Alphabet Family Tree (part1)

I find it hard keeping track of families in Sims2 as they tend to be a)large and b)run to many generations. The alphabet legacy is meant to run to 26 generations (A->Z) with a minimum of 3 offspring per generation which means there are going to be a lot of sims. A while back I mentioned on MATY the possibility of my creating some sort of visual tool for viewing family trees outside of the game. However, I have been both lazy and distracted by actually playing the game so haven't got very far... I do have some code written but it's not doing much beyond opening the neighbourhood package file and reading/organsing a little bit of the data at the moment. My intention is to get back to the coding soon, but until then I will make do with using a combination of print screen and Photoshop to record family trees outside the game. So without further ado, I will introduce the first 4 generations to date:

Generation A: Eva Biblios, had a 3-bolt attraction with JM Pescado, they married and had 5 children: Aston, Aria, Alec, Aramis and Anya. Aramis and Anya are twins and Aria is designated heir.

Generation B: Aria meets townie Satori Luna, they marry and he takes her surname. They have seven children: Begonia, Byron, Boron, Bea, Briony, Benji and Bernice. Begonia is declared heir.

Generation C: Begonia meets townie Luis Cantor, they marry and he takes her surname. They have the required 3 children: Clyde, Chablis and Cresta. Chablis is declared heir.

Generation D: Chablis moves back home from uni and JM is still there looking as youthful as ever thanks to the vats of green gloop. Technically she is his great-great-grand-daughter, but sims being sims don't recognise family relationships beyond grandparent-grandchild. Before I know it ACR has kicked in with the allow unmarried override on try for baby and so we have Draco. The situation has now been resolved as Beau Tamar has moved in to keep Chablis company (3-bolts) while Cedric Pescado (another great-great) is there to distract Pescado. Cedric was dumped by JM's alien son, Jupiter, after uni so he's hoping for more luck with dad. Incidentally JM's alien twins have arrived and are now toddlers.

One characteristic of sims with low nice is that they like to play Punch You Punch Me all the time... in fact thanks to Eva and JM I have bred four generations of Punch You Punch Me addicts. Here are a young Begonia and Byron playing:

Unfortunately it's not a game without consequence, so I see this all the time:

Poor old Chez can only look on as Bea thumps Benji. Actually Bea is a pain in the bum as she doesn't just do this at home, she also spends her entire time annoying, poking, or arguing with any sims she visits.