Unfulfillable wants
Marvin Kosh:
I've recently moved an elder couple into their retirement pad, leaving their kids the family home. Problem is, they've got wants for their kids to be Overachievers and Go To College, which as I remember and now rue, can't be fulfilled unless they're actually on the same lot as their kids. You can't even scrub the wants by going into testing mode and Control-clicking them to make them be fulfilled. It's like there's some sort of memory testing required before the want can be fulfilled.
Is there a way of fixing this, by actually checking the kid's memory to see if they have a memory of being an Overachiever, or is that just not possible?
Edit: Just tried editing the wants panel in SimPE. It's just a quick fix though, and wants are not actually satisfied in this way, meaning they can just roll up again :P
gali:
The parents don't need to live in the same house with the kids, and their wishes can be fulfilled. You can test it by locking a wish, for instance "go to college". Now send the kid to college, and then check if the wish was unlocked - it means that they fulfilled their wish.
Pollination main wish was "relative get engaged" (about Johhny). I locked it, and when Johnny got engaged, the wish was replaced by some other wish "relative get married".
If you want to make the teen overachiever too, before sending him to college - lock the parent's wish, make the teen overachiever (it takes 3 days), and check again if the wish was unlocked.
Marvin Kosh:
Oh, hang on, maybe it's the 'no telepathy' hack?
From the RTFM:
CHANGES:
Most memories are no longer transmitted telepathically to relatives that they
have never even met before. They can still be passed normally by gossip, but
memories do not begin appearing in the relative's memory bar unless they've
actually met that person.
The teens did become Overachievers, but this wasn't reflected over on the parents' lot.
Edit: Just tried for the parents' Child Goes To College want. Interestingly, Dad snagged it, Mom didn't (and still has it locked and clogging up her wants panel). Neither of them have a memory showing that it was fulfilled..... although just because they aren't visible, doesn't mean they aren't there.
gali:
Yes, because dad went with kid to college, and cried at the separation. Mom, if she would go with kid to college (I saw it only once in my game - discrimination!), her wish would be unlocked too.
If the locked wish was unlocked and replaced by another wish - the parent gets the aspiration points; it doesn't matter if he has the memory - the points are the important ones.
Marvin Kosh:
I didn't get the cutscene, come to think on it. I did with my first teen to hit college, but not the latest one. It could be because I combined her with an existing student household instead of moving onto an empty lot, but the effect is the same.
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