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[cowofdoom78963]

Hmm.  Anyone know if it's possible to add new wants and fears to your sims through modding, in either Sims 2 or 3?

I just decided that I really want to add religion.  Mostly for the sheer awesome factor of random new-agey sims that want to hold solstice ceremonies or whatnot.  Also, influencing other sims to your religion (especially kids), and the fun wants/fears you'd get of raising a kid in a two-religion household.

Heck, the first thing I ever tried to do in The Sims 2 was make a community lot that was a church with a crazy random preacher living in it.  Of course that didn't work, like, at all.

...Actually, now that I think about it, I'd really like an open-source Sims type game so I could mod this kinda stuff into the core functionality :/

Well mabey you can get two sims. One who likes football and one who likes tenis, then pretend their christianity and islam. Viola, a multi-religion household.

[Sowelu]

Yeah but you really need new wants and fears to do that properly.  Easy enough to add a concept of 'this sim is this religion' through scripting, but without wants and fears, you can only have so much fun.

WANT:  My child visits religious ceremony.
FEAR:  My child converts to other religion.
(Lots of fun when parents are different religions.  Sometimes, the kid has to walk on eggshells around Mom, and has to choose the right time to bring up the conversion topic...)

[cowofdoom78963]

Yeah but you really need new wants and fears to do that properly.  Easy enough to add a concept of 'this sim is this religion' through scripting, but without wants and fears, you can only have so much fun.

WANT:  My child goes to football game.
FEAR:  My child goes to tennis game.
(Lots of fun when parents are different religions.  Sometimes, the kid has to walk on eggshells around Mom, and has to choose the right time to bring up the conversion topic...)

There you go.

[Sowelu]

Aaaaaand you're missing the point, because THOSE wants/fears don't exist EITHER.

I need a way to add new wants and fears that don't exist yet.  Is that possible?

[ParkEX]

God damn it, why do Sims have to age so overly fast? In Sims 2, you could at least buy those weird drinks that make them become young again, but here... I haven't found any special item that includes that. Maybe I just didn't look close enough, but duh.

[cowofdoom78963]

God damn it, why do Sims have to age so overly fast? In Sims 2, you could at least buy those weird drinks that make them become young again, but here... I haven't found any special item that includes that. Maybe I just didn't look close enough, but duh.

cant you turn off ageing with a cheat?

[Virtz]

God damn it, why do Sims have to age so overly fast? In Sims 2, you could at least buy those weird drinks that make them become young again, but here... I haven't found any special item that includes that. Maybe I just didn't look close enough, but duh.

You can select a lifespan in the game options (the longest making Sims naturally live up to 960 game days). You can also turn off ageing at all there. Without turning off ageing, there's also life fruit.

As a gardener/scientist, you have a chance of randomly getting this at work. You can then plant this and grow more. They grow slow and only give 2 fruit per harvest (and last about as many harvests as other plants), but once you set up like 10 of these plants and have some gardening-related buffs, you should be able to grow them at a steady enough rate to eat a fruit per day (and each fruit eaten lengthens the sim's lifespan by 1 day).

[Ampersand]

I don't get why science is so Dependant on Gardening and Fishing, but not logic.

[ParkEX]

God damn it, why do Sims have to age so overly fast? In Sims 2, you could at least buy those weird drinks that make them become young again, but here... I haven't found any special item that includes that. Maybe I just didn't look close enough, but duh.

You can select a lifespan in the game options (the longest making Sims naturally live up to 960 game days). You can also turn off ageing at all there. Without turning off ageing, there's also life fruit.

As a gardener/scientist, you have a chance of randomly getting this at work. You can then plant this and grow more. They grow slow and only give 2 fruit per harvest (and last about as many harvests as other plants), but once you set up like 10 of these plants and have some gardening-related buffs, you should be able to grow them at a steady enough rate to eat a fruit per day (and each fruit eaten lengthens the sim's lifespan by 1 day).

Oh! Cool, well in that case, I better check again. Thanks.

[Jreengus]

I'm I the only one who made a family of hydrophobes and built a swimming pool around them then placed everything they need outside it?

[Sergius]

I don't get why science is so Dependant on Gardening and Fishing, but not logic.

It's because it's not science, it's "Science!". Probably involves a lot of creating anchovy/tomato hybrids and the like. Heck, the lifetime wish for Science! is something like "become a something creature breeder" which I assume has something to do with Pokemon.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

I don't get why science is so Dependant on Gardening and Fishing, but not logic.

It's because it's not science, it's "Science!". Probably involves a lot of creating anchovy/tomato hybrids and the like. Heck, the lifetime wish for Science! is something like "become a something creature breeder" which I assume has something to do with Pokemon.

Professor Oak has wet himself.

[blazing glory]

Fun fact:The Sims 3 doesn't really have a dedicated thread.

At least, if it does, it's camouflaged enough to avoid the forum search.

Anyway, The Sims 3 Into the future, is there a way to avoid receiving the Almanac of Time while still gaining access to the future or at least, the Time Traveler?

[miauw62]

Then make a new thread instead of necroing an ancient thread.

[blazing glory]

Then make a new thread instead of necroing an ancient thread.

Seems kind of too late to make a game thread and making a thread just to ask a specific question seems kind of pointless.

...

Ah whatever, worse threads have been made, and it's probably better then necroing anyway.

Here goes nothing.