Curious -- how do you decide which ones of kids to move out?

[Janna]

I'm curious, I have two families who have children who will soon age up to YA.  One is the family with Conner, who cheated, she forgave him and on Lucas's aging up to teen he confessed he had cheated again, great timing.  So, I kicked him out.  He now lives in the "pre-fab that is not a trailer" home.  Loss the nice house, rich wife and he is calling, wanting to talk to her, meet her.
Digressing; with those two I am going to wait; Lucas who I have been focusing on becoming a spy or Indigo who will follow mom's footsteps and become an artist/painter.  Lucas will age up in three days, Indigo in five days.  I figure they can both stay until they find a spouse or someone and then one has to go.  I'll either flip a coin or something. 

In my other family, the two oldest are around five days behind (one five, other seven), then the twins who have just aged up to teens and one who hasn't been born yet.  So, it won't be as easy, too may to have to control, yet don't want to toss out one who I might want to continue the family legacy. 

So, curious as to how you choose who stays in your home and who goes.

Do you move them out as soon as they become YA?  Or let them stay there, marry and then move them out? 

[Pam]

That's really a tough question to answer.  It all depends on the dynamics of the family and which direction you want to go with it.  Space quickly becomes an issue when you're playing a multi-generational family.  Moving out with marriage is generally a good way to go because your Sim will hopefully start his/her own family in town.  And it costs you nothing.  If you move out Sims without marriage, you have to either kick them out or pay for a new house.

Just for an example, in my current DecaDynasty, I have three kids in the current generation.  The oldest is the heir and she will move out when she meets her challenge requirements.  But what about her brother and sister?  My plan is to have the brother marry his invisible friend made real, then buy them a house to live in.  I think I'll have the sister stay in the current house, but move a husband in to help with making babies.  I did this very thing in the previous generation, too, and it worked out ok except that nobody had anymore children.  Now it's up to the grandkids to keep that line of the family going.

[Decima]

In one of my families I adopted 7 kids and just kept my favourite. (Yeah, I have favourite children, sue me  )

I kicked out all the others once they aged up to YA. The game seemed to put them in houses I'm sure they wouldn't be able to afford normally, and I switched active households to make sure they'd be ok.  Then I went back to my usual one and kicked out the mum who had just aged up to elder. I don't like playing with elders, I know it's awful but they just walk too slowly and it annoys me. 

Sometimes I choose by who has the traits that are good for a career I'd be interested in playing. I always just 'take' to one child more than the others though. Good thing I'm not like that in real life! 

[Sara2573]

I'm curious, I have two families who have children who will soon age up to YA.  One is the family with Conner, who cheated, she forgave him and on Lucas's aging up to teen he confessed he had cheated again, great timing.  So, I kicked his butt out.  He now lives in the "pre-fab that is not a trailer" home.  Loss the nice house, rich wife and he is calling, wanting to talk to her, meet her.
Digressing; with those two I am going to wait; Lucas who I have been focusing on becoming a spy or Indigo who will follow mom's footsteps and become an artist/painter.  Lucas will age up in three days, Indigo in five days.  I figure they can both stay until they find a spouse or someone and then one has to go.  I'll either flip a coin or something. 

In my other family, the the two oldest are around five days behind (one five, other seven), then the twins who have just aged up to teens and one who hasn't been born yet.  So, it won't be as easy, too may to have to control, yet don't want to toss out one who I might want to continue the family legacy. 

So, curious as to how you choose who stays in your home and who goes.

Do you move them out as soon as they become YA?  Or let them stay there, marry and then move them out?

I get really attached to all of my Sims, so it is hard for me to choose (most of the time at least). Usually, I get them a spouse first. I decide if they will make pretty babies, and if they are ugly Sims THEY WALK THE PLANK! xD

If they are a girl, I usually make them have a baby then decide whether I want only that one child or if I want them to have more children. If they are guys, I have no use for them, so I move their spouse/girlfriend in and make the guy move out. It works pretty well...and I end up with pretty babies...♥

[cndneh]

I chose the oldest child to stay. When dealing with twins, I just picked whoever I like best.  Long ago when I had to deal with multi-generational families I would move the grandparents out when the heir took over the house.  I would set the grandparents up with a nice little home and visit them often but they would be free to do what ever (usually they just died  )  The heir's siblings would get married do the woohoo (to guarantee the family line continuing) and then move out. 

Now days I tend to be a bit ADD when it comes to multi-generational families so I haven't had to deal with it for a while (though with my new deca-dynasty I will have to deal with it, though with rules so I don't have to think ). 

[Sara2573]

I chose the oldest child to stay. When dealing with twins, I just picked whoever I like best.  Long ago when I had to deal with multi-generational families I would move the grandparents out when the heir took over the house.  I would set the grandparents up with a nice little home and visit them often but they would be free to do what ever (usually they just died  )  The heir's siblings would get married do the woohoo (to guarantee the family line continuing) and then move out. 

Now days I tend to be a bit ADD when it comes to multi-generational families so I haven't had to deal with it for a while (though with my new deca-dynasty I will have to deal with it, though with rules so I don't have to think ).

Wow. I would usually make the youngest stay. I would make the oldest get married, have children, then get the heck out of my house. Of course, I would buy my lovely Sims a cute home with the white fence and stuff. xD It still depends on their prettiness.

[WickedSimmer87]

Well i usually take on the favorite child too, or the eldest (whatever mood im in really)

But i make sure that the children have full-time jobs and married (plus having the woman is pregnant too)  before moving/kicking them out.

[Sara2573]

Well i usually take on the favorite child too, or the eldest (whatever mood im in really)

But i make sure that the children have full-time jobs and married (plus having the woman is pregnant too)  before moving/kicking them out.

None of my Sims have jobs. xD And they have over 12 cars and a mansion. I am very suspicious where their money comes from.

[Janna]

The hardest one I will have in chosing my heir from is the where the LTW was surrounded by family.  Five kids, the fifth one is yet to be born as I have the family  on hold right now. 
The house they are in at present is too small, so I am looking for another one.  I have found one that I think will do, and it has enough land that I could even build a small house each for a couple of the kids.  Which will, I think, just give me more family to have to control. 

I think I will take a piece of the land that for some weird reason is fenced off and build a home like a ranch house, center has combo of kitchen and front room with a small bedroom and bath on the sides.  That way I can move out the oldest and have them close by to keep an eye on as they find a mate, then when the younger age up be better able to pick who goes and who stays. 

Take those who are not the heirs and move them into a nice home.  Let mom and dad just sit back and chill out; when she isn't reading a book and he isn't playing games on the tv they like to sit by the pool and she grill hotdogs. 

I am NOT ever again going to do a family of more than three kids; but mainly keep it at two. 

[Dreamweaver]

I assign the kids numbers then roll using a random number generator to decide who has to move out.

[Sara2573]

I assign the kids numbers then roll using a random number generator to decide who has to move out.

What if you had a favorite Sim and it rolled them? You would still make them move out?

[xFezIsAFreakx]

What if you had a favorite Sim and it rolled them? You would still make them move out?

If you had a favourite, you wouldn't include then in the random generator.

I will have to face this soon in my legacy, I need to kick one of the kids out to make room for the next heir.. Because I have a storyline bubbling away, I'm fairy sure about what will happen. Not so sure if it was just a just-for-fun thing, though. I guess I'd just go for the random generator or pick the sim that will be of the least use or something.

[Sara2573]

If you had a favourite, you wouldn't include then in the random generator.

I will have to face this soon in my legacy, I need to kick one of the kids out to make room for the next heir.. Because I have a storyline bubbling away, I'm fairy sure about what will happen. Not so sure if it was just a just-for-fun thing, though. I guess I'd just go for the random generator or pick the sim that will be of the least use or something.

I have Late Night and so 2 of the boys in my house are vampires and 2 are just female Sims.  Surprisingly, I moved out one of my vampires even though he had..

10 Athletic skill
5 Inventing
7 Logic

And some other skills I don't remember.  So, I can';t really make the least useful Sims move out since the vampires will always stay in the family then.

[thefox]

For me only the most handsome, talented, and intelligent get to stay in my house (assuming it's worth inheriting).  The rest get the boot as soon as they can and I take care to make sure they have at least a few solid relationships in high school so they're not completely out of luck when they go!

[Sara2573]

For me only the most handsome, talented, and intelligent get to stay in my house (assuming it's worth inheriting).  The rest get the boot as soon as they can and I take care to make sure they have at least a few solid relationships in high school so they're not completely out of luck when they go!

That's what I do. But what do you do if they are ALL very handsome, talented, and intelligent?