About Sixam Sims interactions

[letimotiv]

I thought I would share a few things about Sixam alien interactions. Sixam is obviously an anagram of the word Sim but added an "x" as with Roxas from Kingdom Hearts whose name is an anagram of Sora with an "x".

Sixam, seemingly at present, has a more Matrifocal population. Except Jarod Sloan and Nickolas Eddy most of the Sim Aliens you interact with on Sixam  are female. These include, I have discovered at the moment, Cleo Turpin, Farrah Farrar, Alisha Whitten, Estrella Van and Nylah Layne.  And they come in about non-chronologically. You may have to even make 2 trips to Sixam (if you are busy) to meet them. Each visit is different and allows you to interact with the aliens and presently ask them to move in with you. The Sixam people share the same traits and skill acquisition as the regular Sims. They also share the same interests and ambitions. Aside slight biological  differences they are pretty much the same.

You'll notice in create a sim that Sixamsims can't have hair or eyebrows and that their wardrobe cannot consist of the clothes regular sims wear.

Now when they are on Earth with you Sim aliens obviously has some extra skills. For example, they can read your mind with "analyse personality" and "empathize."  They can also alter disguise as in blend into the Sim population. When they do this however you can change their physique and clothes to what regular Sims wear and look like. This is where things get interesting. The reason why Sixam may seem to have a more dominant female population at the moment is because many male Aliens are actually camouflaged into the normal Sims world

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Ryker Cotter is one of them

. But there are female Sim Aliens camouflaged too.

The legacy of Senior Pollination Tech from Sims 2 has actually been preserved. You can actually  meet one of his descendents called appropriately Senior Pollination Technician #3. And she is female.

Now one of the other things about Sim Aliens is that "try for baby" option with them can result in mutual pregnancy. I am not kidding you. It can most definitely happen.

This may mean cool news for you (hey male pregnancy kind of fun) or it may be something annoying (it might unexpectedly increase Sim household population) but please be prepared for it.

This mutual pregnancy I have seen happens to human males. Please share if it happens with all cross-species "try for baby" options or just selective human male Sim and female Sixam Sim coupling.

Now, the alien abduction can also happen to Sixam aliens too so I think they are distinguished alien races or rather they just abduct their own kin to see how Earth may have affected them.

Most of  what Sixam offers helps your Sim, both Sixam and regular Sims alike, in the Scientist career. Scientist can use what they find of Sixam for example, crystals, metals and vine-tentacled tree harvest to help them build/upgrade inventions.  For the uninitiated (I was also included) you can collect elements from crystals but to do so you have to send them to the Geo council so that they can fragment the crystal and send back the raw elements to it via mailbox.

This may be mostly be general knowledge by now but I wanted people to know about it Hope it helps.

[ManiSims]

Just wanted to point out that I think there is a bug with the mutual pregnancy that some people here on the forum have pointed out; even if two humans Try for Baby the male will get pregnant along with the female Sim.

[Nutella]

I thought Sixam was just Maxis spelled backwards.

[tonycdh]

That's what I figured as well. A nod to maxis.

[letimotiv]

Thank you guys for the better advised input

Sorry that I messed up badly about the Maxis is Sixam backwards thing XD that is pretty silly of me.

However, thank you for telling me that the mutual pregnancy is a bug.

Furthermore, I hope I could elucidate a bit more if not all things.

Playing with the aliens are fun if you want hybrid children and have an interest in guessing games and camouflage.

I don't camouflage my aliens. I think its important to see how they do as non-camouflaged characters. It does yields results as in different kind of moodlets or interaction results for the regular Sims. For example, despite being housemates one of my regular Sims was furious with my Sixam alien for the sudden revelation of her alien heritage with the extended line "Why wouldn't they tell me?" and I think you want unpredictable results like that then its fun.

I don't see any discrimination though. I am not sure how Sims with the squeamish quality may react to seeing aliens on a daily Sims or Insane Sims. So, you have a wide range of interactions to choose from depending on the traits your Sims possesses. For example, I noticed most Genius or Creative Sims get happy at a certain environment, like Sixam, meeting an alien Sim. But if the revelation is sudden the same Sim may feel despondent and easily frustrated as she/he couldn't figure it out earlier. Romantic Sims you already woohooed with or just in a flirty mood may not necessarily have the same reaction due to relationship progress bar or maybe as a romantic Sim intergalactic girlfriends/boyfriends are covetable.

I don't know if anything I said is important data. Please pardon me if it isn't. I am just sharing what I encountered in my gameplay experience XD

[Carl]

@letimotiv I thank you for the detailed post. I am sure that some of this will come in handy when I go to cover aliens. I'll be sure to check back here when the time comes. I haven't had enough time to play with them much yet, but after reading what you had to say I do look forward to making a full page about them.

[letimotiv]

@Carl You don't know how happy I am that what I said was beneficial to the webmaster!

I wanna thank you too personally for compiling an insightful and detailed guidebook of Sims 4 already as many sites even official ones have not done this as much. I will try to write more stuff on what I encountered also in the active careers and hope that helps too

I do remember browsing other sites and one particular information that was helpful is that build a rocket and then install the wormhole generator that enables Sixam travel. That is the quickest way to meeting the aliens. However, as I mentioned before you might need to wait some moments for a Sixamian to appear. In my first visit I encountered no one and then in my 2nd I encountered Cleo Turpin. Now there is also a distinction among Sixamians I realised furthermore. Some Sixamians like Cleo Turpin can only be well called and texted to. You cannot ask them to hang out at your house at lots, yet, you can ask them to hang out while on Sixam. I do not know the reasons for this aside maybe these aliens are pretty much NPCs that don't even own a lot in the game. But some like Nylah Lane and Farrah Farrar can be invited to beam down to Earth as in you can ask them to hang out with you at your house in the other lots.

Having children with aliens via normal interactions will result in a hybrid and this hybridized Sim can wear regular Sim apparel and have hair, beard, eyes and eyebrows as a regular Sim. However, if you get abducted you will have an alien child that is fully like a Sixam Sim and has the qualities and restrictions of a Sixam Sim.

Interactions of Sixam alien to another Sixam alien (whether disguised or not) may enable cool stuff, like after you both become friends, like do "secret handshake". Other things you can do with a regular Sim and  a Sixamian is "Discuss Human Foods", "Talk about Brain Power" and "Discuss Weird Atmospheric conditions". I think you can yield cool interactions or things by doing those.

At times in the scientist career's lot you are told that aliens had invaded and that you need to do stuff. At times the aliens are pretty visible other times you know it could be someone  doing kinda strange things, as you are informed, like tinkering too much with the equipment. But I guess it all depends if you wanna finish your other career day objectives or do that objective. That is a both a good and a bad of the science career lot that it makes you DO TOO MANY things with limited work time.

Now, if you have one rocket ship with the wormhole generator anyone on your lot can go to Sixam they don't have to be in the Scientist career for that. But I think some skills in rocket science and handiness plus logic will enable good space travel.

Now you will also notice something about a Sixam Sim visually. Aside their clothes having glowing extraterrestrial veins that really are cool a Sixamian glow their emotions. As in if a Sixam Sim is flirty she/he will radiate a subtle pink glow, a blue glow for confidence, etcetera.

[letimotiv]

I just found out that mischief category of Sixam aliens consists of functions like "Scare with Probe" which is just for laughs encounter but the tricky one and contradictory one is this one "Erase memory". If you enable that interaction the Sixamian will erase the memory of the person you chose to do this to meaning even if you are pregnant or well in a romantic/friendship with the Sixam alien they will forget you. Unless you want to escape exposure or just don't want the person to remember you or that you are an alien this is an okay option. But if you prefer a consistent romantic relationship or friendship then well this is a major loss to the progress that you made and sometimes you don't wanna write cheats even (you might be busy with other Sims) to get you from that point A to point B and X again.

Also woohooing with a Sixam alien inadvertently makes a human or even another Sixam alien know that you are an alien because well it is woohoo XD well, from what I know it is an exposure.

Maybe this can be a new Sim challenge?

Make Sixam aliens. Have them mate. Avoid getting exposed. A bit like the immortal sister challenge but like here your objective is to also interbreed with other Sixam aliens but also with regular Sims and it is good if you subsequently have Senior Pollination Tech #3 join your lot.

I am just saying now that this function has been found out