More Fun Activities For Sims 3 - Updated September 8th
Chaavik:
How many activities in Sims 3 actually boost Fun and/or Social motives? Not very many activities do that. Might as well make something useful for those like teens to find it fun to hang out with their friends. I know some people don't think it was fun to hang out with other people. It's a matter of personal choice to work or to have fun or have both.
Ellatrue:
Write report and interview sim don't sound like fun to me, as these interviews are actually work. Interviewing should increase social, though. Also, homework. Homework, realistically, should be an unending misery which takes the majority of the sim child's spare time, drains the ENTIRE fun bar, and prevents teen sims from getting actual SLEEP until the weekend if they also have a job. Unless the school is in fantasy fun land, and only serves to babysit the kids for most of the day while teaching them nothing. I like that your mod makes a lot of activities fun that normally should be fun, but work is called work for a reason.
Maybe you could make it so loner sims dislike hanging out? Although that might already be the case; I haven't played any of them.
Chaavik:
You gave me an idea, Ellatrue and Pescado, for a few activities that should be considered work. Can you give me a list of activities beside homework you want to see the Fun motive be drained from and make the Sims work harder to deserve what they have coming toward them?
I can make something to drain Fun if you like once I am done with a new mod I'm doing for Sims 2.
CaptaiNemo:
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I know some people don't think it was fun to hang out with other people.
I believe almost all the things on your list that now give more fun are VERY dependent on a person's (sim's) personality (read "traits"). I'm sure an athletic sim will enjoy the hell out of going jogging, while one that is either not athletic or has a low sports skill or a lot of weight will not.
Playing chess is most likely fun for those who are already somewhat good at it or a genius, while for "normal" people it might be the most boring game ever (read "drains fun!!!"). Same for tinkering, hacking, swimming, doing homework, working from home, etc. etc.
Flirting is surely a bit fun for normal sims, VERY fun for flirty sims and very unfun for nonflirty sims.
Reading a skill book is probably quite fun for a sim who is into learning while it's an undesired chore for everyone else who'd rather be ..uh.. exploring mausoleums or whatever catches his or her fancy.
I could even picture woohooing to be unfun for a "never nude" sim ;) or maybe a loner ("ah, not again! leave me alone, why did I ever agree to marry!" *drain drain*).
I hope you get my point here - I think in most cases it should really depend on a sim's traits whether the activity raises fun or drains it. If that is taken into consideration, I think this is definitely a very nice mod.
FrickinIdjit:
My simmies are most grateful to you, Chaavik. They're also curious as to why dancing together is no fun...?
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