Why why can't swimming get it's own skill? I would have expected this with Island Living especially with the different swim styles. And I'm pretty sure ice skating and roller blading is under fitness and not their own skills.
It's like if they made a creativity skill and made painting, photography, candlemaking and etc. fall under that one skill.
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You may know, but the creativity skill used to be just that in older games. Painting extraordinaire? You're a musical virtuoso, too. It did not really bother me back then, but individual skills have more depth and bonuses.
I think it is weird cleaning isn't a skill anymore. As an adult, cleaning is most certainly a skill. It'll take forever and is potentially disastrous if you don't know what you're doing.
But more than that, I want skills to be more expanded in general. Gourmet cooking shouldn't be able to be built until you've mastered cooking. Rocket science should require logic (at least to some degree). Why isn't reading a skill? With research (as its own separate skill) a dependant on reading skill? Debate should be connected to charisma. After writing we could have academic writing (good for journalists) and creative writing (for authors).
In general I just want more separate skills, but also more skills that connect to each other and are developed as you get older - so that not every skill you might ever need in your career or life can be mastered in the scope of 3-4 weeks of university. Also cooking and parenting skills are WAY too easy to get. Normal, every day, interactions with your kids or cooking family meals should never get you past 5, after that it should require more of an effort (classes, books, programs on tv...)
So, TS1?
Like others in this thread, I'm not sure if there's really enough to swimming to make it a separate skill, unless it was combined with something else like diving, but Island Living unfortunately missed that opportunity. Ice skating and rollerblading being a hidden skill and otherwise contributing to Fitness is annoying, though. I've never been into sports, but became a queen on the ice rink from the moment I first skated on one, so to me, those are two entirely unrelated skills.
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Personally I think they need to add a hiking skill too with increasing resistances to things on the trails like bugs, dehydration from heat etc.