Even though I am an aspiring professional, navigating my way through a serious undergrad career, I am need a little fun too--this is where the mindless game of Sims comes in.
I decided I would take my myself and my boyfriend back to the good 'ole days, so we lived in separate houses and had separate lives until--oops--one day we met at the park. Well, we soon fell in love, as it happens in the virtual world, and decided to get engaged, married, pregnant, the whole shebang (and did I mention neither of us work thanks to cheatcodes--ahh the life).
Now I didn't really pay attention to whether I was able to ask him to get engaged, married (which I should have), but I did realize that once we were married, I automatically was given his last name and mine was lost forever! I had no option to keep my last name. This problem is quite small in the vast world of crises, but I was disappointed. Sims is fairly progressive, allowing the same genders to fall in love and do all of that. God, you can even have a ghost baby, so I wonder why I couldn't keep my last name.
So, shame on you EA.
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In Sims 2, the sim that you use to begin the marriage is the one who's last name will be used. So if you use the female when you hit "propose marriage" then both partners will have her last name. Are you sure it's not like that in the Sims 3? It seems like it'd be a step backwards for Maxis if they changed it..
Actually, I have played Sims 3 (I always play as a female Sim) and I think whoever actually initiates the wedding (or maybe who proposes, but I think the wedding matters most) gets to keep their name. I'm guessing that it was your boyfriend's Sim who started the wedding, then?
This. Whoever proposes, male or female, keeps the name and the other person takes it. It is the same way with same sex couples.
I, however, play the Sims 2 so I can't say if it is the same for Sims 3. I imagine it would be though, since it has been that way the whole time.
On any number of the download sites (not associated with EA) you can download a cheat that allows both parties to keep their last names if you want as well, in contrast to whoever clicks on "get married" gets the last name. I think MTS2 is best.
^Agreed. I've played Sims 2 for ages though I don't have Sims 3 yet.
I actually downloaded a hack that gives you a window so you can choose which name you want or if you want no change at all because sometimes when I was playing I would select the wrong Sim and end up with a name I didn't want. No idea if that sort of thing exists for Sims 3 or not.
I think that you can get your name changed at City Hall; not sure if it applies to first names or full names.
Too bad.
A miniscule deal.
Move on.
Fuck off.
Don't bait the troll. It's not worth the derail.
I know! But it felt goooood. :)
I know it feels good! There's something graitfying about telling off a stupid troll online, but it just makes them worse D-:
So eloquent
You can actually change your first and/or last name at City Hall in Sims 3. I like to hyphenate my couples, or at least my kids. Though I have to admit, Bella Goth will always be Bella Goth. Bachelor's an obnoxious name anyway.
Wow, everyone beat me to it.
Sims 3 is amazing. I miss alien pregnancies from Sims2 though, I liked to think of it as a really bizarrooo IVF programme for all my gay&lesbian sim couples.
And that you could get the men pregnant! Hopefully we'll see that in an expansion pack :)