If you're playing Sims 1 Making Magic, I've still got my fixes and hacks available here: http://home.woh.rr.com/torkle/

Sorry - There is nothing broken about the toddler chewing on the Ken doll.  I just thought it was cute and somewhat related to teething issues.

I can't say that I've seen that teething problem before, but I have seen Ken-Doll teeth:

Actually, I'd like to see Servo Recharge, Servo Power Down, and Meditate all get automatic hyperdrive.  This calls for further code investigation...

I have a request: I'd like a new setting to block customers that already have all 5 customer loyalty stars.

Yes, that is counter-intuitive.  I need new blood to advance to Business Level 10, and my already-loyal customers are chewing up all my customer slots at the spa even when I set the price on the ticket machine to ludicrous.  They are very dedicated.  It must be the snapdragons.

I've updated the web page to display the distances to the archetypes after each change.  And yes to Ste - I posted some extreme sign examples quite a few months ago.

And Argon - The zodiac regions aren't neat and tidy hyper-cubes in 5-space that can be described in terms of block coordinates.  They're more spherical due to their derivation, but bump into one another making what might look like bubbles.

Okay, but there are 161,051 different combinations from 0/0/0/0/0 to 10/10/10/10/10.  That's a lot to display on one page.  Even if you limit it to just the ones that add up to 25, there are 8,801 different combinations.  Still a lot to display.

I believe I understand the request, but I'm afraid that would be beyond the scope of a simple javascript app.

If the Romance Total is 15 or higher and you are using Pescado's Romance Mod, then the sim in question will not suffer from jealousy.

The following web page calculates a sim's zodiac sign based on his or her characteristics via JavaScript:
http://www.io.com/~torkle/simsign.html

If any inaccuracies are discovered, I'd like to know about them.  Feel free to steal the code.

I'm not sure if this belongs in Peasantry or Podium, so feel free to move it wherever.

I'm a pack-rat:

Torkle attempted to abandon it, but Pescado is trying to convince me otherwise.  We'll see who wins.

Career	Neat	Outgoing	Active	Playful	Override
Law	7+		7+	3-
Medical	7+			3-
Science	7+			3-	Knowledge
Athlete		7+	7+		Wealth or Popular
Military		7+	7+
Slacker		7+		7+	Romance
Business		7+		7+/3-	Wealth
Politics		7+		7+/3-	Popular
Criminal			7+	7+	Wealth
Culinary				7+/3-

So any sim with high outgoing and active will have a possibility of getting Hall of Famer (Athlete) as a lifetime want, but even a shy and lazy Popularity sim will also have that possibility due to their aspiration.  Those careers with overrides have special aspiration based "impossible wants" that I did not want to deny access to due to lack of ability.


The non-awesomeness of this hack is not disputed.  I found that managing interests to match them up with ability to be too much of a hassle, so my version does not look at interests at all.

Attached is an alternate lifetime wants package that allows the various career-based lifetime wants based on the personality characteristics of the sim.  For instance, if your sim is outgoing and playful, "Become Professional Party Guest" will be a possible lifetime want for that sim regardless of aspiration.

Note: This hack is in direct conflict with Pescado's Lifetime Want Variety hack (ltwvariety.package), so pick one or the other.

I agree with many of the points Nadira raises about what we hoped was in Sims2 (and expansions) versus what was actually delivered by Maxis, even with hacks.  Unfortunately, simulating intelligence and personality, even in a limited way, is an extremely difficult programming challenge.  Hell, on some days its difficult for me to simulate intelligence and personality in real life.  To expect such advanced programming from a mass-marketed game is unrealistic.  And Maxis programming sometimes doesn't even achieve basic programming skills.

There are days that make me question why I am still playing this game; my playing sessions become just another repetitive cycle and it stops being fun.

And then I discover some little thing that I hadn't noticed before.  The latest was the Flirt/Tune-Up interaction that you can get when seducing a servo robot.  The one before that was the little animation sequence that a sim does when watching fish in the aquarium.

And it gives me renewed hope in the game, the fun returns, and I play a little longer.

If the sum of the father's neat, outgoing, and active is higher than 11 (which is probable if they have few nice points), then the expected result is still dad's neat, dad's outgoing, dad's active, a 4 for playful, and a 9 for nice.

My next run is to try the low end with dad at 0/0/0/0/0 and mom at 1/1/1/1/1.  I'll let you know the results.

I beleive that the First-Born Effect has changed with OFB.  Now, the first birth immediately after game start will have the following personality most of the time: Dad's neat, outgoing, and active, a 4 for playful, and a 9 for nice.

Data from experiments:
Dad 5/5/5/5/5 + Mom 5/5/5/5/5 = Baby 5/5/5/4/9
Dad 5/5/5/5/5 + Mom 7/2/7/2/7 = Baby 5/5/5/4/9
Dad 7/2/7/2/7 + Mom 5/5/5/5/5 = Baby 7/2/7/4/9
Dad 10/8/2/0/6 + Mom 1/3/5/7/9 = Baby 10/8/2/4/9
Dad 7/5/7/5/7 + Mom 6/6/6/6/6 = Baby 7/5/7/4/9

Exceptions so far:
Dad 1/3/5/7/9 + Mom 10/8/2/0/6 = Baby 1/3/8/7/9 (Expected 1/3/5/4/9)
Dad 9/9/9/9/9 + Mom 10/10/10/10/10 = Baby 9/8/9/0/9 (Expected 9/9/9/4/9)

The exceptions are where the expected results are below 25 or above 35 total character points.

Anyone care to validate or refute this?

...and from the release notes:

...which will have to do.  TorklePE is complete and utter vaporware.  I have failed in my quest for minion-hood.  I blame that stupid RealLife thing with all of its work, family, taxes, bills and such.

Time is the fire in which we burn.  I'll do my best.

Wow - How did I miss this?  And what did I do to Database to deserve his wrath?

TorklePE is progressing, and I have great confidence that it will be functional before OFB.  Whether or not JM finds it satisfactory is another question.


Well, I can't have that on my conscience.   

"This person" left it up to you to put it on Ingelogical, which you never got around to doing.   
I didn't feel comfortable posting a re-hacked Inge shrub when it was just a cut-and-paste followed by a one line change.

But all is good now - Let the masses enjoy.

Ah, okay.  I missed that one.  Post away!

Umm, just curious - You did get permission from Inge before posting this, right Jordi?

For my part, I'm okay with you posting this here, but it would have been nice if you asked first.

Best challenge story ever, Rohina.  Loved it.