Dancing skill
Oddysey:
The animations displayed while a sim is dancing are controlled by two things: their personality, and their skill. Higher skill=more advanced moves. I don't think that dancing with someone is affected by personality, but I know that a shy sim dances much more reservedly than an outgoing sim when dancing solo. Shy and (possibley) serious sims also complain when asked to dance, but this shouldn't affect how long they do it for, except for the side effects of having respectively slower fun and social decay.
The romance bar is an unused skill that presumably was going to be in the game but got nixed.
ZephyrZodiac:
Mostly you can tell when they are good enough dancers to win the scholarship by the kind of moves they make, really good dancers twirl right round, bend backwards till their head touches the floor etc. Can't see why you should need a meter for this!
nothingbutsims:
Well, if what JM says is true that Sims actually have to learn to dance, then it would be cool to see how far they have to go before they can kick John Travolta's arse in a dance contest. It's kind of like the novel-writing meter. Eventually, you know when the novel is done because you get a notation that tells you, but the meter let's you know where you stand.
cwieberdink:
Quote from: Oddysey on 2005 July 31, 18:50:27
The romance bar is an unused skill that presumably was going to be in the game but got nixed.
So, when they go to the mirror to earn charisma, if they choose "practice speech" or "Practice romance" there is no difference, it's just straight up charisma?
Chris
J. M. Pescado:
Right. The Romance skill is a discontinued attribute that is never used (and since Maxis has been known to recycle unused attributes for something new and unrelated, it's best to leave that alone!). Practicing Speech or Romance simply provides you with two choices of animation type, both of which increase the same skill at the same rate. See the War Room.
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