Bork List: Freetime Ed.
draranha:
Quote from: tngrspacecadet on 2008 March 06, 12:17:33
Besides the actions dropping from queues, my other main complaint is plummeting energy levels. Every sim needs to take a nap or they do not make it through the day.
Same here!
Medium energy + 1 hour playing football/basketball or hicking = energy bar in the red
It's impossible to play a sim with sports as hobby because they always need to sleep. Quite annoying!
mitchellcjs:
I had a thought about the needs thing. Supposedly needs decay slower or faster based on how the "week" has been, cumulative with previous weeks. So if a sim finishes a week with it's bar in the green, or worse, the red, then their needs drop faster the next week and weeks, cumulatively with other "week" bonuses or hindrances. If they finish the "week" with gold or platinum, their needs drop the same or slower. I have no EVIDENCE, aside from EAxian and Prima Guide claims, but could this be what you are seeing in action?
J. M. Pescado:
No, that's much more minor than what you're seeing here, if it truly exists (this part is unclear: There is stuff in the code which indicates that something like this may have exusted, but it is unclear how it works). What YOU'RE seeing is that EAxians, who are all fat, overweight dorks, believe that performing any physical activity will make you SLEEPY, so made practically all of the new physical activities ENERGY DRAINING. Thus, engaging in any such activities quickly drains a sim of all energy within a few hours. Because I'm sure all of us have felt really sleepy after running from a hungry tiger. In any case, if you do not allow sims to engage in these activities, their energy tanks run as long as they did before.
Kyna:
You could be onto something there, Mitchie. Could explain why I haven't noticed this effect much, as I tend to keep my sims in green or higher asp.
What I have noticed is that the new items (such as the exercise bike, basketball court, soccer) tend to drain energy much, much faster than the other ways to train body.
Draranha, to train sport you can use the business career reward (mini-golf) or the athletic career reward (punching bag). Much better for your sims' energy than the new items that train sport. Alternatively, if your sims don't have these career rewards on the lot, sit them at a computer when they get to level 4 fitness, have them browse the net until they can blog, and then start blogging - use macro/concentrate to make them stick at it.
FAKE EDIT: Pes posted while I was writing this. Meh, I've written it now, so I'm posting it.
SECOND EDIT (real one this time): A question. Bowling - can someone tell me what hobby it is? Is it games, sports or fitness?
speedreader:
According to the guide, bowling is a game hobby object.
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