Personality and Enthusiasm
kemowery:
Quote from: coralleane on 2008 October 04, 18:09:25
Quote from: Inge on 2008 October 04, 17:44:44
I think these things were designed for people allowing their sims to age at the standard rate. Then it wouldn't be so easy for every sim to get rich and successful. But how many of us do age our sims at original rate? I guess if we want the sims to live longer we need to reduce skilling and enthusiasm rates etc.
*raises hand* I allow my Sims to live a "natural" lifespan. On the odd occasion they might have a shot of elixir, but I don't do it as standard. The one thing I do tend to have is a lot of long-lived elders solely due to them generally being in platinum by the time they age to elder.
This is why I tend to do stuff like vamp or use elixir on adult sims. If I transition them to elders, they're going to be sucky for a long, long time. Playing an elder sim into 80+ days is boring as hell. Now I can also make good retirement homes with AL.
I may need to get that Age Duration hack.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Inge on 2008 October 06, 21:39:28
I think it's ridiculous they get enthusiasm for cooking just because they're eating something.
If they didn't get cooking enthusiasm for eating something, they'd never get any at all, because the only thing that *GIVES* food enthusiasms is eating things! What I *HAVE* tried doing is making it so low-level "unwanted" hobbies decay faster, so that they quickly lose interest in it again.
However, the BEST way to gain culinary enthusiasm is not merely to eat the food, but to sleep in it.
Inge:
A sort of Sim-in-the-hole?
Dopp:
I have the Insim interest adjuster permanently mounted in the skilling room to reset unwanted hobbies before they generate hobby club membership spam. Can Sims lose hobby club membership?
tunaisafish:
I've now looked at the code for enthusiasm gain.
I'll post the full details in the war room, but here's a brief description
Each hobbie action has a base-rate (some things increase the enthusiasm faster than others)
The OTH gets a bonus of 50% of base added
Relevant high interests adds up to 33% of base
Relevant high skill adds up to 50% of base
It appears that Personality does not come into the gain rate.
*Relevant interests are also increased!*
This last point is what is annoying me most and must be fixed...
Catch butterflies, and gain interest in Animals, Environment & Weather - while you lose interest in random others.
It's no longer worth getting children to read magazines to gain the extra growing-up bonus of interests - the extra points get stomped as soon as they eat.
Tuned your sims interests so they takes advantage of the ltwvariety hack? There are 7 interests that don't have any hobbie association. By the time they reach teen they may just want to be a celebrity chef.
Starting on this now :)
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