What do YOU do with your platinum people?
windy_moon:
Quote from: aussieone on 2005 September 26, 23:54:52
I suppose the good thing to having your Sim in permanent platinum is that you don't have the constant hassle of fulfilling wants for them, which in a big sim family can be more stressful than relaxing while playing the game imo.
So then rather than having to fulfill wants, you can in theory let 'em run wild and free....doing whatever their little simmy hearts desires.
Apparently Daniel wants to putter, huh, but he doesn't look very happy, platinum and everything, puttering around while his young wife (she gets Elxir) and youngest daughter are living life.
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It's a bit like working all of your life, then having enough money to go nuts with :)
Maybe that will work for my rich Sims. Daniel and Kaylynn are always scraping.
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As for a sim of age 62?
The bad news is I had a Sim reach 89 days old if I recall. Hopwever I did keep him quite fit and active until he died. I heard somewhere that if an elder sim becomes unfit and doesn't do much i.e: participate in living in general, than I think they may shuffle off their mortal coil a bit younger than expected.
OH MY GOD, 89?
Sigh. Maybe they have to get a pool. ;)
Kaylynn and Penelope (teenager) are integral to some good story lines... I can't avoid the house. I hate killing Sims off, but this feels like euthinasia. The most excitement he gets is when Kaylynn needs a smooch for her daily wants.
Ness:
the number of days an elder has to live appears to be set at the time they age...
I usually use on of inge's shrubs to tell me how long they have, and routinely suck off about 10 days with merola's painting... somewhere in the 70s seems to be about averages
Ness
Ancient Sim:
Have you tried using the LotDeBugger to toggle-off the permanent plat? At least then there is some purpose again to achieving wants. Either Maxis didn't think all this LTW thing through enough, or didn't test it enough, because it's simply far too easy to achieve. Now that the LTW mod isn't functioning anymore, my Sims are back to rolling stupid career wants and the same ones over & over. The situation is even worse when you have zombies and now the vampires.
I have decided that I am probably going to extend the adult period by 10 years, then remove that 10 years when they become elders. I just can't cope with near enough 30 years for every elder, and that's what it's going to be once my first graduates start making elder - I have one now who is literally hours away and many more to follow. He is on hold at present because his girlfriend (he's Romance, never married!) is hopefully about to become my first vampire (I am trying SO hard not to cheat with this) and I can't decide whether to extend him by 10 years, have her bite him, or just let him age. He's had late middle-age wrinkles and stuff for a while now to look the part. All that romancing has taken it out of him.
Gus Smedstad:
Since Platinum People are dull, I try and put them in a household with a younger couple, and I just ignore them while I play everyone else in the household. This doesn't work if the younger couple is completely baby crazy, of course, but often it works out well enough with the more reproductively restrained ones.
In fact, I find Platinum People so dull that I simply don't work toward Lifetime Wants. I'll make gestures like put the Sim in the right job, but that's about it. I'll fulfill the LTW shortly before they die of old age just to get the gold headstone, but only if it's easy.
I stopped using the Elixer of Life a long time ago. Even without permanent platinum, Sims who have been around for a long time become less interesting. They just don't have as much to strive for unless they're Popularity sims striving for the 30th best friend or Romance sims striving for that 30th love. It's kind of nice for a Sim's story to end.
- Gus
windy_moon:
Quote from: ness on 2005 September 27, 00:10:45
the number of days an elder has to live appears to be set at the time they age...
I usually use on of inge's shrubs to tell me how long they have, and routinely suck off about 10 days with merola's painting... somewhere in the 70s seems to be about averages
Ness
Oh my, I did not know that Inge's shrub (which I love, how many times have I said that) could give me the days remaining info. I'll check that out tomorrow morning...children monopolizing Sim computer at the moment.
If I know how many days are left, I can make Daniel a decent story to go with them. He's been good for plots up until now, needs a decent send off.
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 September 27, 00:12:34
Have you tried using the LotDeBugger to toggle-off the permanent plat? At least then there is some purpose again to achieving wants. Either Maxis didn't think all this LTW thing through enough, or didn't test it enough, because it's simply far too easy to achieve. Now that the LTW mod isn't functioning anymore, my Sims are back to rolling stupid career wants and the same ones over & over. The situation is even worse when you have zombies and now the vampires.
I figure that I could unstick Daniel some way if I tried hard enough, but what really concerns me is, say, my guy Maximus March who I raised from a toddler CAS and is one of my favorites. *this* far from the Knowledge LTW of maxing all skills. Another favorite, Elizabeth Dupree (Sims 1 recreate) who is nearly a Celebrity Chef. These Sims are far from Elders....
I'm hoping that acheiving LTWs doesn't turn into a death sentence...although that is a sweet irony, isn't it?
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