Maxing out sims skills
witch:
I'm interested to know how other people play the game in regard to skill points. I often see comments in threads about sims that are maxed out by the time they are teens or even children. My sims are struggling to get to the half way point by adulthood. Or if they are CAS sims, I'll give them about 1/2 skill points in simpe as a starter. That LTW of 'max out 7 skills' is quite a challenge for me.
So I'm asking for comments on game tactics. For the people that have sims with early maxed out skills, do you just hammer them at skilling day and night? I kind of picture it like sims online, I installed the demo recently to have a look, just rooms of sims skilling while people chatted. Dead boring.
Maybe I'm really asking, "just how do you manage it"? My sims do skilling in between the relationship and maintenance stuff, I run the sims in the game much the same as real human lives, you know the cliche, 'all work and no play' etc. I would also get bored just watching sims do nothing else but skilling, then of course there's nothing more to do once everything's maxed out. I enjoy a mix of sim activity when playing.
J. M. Pescado:
My solution has become pretty straightforward: Macro->Skillinator->Gain X. Let 'er rip. I mean, sure, you could argue that skilling is boring and thus you want to stretch it out, but hey, haven't you ever heard of "Work Before Play"? The fact of the matter is, children have no social interaction choices worth spit. They are utterly incapable of holding a conversation with anyone but other children, and even then, this is kind of a stretch. Mostly, like real children, they simply annoy everyone. And since they can't really *MEET* very many other children, what with the inability to go anywhere or do anything, combined with the extreme shortness of the age stage, that leaves skilling. Socialization is left for the teen stage, when they actually have nearly the full range of interaction choices available to them. If a child is going to do any socialization, he's going to be doing it over a chess board or while watching the Yummy channel, or not at all.
Plus, children actually receive a significant advantage to skilling, in the form of the Stuck Smart Milk. If your child happens to be a prodigy as a result, with the 300% learn rate, you're pissing it away by not skilling, because they'll lose it when they move for college.
Lastly, dragging out boredom is not interesting! If skilling is equated to boredom, then it will be even more boring to procrastinate it. Why not get it done while your opportunity costs are low?
vecki:
I've just started my own bastardised Legacy family (bastardised as in I'm not removing my coffeecuphack for nobody), and I've set my sims to doing a lot of skilling, teaching where career rewards exist, and practically living with that Thinking Cap on their heads (an absolute 1000% improvement to the appearance on the first child born, Adrian 'I'm a pointy-eared doofus who took 2 sim days to learn to walk' Le Gassey). He's now maxed out the cleaning and logic skills at an abnormally fast rate, given that he started learning on his first day as a teen and by the second had maxed out both.
Next up, Creativity!
Jaayar:
If tackled correctly, the max 7 skills, is one of the easiest LTWs to achieve. Knowledge sims gain asp points extremely quickly, much more than they will use in a lifetime. So if you want them to achieve that early, make use of those points.
Don't allow them to get a job. 20,000 is enough to keep them alive because they do not need most of the stuff they buy. Use your first lot of asp points to get an energiser and from then on they do not need a bed or a fridge because, if they keep skilling, they will always have enough points to keep it topped up and will never sleep or eat or socialise (unless you want them to of course). Neither do they need walls. They can now skill for almost 24 hours in every day.
The first time I tried this was for the email challenge and I think it took about 8 sim days to achieve that want. It could have been quicker, but I was wary of running out of money, so I didn't hire a maid or a gardener and the sim had to do all of that. I also took some time out to make a few friends because she was searching for a mate.
But, if you enjoy a mix of sim activity when playing then perhaps this is not the way for you.
HRH Posie:
I have to agree, many of my sim children will have at least 8 skill points in each area when transitioning to teenagers. I train my toddlers to walk, talk & potty as quickly as possible so they have more time to skill up. With smart milk toddlers can easily make 6 points in all 3 skills, if not more. If you are lucky enough to have the ‘fast learning skill' courteously of smart milk, your children should be able to max all skills before reaching their teenage years. Another interesting glitch is described here.
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