Personality and Enthusiasm
buddha pest:
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.
I think these things were designed for people who are not very good at simming?
I think I semi-subconsciously shorten my sims lives any time I can. I always do the "lose a day" thing when aging up...amongst other things. My sims are still maxed and enthusiastic and whatnot.
On the plus side, Free Time made me less OCD about maxing skills.
coralleane:
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. Obviously it varies from Sim to Sim, but quite a lot have high scores, if not max, in one or more hobbies due to the skilling, and even ones that start with a standard 20K on leaving college (instead of going back to the original house and therefore 'inheriting' everything) seem to end up with a fair chunk of money without a great deal of effort. I'm getting a lot of Sims getting to Perma-Platinum from the Lifetime Aspiration thing, which is actually getting a bit annoying - it's especially bad with born-in-game-after-FT-install Sims. The male of the family I loaded today was a toddler when I installed FT, IIRC, and he hit PermaPlat (while I wasn't even playing the house...) with twenty days left to go of adult stage. I remember seeing a mod floating somewhere around here that slowed down lifetime aspiration gain... I'm seriously thinking about giving it a whirl, since LTW's are almost superfluous now, especially for Sims who get married and have a kid.
Edited to add: I just had a look at his LTA Milestones using the Lot Debugger, and "Max Career" is greyed out despite the fact that he, er, hasn't. Unless it's counting teen career... which would be too stupid for words since, with private school, that's a whole.. one promotion, correct?
Inge:
Of course, if you add the challenge of filling the travel album to things Sims ought to aspire to in their lifetime, there goes a large portion of their earnings on hotel bills and air fares.
talysman:
Quote from: coralleane on 2008 October 04, 18:09:25
Edited to add: I just had a look at his LTA Milestones using the Lot Debugger, and "Max Career" is greyed out despite the fact that he, er, hasn't. Unless it's counting teen career... which would be too stupid for words since, with private school, that's a whole.. one promotion, correct?
As I recall, maxing the teen career *does* count as maxing that career category. Yes, it's stupid. But no helping that.
Zazazu:
Well, 3/4 of the time getting a best friend (even a BFF) or having a first kiss doesn't register for me. Stupid game.
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