Has anyone had a successful New Skill Day? «12...Next Go

dopaminedroid

The surprise holiday New Skill Day popped up, and it said that sims learn skills faster and should learn a new skill or develop an old one. Both my sims gained a skill point in an existing skill, one in gardening and one in logic, but at the end I got a notification that New Skill Days was awful. I tried searching for mentions of new skill day on here to see if it worked or not for others, and saw one other person for whom it also failed even though they also tried introducing a sim to a new skill instead of just improving an old one, and no mention of it actually having been successful for anyone.

So, has anyone gotten it to work, and if so, how? Is one skill point not enough?

RedDestiny92

Sounds like a glitch, in two saves I'd had that day pop up and one skill point was enough for the day to be complete both actually doing the skill and a pair just studying in books. Maybe next time you can let them gain one skill then have them do something else to see if it pops up that they succeeded.

Jordyn78988

I agree with @RedDestiny92 , that seems like a glitch. New Skill Day worked for me, once my sim leveled up, they celebrated and it was successful. Sorry you're having this issue.

simm621

My current sim was getting the problem, all my other sims have no trouble. I tried him with a couple of different skill and they didn't count, for some reason though singing did.

dopaminedroid

That's weird, I haven't really had glitches with seasons because I started with a completely fresh sims folder when it came out. I guess next time this holiday comes around I'll try some different things out.

Edit: except for the flower bunny not showing up the first easter.

kalaksed

when i had this day pop up, any of the skills the sims had that reached 6 or higher didn't seem to count. but anything going from 1 to 4 did (nobody had anything go to 5 so couldn't check that)

HowGreatThouArt

The mom and dad in my family both skilled up in Parenting (and really fast too - now that's some skill boost ) and I think Cooking, so they were able to complete the traditions. However, the child-aged daughter skilled up in Creativity and that didn't complete the tradition for some reason. It seems kind of a hit or miss holiday.

Chazzzy

One skill point is enough to complete the tradition. Do you have any skill related mods? Maybe they are conflicting.

FKM100

My sim husband learned a completely new skill (flower arranging) and his holiday was a success. My sim wife went up one skill level in the same skill, which she already had, but this did not complete the tradition. It seems that the game is not recognising improvement of an existing skill - or maybe my sim wife did not gain enough of the skill to complete it.

Lumiasta

The first time it popped up my sims (two adults in that family) both gained a skill-up in a skill they were already quite high in (I think flower arrangement and vet) and that didn't count. It was the first festival in my calendar, so I was clueless and therefore didn't pay attention to if it's progressing well or if they need to do more, and so indeed when the day ended, it was ranked awful. The next time I did a bunch of low level skills and it went perfectly well.

dopaminedroid

Okay, so it seems the skill needs to be below level 5 for it to count, though that's not clear from the description of the tradition.

invisiblgirl

dopaminedroid wrote: »

Okay, so it seems the skill needs to be below level 5 for it to count, though that's not clear from the description of the tradition.

Yes, I think that explains it. My teenage Sim got this right off, but her level must have been lower. Her mother increased her logic skill, but it was already too high to count. I had her sing a bit, and that got her skill reward.

calaprfy

I've just had my first New Skill Day and it was a huge success, probably because I had my sim spend many hours in a skill club gathering.

Combined with the club's skill boost, my sim went from 1-5 after just two paintings!

Masheeda

kalaksed wrote: »

when i had this day pop up, any of the skills the sims had that reached 6 or higher didn't seem to count. but anything going from 1 to 4 did (nobody had anything go to 5 so couldn't check that)

This was my experience as well. It seems the requirement is only fulfilled if its a developing skill.

aabroady

I haven't had any problems with New Skill Day. I can't say that I've paid any particular attention to the skill level, if any, of my sims. Most of the tine I just have them try to level up on a few different skills or start one that they haven't already or have very low skills levels for.

Francl27

It's been buggy to me too. One of my Sims got two skill points that day and it didn't count.

ParmaViolet87

I've not seen this holiday once. Does it appear in a certain season or is it completely random like the others?

Simmerville

I hd this working fine. Did not check if this worked better for low skills, though. This is one holiday most of my families like, and a good reminder that children should build skills

ActuallyxAnna

New skill day has been good to me, but I know when seasons first came out it was really glitchy so maybe they fixed it since the game did update today!

Nindigo

dopaminedroid wrote: »

So, has anyone gotten it to work, and if so, how? Is one skill point not enough?

It's really simple. Have your Sim learn a new skill or level up one already learned

PinkPaws66

Nindigo wrote: »

dopaminedroid wrote: »

So, has anyone gotten it to work, and if so, how? Is one skill point not enough?

It's really simple. Have your Sim learn a new skill or level up one already learned

@dopaminedroid is saying it's not accepting that as completing the holiday. Not so simple when it doesn't work, @Nindigo.

Paigeisin5

When combined with the 'fast reader' reward trait I had a Sim go from level 0 to level 5 in the Gourmet Cooking skill in one Sim afternoon. This holiday is especially handy when dealing with totally new Sims with low or zero skills.

Nindigo

PinkPaws66 wrote: »

@dopaminedroid is saying it's not accepting that as completing the holiday. Not so simple when it doesn't work, @Nindigo.

But it works for me...so, it kind of is simple. Their game may be buggy

kalaksed

as several have pointed out multiple times in the thread, the holiday seems to only count LOW skill increases. anything going over skill 5 doesn't seem to count, since then it's not a NEW skill, but one the sim has been practicing for a while

paradiseplanet

I tested this when my New Skill Day came up; I had my sim first increase a level on one of their already existing skills, but it didn't check the tradition, even though it mentions developing your current skills as well as new skills when reading about the tradition. So naturally I tested by making him learn a new skill, and I sent him to the city art center to learn piano on the keyboard. Increasing to lvl 2 in that skill checked the tradition off.

Bastian

Still didn't seem to work for me - I gained a new skill (Logic) AND levelled up an existing (Painting), however Painting was about level 7 already, so perhaps it fell victim to the "Lower Than Skill Level Five" thing.

Has anyone ascertained whether or not it's to level 2 min, not just starting?