No babies being born.

[Chuckles_82]

My current hypothesis (now that the crib thing is blown out of the water) is that it has partly to do with the family oriented trait. In the code it has a 'random weight' which I believe is the chance that a sim will get that trait when they age up or when the game spawns more sims. I think, with the addition of more traits, the chance for them to get that trait goes down for every EP. The new ones don't add much, but it just might be enough to cause a problem.

[Ricalynn]

I'm actually of the mind that when Pets came out - story progression started populating the world and when it should be giving us townie relationships, it's actually giving us Neighborhood Pet Adoptions with multiple pet births. 

I specifically tweeted to a SimGuru about the fact that town had no birthrates but got no response.

[Wiry]

Is it only Pets owners that are affected though?  It's happened to me, a person who will lack pets until they stop making new expansions.

[Ricalynn]

That blows my theory out of the water but you do have the pets patch if you're on the current patch so it could just be something that was written in it by accident.

[Frey]

Is it only Pets owners that are affected though?  It's happened to me, a person who will lack pets until they stop making new expansions.

That blows my theory out of the water but you do have the pets patch if you're on the current patch so it could just be something that was written in it by accident.

Hmm... not necessarily? It could have been the patch previous to pets. Then anyone who updated the game would be having the issue, even if they never installed pets afterwards. Right? 

[smartburn]

I haven't installed Pets in my game just yet, and I've had this issue for a long time now.

[Ricalynn]

I haven't installed Pets in my game just yet, and I've had this issue for a long time now.

Yes but are patched to the Pets patch?  I think it happened near pets that everything started - maybe things will differ with the new patch though.  Only way to find out is to play.

[smartburn]

I'm patched up to the last one that was just released, so I guess whenever Diesel came out, long after the Pets patch...we'll see what happens. I was going to hold off until I get Supernatural next week, but the new skin sliders are just too tempting so I'll make sure that my soon-to-be-created purple- or rainbow-colored sim with pointy ears and body hair is an avid news junkie.

[Beezy]

In the 2 years I've been playing The Sims 3, not ONE child has been born, I was surprised to here that people actually got pregnancies in their games!

[Wiry]

Has anyone yet seen the effect of 1.38 on ingame pregnancies?

[samoht04]

Has anyone yet seen the effect of 1.38 on ingame pregnancies?

What effect are you expecting? Do you mean with all the settings for occults turned off whether they increase?

[Wiry]

Yes, I figure with supernaturals off, and possibly pets too, we might see a few townie pregnancies. Heck, maybe even with them on EA might have decided to address the issue finally.

[Frey]

Hmm.Considering they messed up quite a bit with Story Progression it's not too impossible that they might have fixed it. I will start checking the newspapers again and see if I find any babies. I actually cancelled the suscription since Story Progression didn't seem to do anything already LOL.

[cathyknits]

I've played about a game week since patching with no babies.

[Wiry]

I've played about a game week since patching with no babies.

Are your pets and supernaturals turned off?