So Gen 3 just had triplets, which would normally be fine except it takes everyone far too long to do anything involving them.
Examples:
- Baby El's (Gen 4) hunger meter is declining but not yet in the yellow or red, so I send Great-grandpa over to feed her. Great-gramps (Gen 1) spends 30 minutes just standing in front of the crib, then just stands there holding her for another 30 minutes before finally giving her a bottle. By this time, her hunger meter has gone into the red and she's screaming angrily.
- Baby Em's social and bladder meters are about halfway down, so I send Daddy (Gen 3's husband) over to snuggle and play with him for a while until he needs his diaper changed. Just like with Baby El, it takes Dad about an hour to do even one action, so by the time he's snuggled with Baby Em once and has just started to play with him, Baby El has soiled himself and is stinking up the room.
- Birthday! Babies El, Em, and En are aging up to toddlers. Grandpa (Gen 2) goes to take El out of her crib, but stands there for half an hour doing nothing. Finally picks up El, holds her for about 20 minutes, then puts her down. Baby El ages up. Rinse and repeat for Babies Em and En. Toddler En is now a day younger than his siblings because it took so long to get through the birthdays that he was aged up after midnight.
- Toddler En's bladder meter is about halfway declined, so I send Mommy over to potty train him. Mom stands in front of him for an hour, during which he ends up wetting himself and now is pretty close to starving. It takes another hour for her to change his diaper, and now he's screaming in hunger. Another half hour to feed him. Another hour to pick him back up and take him to his crib because he's exhausted.
Their mother's labor was strangely drawn out too, but I didn't think much of it while it was happening.
This problem is limited to anything having to do with the babies and doesn't seem to affect normal life, although everything takes so darn long that all of the adults are basically confined to the nursery with the kids, so it's entirely possible it's a blanket problem that I just haven't noticed. I didn't have any of these problems with the mother and her twin brother, nor with their father before them, so it's a new development. The only thing that changed in between Mom's nooboo-hood and these kids is that I installed the most recent patch. I have no mods or custom content, and I have all expansions except for Into the Future (which I have but don't want to install because of the problems with the opps).
Any suggestions? Is there a fix, or should I age up the two brothers and just keep struggling with the heir alone? Or can I go back to a save during or before Mom's pregnancy? This is Gen 4 and I'd hate to have to abandon this attempt now, but it's making it impossible to do ANYTHING with any of the adults.
