Alien

$$ An Alien is a life state in The Sims 2 and also used in The Sims 2 Nintendo DS game.

Pure alien
In the most literal sense, "alien" would refer to the pure aliens. These creatures are the outlandish visitors that come from another planet that abduct your Sims during the use of an expensive telescope.

Appearance
Pure aliens always have the following features:


 * Lack of hair (except Pollination Technician 9 and Stella Terrano)
 * Green skin
 * Large, dilated, black pupils
 * Pointed ears (Pre-made neighborhood Canon)
 * Small ears (Custom neighborhood Canon)
 * Long, gaunt faces
 * Small, flat noses
 * Black hair genes (exept perhaps Pollination Technician 9 )

Social caste
From what little information is given from the family history of Pollination Technician 9, a player can see what appears to be a social caste among the lives of aliens on their home planet:
 * Birth Queens are the central reproductive system of the aliens. It appear that whomever impregnates them has no marital attachment to them, and that the sole life purpose of a birth queen is to breed.
 * Colony Drones are the workers of alien society. They appear to serve their overlords similar to worker-bees.
 * Pollination Technicians are the aliens that pilot spacecrafts seen from telescopes and can somehow impregnate male Sims, which will in turn give birth to alien-Sim hybrids.

Reproductive System

 * Natural Reproduction occurs when a colony drone or another male alien impregnates the female of the species, the Birth Queen
 * Pollinational Reproduction occurs when an adult male Sim is abducted while stargazing with the Farstar e3 telescope, and he returns pregnant with an alien baby. This baby can be very unique, and is known as an Alien-Sim Hybrid.

Alien-Sim hybrids
This is the other term that could define "alien". These Sims are playable and are what is defined as one of the many Sim "life states".

Appearance
When transitioning to toddler, alien-Sim hybrids may express facial features not usually found on normal Sims (for example, Flamenco Caliente's high cheekbones). These attributes can then be passed on when the alien child grows up and reproduces.
 * Almost always has a flat nose, some even have a dent where the nose should be.
 * Usually has green skin, but not always (see Flamenco Caliente and Jill Smith)
 * Usually has large, dilated, black pupils
 * Usually has curved, normal Sim ears
 * Always has blue gums

Advantages and uniqueness
This is possibly the simplest of all life states. Unlike pure aliens, alien-Sim hybrids are treated equally with other Sims and reproduce the same, as well. Advantages of having a hybrid include a unique skin tone and facial features. A unique feature to their birth is that when the child is born a different cinematic is used. Another unique feature of alien hybrid Sims is that they have personalities that tend to the extremes in each area. A final feature is the missing WooHoo, the missing partner, and the male pregnancy. Another advantage to having a hybrid is that an alien-Sim hybrid teenager can apply for an alien scholarship for college.

Aliens are usually found in Strangetown for the personal computer, whilst console versions has them inhabiting Strangetown and Pleasantview.

How to become impregnated by Aliens
There are four ways to become impregnated by Aliens.


 * 1) The Natural Way - Have a male adult Sim stargaze with the Farstar e3 telescope until he gets abducted. The chances of this are very slim, but increase tremendously if that Sim consecutively stargazes all night and into the early hours of the morning. After your Sim gets abducted, he will return hours later with an 'unexpected surprise'... If you have the Nightlife Expansion Pack, you can also be abducted if you dance fast in the Dance Sphere with 10 Body points. If you have the Free Time expansion pack, Knowledge Sims with the knowledge aspiration benefits can select any telescopes to get abducted.
 * 2) The Semi-Cheating Way - Press control, shift, and C all at the same time to bring up the Cheat window. Type in,  (many sources say that certain letters must be capitalized, but in truth, it does not matter for this particular cheat). Then, select an adult Sim, shift-click on the telescope, and choose Debug then get Abducted. NOTE: Some difficulties with this cheat have been observed on some games, speculation is that the addition of recent expansion packs makes this cheat impossible). After abduction, results are the same as #1.
 * 3) The Very Cheating Way - Initiate the  cheat, as described in #2. Then, shift-click on any Sim and select Spawn, then Tombstone of L and D (Life and Death). Choose an adult Sim you wish to get pregnant (any gender) and click on the newly spawned tombstone. Then, search through options until you find Make Me Alien Pregnant. After the typical 3 days, the Sim will give birth to an alien.
 * 4) The Super-Awesome Cheating Way - Use the  cheat, while in the Neighborhood menu screen, then create a new family. Press Shift+N to unlock the alien skin and eyes, and create your own alien, any age, gender, whatever... Go nuts with it. Press Shift+M to disable this mode, if it becomes annoying when creating "normal" Sims. Then impregnate Sims via Try for Baby or the Create-A-Child thing. It definitely is Super-Awesome.

Player tips
Tadaaa! Now it will just take less then 4 hours until the baby is born! In that period the belly will enlarge two times. At the third time, the baby will be born!
 * Not patient enough to wait 3 full Sim days before the baby is born? Why not wait a few Sim hours? It's possible!
 * 1) At the cheat menu enter &lt;code&gt;boolprop testingcheatsenabled true&lt;/code&gt;.
 * 2) Right-click on a Sim in your household and click on  Spawn .
 * 3) Select the Tombstone of L and D (Life and Death). It will appear a regular tombstone near to your Sim.
 * 4) Click on "Speed up my pregnancy".

You must be pregnant before using the Tombstone, or else the speed up menu wont show up.

This works for both normal and alien pregnancies.

The Sims 3
Aliens are not featured in The Sims 3 (or any expansion pack to date), however it is 100% possible to create a basic alien without using cheats or hacks. As Create-A-Sim in The Sims 3 comes with a tool which lets you choose an exact skin tone, you can create an "alien" by making a Sim have green skin as well as various other alien features. If you want a "real" alien, follow this guide below:

Step 1: Cheat: First, before entering Create-A-Sim press control-shift-C, opening the cheat console. Type in "unlockoutfits on". This enables you to make your alien have an "alien" costume.

Step 2: Basics: Next, enter Create-A-Sim and make them have light, but not too light, green skin. Also give them a name. Make their first name be either Pol Tech (Pollination Technician) or Colony Drone. For a last name pick a number. If your creating a Pollination Technician make it a smaller number. For a Colony Drone, a bigger number. Next, adjust your alien's weight and muscularity. It is suggested to give them average weight and very high muscularity as aliens are "superhuman". Don't forget to pick their age (Young Adult life stage recommended).

Step 3: Hair: Thirdly, make them be near-bald with green hair to match the skin, making him look like a bald alien, that is if you want a hairless alien as in rare cases aliens have hair. Facial hair is optional, but not recommended.

Step 4: Looks: After making your alien bald it's time for a few facial features. Tweak your aliens' faces to make them have: Step 5: Clothing: Fifthly, give your alien garments. You can make them have normal clothes to make them fit in, or they could still be in their Colony Drone outfit or Pollination Technician jumpsuit (you'll find the extra outfits from the cheat you entered earlier).
 * large eyes with black pupils
 * small ears
 * a long, gaunt face
 * a small, flat nose
 * black hair (that is if your alien has hair)

Step 6: Personality and Lifetime: Now time to create their personality. Make them have an interesting or complex personality as they are obviously not normal compared to other Sims. Make them be artistic, ambitious, hydrophobic or something like that. Next, pick their Lifetime Wish. Make it be something adventurous like "Seasoned Traveller". Choose their voice. Make it sound like an alien.

Step 7: Family Ties: It is suggested that your alien lives alone to start off with. But if you want, u could create a fellow alien sibling or something. It's up to you.

Step 8: Bringing your alien into SimNation: When you've done, place your alien in a lot and do what u want with them.