Wants & Fears Sanity "Death To All Nesses" Public Beta Edition
notveryawesome:
Hmmm, my sims still have random interests, even the b.i.g. ones. Perhaps you're experiencing the so-called 'first born' effect?
hedgekat:
No, it's not the 'first born effect'. They have different zodiac signs, different personalities, different appearances. In the neighborhood I am currently playing I almost always have multiple births in each game session. I have used the lot debugger randomizer feature. Nothing changes it. ALL sims have a 4 in health. ALL adult sims have an 8 in fashion, work and weather. ALL adult sims have 0-5 in animals, school, toys and sci-fi. (In fact, even my CAS sims and any townies that I checked has those values for those four interests.) Entertainment is the only interest that actually has a random variable ranging from 1-9 in adult sims. At least that is true for the approximately 250 sims that I have checked and recorded data on.
It appears to me to be the way Maxis set it up to have interests change over time from toddlerhood to adult. Little ones aren't much interested in politics, money, crime, etc. And many adults are no longer interested in the same things they were as children. But it uses the same change factor of 4 for every interest. And that makes adults have only a small range of variability in any particular interest.
This is a huge source of frustration for me. I have taken to randominzing them myself with dice.
Katie:
Quote from: hedgekat on 2007 May 28, 17:37:58
They have different zodiac signs, different personalities, different appearances. In the neighborhood I am currently playing I almost always have multiple births in each game session. I have used the lot debugger randomizer feature. Nothing changes it. ALL sims have a 4 in health. ALL adult sims have an 8 in fashion, work and weather.
After reading this post I've been checking the interests of my Sims as I play, and out of the 13 BIG sims I've played so far, 12 of them have a 4 in health/8 in weather, work, and I *think* environment.
I'm trying to figure what distinguishes the one without those exact interests from the other twelve. All I can come up with is that he's a twin, and he is by far the oldest Sim I've checked so far. I play quite slowly and it is very possible that he was born ages ago with only the base game installed.
MissDoh:
For some reason, that mod is NOT part of Seasons director's cut anymore, not sure if it ever was actually but I thought I should bring that to your attention
Weaver:
This post has information on interests attributed over age groups for born-in-game sims.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,323.msg29862.html#msg29862
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