and fathered two children from the lady next door, lol.  So I thought it would be fun to find out how many children other people have had.  Btw, this is a great site and I will be returning often to find out about other people's sims.  The parents were such good parents and I did have 8 people at once in the household.  What a challenge, but it was so much fun.  Now the parents are elder and I made them from the beginning.  Will hate to see them go, but they have a lot of namesakes to keep up the family history, lol.......happy simming.

[Pam]

Hi Saltypaws!  And welcome!

The most I've had from one Sim is 6 kids.  I guess you had to move out the older kids when they grew up so that the mother could have more babies.  I haven't done exactly that yet.  I've spent a lot of time playing my Legacy family and it was more to my benefit that the next generation be brought in, so I'd get the newly adult children have the babies instead of their mother having more.

[Kreathyr]

This sounds like a challenge for you Pam. 
Only six kids? 

[bshag]

I think I'll let saltypaws have her minions.    Three kiddies are all that I can handle from one sim, not because I'm afraid,  but because I don't know what to do with all of them after they turn YA.  I have become leary of changing households due to loss of inventory so for now, I keep them all in one household.  The game doesn't allow for that many sims on a lot. 

So 3 from one sim is the most I have, and that third one was a surprise. 

[Pam]

You can just move them out of the house when they turn Young Adult.  They'll get the same $16,000 that any Sim gets at the start of a game and you can put them into a little house of their own.  You don't have to play them, just move them and keep your original household as active.  Or, if your family has a lot of money, you can choose for them to buy a more expensive house and it will come out of the family funds.

[Saltypaws]

I did have the maximum in the household and let me say, that there were the twins, three toddlers and one youth at the same time, it got hairy there for a while, I have one youth left at home and a teenager a young adult, I am letting one stay in the house for future generations, it was a trip, but I muddled through it, lol........I finally put the mother to work, I think she needed to get out of the house.....

[Esther1981]

Ok, I guess I'm like Metro.  Sim kids scare me!!  I cannot take care of multiple Sims, but I wanted grandkids, so I made a man and I had him go out all over town!  He had 24 kids, then I turned aging on, turned the short lifespan on and kept eating Life Fruits.  Last time I played him, which was yesterday, he went next door to complete a challenge and ended up getting friendly with the woman, so now she's pregnant.  She hadn't had the kid(s) yet.  So, right now, I guess the answer to your question would be 24 kids, 2 grandsons, and 1 granddaughter!

[Metropolis Man]

ok i guess im like Metro, sim kids scare me!!!!!!!!!

Well, they don't scare me anymore. Pre-Baby Boomer Challenge, yeah. But, that tourney completely gave me a new outlook. Now, would I still prefer creating a solo Sim or a couple vs. a huge family? Absolutely. I still have my preference for the smaller household, but I learned enough to remove the fear.

[Esther1981]

Good for you, but they still scare me!!! LOL  

[samoht04]

I had 6, two pairs of triplets, 3 boys and 3 girls. For a while, they were toddlers at the same time. That was fun!  

[Swede1992]

The first sim I made when I got this game for half a year ago was literally the father of the neighbourhood. I wanted to see how advanced the storytelling option was, so with him juiced up with ambrosia he got like 12 kids with different women across Sunset Valley. However these women did not seem to want to get married and get more children on their own after that, so after a while my neighbourhood was dangerously underpopulated and everybody was a kid of my sim!

He himself only raised a pair of twin girls he had with his wife, but I grew really annoyed at this situation since everybody  was considered "family" so he could not get romantic with the neighbours anymore! However he lived for so long, that before I tired of it, after around 5 generations down the line, these neighbours wasn't considered to be descendants of him anymore. If WA hadn't come out to steal my attention away for another family I would have seen how long this could be taken.

[RockinRobin]

In Sims 3, the most my sims have had is 6.

But in Sims 2, I had a couple who ended up raising 20 kids! She had 6 and then got a wish to have 10 kids, so she did that. And after that, she got a wish to have 20 kids, so I thought "what the heck" and let her raise a grand total of 20 kids. They moved out as they grew up, went to college, got married, and had kids of their own. The children and grandchildren would come back often to visit. My sim couple eventually became elders but they had a ton of grandchildren to keep them young. 

[igzigpuff]

I played more families in TS2...so far in TS3 I've only had 2 families, one with 3 children the other with two and I never got them to teen age.    I subsequently had to delete those games when WA came out because any game I had before it was so glitched I couldn't really play it right.

So yeah, kids aren't my thing this time out!    Maybe if they add University or something then I will feel more motivated to raise some kids.    After all having children is a privilege not a right  ...giggle snort! lol 

[PJSim]

Maybe if they add University or something then I will feel more motivated to raise some kids. 

I agree, I miss something special for the young ones to do. That EP made it interesting to raise your Sim from a child. Now I never play with kids.

[Kauri The Sim]

OK, those are some big numbers, but my second family ever has a few kids. I just got sims working and my second family (gave up on first) has had a lot of kids (for my second family). Mia and Jimmy (Guitarist and Author) worked on careers until they twin girls Melanie and Lisa. Then they had another child Jeremy, then twins Thomas and Max. So far all the boys are teenagers (all with the same hair cut as their dad did) and the girls are Young Adults. Melanie moved out with Elton Langraab and Lisa married Lee Yao (from china) and just had a baby girl Layla.

Mia and Jimmy are elders now their working and baby-making days are over. I don't want them to die! They both got wishes to have FIVE grandchildren, it's only one each but as if. Not going to happen.

I know 5 isn't even close to other people's, but for my second family it's a lot.

[Simbacat]

I accidentally had 6 once....my sim had 3 kids and wanted another, so since the other three were teenagers and pretty independent, I let her go ahead and have another. Imagine my surprise when she came home with triplet boys. I had done nothing to encourage this. It was awful playing three toddlers at once.The father of this family spent a great deal of time at the gym while they were growing up.

[Kaibilly]

The first sim I made when I got this game for half a year ago was literally the father of the neighbourhood. I wanted to see how advanced the storytelling option was, so with him juiced up with ambrosia he got like 12 kids with different women across Sunset Valley. However these women did not seem to want to get married and get more children on their own after that, so after a while my neighbourhood was dangerously underpopulated and everybody was a kid of my sim!

He himself only raised a pair of twin girls he had with his wife, but I grew really annoyed at this situation since everybody  was considered "family" so he could not get romantic with the neighbours anymore! However he lived for so long, that before I tired of it, after around 5 generations down the line, these neighbours wasn't considered to be descendants of him anymore. If WA hadn't come out to steal my attention away for another family I would have seen how long this could be taken.

I'm doing something similar at the moment, my sim has the have 10 girlfriend lifetime want, so as well as doing that I figured I would see how many kids he can father with the different women, only 2 so far, but I just managed to get the fertility treatment, so I will see how he goes now!

[samoht04]

The father of this family spent a great deal of time at the gym while they were growing up.

So the Gym has turned into the pub/bar for the sims 3 world? 

[Swede1992]

I'm doing something similar at the moment, my sim has the have 10 girlfriend lifetime want, so as well as doing that I figured I would see how many kids he can father with the different women, only 2 so far, but I just managed to get the fertility treatment, so I will see how he goes now!

Do that, it'll be fun! Actually, my guy's lifetime wish was also to have 10 girlfriends, so I just continued on flirting with all women after I'd finished with it. It can get a little empty in that big town before people start dying off, giving room for more people, so prepare for that!

[Pam]

It can get a little empty in that big town before people start dying off, giving room for more people, so prepare for that!

This is not as much as a problem now that Electronic Arts fixed story progression.  The town has more people and doesn't dry up nearly as much.

[Simbacat]

The father of this family spent a great deal of time at the gym while they were growing up.

So the Gym has turned into the pub/bar for the sims 3 world?  

LOL..it seems to be, I have found it to be a great place for my single sims to find future wives and husbands. I don't know if Riverview's gym is quite as fruitful. The father of the triplets had almost constant wishes to work out....and as soon as I filled one another came up, so I just left him there. The funny thing is, after he had worked out for a day and half, he had one wish after another to talk to his passel of kids. Maybe he just needed to get away from the screaming for a while?

[Swede1992]

It can get a little empty in that big town before people start dying off, giving room for more people, so prepare for that!

This is not as much as a problem now that Electronic Arts fixed story progression.  The town has more people and doesn't dry up nearly as much.

Really!? Well that's wonderful news for me Pam! I've always been reluctant to do this again for that reason! Now that makes me a happy panda!

[Simbacat]

Sometimes it takes a few sim days for the town to repopulate itself. I noticed that when I play my legacy families. A boss or coworker will die and and for about 2 days there is no replacement, and then one comes long. I think you just have to be patient.

[Swede1992]

Yeah it was like that before also, but in that underpopulated town of mine, everybody was a descendant of my sim, and all businesses had just the one minimum employee (which were the descendants). However, this makes it that there maybe are just 7, or something, sims in the town, excluded my own household, and that is very few! Preferably, this was part of the fix in the story progression, although I'm yet to test that.

[Pam]

There are also tourists now, which helps.  They don't have a house in town, but they're around as potential mates, friends, and tip givers.  I'm playing in Riverview now, and even it has better story progression and population.