This mod looks interesting

[jefrir]

I usually entirely ignore the social side - the meal and tour will generally get me in easily. Any schmoozing is desperation only.

[Gwill]

I've been playing with this mod for a bit now, and I'm surprised at how incredibly slow the writing skill builds.  One point out of a hundred per book written?  And does the writing skill even have any effect?  I've never had a book written by a maxed crative sim not be a best seller.  Do they write faster with more skill or something?  So far my slave servo has written 5 books, and I think she got more money for each, but aside from that I don't see any noticable difference, but then 5/100 points isn't much.
Paintings are more erratic, a max creative sim is perfectly able to paint a picture that isn't a master piece, but the chances of it happening seems to increase with painting skill, and the price of the pictures is going up.

Dancing gives you the scholarship and prevents mean sims from pointing and laughing at you...  And I guess you're less likely to step on your date's toes during slow dance.
I assume pool skill actually makes you more likely to win, which can be useful if you hustle, although I don't see any sim getting rich that way.

What does meditation skill do?

[ThyGuy]

High meditation skill makes it so you can float, and teleport around while meditating. Completely uselss but gives you something to do while a sim is meditating I guess.

[miros]

I usually entirely ignore the social side - the meal and tour will generally get me in easily. Any schmoozing is desperation only.

Yeah, last night, I got 40 points for the tour and 49 points for the meal.  Headmaster didn't wanna schmooze with anyone in the family, so I served coffee!

[jrd]

Don't forget the ten points bonus for coffee.

[miros]

Coffee is indispensible!

[Gwill]

If you sit down with the headmaster and have coffee with him, you gain smooze points while getting the 10 point coffee bonus.

[miros]

Wow!  Never noticed that, but I usually don't have 0 schmooze points with the timer running down...

[witch]

Teen girls is what does it for my headmasters too. Although I've almost given up on the whole scenario, it seems to crash frequently in my game, despite clean installs and all the rest. If I really really want a sim to go to private school I generally do it in SimPE - but that's usually to support a storyline rather than make it easier for jobs etc.

[jsalemi]

Monique's latest computers have an option to send the kids to private school automatically as long as your family funds support it (she also charges tuition of 100 simoleans a day per kid automatically). I think having at least 20k available funds is the point where it kicks in.

[ThyGuy]

I always use DJSims corrupt headmaster aspiration reward. The 5k simoleans is worth not having to deal with the head master.

[V]

I always use DJSims corrupt headmaster aspiration reward. The 5k simoleans is worth not having to deal with the head master.

Oh, that sounds very useful. Especially for situations such as Brandi & Mortimer's wedding that did not automatically put her 3rd son into private school with Alexander.


*off to go find that download

[miros]

Well, I really don't mind doing it once per family, but it gets old really fast if you've got 3 or 4 kids... I like the Legacy deal!