Lifetime Wants Based on Personality

[Torkle]

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.

[Flamingo]

Thanks for this. It brings a touch more realism to the game, as it gives Sims lifetime wants that they would suit them much better, rather than something based completely on a default aspiration you choose and then have it decided at random (or so it seems).

[Ness]

Torkle, could you give a list of the particular personality traits required for each career?

I'm assuming it has no effect on the other aspiration-specific LTWs, like max 7 skills is still only for knowledge sims?

[J. M. Pescado]

Mine already took personality into consideration, as well as interests, so nobody who hates the interest associated with their job will actually want that as their LTW.

[Torkle]

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.

Mine already took personality into consideration, as well as interests, so nobody who hates the interest associated with their job will actually want that as their LTW.

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.

[SciBirg]

Thank you! I will try your version for a while as I hate to mess with interests.

[J. M. Pescado]

I find the association of jobs with interests to be helpful: I try to assign sims to the jobs they thus want as a result, and thus when I have sims talking to them, I know what to pick as a topic and know they'll talk about.

[SciBirg]

I find the association of jobs with interests to be helpful: I try to assign sims to the jobs they thus want as a result, and thus when I have sims talking to them, I know what to pick as a topic and know they'll talk about.

I much prefer my sims to be unpredictable. To me, it adds some challenge that way. But I was wondering, I hate to go downtown just to purchase the required magazines for interest generation. Could the interest magazines be incorporated into a buyable bookcase instead?

[SaraMK]

I much prefer my sims to be unpredictable. To me, it adds some challenge that way. But I was wondering, I hate to go downtown just to purchase the required magazines for interest generation. Could the interest magazines be incorporated into a buyable bookcase instead?

Would this work instead? http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=79208

[ZephyrZodiac]

I'd love the old "Interesting toilet" from C&C revamped for sims 2!  Made all that time sims spend in their favourite occupation worthwhile somehow!