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?