Request for Fun Stats
Ardin Topani:
JM, I loved the tables you did on skill-gaining and the chance cards. So I have a special request--can we get something that explores the stat gain on Fun for all ages?
I am currently composing a new challenge and some of the requirements are making it near impossible to keep the kids happy enough to finish their homework. Hence, social worker visits because the kids are failing. I want to see if I'm just dumb and not using the best objects or actions to increase fun gain. I'm squeaking by on the teenagers (although the social worker doesn't care about them, so it's not a big deal), but the children are impossible! I hate the fun-sucking school and homework!
Real school was not as bad as Maxis makes it for the Sim kids.
J. M. Pescado:
Go for the Sport Of Kings. Everything else pales in both efficacy and efficiency to the Sport of Kings, especially with the low-micromanagement launcher on Macrotastics: Flamingo Kicking. Accept no substitutes.
Most fun objects vary widely based on a large number of factors, and there's a lot of them, making it infeasible to document them all. Just go for the Sport of Kings: Each kick yields 15 fun points instantly. Tombstone-kicking falls slightly behind at 10 points per kick, but they never fall over, so that brings them back up.
veilchen:
Yeah, I was quite surprised when the kid, after finishing his homework, ran to the flamingo and kicked it until 'fun' was back up all the way. He then proceeded to eat and use the bathroom, and all with 'free will' off. Needless to say, I used the 'macrotastic-do homework' on him.
G.
Ardin Topani:
Ooh! I didn't even think of those! Do mean sims get more fun from kicking flamingoes than nice sims?
Oops, never mind. The roomie shot that one down. He claims it's too "redneck" for this particular challenge and we're debating whether or not a plastic flamingo counts as a graven image.
Anyway, I've been *trying* the swing, but they won't use it if they are totally in the red. And then there are obsessive visitors who won't leave it alone. When I play normally I go with the TV or radio as they seem to work the fastest, but they are off-limits in this challenge. (Hence, it being an actual challenge.)
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Ardin Topani on 2005 August 10, 01:57:14
Oops, never mind. The roomie shot that one down. He claims it's too "redneck" for this particular challenge and we're debating whether or not a plastic flamingo counts as a graven image.
I doubt a plastic flamingo counts as a graven image, given the level of respect (repeated kicking) it is afforded.
However, the only really worthwhile alternative to the plastic flamingo is hand-slapping. Between the silly hand game and the plastic flamingo, you shouldn't have fun problems. All other fun objects are essentially worthless except for the piano and other musical instruments, for gaining creativity, and the chessboard, for logic. The chessboard actually has shitty fun refill, but it simultaneously functions as a socialization object, a skill object, and marginally as a fun object.
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