Smart Milk and the college years
RainbowTigress:
I was trying to see if I could teach a former townie teen to study now he's in college, but I wasn't getting the option to ask for help with assignment. The Prima guide said this would be available through an interaction with the assignment book. I was trying to do it with two sims who lived in the same household. The guide says that assisting another student with their assignment would enable them to complete assignments in half the time (they usually take about an hour). But it seemed to imply this was only available to a playable sim to an unplayable sim. So I went to the sorority house where his girlfriend lives and had her invite him over. I made him selectable long enough to have him spawn an assignment and cancel the action to do it. Then I clicked on his assignment book, and my sim had the option to do the assignment, help with, or tutor for simoleans. I chose help with. I had to repeat this a second time, and half way through it, they both got the books over their head and a memory of teaching to study/being taught to study. But as long as he was selectable, the option wasn't there. I had to make him unselectable for it to work. I don't know why it works this way though. It seems to be the opposite of the way homework works for teens. Teens can only be taught to study by someone in the same household. Anyway, I thought this might help someone understand how this works.
simmiecal:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 October 15, 19:13:16
I was trying to see if I could teach a former townie teen to study now he's in college, but I wasn't getting the option to ask for help with assignment. The Prima guide said this would be available through an interaction with the assignment book. I was trying to do it with two sims who lived in the same household. The guide says that assisting another student with their assignment would enable them to complete assignments in half the time (they usually take about an hour). But it seemed to imply this was only available to a playable sim to an unplayable sim. So I went to the sorority house where his girlfriend lives and had her invite him over. I made him selectable long enough to have him spawn an assignment and cancel the action to do it. Then I clicked on his assignment book, and my sim had the option to do the assignment, help with, or tutor for simoleans. I chose help with. I had to repeat this a second time, and half way through it, they both got the books over their head and a memory of teaching to study/being taught to study. But as long as he was selectable, the option wasn't there. I had to make him unselectable for it to work. I don't know why it works this way though. It seems to be the opposite of the way homework works for teens. Teens can only be taught to study by someone in the same household. Anyway, I thought this might help someone understand how this works.
I remember reading in a post (sorry - don't remember where) but that the "tutoring" is how you train the college student. It's just like helping a child with their homework with the added benefit that the one that is giving the help also gets paid for it. I can't say whether this is accurate or not because I've just let the townies stay ignorant and my sims play instruments if they need cash. :-\
Andygal:
I had a sim teach a former dormie to study when they were living together in a greek house.
The teaching sim has to have a better GPA then the sim being taught.
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: Andygal on 2005 October 15, 19:52:25
I had a sim teach a former dormie to study when they were living together in a greek house.
The teaching sim has to have a better GPA then the sim being taught.
Mine all have 4.0 GPAs. Unless it includes the current semester, but my sim was a sophomore, and even the junior or seniors couldn't teach him. :-\
Hook:
A little update on smart milk:
I used Pescado's baby controller to test IQ on a toddler I was playing. The mother was made in CAS after Nightlife was installed, but before the patch. Father was a townie. Baby was born normally in-game.
Toddler showed an IQ of 300 after being fed smart milk. Bathing the toddler did not change the IQ back to 100 as Pescdado mentioned earlier. Child still had the 300 IQ, 400 if being taught on a career reward object. Teen had a 500 IQ while being trained on the fingerprint scanner while wearing a thinking cap, IQ returned to 300 after removing the cap.
Teen's IQ went back to 100 after installing the patch, as expected, as all Sims are reset at this time.
I doubt if it matters, but the toddler was never fed anything but smart milk. I figure if I go through almost two complete smart milk aspiration rewards, I've paid for my Sim's high IQ.
Hook
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