The Battle of the Aspirations
Issy:
Most of my sims are knowledge/family and I have to admit it's gotten fairly boring playing them now. I have noticed a change in family sims since I've installed NL. Most of my family sims don't even get the "Teach wants" once the baby turns toddler. I even tested it with 4-5 families I have and only 1 sim rolled the want.
Fortune sims are not too bad to play. I've only gotten the shubbery want on one sim, all my other fortune sims have never rolled that want, and I have at least 7-8 of them, half of them elders already. So depends on star-sign maybe?
Romance sims can be fun to play, I always have a few of them stirring things up now and then ;)
Pleasure sims....I have to say is the worst aspiration ever. I've played about 6 sims who are about a few days away from turning elder, and 2 that have turned elder. They dont mind being married but sheesh, have some wants towards the wife/hubby/kids. Never got a want for teaching toddlers anything (even some of my romance sims get the want) Rarely get a want for flirt/gossip etc. If they go on a date well diff story, but that doesnt make them unique cos all aspirations get the same wants when on a date.
How many times can you constantly use the bubble-blower, play SSX, play chess and then it goes back to the same thing over and over. My elder wants to jump on that silly couch every morning when she wakes up :-\ I can go on and on but I think I've said enough ;)
Cheese Asp doesn't appeal to me much but I guess I'll get around to it sometime.
windy_moon:
By the way, for people who hate the Fortune shrubbery wants, TwoJeffs has a hack for that and why, it's right here on MATY! ;D
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=1238.0
I agree that if Fortune Sims are left completely to their own devices they can get boring. Anybody in RL who wakes up in the morning just to earn money and then comes home just to spend it is boring...but it's not hard to break the chain of just $$ wants. They are excellent spouses and usually decent parents if encouraged in that direction. My Fortune Sims show a lot of depth, wanting good things for their families...even teaching the toddlers to walk and talk.
They do need a relatively large lot, though. My favorite Fortune Sim's house has an expensive loveseat in every bedroom....and counters in every bathroom.
FroggySim:
I really love my fortune sims and I consider a fortune-family couple as the easiest to play. However, I use Twojeffs Hack to get rid of all the flower, tree and shrub wants.
Is there actually a hack to get rid off the want for a toy worth more than 5000 simoleons? Because the only thing I found to fulfill it is a bowling alley which I donīt want them to have at their home, itīs just to big!
windy_moon:
Quote from: FroggySim on 2005 November 05, 09:31:51
Is there actually a hack to get rid off the want for a toy worth more than 5000 simoleons? Because the only thing I found to fulfill it is a bowling alley which I donīt want them to have at their home, itīs just to big!
*raises hand*
Me too. Actually, I haven't installed NL yet (this weekend, probably this weekend), so I don't have that want...but there are a couple of high $ wants that make me crazy. The $6000 sculpture want can only be filled by the huge ass fountain thing you can put soap in. I put that on a suburban Sims lawn once and it was hysterical...for about a minute. And then just annoying. Delete.
I'd prefer a variety of object choices for those wants rather than actual elimination of the wants...but I'll settle for elimination.
(I wish I had any modding skills or talent at all. :P I would love to make a Fortune Sims collection of high $ sculpture and objects to fill the wants and make the homes look cool, too. Alas, I am far lower than peasantry.)
FroggySim:
Well, that would work too.
I canīt create custom content (I lack a lot of patience), but maybe someone who reads this desperate cry for help could get us a small and pretty sculpture thatīs worth 6000 and a cute little chess board for 7000?
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