Failure rate of Apples/Watermelons

[thesweetestpea]

I just had my new Sim couple try for a baby, and the mommy ate 16 watermelons over the course of the pregnancy. Somehow I got a boy. Has anyone had a failure with that many fruit before?

[loveSims]

I haven't have a nooboo since showtime. I hope it still works.

[Pam]

I've always gotten the exact gender I want with about 10 fruit.

[NonaMena]

If you're using NRaas StoryProgression, you might not get the results you expect. I usually have the mom eat the fruit and then use MC to set the gender accordingly.

[Leto85]

There is still always a possibility you won't get the sim gender you've 'eaten up to.'
All you could do is try again.

[CSquared2]

My experience is just the opposite.  I always put 10 of the fruit in the sim's inventory, she manages five or six and I still get what I want.

[Ricalynn]

You didn't ask a doctor what she was going to have then try to change it right?   Otherwise, I always do at least 10 fruit (sometimes in one setting) of the fruit I want and I've always gotten the gender I wanted.

[jeanamariex3]

When did you get your pregnant Sim binging on the desired fruit? Did you do it before she was officially in maternity or after? If you did it after, the gender is usually locked in at this point and you won't get the result.

[Ricalynn]

That's not always true Jeana.  I almost always forget to eat fruit before the twirl so I binge on it afterwards and I've still always gotten what I wanted.

[NonaMena]

Actually, the fruit gender offset can work at any time during the pregnancy. By default, the chance for each gender is 50%. Eating the right fruit offsets the chance by 10%. You only need to eat 5 fruit to have a 100% chance to get a certain gender, and the gender offset cannot exceed 100%. This is in the Pregnancy XML in the GameplayData.package.

More interesting facts from the Pregnancy XML: default chance of Twins is 2.5%, default chance of triplets is 0.1%. Each pregnancy book read adds a bonus of 15 to the Pregnancy Average Mood, which is used to decide whether you get to pick the traits of baby.

Anyhow, If you're using NRaas StoryProgresison, the following is set by default:

Newborn Gender

• Specifies what gender the first child of a pregnancy will be. The second or third gender will be random.
• Choosing "Balanced" will attempt to maintain an equal number of males and females in the town
• Default: Balanced

I have found with this setting I almost always get the opposite gender of the fruit I eat.

[brennan068]

So, I'm taking another run at the immortal dynasty playing it in Union Cove (huge props to the forum community who put that one together... it is a *fantastic* world.)  My founder is female and ate nothing but watermelon from the moment she arrived in town and obviously includes all through her pregnancy but she had a bouncing baby boy ... was this trick removed from the game? or did I just get a weird glitch?

[xFezIsAFreakx]

Do you happen to have any mods installed, namely Twallan's Story Progression? I hear that that changes the chances of gender determination.

[brennan068]

Nope, no mods at all.  They're not allowed in the challenges anyway.

[MoonsAreBlue]

Someone else seems to be having this problem, too. Maybe it's not a coincidence.

[Ricalynn]

I just got the sex of the baby I was planning on having in my Dynasty so unless that was coincidence *shrug*.