Effect of age on teaching skills and encouraging?

[Thanatos]

Hi, I'm new to these forums but a veteran at "thesimsresource" forums. Where I have the same name. (Sort of)

I wanted to ask a couple of related questions about something that is hinted to exist by the Prima official guide. Since some of the info there is quite erroneous, I though this would be good place to ask.

I have two related questions.


1. With relation to encouraging personality, what affect does age difference, age of the encourager, or person being encouraged, personality of both, and difference in personality have on the rate of developing (or losing) personality points?

2.  Similarly, With relation to learning skills on objects, what affect do age difference, age of the teacher, or person being taught, personality of both, and difference in personality have on the rate of developing skill points?

Thanks in advance.

[C.S.]

Dunno the answer to the first one, but here's something that might answer some if not all of the queries regarding question no.2. Check out Myths, Urban Legends, And Apocrypha Of TS2 Explored And Exploded in The War Room on this very website, it mentioned skilling.

Here's the link:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?board=4.0

[LK]

For the first one, Elders are able to encourage better than any other age group (so says the book).

[J. M. Pescado]

Elders appear to have more encourage firepower than any other group, but absolutely nothing affects the bonus gained for "teach" on a career item: It is always +100%, regardless of the level of skill of the instructor, whether the instructor wears a thinking cap or not, or the age of the instructor. The learning wearing a thinking cap is +100%, which stacks for a total of +200% LR. If the learner has the "stuck smart milk" effect, that is +200%, which stacks with "Teach", but is overridden permanently by the thinking cap.

[Marvin Kosh]

Of course Elders make particularly good instructors if they have retired and can spend most of their day instructing the younger generations.  Better yet, they can encourage a favourable personality prior to training, so you get the most possible skill-building done.

[Process Denied]

Get the macro-encourager it is awesome.  Daniel Pleasant was able to get Lilith and Angela not to be messy, and Olive got Nervous to have a 10 in neatness so I didn't have to kill him again.