The Battle of the Aspirations
veilchen:
Live and learn. I didn't know that about Mrs. Crumplebottom, you know, knocking the date meter down with her interference. Makes sense though, who enjoys getting whacked with a purse :D. I better hightail it over to TJ's forum and get the zapper. I hope it works for Crumplebottom, although I think I read somewhere that it does.
Motoki, the want to have everyone around them abducted/zombiefied/vampirized is a pain in the neck, but I can live with that. I regulary ignore the zombie want anyway, so I wasn't even aware it was broken. I once turned a YA into a zombie (well, she kicked my trashcan, okay) and I felt terribly guilty, seeing the poor wretch dragging all over the place looking hideous. I know she was just a pixel person, but still, wow what a guilt trip :D
katemonster:
Quote from: Torkle on 2005 November 05, 03:29:53
I'd love to see a different "backfire" aspiration instead of Cheese - something more like Psychotic. Big points for making enemies, getting into fights, getting caught cheating, pranks, drinking the essence of other sims, and making zombies; major fears of making friends, getting hugged, having a good conversation, etc. ;D
Oh my god, I'm sure that's the most unhackable thing that's ever not been hacked, but it sounds awesome! Especially if you could use the biotech station to be a bioterrorist and start a lethal flu pandemic!
Ahem.
I tend to end up with a serious excess of knowledge and family sims. (I made myself and my boyfriend in the game--I am knowledge and he is family. We are married with four butt-ugly kids, oh well.) I like knowledge ones cause they are made happy by peaceful solo pursuits and don't constantly have to be inviting more sims over for me to deal with--I guess cause they are made happy by the same things as me. I like family sims cause I like to have lots and lots of kids because I'm captivated by the multigenerational aspect of the game. But they do get monotonous because I have so many so I am trying to get a better balance.
I tend to pair up knowledge with family sims, probably just because I have so many of both. I don't like having two knowledge sims together cause it gets boring (and I do get sick unto death of the "be saved from death" want) but I'll put two family sims together if they're both lovely and I don't mind having their genes passed on to a bazillion kids.
Fortune sims get boring cause they always have the same wants--plus, I tend to put my sims in really small houses, and usually there is no space for the crap they want. I do like that they are pretty much guaranteed to want the skills that will get them promoted.
Popularity sims are boring cause they are the same people I can't stand in real life--as some random person once brilliantly put it "socially-addicted co-dependent morons". Usually easy to keep them happy though.
Romance sims are fun! I don't have very many because I'm so fixated on pairing my sims off, but I should have more. They rock. Except it's annoying when they have wants to flirt with six different people, so you invite one over, flirt with him--and then where a normal sim would spin up a bunch of new wants concerning *that* sim, a romance sim will just lose interest and want to have someone else over to flirt with. Makes it hard to get them into platinum romantically, whereas it's really easy if they only have *one* partner. They are inconvenient if they can only be kept happy by homewrecking--but that's why you just need MORE of them, so they can keep each other happy without breaking up marriages. Also, I need someone to cause drama, as my neighborhoods are too placid and so long as nobody hacks a bioterrorist station for me that can start a lethal flu pandemic, I need drama wherever I can get it.
Pleasure sims are cool because their wants are always 500 points and easy--although since they get the points as soon as they start the activity, mine just jump back and forth between various amusements all day long and never do anything for an extended period at a time. So they take some micromanagement, which is annoying.
Is that all? I haven't subjected anyone to a grilled cheese aspiration yet. I imagine it would get boring.
I have taken to using TJ's college adjuster to randomize every sim's aspiration when they hit teenagerhood, because it's hard to pick and also because I need to have a balance and not let my neighborhood be overrun by knowledge and family sims. Sometimes their personality or upbringing will incline them towards a particular one but usually I let the adjuster pick.
gali:
"Benes" for you all!...:).
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: gali on 2005 November 05, 04:03:18
"Benes" for you all!...:).
no thanks ;D
veilchen:
Quote from: gali on 2005 November 05, 04:03:18
"Benes" for you all!...:).
LOL, why thank you Gali, but can I have a cookie instead? My, you're up early on a saturday, what is it, like 6 or 7 in the morning where you are?
I bet your favorites are the fortune sims, you know, always shopping and redecorating :D
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