Personality and Enthusiasm
Dopp:
I am aware that hobby enthusiasm is horribly easy to gain. I ask because I sometimes switch OTH when I get too many in a particular neighborhood and was wondering if this 'breaks' the game rules in any way. I only allow Sims to build their OTH because I hate the hobby club membership memory spam.
WTB 'Harder Hobbies' hack, extreme edition.
tunaisafish:
Thanks for the reply Sagana, the only info I'd seen up to now was at snootysims reposted from the Prima guide, so even that has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
They say that OTH is chosen at birth from personality and interests. born-in-game sims interests don't vary enough IMO. I'd prefer a random OTH :)
I've not seen any info that states what variables are involved with the increase rate so far, just gut feelings. I'll post to the war room if I come across it.
I've only been playing again for about a week with all EPs. Last time I played before that was just after OFB came out so there's a lot to catch up on.
oh... there is a new way to alter Niceness in AL with spells... apparently.
As far as modding goes, I was thinking about making a 'magazine rack' which would work like a bookcase but for interest/hobbie mag's.
However I made some notes of how I would change the enthusiasm code...
Make the OTH mean something by...
remove all wants for non-OTH hobbies
fix multiple 'maximize X enthusiasm' wants - a sim of mine achieved this want twice in cooking
don't award lifetime aspiration milestone for non-OTH
no 'zone' for non-OTH (cap at 9?)
Increase the speed the enthusiasm dies by...
No hobbies decay while at hobbie-lot.
No hobbie-X decay while actively involved with hobbie-X.
Vary the decay-rate of enthusiasm based mainly on interests, with a touch of personality, turn on's, and relationship with hobbie-guru.
eg, low interest in food, cooking skill turn off - then cooking enthusiasm will drop like a stone.
If your OTH(sport) sim has a interest of sport of 8-10, then it should be possible to reduce enthusiasm-decay for sport to zero.
Make the same sport sim's interest in Food high, then they will gain all the serving platter options, and not lose them so quickly, but won't have any desires to win cooking competitions and the like.
Dopp, I don't think Pescado would give you the tools to change OTH if it would break your game :)
Sagana:
That sounds like a good start at a hack I definitely want :)
Inge:
I think it's ridiculous they get enthusiasm for cooking just because they're eating something. And they shouldn't get it just because they're cooking, either. After all, loads of people cook just because they have to. I think enthusiasm should only be built up by a particular success in an activity, or by reading a magazine, or by being talked to about it by someone. Enthusiasm should be completely seperate from the skills involved.
Ness:
Quote from: abelle on 2008 October 05, 18:32:15
I would love a hack, that makes the aspiration just decay slower instead of not decaying at all, once a lifetime want is reached or the lifetime-aspiration bar is maxed. It would make much more sense, that a sim would still be devastaded by the death of a loved one, even if he had reached his lifetime goal in the past.
Hook has made one - semiperma plat. It gives sims who have reached perma plat a slower rate of aspiration decay. I'm not sure if it's in peasantry here (it used to be) but I picked it up over at simbology recently.
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