Paternity Testing & Drama – a Sims 4 Mod (2024)

Requirements for the Paternity System to Trigger

If a pregnant Sim WooHoo’d with only one other recently:

• They do not doubt who the father is. Immediately upon discovering pregnancy, the real father will be marked as such.
• They can, if they want,lie to the fatherto tell them they’re not actually the father.
• Fathers can doubt about whom fathered the child andexpress those doubts. They canrequest a paternity test.
• If the Sim’s Official partner is not the dad and was not WooHoo’d with anytime recent, upon the pregnancy being discovered,they will knowthey were cheated on.

If a pregnant Sim recently WooHoo’d with several who can impregnate:

What the lovers of the pregnant Sim can do, prior to knowing for sure

– Sims who can impregnate canquestion being the fatherof a love interest’s child if they WooHoo’d together soon before the pregnancy happened.This will lead the Sim questioned to immediatly saythey don’t know if they don’t. If they do know, it will lead them to either tell the truth or lie.

– Sims who can impregnate can alsorequest to do a paternity testno matter what.

Finding Out by Elimination Processes

• The game ALWAYS knows how exactly is the dad.My mod does not make it up, but grab that info from the game. Everything else in the system is added code by me.
• If there are only 2 possible dads, and the one tested with is the real one, the other one willautomatically be markedas not the father, because by this point by elimination the Sim obviously knows who it is, and can be lied to or told the truth.
• If there are only 2 possible dads, and the one tested with is not the real one, the other one will automatically be marked as the father, also as logic dictates, and can be lied to or told the truth.
• If there are 3+ possible dads and the one tested with / about is the real dad, all others will be marked as not the dad. If the one tested with is not the real dad, he’ll be marked as not the dad, but since there’s still 2+ possibilities, the Sim still doesn’t know who is the real dad.
• When a Sim figures out who fathered their child, be it by elimination or by testing with the right one, they’ll get acertificatein their inventory. It’s not doing much of anything for now, I’ll add more to it later. It’s a souvenir for now.

New Possibilities After the Test

• As mentioinned previously, once a Sim know who is the father, they can say it, trtuh or lies.
• If the motherhas already found out who is the other parent, potential fathers can’t ask to go do a test but instead will be able to ask for proof of who is the father.This will tell them the truth just like doing the test would have.
• If a Sim is told they’re the father, or have found out they are, they and the other Sim can ask each other to “marry because of having a child together”. It might be accepted or rejected. Relationship preferences impact the result.

Jealousy and Cheating

Sims who impregnated may accept or reject being a parent to the child

They can deny being the father if told they are:

They can outright tell the other Sim that they reject the child, or accept it.

“Admit getting another Pregnant” and “Tell Sim you got their spouse pregnant”

Interactions relating to the children

Fathers who accept the child but aren’t the biological parentwill be able to till the child that they’re not biologically related. There will be more interactions!!