Smart Milk and the college years
Vesca:
I always knew smart milk was good for the toddlers, but I found this very interesting. One of my YAs (totally raised on smart milk) and his townie roommate (of course, not raised on smart milk) are doing their term paper. The townie starts his term paper before my YA does, buy my YA finishes first. Same thing with the college assignments. The townie starts his assignment first, buy my YA still finish his assignment before the townie does. I did this experiment throughout their college years and it's always the same result. Also, when the YA studies to gain a skill point, he studies at a faster rate than the townie does.
Is this something everyone already knows about and I'm just an idiot? I've never paid attention to smart milk beyond the toddler years. This event just happened to catch my attention.
sanmonroe:
Does the townie have a memory "learned to study"?
Try raising a non-townie and never teach tnm to study.
Oddysey:
Quote from: sanmonroe on 2005 October 01, 19:42:14
Does the townie have a memory "learned to study"?
That's a more likely explanation than smart milk, I think. Especially if they cloned assignments off of homework. Don't know quite what the explanation for the skilling is, but perhaps something related to commskilling?
Xav:
I guess it's that bug or maybe you can call it a "feature" since it's still there in NL. I think JM said something about it before, that there's a chance that the smart milk effect stays with the sim their whole lives.
RainbowTigress:
The "stuck smart milk bug" is probably what is responsible for this. You're lucky that your YA was able to keep it this long. I had never heard of smart milk helping out in college, but I guess it's possible. Sims with the stuck smart milk will learn at a faster rate until they are reset by an error or by use of the thinking cap. This is what JM says, and I have observed it on my own. The baby controller has an option to test IQ, and normally a sim will have 100 IQ. When under the influence of Smart milk, they have 300. A sim wearing a thinking cap has 200. Various career reward objects have advanced learning rates as well. I've had sims who were able to retain their "smartness" through the teen years after maxing out all their skills. I didn't pay any attention to it after that because I figured it didn't matter any more. Sims are usually reset after installing an EP anyway, and Maxoid Tom said this was going to be "fixed" in the patch (as well as the bug with being able to teach potty training by canceling the parent's teach icon at the right moment.) This is one bug I wish they wouldn't fix! But I guess it made it too easy anyway. WIth diligent use of the Skillinator, it is still possible to max out a sim's skills before they are halfway through teens even without the smart milk bug.
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