Baby gender influencing

When playing Inzoi I found out I couldn’t influence my Zoi’s baby gender. But that would be fun to do in base game.

A reality based tale could help:

According to lore, your pregnancy food cravings may indicate if you’re pregnant with a boy or a girl. If your pregnancy cravings involve salty or savory snacks like potato chips, pretzels, or popcorn, it’s thought that you’re more likely to be pregnant with a boy.

Alternatively, cravings for sweet foods like ice cream, chocolate, and candy are associated with having a girl. Citrus cravings have also been associated with girls. But it’s important to note that food cravings often cover a wide range, with sweets, high-fat foods, and fast food being among the most common.

So, the devs can pick 1 for a boy and 1 for a girl. And by eating the food the chance will increase.

Pendulum test: This myth about gender prediction might seem strange, but it’s all in good fun. Dangle a chain with a pendulum (or charm or ring) over your belly. If it swings back and forth, the myth says you’ve got a boy; if it swings in a circle, you might have a girl.

This could be done with a couch at the fortune tellers place in the map. To be sure your Zoi ate enough to get the wished gender, your Zoi goes to the fortune tellers place and get a pendulum test. It’s not a necessary test, but optional.

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If I recall the sims has this with watermelon (girl) and apples (boy), at least from the sims 3, also I have no idea why those foods were chosen.

If the game is going for realism, sex distribution should be equal and random. Though for certain role playing situations I could see an influence system being useful (role-playing a family that only has daughters but father wants a son, sad irl situations).

I think if such a system existed there should be an option to turn it off or on.

Alternatively if the modkit allows such a functionality this could also be a mod.

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My one couple had three boys back to back. I really wanted them to have a daughter.:smiling_face_with_tear:

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They could use doughnuts for this as well. Not expensive ones, ofc, but it might be fun !

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Yes, the sims chose some strange ones. The ones based on cravings fit better, in my opinion.

I’m all for a big game options screen to turn things on and off.

A mod would be a bad idea. You have to keep up with those, and keeping up is not that cool anymore.

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Yes, I heard this more than once.

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That’s possible too. Call them the potato chips baby boy one. And the ice cream baby girl. For like 20 points.

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