Children's books

[NekoZombie78]

Hi All

I hope this is the right place to post this!

I recently did an experiment, where I got my Sim to read every single children's book with her toddler.  When the toddler aged up to a child, he learned the following skills at super fast speed: writing (he maxed out writing before even finishing the first chapter), painting (again maxed out before half of the painting was complete) and  logic (in a few hours of looking through the telescope).  He completed his lifetime wish (illustrious author) on the same day he aged up!

The child is also a vampire, but all of this was done during the day.

Has anyone else ever come across this, or is it a bug?

[Leto85]

Hi Neko, there is another topic related to this which was called something like 'Vampire Kids Learn Skills Fast!' Look for it in the Late Night Section if you are interested.
And to answer your question, this indeed has a lot to do with vampires, as they will learn a lot and really fast when they are kids. You've just speeded it even more up by letting your toddlers reading all those books, which is very cleffer, if you ask me.

Want more speed learning? Makes the traits of the child matching the stuff that is going to be learned and give him or her the Fast Learner LTW, Bookworm trait and let him read books in the library while being nearby the incense from China.
Fast, faster, fastest. As you can see, this is absolutely no bug at all.

Oh, and welcome to the forum of course.

[Veldmuisie]

The mood candle does something?  I always thought it's just for show.

EDIT:  Do you mean the incense?

[Leto85]

The mood candle does something?  I always thought it's just for show.

EDIT:  Do you mean the incense?

Sorry yes, I mean the incense.

[Veldmuisie]

Phew, thank goodness.  I thought I was missing out on something here.  I did notice with the incense that if you play outdoor-style, even if the sim is right next to it, it will not give the mood effect.  So it has to be in a room. 

[RubyLovesSims]

Phew, thank goodness.  I thought I was missing out on something here.  I did notice with the incense that if you play outdoor-style, even if the sim is right next to it, it will not give the mood effect.  So it has to be in a room. 

That's interesting, Veldmuisie.
I wonder if it works with a fence?

[Pam]

Welcome to our Forum, NekoZombie.

Reading the books as a toddler will give a normal Sim a boost in those skills of 1 to 3 levels.  It's the vampire side of the child that is making your child max those skills so fast.  Here's a link to the topic Leto mentioned.

[Veldmuisie]

That's interesting, Veldmuisie.  I wonder if it works with a fence?

Just tested the incense in a fenced-off area and it works!  Thanks for the idea   

[Leto85]

Just tested the incense in a fenced-off area and it works!  Thanks for the idea   

I kind of expected that actually. The fence is in fact the same object as a wall, except for that the fence is a wall from which the most side is invisible.
Explains why a sim can't jump over a fence, if he could jump.

[RubyLovesSims]

Just tested the incense in a fenced-off area and it works!  Thanks for the idea   

That's okay. I thought it might work, as well, but you can never be too sure!

[geekgirl101]

That's vampires for you.  Only bother with the painting and writing books though, they can learn logic via the logic blocks as a toddler.

As children they can easily max out skills on painting, writing, logic, photography, child baking and child mechanics.

Once they reach teen they can easily max out charisma (providing you got plenty of friends and acquaintances, make sure you make friends early on!), guitar, drums, bass, piano, athletics, martial arts, sculpting, and inventing.

The rest of the skills are as slow as normal, but then since you aren't having to focus on most skills you got plenty of time to level them up and meet friends.