Maxing out sims skills
witch:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 July 20, 12:30:49
If you're using the baby macro without turning on "Always Smart Milk", the baby controller automatically detects this condition and will not feed a baby more smart milk if "Always" is set to Off and the baby is already smarted.
This is the 'eye in the sky' baby controller? I have that but didn't realise it could be used for toddlers in extended ways, I'm assuming that's how I could find out IQ & smart milk stuck attributes. Otherwise is there another macro I'm missing?
My next comment belongs in the Retardo section...
I feel really mean making my little pixel people work all the time with no fun, no parties and no time out. As it is they only get a bonk about once a week, that's years in a simmie's life. :p
I wouldn't be keen to skill them with just using the energiser, I enjoy building the homes, in fact the no20khandout hack is brilliant for starting from scratch, but I think I'll try to be a bit more intensive early on. I mostly don't know what to do with the kids so that makes logical sense. There's no point in making kid friends either unless they are not Maxian sims, because the Maxian ones won't grow up anyway, then it all gets rather creepy.
I had no idea about chain skilling, that's news, I'll give it a try out of interest but suspect it would feel like cheating to do it all the time, though I'll take the smart milk shortcut if it presents. :) So instructors make skilling faster also. I see I can be a lot more organised about this business instead of the almost random way I currently work it. I need a skillinator macro for ME!
On a side note, I sucessfully used 'update a pre uni sim' on my new CAS sims, though I don't know if the new careers open up as my sims cannot afford a computer yet and none of the new careers have turned up in the paper. These sims do not have a degree of course, just the six wants slots. I'm rapt with the upgrade, it seemed sad to let them live out their simmie lives as lesser beings.
veilchen:
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Posted by: witch
This is the 'eye in the sky' baby controller? I have that but didn't realise it could be used for toddlers in extended ways, I'm assuming that's how I could find out IQ & smart milk stuck attributes.
Yes, the eye in the sky is it. It does have the extended option for toddlers, its in the updated version of the baby-macro.
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Posted by: witch
On a side note, I sucessfully used 'update a pre uni sim' on my new CAS sims, though I don't know if the new careers open up as my sims cannot afford a computer yet and none of the new careers have turned up in the paper.
They do in my game, they even get a memory of "went to college".
G.
RainbowTigress:
JM, can you put Test IQ on the lot debugger so we don't have to keep the baby controller around to check this? That would be great. It was so fascinating once I found out what this does. I was running an experiment with several toddlers and all of them grew up "smart" but one lost his for some reason. He is way behind the others in his skills, of course. I wondered if the "Toddler skill" memory token in SimPE had anything to do with this, but they all had them. Funny that it was an invisible memory belonging to Mortimer Goth. I tried copying the info from one of the other children who was still "smart" and put it in his token, but it didn't change anything and I put his original info back. Do you know where this information is stored, and if there is a way to put it into a sim who has lost his smartness? I was forced to reset another child, so she lost her smartness also. It's such a drag to skill now that they are at 100 and the others are still at 300, and they rack up skill points like crazy. I also thought it was interesting that when being taught to study, their IQ jumps to 400, but drops back to whatever it was before after the session is over. I thought this might have been what caused one to lose their IQ, but it didn't happen on the others.
Marvin Kosh:
I take a rather relaxed approach to skills. Given that you can get through college and into a decent job by concentrating just on those skills you will need, I like to rack up aspiration points in between building skills. One reason for this is that - with a little tweakage in SimPE - I have significantly increased the time it takes to reach the higher skill levels, and so if I want my Sims to ever maximise all skills, they're going to need some Elixirs. That, and the inheritance payout when they finally succumb to old age is related to aspiration score; although it's not a lot of cash, it is one way for your next generation of Sims to not be perpetually stuck on the bottom rung of the property ladder.
The one thing in TS2 I love to build above all else, is families. The family I'm glued to right now, I'm trying to decide whether to stop at baby number 3, so poor Trista can actually use her vacation days for something other than being pregnant and being driven insane by the two kids she already has, or press on to four maybe five kids.
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