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Offline HydraSlayer4

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Wishing Well and Skills PSA
« on: February 17, 2020, 12:18:19 AM »
When wishing for skills, never do it with Toddlers or Children unless your goal is the neutral boost to skill gain. The skill points are randomly chosen from a list of all base game skills you don't already have maxed (from my testing, I have yet to obtain a DLC skill or have a teen+ Sim not correctly receive a skill) and can in fact "give" the child points in a skill they cannot gain, thus wasting a wish.

Offline Rainbow Dash

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Re: Wishing Well and Skills PSA
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2020, 01:24:00 AM »
Toddlers can use the Wishing Well? I didn't think that would be possible and as far as I know, child skills are base game skills, I think this bears looking into, maybe I'll test it one day when I get the time. :-\



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Offline scoed

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Re: Wishing Well and Skills PSA
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2020, 01:37:57 AM »
Several regular base game skills can be learned as a child, like logic, video games, charisma, violin, fishing and more after the child skills are mastered. So some skills are barred from children, many can still be learned. So, it isn't necessarily a waist, but likely not guaranteed as a teen+ using it. I didn't even know a child could use the wishing well. Thanks for the heads up. I will give it a try next time I play to see what exact effect wishing for skills has on children. Any money wasted it easily replaced as money is pretty earned in the game. I know the family I will use to test has a casters. They basically have unlimited funds, so this will be fun.

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Re: Wishing Well and Skills PSA
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2020, 04:22:27 PM »
Sorry all it took so long to get to testing this but here is my results on toddler and child skills and the wishing well skills options. Toddlers cannot use or interact with the well at all in my game. Children can use the skill option but can only raise the four child skills even if other base game skills are unlocked to gain. Teens and up of course can gain any base game skill using the wishing well. Tested with cooldowns turned off for ease with a fresh save with no mods. Also tested with forced outcomes and normal out comes. Hope this helps.