Bon Voyage Woohoo Memories
ZephyrZodiac:
My sims very rarely get those LTWs nowadays, it's all "reach the top of the music career" or one of the Uni LTWs from JM. (I have to reroll a lot of those, though, as my first generation families in this hood don't get upgraded.)
jolrei:
Quote from: Doc Doofus on 2007 October 19, 21:12:49
I find Romance Sims very easy to deal with as monogamous spouses. Other than the big aspiration hit they take when they get engaged or married, it's very easy to keep their needs satisfied. They want to boink the spouse, and that's a quick 3500 points every time. 7000 if they can do make-out first. If you never let them fall in love with other Sims, it's much easier.
The hardest aspirations to keep platinum are knowledge and money. They can go for long stretches with no easy wants to meet.
With money sims, I find that the buy wants can be fulfilled reasonably well if I buy stuff for them and then re-sell, with little or no loss of aspiration points. Consequently, I usually just ctrl-click on the want now and it's easy points (saves me the physical buy/delete actions with the same overall effect), if I don't want them to actually have guitars cluttering up the lawn.
My knowledge sims never seem to have much time for skilling, what with their family "baby" wants and their constant need for woohoo with their spouses. People actually have knowledge sims that want to study, do they? Haven't seen one of them since base game, pre-EP days. My knowledge and family sims seem to be most interested in MOAR FIGHT than the others. Must have a bunch of grouchy, scorpio family sims - should check that.
My family sims are the most annoying - I don't like to fulfill "have baby" wants for no reason (don't need that many new townies that are all related), and other than for babies, they never seem interested in the easy points (make out/woohoo). They hang around in green/gold aspiration, while I get them to study or work out (often this fulfils a "gain a skill" want, but other times it's a matter of "if you're going to be really boring, at least stay out of the way"). They have higher skills than the knowledge sims (who are off in the hot tub with someone, after all).
I agree that a settled romance sim is pretty easy to manage, and usually they are better parents (more autonomous cuddling, playing, changing diapers, tucking in) than family sims in my game.
ZephyrZodiac:
My romance sims are forever tucking kids in. Partly, I think, it's because they tend to be in evening jobs, so they are still up at three or four in the morning, and their social has started to drop. Shame, though, I use Smart Beds, and it's amazing how often they get kicked out with "NO BED FOR YOU!"
Another thing I've noticed, mainly, I think, since Seasons, is how the only parents who seem to get the "Help with homework" want are either Popularity or Romance. Now, where are Knowledge when it comes to this - as jolrei says, they're off having it off in the hot tub! Hope they freeze!
behold_the_muse:
Or get struck by lightning! What knowledge sim wouldn't want that? And if they die, that means they can be either saved from death or resurrected as zombies. It's win-win.
ZephyrZodiac:
I've used the smite option on the debugger to fulfil that want, only trouble is, they usually "have and accident" after which, you get the lightning want, you seem to get the "have an accident" fear!
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