What do YOU do with your platinum people?
Regina:
First, let me say congratulations to Hairfish on 27 years of marriage! I reached 21 myself this last August and my biggest question is where on earth has that 21 years gone? It seems like only yesterday we were married! LOL
Now, back on topic. Since I don't have University, the perma-plat thing was new to me when I git Nightlife. Since installing NL I haven't done much except for play my Legacy family and my first generation is within a few days of death now. I wasn't sure (especially after reading this thread the first time) how I would like this new aspect, but I have to say I honestly love it! Trying to keep sims in a high aspiration was never one of my favorite features to begin with, so having some in perma-plat has taken much of the stress out of playing my game. I still fulfill their wants--after all I don't see a good reason not to, and just enjoy playing with them.
It's also had a little different effect on how I play my non-pp sims. I'm not stressing as much as I used to about trying to keep their aspiration meters as high as possible. Oh yes, we still fulfill wants for good aspiration levels but I'm much more inclined to let them slide a bit, especially if they're not ready for a promotion.
cwykes:
Quote from: bluecatvon on 2005 October 08, 10:02:11
you're lucky. my boyfriend covers his ears and la-la-la like the sims does whenever i tried to tell him what he has accomplished in his grand sim life.
that's about the reaction I get from pretty much everyone.
Since I don't have Uni or NL, I don't have permaplat. I have sims who would be permaplat though. I use them as tutors and baby sitters to avoid nannies completely. I moved a bunch of teen townies in with one romance sim who had got to 30 loves at once and concentrate on them not him. The idea was to grow them up so he could flirt with them too. He can't encourage, but he can use career objects. In another house I had 1 knowledge sim who knew everything - I gave him a succession of boyfriends and had him make friends with all the kids and teach them things (thanks to JM's hacks). He and a partner adopted a really ugly kid, then I had him marry the maid and start a family. I wanted to have him max all his interests, but that's technically impossible I discovered.
I've only had 3 sims die - one by accident during the headmasters visit, one was an elder I created in CAS to live and die in a starter home, thus creating a starter home with a gravestone for other knowledge sims to move into. it was on the sims2 site. The other was also created to die and provide a gravestone. I was trying to set up a sort of elder challenge... I can't bear to kill any others off, but I have quite a few elders now...
re grandma - Buntah made some non-saggy meshes for grandma on TSR. They're better...
Hairfish:
Quote from: cwykes on 2005 October 10, 23:18:11
I wanted to have him max all his interests, but that's technically impossible I discovered.
Not if you use Merola's Multi-Painting. ;)
Witches:
I've maxxed out people on skills and I've never used Merola's painting. It just takes time, and patience. It helps if they don't have kids.
It's just kind of boring to do. The easiest is to have two knowledge sims live together and work on maxxing out their skills. I had a husband and wife do it, and that wasn't even her ambition. Sure made becoming a mad scientist easy, though. So they were both maxxed out, permanent plat, and then they had a kid ...
Now, I don't worry about it. I'm not really interested in going "perma plat" for the most part so I just have them work in a different profression, if it's a professional goal. If it's a personal goal I don't worry about it too much ... especially the crazy ones.
My pleasure sim's lifetime want is 50 first dates. Since she's only dated one guy and is now happily married, I already know she's not going to even come close. Besides, 50? Holy crap. I'd have to invent people for her to date. Especially since she is firmly straight. Can't even get a spark for other girls. I'm not sure there are 50 eligilble male NPCs. OK, probably, but who wants to date Goopy?
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: Witches on 2005 October 11, 16:03:44
I've maxxed out people on skills and I've never used Merola's painting. It just takes time, and patience. It helps if they don't have kids.
The previous poster was talking about maxing out interests, not skills. Maxing out skills is easy once you know how to do it. All of my sim kids are maxed out on skills before going to college. Only the townies I have sent to college aren't, and if they work at it, they will be maxed out before they graduate. The Skillinator helps here because you can set them skilling and forget about them and concentrate on your other sims. But I have never tried maxing out interests. I didn't know if it was possible, but I don't really pay attention to interests anyway.
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