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What is the point of skilling for children
jimbbq
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I have a child who just grew up into a teen, as a child he has 10 level social skill and it does not even translate into Charisma skill ? What is the point of skilling then for kids ?
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I think that's only if you complete the associated aspiration (Social Butterfly) -- but if you max out the skill they'll start developing the adult skills when still a child. So if your child is level 10 in Social and they tell a joke, you'll get the "Gained Comedy Skill" alert.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
Children actually can play the piano, but not guitar.
I agree the kids skills are nothing but a slow down measure. They should at least give the kids a boost to adult skills. It seems idiotic silly that a kid with 10 creativity and a kid with 0 creativity both grow up to have the same level in all creative skills.
edit: Omg the censorship is so stringent.
Wouldn't call them super adults, but that's one of the various things I loved to do in Sims 3, very sad it's come to what it is now
which makes so very little sense, glad that's not what happens in real life, imagine all those music lessons as a child having to be taken all over again once you hit your teens
They do give Children a way to boost their skill building.
That's what the Child Aspirations are for.
maxing a child skill without the aspiration, might not give them a boost to skill building, but what it does give them is a headstart at building those skills
I think it's great when children can work on skills, it gives them a vantage when they grow up. It's nice to start playing young adults that have more to them than the ones you create in CAS to start a game with. It's also realistic.
Maxing out most of the child skills do open up several Normal Skills.
I think the only one that doesn't do that is Active.
I suppose I just don't want to have to complete the aspirations in order to unlock the skill boosts. Sometimes I like to focus on skill building alone, rather than jumping through the hoops the aspirations have for me. It would be nice if sims could also earn the various skill boosts passively by maxing the associated skill during childhood. I guess I just want more routes to take to reach the same conclusion; more open and varied gameplay. I got to a point where I'd completed all the kid's aspirations once and felt like I was just repeating myself. It's just a tad linear for my liking. As it is, without the aspiration rewards, maxing the child's skills only allows your sim to start at the bottom of adult skills and start grinding a little sooner.
They can play piano -- they just can't play guitar. I had a child Sim gain quite a few piano points before he aged up to Teen, then he was able to go make money from tips. (One reason I wish Sims Teens had their own savings accounts separate from the household account.) They also don't gain Fitness skill after maxing Motor. (I thought they could gain Video Game skill from maxed Motor, but it's actually maxed Mental that gets that.)
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
Exactly.
While I agree that it doesn´t make sense to not have them gain knowledge in certain music instruments, at least the current system is better than having an unrestrained ability to increase adult skills as a child
(although I for my part would have solved this differently ... by allowing them to increase adult skills, but decreasing the skill gain of kids and teens by so much, that even kids who concentrate on a single skill in their free time, as kids and teens won´t start with more than level 4 in this skill when they become young adults ... but I understand why Maxis did it the way they did ... psychologically by having a separate skill set that grows more rapidly, the player gains more sense of archievement [than s/he would get by just moving slowly through adult skills as a kid])
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