I really hope they have realistic genetics !!
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Yea my two sons are just a bit of a copy of there dad
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Yeah fix this!
I’ve noticed the genetics are off. Male / Female Zois not corresponding with each other in the character creator when you switch back and forth.
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I’ve had some good (and really bad!) results with genetics so far. I’ve got two parents who are attractive but have features that don’t necessarily blend well. 
I get a lot more variation in their children’s appearances though.
I absolutely adore the eldest boy in my current family because he has a perfect blend of features from both parents. He looks a lot like his father, but the dad has a wide jaw and the mother doesn’t. This son has a jawline between those features of his parents. He got mom’s eye colour and eyebrow shape, dad’s eye shape, and his lip shape was also influenced by both parents. His sister is pretty with dad’s eyebrows, mom’s eyes, dad’s nose, dad’s lip shape and mom’s mouth width, mom’s chin, dad’s cheeks, wider jaw, etc. The third son is a sad situation: basically a female version of his mother with some features from his dad that just make it all worse. 
That said, I want to have a detailed genetics system (like the old Sims 2 game) that has dominant and recessive “genes.” It should be rare for a brunette and a blonde to have a blond child unless the brunette parent carries a recessive blond gene. It was lovely playing a multigenerational family in that game because you could see more rare traits like green or grey eyes, red hair, and even blonde hair a few generations into the family tree. (Example: a dark haired father with brown eyes and a mother with blond hair and blue eyes should have the highest chance for the baby to have dark hair and eyes, but carries the mother’s blond hair and blue eyes genes that can be passed to their offspring and might passed down and eventually expressed in a future generation. Facial features were randomly assigned dominant or recessive as well, so a bad nose could be a defining feature of a multigenerational family. lol
It does lead to a lot of multigenerational families with dark hair, but at least we can change it. In Sims 2, it kept track of the original colour even if your character dyed their hair after being born. Unfortunately, it continued to keep the “genetic face” even if your character got plastic surgery! Then there can be some ugly genes that just keep spreading. 
I’d rather a blend of these. Keep the genetic hair and eye colours, but enable changes to facial features to become genetic traits. We need to be able to “fix ugly” and keep it out of the family genes if we want to! LOL
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Do you mean creating a female zoi in CAZ, then switch it to male to see the male version of the face, and then press female again, but the female face no longer looks the same? Or just that the opposite sex face is quite different?
Just wondering because I know the one kid my zois had is almost a clone of the mother’s masculine face. He just has some features from the dad that make it much worse. I can’t even fix the poor zoi in CAZ. lol
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Yes and in character creator all of my female Zois default to only two ugly male faces. They don’t look like themselves at all. I wanted to make a post on this with photos, just haven’t had the time. I’m not sure if this actually works better in game.
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