GoS recently hosted the 9th Good Genes challenge, in which I took part, as usual. I could only pick 2 sims to entry (seen here) but I did have a total of 12 attempts at the challenge in game, so here's some picspam of the whole thing (BodyShop version, as my game is way too slow to load nowadays).

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A couple of months back or so I was browsing through threads on boolprop and noticed someone mentioning something about alien abductions not occurring whenever there were ghosts around in the lot. I paid it no mind at the time, but lately I've been wondering it there's some truth to it.
In my OWBC, because of the Ghost Hunt bonus I chose, there have been ghosts around since the generation 1 sims were in their teens. Cody did stargaze for some time before that point, but with no luck. Then Börje took up stargazing duty during the time he lived in the main house as an adult, then the gen 1 heiress Olive's husband Fergus (since he's a vampire, he has been stargazing for a long, long time - he has teenage grandchildren now), and more recently gen 2 heiress Lethe's husband Vernon joined his father-in-law in stargazing every night. As I have 8 graves on the lot at this time, there are ghosts around every single night as well, but I have no clue if it's having any effect on the chances of abduction or not (the pre-ghosts time Cody spent stargazing without getting abducted was not that strange, I've had sims get abducted only after trying for longer than that, so I can't conclude anything).
I've begun to fear that I won't get the alien I need as part of the base game bonus. Does anyone have any TS2 experiences that would support or refute this ghost-associated lack of abduction theory?

...I decided I liked Symphysis menti/13 the best out of the six remaining candidates, and just posted her as my second entry on GoS (post can be seen here). For download link and stats, see here. :)

Since everyone seemed to like 12/Trapezoid, I went ahead and posted on GoS with her as my first entry late last night. She's also now available for download, her stats and the download link are in this old entry (along with previous sims from Good Genes III, IV and VI - I thought it was better to have them all in one place). :)

I will still need help picking a second entry, though. ;) I have 13 more days until the challenge ends.