So anyone else not so happy about the new lifetime aspiration thing in FT?
Tchan:
I find it really hard to get my sims to permaplat. I think I've only ever gained it once. This may be a joy, maybe not.
sloppyhousewife:
I was pretty relieved to see that you don't *need* to choose a second aspiration. I assign it only to sims that will never get their 1st aspiration wants (family sims), so they'll finally roll wants I'm willing to fulfill, or skilled-out knowledge sims, as they roll romance wants anyway, so why not making them "real" romance sims and get the benefits ;D.
Liz:
Quote from: doren on 2008 February 28, 19:59:50
(snip) My sims never ever only got wants related to their aspiration, actually with some its the opposite. Family sims (especially female) who never get the wish to get engaged or marry, knowledge sims who get a lot of woohoo wants, fortune sims who are really into skill building etc. etc.
My "fortunes" have traditionally been very into skill-building, provided it's for the points they need to earn a promotion (whoot big bonus yay moneez). Or if they earn some cash from a creative pursuit (sell a painting, tips from faux-rapping or performing an instrument), they'll often want to get another Creativity point. It's also very common for my "knowledges" who've maxed their skills and/or reached their job-related LTW to turn to their family as a source of rewarding wants. "Hey, I have a son; teach stuffz! Ooh, I have a wife; yay, sexpoints!" Actually, Knowledges are pretty famous for their horndoggity tendencies. I do love seeing those Family sims who don't want to get married or what have you, though - or who couldn't be less interested in teaching their kids how to talk. Always a refreshing treat! (^_-)
Giggy:
For me personally
Play-throughs = No
Challenges = Yes
Perma plat sims in challenges are easier as it's a common strategy in the Apocalypse challenge. While the Asylum challenge makes it compulsory so it's used regularly in my game.
I'm one of those people that are also peev'd because there's no more LTWs and also request a hack for them to come back.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: doren on 2008 February 28, 19:59:50
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...
Well, you do get a useful boost for the milestones, but there is also a continuous benefit just for maintaining high aspiration, which also adds to the bar.
Quote from: doren on 2008 February 28, 19:59:50
I agree. They missed the opportunity for more individuality/variety, the more so when you start to think strategically about the benefit points.
Indivduality and variety kinda go out the window when you start thinking strategically about real life, too. Reality can be gamed just like any other game.
Quote from: doren on 2008 February 28, 19:59:50
The couple I played is a combination of knowledge (her) and family (him). Both these aspirations require that you choose a benefit "slower comfort/fun decay" to get to the other benefits, which is bad for a start since with a filled up a fun bar many of the hobby actions are stopped instantly. The same when you choose the benefits from the motives panel, where you have to use 4 benefit points to reach the slower energy decay.
The ADHD effect can be countered by using Macro Concentrate in combination with noadhd. As soon as I get to actually TRYING most of those things, I'll start developing bigger, better, anti-ADHD systems.
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