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Kids can increase adult skills. What do you know?
MissB
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So I just started looking into kids skills and realized I don't know much. Here is what I know, please help me figure out a few more things!
1. My kid went fishing, which allowed her to max out her mental skill. Once I maxed out her mental, it allowed her to increase her adult fishing skills. Weird!
2. My kid used her drawing table and also maxed out her creative skill... I can't seem to increase her adult painting sill though.
So when we max out kids skills, what are the other advantages? Are there any more adult skills than fishing my kids can improve durong childhood? I never tried to max out kids skills because I thought it was useless, I was wrong!
1. My kid went fishing, which allowed her to max out her mental skill. Once I maxed out her mental, it allowed her to increase her adult fishing skills. Weird!
2. My kid used her drawing table and also maxed out her creative skill... I can't seem to increase her adult painting sill though.
So when we max out kids skills, what are the other advantages? Are there any more adult skills than fishing my kids can improve durong childhood? I never tried to max out kids skills because I thought it was useless, I was wrong!
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Social: Charisma, Mischief
Creativity: Piano, Violin
Motor: none.
Yes, they do keep the adult skills learned as a kid as they age up. And completing aspirations gives a boost to learning other adult skills. For example: If you kid has the Artistic Prodigy aspiration and completes it, they will learn painting and some other skills faster.
Not every skill bumps up to an adult one, though. Maxing the physical skill does nothing (and that makes no sense), but maxing the social skill will lead to developing the adult Charisma skill.
From your experience, obviously fishing is another skill that can be developed and carried over into adulthood, if a child maxes out the mental skill.
Motor skill is only useful for the rambunctious aspiration. If you complete it, your kid will get the physically gifted trait, which will help with building physical skills as an adult. It also doesn't make sense to me that kids can't build the fitness skill, but I guess that's what Maxis believes.
The other skills, even if the aspiration wasn't completed, at least lets the kids start on corresponding adult skills. So there's that.
While the adult skills remain, child skills do not carry over, so leaving them unfinished gives you nothing.
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Vampire Lore, Bowling and Pet Training are the skills that don't need any skill maxed out at all. So children can immediately start learning them even when none of the child's skills has maxed out.
Social: Charisma, Mischief
Creativity: Piano, Violin
Motor: none.
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Motor skill when maxed is an alternative for starting the video game skill. I did a play through with twins, and one twin had maxed motor skill while playing keyboard commander and suddenly his video game skill started.
Also motor does not assist towards adult writing, I tested that on the same save. And if it worked for your save then I’d be glad to know how you did it as my female twin will be an author as an adult.
[quote="MadameLee;c-16404333"]Motor= adult writing skill ("typing at computer") is one of the goals.[/quote]
I honestly didn't know this. I know this thread is old, but we've gotten several packs since it was posted.
And kids still can't gain fitness skill, and the physically gifted trait still only boosts the fitness skill, at least as far as I know. So the child motor skill remains the most useless of the four.
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Creativity also unlocks the photography skill I believe.
When they turn into adult skills, yes, they keep them.
Yea, I've been trying to understand how they decided on that one.. and failing.
This thread is old as 2015
What about skills added with packs?
I dislike fact that children in this game can not gardering
This drives me nuts. Why isn't this one tied to fitness? It should be.
They can't directly gain the skill as children, but the childhood aspirations are all linked to faster gains in associated skills once they age up, and they can't gain the adult skills as children until they reach level 10 of the childhood base skill to begin with.
The adult fitness skill is mostly body composition related (either increasing muscle or decreasing fat,) rather than actually athletic, so I guess they figured it wasn't really appropriate? As somebody who was forced to exercise as a child, I kinda agree on that one.
There are mods to allow children to gain adult skills.
When child maxes out the creativity skill, they can also learn singing, pipe organ, and photography.
Skills that can be immediately learned by a child are vampire lore, bowling, and pet training.