Secret Skills

[CandyHeartedSim]

Hi People I've heard alot about "Secret Skills" And "Hidden Skills" And I was just wondering what they were...
I'Ve heard that you can "Troll" On forums on the computer, I Was wandering if that was Secret Skill. Can someone give me a definition and/Or Examples, and what EPS They are in

[WickedSimmer87]

A Hidden skills isn't written anywhere in your sims journal like painting or all those.  




**SPOILER*
Example : Dancing is a hidden skill since you can get better at dancing (get better moves ect) the longer you are dancing and dancing isn't in the journal  

Hope it helps

[samoht04]

A hidden Skill is just something that your Sim gets better at the more they do it as Wicked said Dancing is one. I think that the Visual Goggles and the Future game may be one because eventually your Sim will start floating.  I think the Bar Games are as well.

[TheChronicR]

Foosball table, Snake charming, Dancing, Hacking, Cleaning, Chess, Cutting, Homework, Mooch, Video games, Diving, Gnubb are just examples. Those are hidden skills, not displayed in the skill journal, but they still exist.

[samoht04]

Hacking, Homework and Diving I would not have thought about because I thought they were affected by Logic, Grade and Athletic respectively. I suppose you do get better at it the more you do it and it's not a proper skill. 

[Hosfac]

When you say "Diving," do you mean the breath holding contest in the pool?  If so, I always thought that was controlled by Athletics (Sims with high Athletics skills seem to always win).  Likewise, I always thought chess was ruled strictly by the Logic skill...although what you said would make sense seeing as how I do know that fooseball and Gnubb are hidden skills, too.

Trampoline is another hidden skill, as are the darts and shuffleboard games that came with Late Night.

[TheChronicR]

When you say "Diving," do you mean the breath holding contest in the pool?  If so, I always thought that was controlled by Athletics (Sims with high Athletics skills seem to always win).  Likewise, I always thought chess was ruled strictly by the Logic skill...although what you said would make sense seeing as how I do know that fooseball and Gnubb are hidden skills, too.

Trampoline is another hidden skill, as are the darts and shuffleboard games that came with Late Night.

Diving skill is gained by using the dive wells in WA.

@Thomas - Hacking is not affected by Logic, as far as I know. The option appears on the computer/laptop only if the Sim has the Computer Whiz trait. By gaining skill levels (10), Sims gain more money each time they hack. Homework skill is technically connected to Grade and School, but by gaining the hidden skill, your child and teen Sims can do homework much faster.

[Hosfac]

Oh right!  Silly me, I should have known that lol.  

Actually, that's not a hidden skill.  It's a travel related challenge, similar to skill challenges.

[TheChronicR]

Yeah I also think it's not a skill, but Sims wiki states otherwise.

[samoht04]

You can't always trust the Wiki though, there is some good info on there but you never know, it could just be someone who thinks it is so they wrote that.

[geekgirl101]

Club dancing is an interesting hidden trait.  The longer you dance you get a different dance style in the music players' menu.

[Pam]

Club dancing is an interesting hidden trait.  The longer you dance you get a different dance style in the music players' menu.

Have you found that anything beyond Club Dancing can be learned?

[samoht04]

I've seen Evil Dance but I don't know if that is one?

[Seabody]

I've seen Evil Dance but I don't know if that is one?

Isn't that a special interaction with the Evil trait?
Like Take Evil Shower, Evil Dance, Troll on Forum, Take Evil Bubble Bath and so on.

[samoht04]

I guess, I have not seen anything else apart from - Dance, Club Dance, Evil Dance and is it Wild Dance for the Party trait?