My family's parents have died, they have two young boys age 9 and 11 I regret them not starting a family early on but they wanted careers I guess.. so now what these two kids have no income about £3000 in the bank ? hmmm help ?

and 58 is way too young to die, especially as they did not smoke or drink, they should be like my mum who is 81 and still looks after me and I am 41

The kids will be able to afford enough food to feed them until they go to college....but don't buy any house upgrades until you start your new generation.

thanks, but surely these kids need adult supervision .. oh that would be me ? jeesh my kid in real life is 16 I was hoping for a rest lol .... oh well hopefully they will not draw on all the walls... (finding the telephone number for virtual social services) lol

I Have just realised... they will not put the food away when I buy it ? I have noticed that only kids from age 14+ help with that , they have 567 food in fridge, I think I should start again!! although it is reasonable for me to ask the developler why the kids cannot adopt a parent ?

They won't put them away, but the groceries will still show up in your stock. If you really don't want to have kids running around without parents, you could choose to hit the generation button on the family screen. The game will jump ahead till the kids are in their 20's.

hmmm one way to get the kids to miss out on the teenage years, . hmmm I wish I had that function in real life!!

if they are still "alive" in the morning I will take away the best years of their pixel lives

Ouch! Hurts when you put it that way.

I cant figure out where this button is?

i was pretty scared when my charecters were alone

It is only available after one or both of the parents pass away. When this has happened, click on the Family button, and above the family tree, the Generation button will have become active.

Thanks

I'm glad I found this thread, Pinkfish. I came in to ask what to do with my little Lila, who's mom died yesterday--dad died earlier. I put some groceries on the counter for her, & all she'll do is peek at them! So wondered if she will starve before she figures out how to cook. (I was doing that at 8 yrs)Luckily, her parents were hard working ppl who left her with almost $10 thou. She's the one I want in the next generation, not her older brother.
If a 5 yr old were left alone in the game, could she/he survive to the age when she could work?

The game is designed to give the player options. There is nothing wrong with continuing to play with only children in the house if you are not yet ready or willing to end the current generation, since the children still have the "guiding hand" (you) to take care of them. Even if there is not much of a bank balance, children can still make enough money selling collectibles to provide for food and other necessities. That's part of the choice. If the player doesn't think kids should be in a house without parents, they can "fast-forward" the generation to when all of the kids are in their 20s and ready to possibly inherit the house. If you are just not ready to say goodbye until the last child goes off to college, you can also continue to care for them until they leave for college and then make the transition. Or you can make the transition at any time in between. It's all about choices.

Thats wonderful, you sure put a lot of thought into this game! I'm still learning good little tricks. Well, Lila's about to skip her teens & get on with it. ^,^

Just to allay anyone's fears about kids under 14 not being able to put the groceries away in the fridge, If you close the game then reopen it they will have been magically put away. Switching to another slot will probably do the same, but I haven't tried that.

As Barbara says, they should get enough income from selling duplicate collectibles to cover food and other bills.

I agree with the first writer that parents die too soon.
But I never start a new family untill the house is empty.
I think the survivors, being it kids or adults, "deserve" to remain in the house untill they leave for college or die.
It's my aim to make them happy agains as soon as possible.

But how about the pets?
They, miracelously, never die.....

My couple could never have children so they took in 2 orphans at a late age. Now, at 60 & 61 they both died, leaving the kids age 8 & 9 orphans!!!
What's going to happen? What about income?

You can either start your new generation where you pick from your two orphans to continue the family line. Or, you can let them run around and grow up until college (if you have enough money for food) Even though kids that age don't put groceries away, the minute you've set them on the table they are added to your food.
Good luck, people choose either way to play it out.

The kids can keep up enough income from selling collectibles to buy food and any other necessities, if you choose to wait until both of them leave home. Alternatively, you can move on to the next generation and they will all jump up in age to (usually) in their twenties. Personally I always wait.

Thanks! These comments helped me figure out how to get one of the kids home. Very funny, they aged the youngest two (both orphans) until they were older than their siblings! Time Travel, perhaps?

The new girl is so calm... no reaction to it being home or the fact that there is a treadmill (my fingers slipped in the store...) in the house!

LOL

When the new generation is started, the ages of the children and other factors are randomized That is why your youngest ended up being older than their siblings.

I had an event and both parents had already died and only their 15 year old son Bruner was alone and now he has a little adopted sister called Faby. Here is the pic of them already gone to bed.
I did not think that event would happen long after the parents both died to their kids.

Sumatra and her 17-year-old twin sister Katia are depressed because their mother and father, Zebra and Marcu, have just died together. They both walked out onto the front door mat and Sumatra knocked on the screen and waved to me.

Unluckily, I was just too late to catch her waving when I took the screenshot.

An update on this family: I chose Sumatra to inherit and she's now happily married - to a runner! She now has two kids. Here's a shot of her with the latest kid, Lex. Note that hubby has already finished in the bedroom and is running off up the stairs as the baby appears.

Very nice family. I like the mods and changes of the house you made.

These discussions are fascinating and amazing! How the game develops is really intriguing. I guess I'll have to buy the desktop version for my old mac. Although the demo version runs in ver slow motion. Hopefully that is only because it's a demo.

BTW, when I do get the desktop version, where can I find Mac modifications, if there are any?

Thanks, happy gaming, everyone!

Hi Beeky.

If the game is running slowly it might be that your Mac doesn't meet the minimum requirements, which are: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
Intel or 500 MHz PowerPC G4.
32 MB of VRAM
256 MB of RAM (768 MB for iBook or G4 iMac)

All the mods in the VF Mods forum work on Windows or Mac machines, although I suggest you buy the game from the LDW site as some suppliers repackage the game and don't allow access to the images folder.

Thanks, Arnie,

My system is 10.4 and G4. So it should work...

I had 2 little visitor events after both parents had already died The first was when Paulone at the time was then age 15 and depressed adopted little Pod, and now Pod is 15 and he had a event a little visitor and adopted little Katella into the family. So it be a while before I start the next generation. I thought I was going to start it this weekend now I got to look after Katella as I don't want to push her out the house to start the next gen.

Here is the pics of them

Hmm...I didn't know the adoption event would come up unless one of the parents was still living. At least they waited until the child residing alone in the home was old enough to care for the new little one (old enough to prepare meals, etc).