I forgotten how to get the cowplant. I just made a knowledge sim, and her lifetime want was to max out her seven skills. *Yawn* So I just maxxed them out using boolprop. Didn't work. So I almost maxxed them out with boolprop, just left one point clear on each bar. Now I'm going to see if that will work - I'll get her to max them out by herself.
The townie George McCarthy had almost all his skills maxed out when I moved him into college. I thought, "WOW," good potential husband for one of my sims. He married Sybil Sparrow (and their kids are writing to each other under the thread "Dear Emmy" which Slimsim moved to Forum Games through some logic I can't follow ). George quickly studied up on the remaining couple of points he lacked and now is the most BORING sim in all my neighborhoods. Makes good money, though. I don't let him retire. He has achieved lifetime wants three times--business tycoon, master criminal and hall of famer. He just keeps getting up every morning, eats, gets dressed, thinks about going to work, and then goes to work. All the action happens when he's not there. I think something may be developing between his bored wife and Uncle Drake (who likes to relive his past glory as a college mascot.)
I suspected as much, Lynet ... when the cat's away and all that. I actually like the "max out all skills" ambition, call me nuts. I like that it takes a while to do, because Lynet is right: permanent platinum sims are the most boring to play. Angst and tribulations are what make a good story. I don't work too hard at it, and my sims never seem to quite make their ambitions ... I'm so mean, I know. You could argue to move Emmy back. East Simders and the Simmer's didn't get moved and they're essentially the same thing. Now, watch. My soap will be moved too. And Babe, you get the cow plant as a career reward for the Natural Science career. Which means the sim has to have gone to college.
Aaah, SBW - I knew I'd seen it somewhere. Well, I maxxed out the skills - and it worked! Venus is now constantly happy - yeah - it is quite boring. Now though, I have quite a large problem! When Venus moved up from the ranks of sophomore to junior, a little message appeared, saying that I had so many aspiration points Venus could change her aspiration! After giving it some thought, I decided against it. Venus is a knowledge sim, and that's how she's gonna stay. So back to the game. One of her wants now said that she wanted to invite her boyfriend over, and another said flirt with her boyfriend. I did both those things - no scrolling, no new wants! As well as that, two of my other sims, Emma and Kallissa, have no wants! Their bars are both blank! Anyone, little help? I thought if I spent some aspiration points vis-a-vis the Venus situation, that may help. What you think?
Most of my Sims get the lifetime want fulfilled when they're elders, which is helpful because then I can focus on the younger generations while the elders do as they please. But when an adult Sim fulfills the want, yeah they are boring. Though it makes Fortune sims easier to deal with...no buying 10 $900 couches for example.
Everyone gets a chance to change their lifetime aspiration when they become a Junior, whether they have a lot of points or not, but I think that's kind of dumb, as I've mentioned before. I choose their aspirations carefully, and they then become part of that sim, so changing it would be jarring. I did have a Fortune sim in my old neighborhood who started acting more like a Romance sim, so I was going to change her (never got that far before I quit that neighborhood), but she was the only one. I'd rather be allowed to change their lifetime want instead. I hate some of those. 20 simultaneous lovers? It's a good thing I don't care that much about reaching "permanent platinum" anymore ... As for your sim's blank wants, Babe, I've had one slot be temporarily blank for a sim and then right itself. Maybe having them do some "happy point" things they typically like (buy clothes, gain a skill point, influence someone to clean) would help set their wants spinning again. Or you could try moving them to a new lot. That might help. Sometimes a lot becomes buggy. I've had two dorms in the same uni crash, makes me think that particular neighborhood is a bit touchy. That's about all I can think of.
