Hobos to Heroes: Teen Scene

[GlazeyLady]

Just to clarify. I am not allowed to add things like an easel or piano to community lots that don't already have them but I can use ones that already exist in world.

Rachel

You can add items that can in personal inventory - so anything that you would be able to put in your personal inventory can be added to community lots.

[ratchie]

Am I allowed to add a pre made maxis house from the gallery.

Rachel.

[GlazeyLady]

Am I allowed to add a pre made maxis house from the gallery.

Rachel.

No, no adding of residential lots.

[ratchie]

Am I allowed to add a pre made maxis house from the gallery.

Rachel.

No, no adding of residential lots.

I didn't think so but it was worth asking.

Rachel

[Rick McKinley]

Just to clarify. I am not allowed to add things like an easel or piano to community lots that don't already have them but I can use ones that already exist in world.

Rachel

Correct.

Just to clarify. I am not allowed to add things like an easel or piano to community lots that don't already have them but I can use ones that already exist in world.

Rachel

You can add items that can in personal inventory - so anything that you would be able to put in your personal inventory can be added to community lots.

Umm, those answers contradict each other. As I understand from GlazeyLady, anything that fits in a Sims personal inventory can be placed on a community lot.

"You can only do this with items that CAN go in personal inventory (so no beds, refrigerators, etc.)." Beds that fit in a Sims personal inventory can then be used, Correct?

[Metropolis Man]

Rick, go with Glazey's answer. She knows the game better than I do.

[oshizu]

I am feeling extremely paranoid about the rule clarification below.

The three skills maxed for Hero status have to be unique - that means no other teen can gain that skill at all - it can't even show up in the other teens' skill panels.

Take the Fishing skill, for example, because I won't be choosing that as a unique skill.
With the sims on full autonomy, I have no control over which sims use Fishing-related socials on my teens, either another of my teen hobos or some townie.
And then there's the sneaky teen who drops her queue while I'm preoccupied with another sim and dashes over to a library computer and starts programming. *sighs
This has caused me to switch unique skills several times already.

Wouldn't it be okay if a skill appears on a sim's panel as long as their Watcher didn't direct them to learn it?
To give another example, one of my sims has Level 1 Video Gaming (5%)--is it from playing on her phone or was she playing at the library when I wasn't paying attention?
I have no idea!
It's been hard to stick with a unique skill that wouldn't be ruined by socials related to that skill.
And if one teen use skill-related socials with a townie, that townie could use the same skill-related socials with my other two teens.

My teens are hopefully safe with 3 unique skills right now.
I just wanted to say that completely avoiding skills appearing on a sim's panel has been very difficult. Or am I the only one struggling with this? LOL
I must be doing it wrong?

[thefaeriesgirl]

I am feeling extremely paranoid about the rule clarification below.

The three skills maxed for Hero status have to be unique - that means no other teen can gain that skill at all - it can't even show up in the other teens' skill panels.

Take the Fishing skill, for example, because I won't be choosing that as a unique skill.
With the sims on full autonomy, I have no control over which sims use Fishing-related socials on my teens, either another of my teen hobos or some townie.
And then there's the sneaky teen who drops her queue while I'm preoccupied with another sim and dashes over to a library computer and starts programming. *sighs
This has caused me to switch unique skills several times already.

Wouldn't it be okay if a skill appears on a sim's panel as long as their Watcher didn't direct them to learn it?
To give another example, one of my sims has Level 1 Video Gaming (5%)--is it from playing on her phone or was she playing at the library when I wasn't paying attention?
I have no idea!
It's been hard to stick with a unique skill that wouldn't be ruined by socials related to that skill.
And if one teen use skill-related socials with a townie, that townie could use the same skill-related socials with my other two teens.

My teens are hopefully safe with 3 unique skills right now.
I just wanted to say that completely avoiding skills appearing on a sim's panel has been very difficult. Or am I the only one struggling with this? LOL
I must be doing it wrong?

I can promise you it's not just you and I will probably avoid challenges with multiple sims with this rule (that I apparently missed) because the game is so borked with doing things like canceling an entire queue to go eat cake or something random. If the game wasn't so buggy in that respect it would probably be okay. Also, I've noticed since the last major patch it's been happening more.

Me: *directs sim to toilet then to shower*
Sim: nah, I'm going to go play in this mud puddle and pee myself instead.
Me: aksjrhlbvyhakdy *shouts* You are a bunch of pixels why do you think you are smarter than me!

[GlazeyLady]

I am feeling extremely paranoid about the rule clarification below.

The three skills maxed for Hero status have to be unique - that means no other teen can gain that skill at all - it can't even show up in the other teens' skill panels.

Take the Fishing skill, for example, because I won't be choosing that as a unique skill.
With the sims on full autonomy, I have no control over which sims use Fishing-related socials on my teens, either another of my teen hobos or some townie.
And then there's the sneaky teen who drops her queue while I'm preoccupied with another sim and dashes over to a library computer and starts programming. *sighs
This has caused me to switch unique skills several times already.

Wouldn't it be okay if a skill appears on a sim's panel as long as their Watcher didn't direct them to learn it?
To give another example, one of my sims has Level 1 Video Gaming (5%)--is it from playing on her phone or was she playing at the library when I wasn't paying attention?
I have no idea!
It's been hard to stick with a unique skill that wouldn't be ruined by socials related to that skill.
And if one teen use skill-related socials with a townie, that townie could use the same skill-related socials with my other two teens.

My teens are hopefully safe with 3 unique skills right now.
I just wanted to say that completely avoiding skills appearing on a sim's panel has been very difficult. Or am I the only one struggling with this? LOL
I must be doing it wrong?

Let me check in with the team on this since I am the newest member - I know we've had this rule about unique skills before, so the other members have more experience with this than I do.

[Teresa]

I will say that I have had sims gain fishing while chatting with another sim.  That is the only one that I immediately think, but I know there have been times my sims have skills that I have no idea where they came from.

[ratchie]

There are certain skills that you have to direct a Sim yo do that they will definitely not do by themselves I try to stick to those for unique skills. Photography is one for sure.  Now I'm second guessing if Sims autonomously build rocket ships

Rachel

[Deklitch]

Public Service Announcement - My sims at one stage decided to head home on their own to meet requirements even though the community lot they were on let them meet some needs far easier and far better (and their home lot was also totally empty, of course). Watch the teenagers closely. LOL

[GlazeyLady]

@oshizu @Teresa @thefaeriesgirl @ratchie
I talked with Metro about the unique skills issue and he said that for all Dynasties "unique maxed skill" just means no one else can MAX that skill, not that no one else can gain points in that skill.  I did not ever understand that - I thought it meant no one could gain points in the skill.  So my answer here was incorrect - other teens can gain points in the skill, they just can't max them. 

I will update the FAQ's for this.

If you have already started the challenge, and the change would impact how you played, you are able to start over if you want. 

Tagging @Vesper @lizzi6692 @furbyqueen @Sarleenia as well - since you are finished you might not see this if you weren't tagged.

I am sorry for this confusion; I guess I have to chalk it up to being the nooboo on the team. 

[Vesper]

Thanks for the tag GlazeyLady it would certainly have been easier this way but honestly I think the previous rule motivated me to get additional skill points / max skills in the endeavour to ensure each teen maxed a unique one.

[Ginj]

Many thanks to all who participated in the dialogue about autonomous skill gains; I've been going berserkers in practice runs trying to keep those sneaky sims from encroaching on each others' skills!