How can I graduate an adult sim from High School?
Doc Doofus:
This is such a mess, I need advice.
I wanted to get a former newspaper girl NPC into the neighborhood as a playable. What I did was this: First, I ctrl-shift-clicked her to set her age to be one day from birthday (It's one of the options under Sim.../Aging.../) The next time I invited her over, she was a teen. I did the same thing again. The next time she came over she was a YA. At that point I invited her to move in.
That very same evening, she transitioned again to Adult!
Okay... That was a little unexpected. It turns out that if you do this to grow up NPCs, they age transition a second time after you move them in. Something to remember.
I changed her back to YA with Simedit and saved her. But there was a new problem, or one I hadn't noticed before. She was still listed as a high-school student, albeit one with a part-time job. I sent her off to join the Criminal Career. She did that fine. But she was still listed as a High School Student with grade C, and with a job.
If she weren't a former NPC, I could fix this myself by just changing her to teen wotj Simedit and then aging her up again. However, BECAUSE she used to be an NPC, I don't want to do that because aging down to teen will lead Simedit to change her traits. She will get her fifth trait back after aging back up to YA, but I doubt she will retain whatever Papergirl-ish special traits she may have had through this process.
So, please advise me:
1. Was there a less painful way to age her up?
2. Is there any fix for the High School thing? Can I get rid of that without using Simedit?
3. If a special NPC's traits are changed with Simedit, are unlisted NPC characteristics roached? I assume they must be. If so, that defeats the whole purpose of the exercise.
keirra:
You could try using the birthday cake to age her up.
LVRugger:
Here's how I would do the workaround:
- Find the hidden traits. The fastest way to do that would be using Twallan's supercomputer, list sim by traits, figure out what hidden traits there are. I don't know of any for paperboy/girl. I found all the rockers, burglars and more in town this way. You may have to switch to another house to get her to show up in the list.
- Go to editsim, change the age back to teen
- Back in game, use CTRL-SHIFT-click to age up to YA
- Use CTRL-SHIFT-click to adjust regular traits
- Use addtrait to add any missing hidden traits
Again, I have not seen any hidden traits associated with paperboys/girls. This should work with any other hidden traits. Good luck!
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Doc Doofus on 2009 August 20, 04:15:21
I changed her back to YA with Simedit and saved her. But there was a new problem, or one I hadn't noticed before. She was still listed as a high-school student, albeit one with a part-time job. I sent her off to join the Criminal Career. She did that fine. But she was still listed as a High School Student with grade C, and with a job.
I think your sim might be a little bit mentally subnormal.
aspinL:
This is a little confusing. Are you saying you went through all this in order to get a special hidden trait the paper boy/girl might have?
If so, I'm just going to say that there is and has never been found a hidden trait from the paper girl/boy, and there's been plenty of time for some one to have found it. I couldn't list the special traits of the top of my head as I didn't care to remember them. Three I can remember are; immune to fire, pyromaniac, and a burglar one.
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