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Title: Lifetime Wants Based on Personality Post by: Torkle on 2006 April 22, 04:56:35 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. Title: Re: Lifetime Wants Based on Personality Post by: Flamingo on 2006 April 22, 05:41:21 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).
Title: Re: Lifetime Wants Based on Personality Post by: Ness on 2006 April 22, 08:12:43 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? Title: Re: Lifetime Wants Based on Personality Post by: J. M. Pescado on 2006 April 22, 10:33:51 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.
Title: Re: Lifetime Wants Based on Personality Post by: Torkle on 2006 April 22, 16:15:04
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. Title: Re: Lifetime Wants Based on Personality Post by: SciBirg on 2006 April 22, 16:39:52 Thank you! I will try your version for a while as I hate to mess with interests.
Title: Re: Lifetime Wants Based on Personality Post by: J. M. Pescado on 2006 April 24, 10:55:26 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.
Title: Re: Lifetime Wants Based on Personality Post by: SciBirg on 2006 April 24, 11:46:19 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? Title: Re: Lifetime Wants Based on Personality Post by: SaraMK on 2006 April 26, 03:08:58 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 Title: Re: Lifetime Wants Based on Personality Post by: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 May 26, 20:28:58 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!
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