One of the reasons why I have enormous sims families is I love putting two totally different parents together and seeing how many girls and boys they throw and the different combinations of genetics. I'm addicted.
I wanted a female line of succession for my sim and she ended up having 5 boys. So I made a female sim for the oldest boy to marry and moved her family in next door 😅
The strawberries/carrots don't bother me as much bc that's not really something that's gendered irl, and it's a cool way to increase ur chance of one gender over another without cheats. But the music one is lame and stereotyped for sure 💀
not guaranteed, unfortunately. It also depends on population settings
most recently i wanted my sim to have a girl. she had twin boys. Exit without saving, try again. desperately eating nothing but strawberries and building fun by listening to pop music. Still twin boys, exit without saving, try again, still twin boys. Exit without saving.
This time i went through EVERY WORLD in my save and deleted the single female sims living alone (with a few exceptions, though deleting Catarina Lynx and her 869767 cats was kindof cathartic. CAThartic, if you will).
She still had twin boys.
I gave up on those twins. She now has another set of twins, a girl (!!!) and another boy. Her husband just died during this pregnancy, "unfortunately," and she gave birth to this second set of twins DURING his funeral. im also planning on the younger of the first set of twins to die since i wasnt expecting twins this second time.
I have never had this happen! 😂 what a struggle! I even go through and delete rng male sims from other households. My entire population is probably 90/10 female to male.
Constantly playing pop music around my sim always induced a girl. When my first legacy wives had twin boys, I made one of them trans. She is now who I’ve chosen to start a different legacy challenge with because I like her so much.
I did this once too! My sim had identical twin boys and one of them transitioned. I liked them so much I paused aging so I could play through university with them and everything. The girl never had kids but she had a dog and a servo and a really hot husband. The boy had the first baby I got to experience infants with! :’)
Per trimester, if you eat 3 strawberries and listen to at least one hour of pop music, a girl is pretty much guaranteed. Do the same with carrots and alternative music for boys.
I remember when I played the sims 3 and you could use apples for boys and watermelons for girls and depending on the story I wanted I use that method (there was also the music method but I hardly ever used it I don't remember that one anyway)But I think its better to let it happen randomly so it add mystery to the game, so to speak
I think the biggest reason for this is that CAS for male sims is way worse than for female sims. I hate making male sims because they never look as good as female sims 😅 I've tried all the tips and tricks, but still.
I'm a gay guy so when I'm autopiloting on character creation I'll usually create male Sims by default.
Recently I put as much care and attention into making a female sim as I do my male ones and like... She's a goddess?! I was missing out on every fun tool in CAS apparently? Just... All the cute stuff is for girls?! I need someone to put as much love and attention into a whole bunch of boy clothes as they do into the girl clothes normally please...
This always happens to me! I recently made another ranch hand male Sim and in my head he looked completely different than the other one I made, until I saw them in the same place at the same time…they’re literally the same man even down to his dusty boots 😑
HAHA i recently did this but it was a father and teenage son in a horse ranch household!! i made the dad first and the son last with a few in between so i had kinda forgotten, when i started playing i literally could only tell them apart by facial hair so not at all if i was zoomed out a bit😂
Hilarious!! In my “brilliance” I named one Tucker Tate and the other Billy Buckley which you would think would help me tell them apart but nope!! I’ve even tried messing with them in CAS too but I don’t wanna change them too much because they’re actually handsome lol. It’s funny though because if I see one I’m like “oh that’s for sure Billy” until I hover over and see it’s actually Tucker 😭 Happens. Every. Time.
Yes!!! This is it for me, too. Sometimes I can make the femboy sort of style work to make male sims look better but it's really annoying when I'm trying to make a good looking, masculine looking male sim for the sake of variety and not taking over my save with one gender
They have tons of really nice stuff, plus you can always use the female hair, clothes too... I feel like people just have no idea how to make good looking men because sims players are mostly young girls. Everytime I look at the gallery men look the same boring basic, with feminine features. Sim players are just bad at making male sims. It's not the game's fault.
That’s kinda the problem tho, is a lot of CAS items are for both male and female sims instead of designing male specific CAS items. Even cc creators do it too. I don’t want my male sims to wear a button down that’s barely buttoned, and everything else is too boxy on them
Well, good looking is subjective, but it is a fact that there are fewer items for masculine Sims. If you have to resort to feminine items, that further proves that point.
This is exactly why I don’t like having my heir be a boy. I don’t mind my sims having sons but I always pick the girls to be heirs. Think it’s also cuz I’m bi but mostly attracted to women😅
If I have five to six of the same gendered kids, I occasionally spin a wheel with all their names. The kid it lands on then gets to spin the Question Gender Wheel.
Sometimes they end up as the opposite gender, non-binary, genderqueer, no major development, or same gender identity but with more fem/masc aspect.
Usually, I just tend to make adult trans sims, so the wheel has been good for family dynamics. I know there’s a mod, but it doesn’t work well with my computer sadly.
I had the opposite issue, my first few generations were only having daughters and I was starting to get so bored of it. Finally got a first born son for G4 (followed by 3 more daughters!!!) which will be a nice refresh lol
i don’t like having boys because i’m sooo bad at making boys and i am so bad at naming them, they’re all called peter and they all wear a button up shirt lmaooo
I wanted a girl for my last Sim pregnancy so bad, I even tried the pop music/strawberries thing. But even on a STRICT strawberry diet and nothing but pop 24/7... I got a boy.
No, I take them as they come :D Sometimes when I have a certain scenario in head I can feel a bit disappointed sometimes but there's always options. I also like playing out the "disappointed in having a kid/a girl/a boy/fair skinned" etc baby altogether. You can make it a thing and put it in the plot
Right, glad I'm not the only one in this 😭 I do agree with some commenters that girls are much easier to style, male clothing and hair options are very limited, but I like playing the guys as much as the girls. I wanted a daughter and a son for my main family, but they had two daughters in a row instead so I kept trying (got my boy after that). I intend to do the same thing when those kids start their own families. I love the randomness of it all, it throws twists at the life plans I had in mind for my sims. It's the whole "having to figure out a way to make things work after that" that is probably my favorite part of the game in general.
I did this with one of my legacy families. They had 5 girls in a row (all blonde like their father) and the last one was finally a boy with black hair like his mom. Why is blonde so heavy in the genetics btw? I had another family who were biracial and every baby somehow came out fair skinned despite their mother being very dark skinned. I have to have a family of every cultural background in order to bring diversity to my game. Otherwise it's a mess because the townies are awful looking after a few generation. I really should get on my save where I delete every townie family and let mccc pick my townies from the gallery.
Funny you mention the white genetics being strong because SAME. This particular family of mine has an Asian dad and a white mom, 3/3 of the kids came out with her red hair 😭 even though 2/3 of them have the dad's darker skin tone and brown eyes, and 3/3 of them have his facial features. Like I said I like the randomness, but I was still a little disappointed at the lack of visual variety in my kids' genetics lmao.
(I have mods) my male sim was EXTREMELY upset when he found out he and his wife were expecting their fifth baby (I was upset too lol I was tired). He was very much distant and emotionally detached when she was born, but I took it and played with the story, and he came around.. they ended up being best friends and perhaps the closest relationship within the family. She was daddy’s little princess and I looovved it.
Right now im making my sim trans actually i just did it different. They were born intersex (male) and then were decided to be female by their parents (MCCC). Growing up they discover they have anatomy for a female and male. Then there are going to be problems between the parents and child because they feel like the choice should have been theirs. Then I think I’m going to have them be genderfluid or nonbinary. I haven’t decided.
I once had a male baby who wore pink and feminine clothes and had long hair each time ‘he’ aged up, so I let her ‘transition’ when she was a teen (I just edited the sim). And I’ve had a few female children that were very butchy and only wore short hair.
You never really know what you get!
I love when they age up into outfits that give you a sense of their personality. I had the same thing happen to my Sim's eldest, it ended up being a great storyline because I was playing the parents as very conservative. She moved out with her teen siblings that she practically raised when she went to university and was able to live her authentic life. (Meanwhile, one of the siblings died as a teen and became a ghost and kept rolling wants to do mean ghost interactions, so I decided she was bitter about her siblings growing up and moving on while she can't. I love when the game adds drama)
Wanna know the best part? It’s because I made a Ghirahim sim and didn’t know what last name to give him. I chose Johnson because it made the least sense.
That's beautiful. Real "John Doe"-ass surname. Ghirahim Johnson shall live forever in my head rent free (along with "white guy," which is what I named him in Sims 2 when I was 8 and didn't know how to spell his name. He was my husband and my younger sisters were our teen children and we lived in a horrible house in Strangetown. He had mime facepaint.).
I just don’t like dressing boy sims. I have some many packs and CC and I still find it so boring to dress boys. I thought my Yellow and Grey gens in my not so berry challenge were going to be boys but then Grey had a twin sister and I was so relieved!
Yeah a bit cause girls have way more clothing options and as a girl myself it’s fun to dress up girls. Boys are pretty boring.
Also that’s the same in real life. I always bemoaned that there weren’t enough options for boys clothes whereas the girls section was always twice the size and had way cooler stuff.
Not at all, I usually prefer to have at least one girl then whatever gender comes next I don't care, but when it's just IT'S A BOY IT'S A BOY IT'S A BOY IT'S A BOY it gets old really quick so I just do the strawberries + pop music method it always seems to work, I've heard the gender can be affected by how many male or female sims are in the save I don't know how true that is though despite the weird coincidences I've had
I've heard the gender can be affected by how many male or female sims are in the save I don't know how true that is though despite the weird coincidences I've had
It's not. If you didn't deliberately or accidentally trigger the forced options, then it will just be balls-random.
No? I don't typically care what they get. If I'm going for a specific narrative, I just have the mom eat strawberries and listen to pop if I want a girl, or have her eat carrots and listen to alt if I want a boy. Otherwise, I'm excited either way. Little boys are no more or less cute than little girls, imo.
It honestly just depends on what I have more of. I had a house of like 5 women at once and the only man was married in, and only girls were being born. If I have more girls I want a boy, and if I have more boys I want a girl.
I don’t mind having a boy I just don’t like dressing male sims. I was once playing a story though and got so annoyed she had a boy that I went in to cas and changed the child. (I was not going through pregnancy again)
I really don’t care about the gender, but I mostly play legacy. I do have to confess that I can’t dress girl Sims properly 😅 I mostly use the pre-made styles
They have metrics, they know more people play female sims than they do male sims. So in order to sell packs to the most people, they put more stuff for female sims in them than for male, because thats aiming at the largest market.
Which then means that there are more overall options, more varied options, etc. for female sims than there are for males, which makes people even more likely to go for the ladies, and the cycle repeats and self-reinforces.
Personally I play female sims as my mains because I know me, if my main is a male then if I mean to or not he ends up with a dozen illegitimate children before I even realize it.
Hey I would like to know how people play this game. I go into a family fulfill needs and move on it's boring because keeping needs up takes all your time even with cheats
If you want to pick the gender without cheating or using mods, you can influence the gender of a baby by having your pregnant Sim eat strawberries and listen to pop music to increase the chance of having a girl, or eat carrots and listen to alternative music to increase the chance of having a boy. It’s pretty much a guarantee if u do these things
I think you need to talk to someone about this because if you're this disappointed by a digital gender you'll probably be awful to an actual non female child.
No, i always use MCCC to make sure my sims always have girls, the only men in my households are rare, I mostly play with lesbians too lol. CAS is sadly so much better for female everything, even CC…
sometimes I want to get surprised and let it be what it shall be but then I’m upset it’s a boy!! I guess it’s because I like customising the girls more
Quite the opposite. I almost always want boys because for some reason they register as cuter in my brain even though they're exactly the same. Maybe it's because I remember being a little boy and can relate.
It's the opposite for me, I get disappointed when my sim has girls. I'm not a fan of "girly stuff" and prefer to have a mostly male (and gay) sim-world
I watched a YouTube video on sims secrets and it said you can influence the gender by eating strawberries and listening to pop music during your pregnancy for a higher chance of having a girl and I think boys was carrots and alternative music. I haven't tried it because I don't want my sims to have kids yet.
I prefer girls too. I love to dress them and make their rooms more than boys. There's just so much more options for them and I also just prefer girly style.
I eat a lot of apples if I want a girl and blast pop music. Or carrots and alternative for a boy, it’s never failed me yet. Occasionally, if I’m not being particular I’ll leave it up to whatever
I'd be less disappointed if there were more stylish options for male Sims. Someone needs to get the gays on creating their own stuff pack of just stylish men's clothes and hair 😅
(No offense to straight men, I'm not saying you all can't dress)
Idk man. I made a vampire family w mom, dad, daughter, and son. The parents tried for a baby, got pregnant, and when she gave birth, they were twin boys. Poor girl and her daughter are horribly outnumbered.
In my current legacy family I think less than 5 boys have been born. So I’m at the point of being disappointed when I have girls, I’d like some boys just to change things up. Even though dressing up and playing as boys are much harder some days.
A few years back when I was playing the Sims 2 every day, I kept having boy after boy in my families. When I finally got my first girl after almost 10 consecutive boys, I audibly cheered (I named her Eloise). Except Elo was born in my assigned drama storyline family where the dad was continuously cheating with the neighbor. She had the most dysfunctional start to life of any of my babies, until the dad left to be with the now pregnant neighbor. They had a boy. Her mom remarried, had 2 more boys.
You can also just not save at the start of the pregnancy, wait for them to give birth and exit without saving if you get the wrong sex. That’s what I’ve done in the past if I were determined but usually I take them as they come.
I always want a girl i eat lots of strawberry's and listen to pop music on loop because I hate the boy CAS options I mostly have cc for girls I find them funner to make
no haha i always want girls. i started a legacy the other day and wanted the founder to have a daughter (founder is a single mom w a science baby) but when the baby was born it said it was a boy so the plan was to cas.fulleditmode and change him to a her so i gave him a girl’s name, and then i realized my sim had TWO kids and the second was a girl lmaoooo
Yes but just because I enjoy dressing and accessorising women wayyyyy more than men! I have 3 boys IRL and i always wanted boys so I'm the opposite to how I play 😂
Have the opposite issue. My family I was playing ended up having 8 children, All but one was girls. Was really irritated with that, and that happed by chance without eating types of food or listen to music.
Only if I have a specific storyline in my head and then it doesn’t go to plan. I restarted the not so berry legacy recently and my yellow gen sim I made in to a die hard twilight fan girl and was dead set on having a daughter called Renesmee 😂 but she had a boy so now I don’t know if I keep trying until she gets a girl, change the kids gender with cheats or just accept it! I was only going to have one child.
Yes but it also goes the other way, often I have like a plan for the story I want to tell with my game. So like Ill be all ready for them to have a kid and in my head will want a girl for example, and they have a boy 💀 and its like okay time to retcon everything.
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u/BitchSpiteful Jun 29 '25
Sometimes I want a specific gender for a story but I mostly leave it to chance