So anyone else not so happy about the new lifetime aspiration thing in FT?
MadameUgly:
I never cared about permaplat until I started doing challenges. In my non-challenge neighborhood, a lot of the sims don't even have jobs let alone care about annoying wants like "have so many best friends".
I do like permaplat "drone" elders for challenges (and any points that can be accumulated for accomplishing the permaplat).
pixiejuice:
Well, I love the secondary aspiration, though I also wish it played some part in chemistry which it doesn't seem to.
But the new lifetime aspiration bar is very very disappointing. I like that they earn benefit points, and the rewards they can choose from aren't bad either, but it's just the way they earn them. Like what does a romance or pleasure sim care about getting married, having babies, or graduating college? I thought it would count up the wants that made sense to the sim, like 10 1st dates, or 10 loves, or whatever. This does nothing to encourage a variety of gameplay, but does the opposite instead. Now to get their stupid points, we have to take them all through this standardized life course - graduate, get married, have kids, max career, boring, boring, boring...
I really should have known it was too good to be true. But who knows, maybe someone awesome could mod it to be the way it should be ;)
I haven't had a chance to test it out yet though, but I was hoping that fulfilling fears would subtract lifetime points. I don't think it does.
Zazazu:
According to stuff posted in the War Zone, having a lowish aspiration score on the hours subtracts points from the lifetime aspiration. So fulfilling fears has an indirect effect.
I'm not seeing any real bonus to secondary aspiration. The motive decay differences must be quite minor. For my Knowledge-Romance, his girlfriend has started doing the ZOMG ROMANCE SIM! swoon, but he doesn't have any non-Knowledge wants. Of course, he's crammed with hobby wants (mostly sports, sports, and more sports) so they could just be getting stomped.
pixiejuice:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 February 28, 17:48:01
I'm not seeing any real bonus to secondary aspiration. The motive decay differences must be quite minor. For my Knowledge-Romance, his girlfriend has started doing the ZOMG ROMANCE SIM! swoon, but he doesn't have any non-Knowledge wants. Of course, he's crammed with hobby wants (mostly sports, sports, and more sports) so they could just be getting stomped.
I am seeing some non-knowledge wants with my knowledge/pleasure sim. He's got wants to go on a date, go to a community lot, and to juggle. And a good thing too, since those knowledge sims are so hard to keep happy with their wanting to just sit around skilling all the time. But then there are other sims that I'm not seeing mixed wants with. It probably has something to do with what's going on in the household at the time too. Like the family couple I'm playing now just had a baby grow up to toddler, so those toddler training wants are trumping everything else that might otherwise be there.
Jelenedra:
With my sims, no matter what the aspiration, when they get kids they always get wants about teaching them how to X...
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