Study Parenting

[FourCats]

Is very annoying.  Whenever my sims study parenting, and stop to go do something else, than come back to study they have to start all over again.
They were nearly done studying so I gave them an action to do when they were finished.  They put away the book before finishing, so I sent them back to study, and they lost it all and had to restart at the beginning. 

Any other skill it continues where it was left off, why must parenting be all learned in one sitting?  Is there a hack to fix this?

[jsalemi]

More likely you have a hack that's breaking it -- they retain their 'knowledge' between sessions in my game just fine and pick up where they left off.  Make sure you don't have an older non-FT compatible hack hiding somewhere.

[Gwill]

It works fine for me.  There's some ADHD issues with it, but no loss of progress.

[jsalemi]

There's some ADHD issues with it, but no loss of progress.

Yea, it's pretty bad that way -- I usually click on macro/concentrate right after sending a sim off to study parenting, and that solves the ADHD problem.  Since the parenting thing is pretty useless anyway, now I don't even bother having the sims study it at all, unless they get a want for it.

[buddha pest]

  Since the parenting thing is pretty useless anyway, now I don't even bother having the sims study it at all, unless they get a want for it.

Is the "check on baby" action the only thing it does? And what exactly does that do anyway? All it did for me was make the sim go pick up the baby, and hold it, and do nothing.

[mitchellcjs]

They get a bubble over their head of the infant's lowest need, that's all.  Fairly useless, yes.

[gynarchy]

The few times I've had Sims check on their babies, the thought bubble showed comfort as the lowest motive. Really helpful information, seeing as how AFAIK infants shouldn't even have a comfort motive at all.

[kewian]

The comfort only goes down if they have soiled themselves or been on the floor too long.
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[J. M. Pescado]

Babies don't have comfort. The only meaningful motives that babies have which decay, according to the code dump, are Hunger, Hygiene, and Fun (very minor). Babies also have Energy and Bladder, but there is nothing you can do about these motives and they can be ignored. Babies do not have Comfort or Social decay. While they DO have a social motive, it does not decay and will fill from any interactions you do with the baby and stay there.

[witch]

So you only have to talk to the little blighter once?

[Jess Maree]

So you only have to talk to the little blighter once?

Well you could constantly talk/play with the shitting machine just to build up the relationship with them. Makes the "I want fwend NAO!!11!" want easier to get when the spawn grows up into a child.

[J. M. Pescado]

Doesn't work. Actions are penalized in yield when repeated, and since babies only have one or two interactions, and you need 4 to form a continuous cycle, this is pretty much pointless. As babies cannot be conversed with, there is no interaction you can put them in for relationship by talk, either.

[Jess Maree]

...As babies cannot be conversed with, there is no interaction you can put them in for relationship by talk, either.

So even if you talk with the spawn as babies it doesn't increase the relationship? What about playing?

[witch]

I meant talking to them once to fill up the social motive JM mentioned.

[Jess Maree]

I meant talking to them once to fill up the social motive JM mentioned.

Oh, right. My bad

Gah this whole JM thing is confusing me. We're both called JM! I changed my name initially to get over the "JMG/JMP" confusing thing! I might have to change it again... any suggestions?

[J. M. Pescado]

No one ever calls you that, Pedobait. You are always "Pedobait".

[Jess Maree]

Alright, alright, I getcha. Some people call me Jess. But they are few and far between.

I was going to change my actual username to Pedobait, but then it'd look stupid with the custom title.

[Emma]

Oh, I dunno. Pedobait Pedobait sounds pretty good

I call you Jess, because I can't be bothered to type your whole name.

[Jess Maree]

Pedobait Pedobait sounds odd. And if I change my username to it people will think "WTF? Why is she willingly calling herself that?" but you can't pick your custom title

Oh, and I prefer Pedobait than Jesse Maree, Jessie Maree, JessMaree, JessieMaree, JesseMaree, Jess Marie, Jessie Marie etc. "Maree" is NOT that hard to spell, FFS!

[Gwill]

Pedobait Pedobait would go perfectly with Humbert Humbert!
(Humbert Humbert is the protagonist of "Lolita" if anyone is lacking in their cultural baggage.)

[Emma]

LOL Gwill

[Roux]

Pedobait Pedobait would go perfectly with Humbert Humbert!
(Humbert Humbert is the protagonist of "Lolita" if anyone is lacking in their cultural baggage.)

Or Major Major Major Major. 
(Catch-22)