Aliens!

[Janna]

ARGGGHHHH,  hit the wrong key and deleted my post.

Okay, will try again.  I don't know if this is of any interest to anyone but me, but I wanted to share it just in case. 

First experiment
Astra is half and half, married to a full human, had a daugher (Megana).
With neither she nor her daughter could I hear their voices until they became teens, which was when they showed they had alien abilities.

Megana was married to a human, their offspring, Star, I was able to hear her voice and she had no alien abilities.

Second test
With Megana, I married her to a sim from another game and town where he was half and half.  Their offspring, who I named Star, I was able to hear her voice.  I figured  that meant she would not have the alien abilities.  Wrong, she had the alien abilities.
Star married a full human and with their son, Drago, I was able to hear his voice, yet at teen he also had alien abilities.
He married and their daughter, Kira, did not have alien abilites. 

With the sim being half and half, that sim's offspring had alien abilities, but from there on, if mated with a human, no alien abilities.
However, if that sim is mated to a sim who has alien abilties (if a half and half), they should have two generations of alien offspring.   I can only assume that if both were from second generation their offspring would have alien abilities but the next one wouldn't.

For me, I just like knowing, the wondering of "what if this is done", yet also to help if later on I decide I want to breed in some alien genes, yet not have my sim kidnapped.  I can just take a sim from the saved bin and add him to the family. 

Edited:

Was doing next experiment (mating of Megana and human which had in first two tests resulted in Star as full human), with plans to marry Star to half/half and see how far next generations went on alien powers.

That was shot all to pieces when Megana and human had Star but this time she HAD powers. 

I can only assume that it is random on how many generations the alien abilities are passed on. 
I had expected Astra to have a child (Megana) with alien abilities, but not for Megana to have a child with alien abilities.  Megana would have been what, 25% of alien, so I had figured the programing was stopped there for passing on alien abilities. 

Obviously, I was wrong.
 

[Snufflesxx]

Thanks for the experiments, Janna! Loads of helpful information there! So having a voice as a baby/toddler/child doesn't necessarily mean that they're not an alien?

[Janna]

It seems not, with the first two alien babies there was no voice, same in another game, the alien babies didn't have a voice.   But, yet in the test game, the baby had a voice and turned out she was an alien, the powers showed up when she became a teen. 

What I really found of interest is that by adding in another sim who was half alien and half human the alien abilities seem to past to one extra generation.

I am going to do another experiment and take Star from the first experiment, where she didn't have alien powers, and marry her to the sim who is half alien and half human and see how many generations go before the genes are no longer passed on. 
I know that with her offspring, with a father who will be half an half, that child should have abilities, but the next generaton, will that offspring have the abilities?  Curious, I want to find out. 

I don't know if this is totally random, so it could just be the roll of the dice, so to speak, in whether an offspring does or doesn't have alien abilities after the second generation.   A not so subtle hint for someone who knows if the programing is set to stop after a set percentage, say 25% no more alien abilities, or become random in the abilities being passed down for another generation.

[MoMoll]

Can't figure it out. My sim, who spent weeks in Bridgeport, never met an alien. She goes to France and buys a vacation home and the first day in France, an alien appears! Go figure!
After chatting with alien, she left on a moped and went to the Celtic Grounds and then disappeared! No space ship! My sim chats with her on the phone.

[Magz from Oz]

I think the aliens appear when you start to skill up in logic.  I was playing Jamied Jolina who need logic to progress.  I had her on the MultiTab6000 in the gym for her athletic skill when the aliens appeared.  She never went near a telescope!

[Janna]

I think they also need to have the handiness skill.  Had to reinstall my sims games and I had a YA sim I wanted to get pregnant.  He had a seven in logic but none in handiness.
Weird thing was, his dad, who was a fairy and had 5 in logic and 4 in handiness was abducted while he was in bed and his son was outside surrounded by space rocks and looking through a telescope.
Brice didn't have any skill in handiness, so I had him read the books in handiness, got him up to seven (handiness) and he had risen to nine in logic.   The next night, while he was at the computer, he had the visitor sign at the top; he runs out and is taken away.  Was pregnant and had a cute baby boy. 
He didn't pay any attention to the baby (no Family Oriented trait) but his b-i-l, who is a were and has the FO trait, taught the baby to walk and helped in the potty training and was always snuggling the baby when he was awake.
It was cute, he was out during a full moon for a romp in the moonlight; comes in and the baby is awake and rocking in his crib. Hawk goes and gets him out, snuggles and plays with him, then puts him back in the crib.   

[Vanillin]

I'm sorry if I'm bothering, but does anyone know if NPCs and/or townies get abducted as well? While I was playing my sim some strange lights appeared on my lot, and a NPC/zombie guy fell to the ground shortly afterwards. I looked around to see if there's a UFO but nope, I haven't seen any. The only explanation I could come up with is an alien abduction, but I'm not sure if NPCs get abducted...
Did anyone have a similar experience?

[DroopyDog]

Does anyone know why my sim doesn't show an alien listed under her friends even though she was abducted?  I had the game running, she was using the telescope and when I wasn't looking she was abducted.  I came back to the game to see the message so I looked in her friends so she could call up the alien and invite them over and there wasn't any alien.   

[Janna]

I don't think they are listed anywhere in the relationship panel when they are abducted.  Your sim has to meet them and talk to them, then they are in the relationship panel. 
I had a sim be abducted and she (the alien) wasn't in his panel.  But a couple of days later she showed up and he chatted with her.  She was then in his panel and they talked long distance (for them it was long distance  ) and after several days of talking, he invited her to visit and she came.   They romanced and he asked her to spend the night.  The next day, after spending the day together, he proposed; she said yes and they married.

I had to uninstall the game before they could go any further, but I don't remember any of my male sims who were abducted having an alien in their relationship panel.  I'm not saying it can't be done, but for my sims, no relationship until they actually talked, had a conversation.   

[Magz from Oz]

I'm sorry if I'm bothering, but does anyone know if NPCs and/or townies get abducted as well? While I was playing my sim some strange lights appeared on my lot, and a NPC/zombie guy fell to the ground shortly afterwards. I looked around to see if there's a UFO but nope, I haven't seen any. The only explanation I could come up with is an alien abduction, but I'm not sure if NPCs get abducted...
Did anyone have a similar experience?

Yep.  I had my Sim at the gym when he got 'distracted'.  I resetsim him back home so he wouldn't get abducted, so Hank Goddard got sucked instead!

[grimsoul]

I'm sorry if I'm bothering, but does anyone know if NPCs and/or townies get abducted as well? While I was playing my sim some strange lights appeared on my lot, and a NPC/zombie guy fell to the ground shortly afterwards. I looked around to see if there's a UFO but nope, I haven't seen any. The only explanation I could come up with is an alien abduction, but I'm not sure if NPCs get abducted...
Did anyone have a similar experience?

Yes townies can get abducted.
My sim was at home and had a guest over visiting when I see a UFO come on the lot. I thought I was finally going to get abducted and maybe have an alien baby. But no, my guest runs out of the house to investigate the lights and gets abducted instead of my sim.
That was the closes I've came to having a sim taken. I guess the aliens just don't like me. 

[Janna]

Glad I was corrected, I hadn't had any in my games so figured not possible, but still wasn't positive.  Interesting that they can be abducted. 

[MoMoll]

I don't think they are listed anywhere in the relationship panel when they are abducted.  Your sim has to meet them and talk to them, then they are in the relationship panel. 
I had a sim be abducted and she (the alien) wasn't in his panel.  But a couple of days later she showed up and he chatted with her.  She was then in his panel and they talked long distance (for them it was long distance  ) and after several days of talking, he invited her to visit and she came.   They romanced and he asked her to spend the night.  The next day, after spending the day together, he proposed; she said yes and they married.

I had to uninstall the game before they could go any further, but I don't remember any of my male sims who were abducted having an alien in their relationship panel.  I'm not saying it can't be done, but for my sims, no relationship until they actually talked, had a conversation.   

I agree with Janna. You have to engage them in conversation; maybe play chess with them. My sim was then able to invite the alien to her pool party!

[Sonshine]

I just had a huge surprise! My elder sim was abducted a couple of times and then I get the message a couple of sim days ago, that he had a "sudden weight gain." I didn't think anything of it and for sure never expected anything because he is elder. In TS2 elder males could not get pregnant. Well, he just gave "birth" to a little alien baby girl, LOL. I have to say that I did NOT expect this! *Shakes head*

[Pam]

Hi Sonshine.

A couple of things...  Please make the subject of your topics more specific.  This subject of "Surprise!" tells almost nothing about the content of the thread and it's important that readers be able to have an idea before opening the topic.  Also, this subject has already come up in the Aliens thread, so I'm going to merge this one with it.