Extra LTW's For Your Sims
 

Jo and I have been having a discussion in this thread about LTW's in TS2. We both feel that the ones available in the game are too limited/restrictive - lots of sims end up with the same LTW's, and they are often career related. And of course it's not possible for sims to have the LTW to reach the top of a custom career, which I think is a shame.

We've been talking about extra LTW's that we do/could/would like to use in our games. Jo posted a link to Serisims' Expanded Lifetime Want Generator - the page on Serisims' site which links to the generator can be found here. The LTW's used by the generator are taken from both TS2 and TS3.

I quite like the generator, but I'm putting together a list of my own LTW's that I plan to use in my game - I don't have the skills to set up a random generator of my own but I'll use a random number generator to pick them when I create CAS sims/sims age to teen. So far I've only made one suggestion for the list (actually, make that two - I just thought of another one!), but I hope that Jo will come along and add the ones she mentioned in the other thread as well! I'll keep a "master list" in this post of any that are mentioned in the thread in case anyone (other than me!) would like to have them all in one place. If the LTW's require a sim to do, have or collect a certain number of things I've used an 'X' instead of a fixed number, as different people and their different games may make different quantities more appropriate - especially for people who use harder skilling mods or altered lifestage durations. So here's the list as it stands so far (thank you to everyone who has made suggestions!):

1. Expert Craftsperson - Have X gold badges in crafting (sewing, pottery, toy making, flower arranging).
2. Extra-Terrestrial Expert - Be abducted by aliens X times.
3. Seasoned Traveller - Gain all travel memories/stamps.
4. Entomology Expert - Collect and display on a wall every bug in the Free Time bug box.
5. Run with the Wolves - Become a werewolf and breed X (20) wolf puppies.
6. Expert Angler - Gain a gold fishing badge and display every fish on your walls.
7. The Perfect Garden - Grow and display one of each fruit and vegetable in thriving condition and gain a wishing well from the garden club.
8. Bad Apple - Have X (20) simultaneous enemies.
9. Aspiration Hustler - Change your sim's aspiration to all seven aspirations (using the ReNuYuSenso Orb).
10. Life's Proudest Liver - Reach maximum LTA score.
11. Influential Socialist - Reach maximum influence level and score.
12. Magic Practitioner Extraordinaire - Reach level X of magic skill.
13. Chivalrous Champion - Become a knight (and win X tournaments).
14. For Family Sims only - Had ALL THE BABIES (Had the maximum number of babies possible given one's pregnancy hacks and lifespan hacks; in a game without Trips and Quads, this would require cheese-caking every pregnancy and never going an entire day without being pregnant/having one's lawfully wedded partner be pregnant if one can't be).
15. Broke the Bank At Monte Carlo (or Made ALL THE MONEY): Made so much money that the "family funds" counter ran out of places to put the zeroes.
16. World Domination! NB: Ideas would be appreciated for how this could work!
17. Defeat The Plague - survive real sickness X amount of times.
18. Become Death - successfully pluck x amount of sims from death's doorstep by winning the game with Death when someone dies.
19. Big Boss - Own X (10) different businesses.
20. Travelling Enthusiast - Go on vacation X (20) times (or Have X successful vacations, perhaps?).
21. Become Visionary.
22. Become Cult Leader.
23. Become Icon.
24. Become Ecological Guru.
25. Have X (10) Children Abducted By Aliens.
26. Have X Children Who Survive To Adulthood.
27. Become Mad Scientist And Maximise Science Hobby.
28. Become World Class Ballet Dancer And Maximise Music & Dance Hobby.
29. Become Celebrity Chef And Maximise Cuisine Hobby.
30. Become Visionary And Maximise Art Hobby.
31. Become Icon And Maximise Film & Literature Hobby.
32. Become Ecological Guru And Maximise Nature Hobby.
33. Become A Puppet Master - Use the voodoo doll on X (20) sims.
34. Winner! - Win X (10) Dance Contests & X (10) Cooking Contests.
35. When You Wish Upon A.... - Make X (6) Wishes At A Well & X (6) Wishes With A Genie.
36. Are You Really Going Out With Him? - Have X (25) dream dates with negative chemistry sims.
37. The Don Lothario LTW - Have X (5) children by different partners.
38. Zombie Army - Feed X (5) sims to the cowplant and then resurrect them as zombies.
39. Bite Me! - Turn X (15) sims into vampires.
40. Party Animal - Throw X (20) Roof Raiser parties (or Throw X (20) successful parties).
41. The Odd Couple - Get a bigfoot and a servo to live on your lot.
42. The Ultimate - Complete 1 LTW for each of the six aspirations.
43. Hobbyist - Earn a membership card to each secret hobby lot.
44. Black Sheep - Become any three of the supernaturals (zombie, vampire, werewolf, plantsim, witch).
45. Everyone's Best Friend - Reach the top of the positive reputation and have X (10) best friends (or BFF's).
46. The Mean One - Reach the top of the negative reputation and have X (10) sims who are simultaneously furious with you.
47. Death Whisperer - Witness X (10) different deaths.
48. Enthusiast - Reach maximum enthusiasm in X (5) hobbies.
49. Fashionista - Own a level 10 clothing store, have gold sales, cashiering and restocking badges and make over X townies.
50. Ultimate Sewing Machine (Seamstress?) - Earn a gold badge in sewing and reach level 10 with a business selling those items.
51. The Toy Seller - Earn a gold badge in toy making and reach level 10 with a business selling those items.
52. Flower Power - Earn a gold badge in flower arranging and reach level 10 with a business selling those items.
53. Ultimate Home Owner - Have your sim give birth to as many babies as possible and have the offspring live in every home/flat in your neighbourhood....
54. Descendant Of Da Vinci - maximise the creativity and mechanical skills and earn a gold badge in robotics.
55. Surrounded By Family - Have X living relatives (by blood or adoption) and be friends with them all.
56. Master Artist - Have a gallery with X pieces of art that you've created. Can include paintings, photographs (with the UNI camera?) and sculptures.
57. Gold Digger - see the ghost of a rich dead spouse. Marry a rich sim (and get the Married A Rich Sim memory) and then see their ghost after they've died.
58. Professional Author - publish X novels (or X books, including novels and restaurant guides).
59. Jack Of All Trades - Reach level 5 in X career tracks.
60. Graduate Extraordinaire - Earn A PhD (this one only really works if you play your game with more education levels than the normal EA game - earning a normal degree just isn't as impressive!).
61. Master Romancer - Woohoo with X sims in X different places (places include bed, hot tub, hammock (BV), photobooth (NL), car (NL), walk-in closet (AL) and sofa if you use ACR).
62. Property Mogul - own X community lots and X vacation homes.
63. Surrounded By Family #2 - Raise X babies from infant to teen (or adult).
64. Swimming In Cash - Have $X simoleans on hand (i.e. in household funds).
65. The Animal Resucer - Adopt X strays.
66. The Ark Builder - Have X each of dogs, cats, parrots, womrats and aquariums (if you use custom animals, like Bienchen83's lizards and rodents you could include them too).
67. Become the Grim Reaper: personally bump off X (20) different people during your lifetime, using various means. They don't have to be enemies, necessarily - just people who've crossed your path and you don't like.
68. Master Of The Universe - Master X (5) professions from The Sims 1, (by using lientebollemeis's TS1 career conversions).

We're on a roll.

Expert Craftsperson is a great idea. Too hard for my sims to gain all those badges due to the slower skilling mod I use, so I will make mine just one gold badge in one area.

Two- I love that. I can see a few ways to do that one. With the FT perk it's pretty easy to be abducted but without it, there isn't much chance of being abducted at all. Unless there is a mod to up the chances of natural abduction to something reasonable? Otherwise a dice could be rolled each time he/she (I don't have a mod to allow females to be alien pregnant but I know others do) uses the telescope at night to see if it's a FT or boolprop abduction. There is also dance sphere abduction which I have had once. The sim had an alien child and got abducted off the sphere when I wasn't watching and now has an alien boy as well. Another scenario could be 1 natural abduction, 1 dance sphere abduction, and one alien pregnancy.

3. Seasoned Traveler - Gain all travel stamps.
4. Entomology Expert - Collect and display on a wall every bug in the Free Time bug box.
5. Run with the Wolves- Become a werewolf and breed 20 wolf puppies.
6. Expert Angler- Gain a gold fishing badge and display every fish on your walls. This might be too easy for some, but Gold fishing badge often takes many years in my game.
7. The Perfect Garden- Grow and display one of each fruit and vegetable in thriving condition and gain a wishing well from the garden club. I added the well as gardening badge is very easy to gain. I even have teens with gold gardening badge.

Yay for moar LTW variety! I thought of one :D

8. Bad Apple: Have 20 simultaneous enemies.

9. Aspiration Hustler - Change your Sim's aspiration to all seven aspirations (using the ReNuYuSenso Orb)
10. Life's Proudest Liver - Reach maximum LTA score
11. Influential Socialist - Reach maximum Influence Level and Score

It's lovely to see so many ideas in such a short space of time! :-) I've added all your ideas to the list in Post #1 - if you used a specific number I've changed it to an 'X' and put your number in brackets, as obviously people are free to decide for themselves what quantities they want to use for the different LTW's.

I've been suddenly inspired to to have another go at going Medieval, so I'll be needing some different LTW's as I doubt I'll have more than 2 or 3 Maxis careers in my game..... I thought of a couple more that'll work in my game so I thought I'd share - though I do play rather differently than most people so they may be useless to everyone else! :-)

12. Reach level X of magic skill.
13. Become a knight (obviously not much use for non-Medieval games!).

I have a question: Would this be a thing that when you achieve it, you cheat the Sim permaplat, or would this be an actual mod with a new memory and all?

14. For Family Sims only: Had ALL THE BABIES (Had the maximum number of babies possible given one's pregnancy hacks and lifespan hacks; in a game without Trips and Quads, this would require cheesecakeing every pregnancy and never going an entire day without being pregnant/having one's lawfully wedded partner be pregnant if one can't be)
15. Broke the Bank At Monte Carlo (or Made ALL THE MONEY): Made so much money that the "family funds" counter ran out of places to put the zeroes
16. World Domination! (I have no idea how you would achieve this, but it should totally happen)

here's one for your medieval game
-defeat the plague: survive real sickness x amount of times

and for the non medieval
become Death: successfully pluck x amount of sims from death's doorstep by winning the game with death when someone dies

TBH, I'm more interested in the LTWS that got removed or disabled by EA. If we could bring those back somehow...

This is a great idea!

BTW, hate to sway off topic, but is # 11 a reference to Karl Marx?

Edit: We should make some related to businesses and vacations as well, you know, like a want to own ten different businesses, or go on twenty vacations.

Oh, I'm certainly not capable of making a mod out of these ideas, much as I'd love them - I'll be keeping track of them myself and cheating to make my sims permaplat when they achieve them :-)

Which LTW's did EA remove/disable, M.M.A.A.?

Thank you all for the ideas - I'll add them to the master list now :-)

You know; the marry off 10 kids, have 10 kids get abducted, and then there are those for the careers in S2 Uni.

After thinking about it, maybe World Domination would be achieved by topping 1. Politics, 2. Military, 3. Education, and 4. Criminal? All the same Sim topping all 4? That way they'd be in control of basically everything. Maybe Media should be in there too?

I didn't know there were any removed LTW's in the game (or rather not in the game, obviously!). I have a mod to add the University careers LTW's to the options available to my sims, but I'll add them to the master list anyway as some people probably don't. So there were some which just had larger required quantities, like the Marry Off 10 Children one, then? I'll add the having children abducted one to the list as well :-)

I thought of another one for my Medieval game as well: 26. Have X Children Who Survive To Adulthood. It's going to be a tough old world! :-)

Can you link us to the Uni careers LTW fix?

And about the rest of the LTW, there are more than those, just go to the wikia page about LTW, there's a list there.

bnefriends, Number 3 by me was to do with 'vacations' *holidays* >cough<



Didn't even know that those were a thing, what is it? The maximums?

M.M.A.A., what LTW got removed?

Esme World Domination could happen if a sim bought up every business in their town perhaps? I bet they would feel like they had World domination even if they didn't really have it. Also yes you cheat them platinum. I use the Bat Box.

17. Creature of the Night. Become a vampire and turn 20 other sims into vampires/ kill X amount (20?) other sims with deadly neck bite. http://modthesims.info/d/295358

18. Creature-Robot Cross Breeder. This is a Sims 3 LTW. This could be achieved by building a servo who then becomes a witch, werewolf and vampire. I'm not sure how being a vampire and a plantsim would work, can sevos become plant sims?

19. Black Widow- Move in 10 partners one at a time, get pregnant, kill them off each in turn, burying them in the back garden.

20. Raise 20 children to adulthood.

I'm reworking Esme's one to something a bit more challenging but more logical.

Domination Influenza: Reach top Status of politics career with all offspring reaching top status in influential positions in various careers

Since basically if one sims career hops to a different one the first one is forgotten it would make sense if it was a family dynamic from the get go and having just 1 family control various important aspects of society. The nifty thing about that is that in doing so it opens up custom careers to be included as well.

Here's the link to the University LTW's fix (for AL - there are other versions available if you don't have all the EP's) - I'll be back to update the master list when I wake up - it's nearly 6am! :-)

Meaning you just got up or you haven't been to bed...? Only 4pm over here. :D

Ooh, I like this. There are a couple I do regularly for my sims anyway but some of them I always wished were LTWs (the traveling & badge ones). One of the (few) things that Sims3 got right were the variety in LTWs, even if achieving one was pretty pointless.

I liked in TS3 how some of the skills were combined; for example you'd have to max the painting & writing skill. So I'd like to have hobbies included with the jobs somehow.

Become mad scientist & max science hobby
Become world-class dancer (or whatever the top job is :D) & max m&d hobby
Become world-class chef & max cuisine hobby
Art & arts&crafts; show biz & film&lit; ecology & nature; etc. etc. etc.

Earn a membership card to each secret hobby location

And then I'd like some sort of combo of the occult sims, like the Black Sheep from the legacy challenge, but because I really don't want to turn my sims into perma-zombies (unless they've been very very naughty ), instead of becoming all the occult states maybe just have to become 3 of the either werewolf, witch, plantsim, vampire, zombie. I wouldn't count aliens because sims can't become aliens.

There are a ton more:
Become a Puppet Master (have a sim use the voodoo doll on 20 sims)
Winning! (win 10 food contests & 10 dance contests - are there more contests? I can't remember.)
When you wish upon a... (make 6 wishes at the well & 6 wishes with a genie - and yes, that would require two lamps... because I'm evil.)
Are You Really Going Out With Him? (have 25 dream dates with negative chemistry sims)
The Don Lothario LTW (have children with 5 different partners)
Make a Zombie Army (feed 5 sims to cowplant & then resurrect them all as zombie slaves; I've done this, , though I only bothered with 3 )
Bite me! (turn 15 sims into vampires)
Party Animal (Throw 20 perfect parties. Maybe just 'good' or better.)
The Odd Couple (get a bigfoot & servo to live on your lot - or if you have the mod that allows it, get the two of them married and make them adopt)
The Ultimate (reach 1 LTW for each of the 6 aspirations - Fuck You, Grilled Cheeeeese!) which would give your sim a super-duper, ultra-concentrated dose of platinum-ness so powerful that it embeds in your sim's DNA and is passed down to their offspring.

Okay I need to go to bed now...

Found the link: http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Lifetime..._Lifetime_Wants

I wish they'd let us choose our own Lifetime Wants regardless of aspiration. Instead you have to cycle through everything on the batbox until you get the right one if you want a different one.

Edit: I like the 'have 6 children abducted by aliens' one that got left out. That would be fun.

There is a program over at MATY that will 'generate' any kind of text string you want to use for the game-it's by Hook, and it's called "Random Stuff'. All you have to do is change the text files, and voila, you have your own list of things to use in the game-including lifetime wishes, names for babies, the whole 9 yards.

Link: RandomStuff: Configurable "dice rolling" program

It's a very small app, and it's simple to use. With me, it's a lifesaver for naming kids-I just don't have the imagination to think up new names!

I have so got to try some of these!

*gets out sim journal and pencil*

Awesomesauce!

It won't actually make the lifetime wish recognisable when achieved though, will it?

I have several ideas:

-Everyone's Best Friend: Reach the top of positive reputation and have X (10) simultaneous BFFs (or best friends if you disable BFFs for adults).
-The Mean One: Reach the top of negative reputation and have X (10) simultaneous furious Sims.
-Death Whisperer: Witness X (10) different deaths.
-Enthusiast: Reach the top enthusiasm of X (5) different hobbies.

Ooppss I sort of answered this in the wrong thread, so I just cut and pasted what I wrote there into here (my bad - it was late and I was really tried):


Some of the LTWs I've come up with for my game so far: (mainly to do with the badges and owned businesses)

LTW: Become a Fashionista - The sim must own a clothing store, reach rank 10, own a gold sales badge, cashier badge and restock badge. (I also think I have a 'fashion' career too, but that's different) Also you have to makeover X amount of townies before your sim retires.

LTW: Ultimate Sewing Machine - must reach gold badge in sewing and sell those items in a owned business and reach rank 10.

LTW: The Toy Seller/ Flower Power - same thing really. Get a gold badge in making toys/flowers and owning a shop selling them and making sure to reach rank 10.

^^ Same with Robots.



EDIT:

LTW: Ultimate Home Owner - means have your sim give birth to as many sims as possible and have the offsprings live in every home/flat in your neighbourhood....I mean every home and flat (aka apartment)!

No-nothing short of re-engineering the game will do that. All these ideas are not going to show up in the game as actual 'achieved' LTWs, you know-they're simply another way to play the game. The originals can't be changed.

The player is going to be the one who keeps track of the "extra" wants.

Meaning that I hadn't been to bed yet.... I was rather sleepy!

Some nice suggestions, everyone! :-) Shall update the master list now :-) Thank you for that link, FranH, that looks potentially very useful indeed!

It is possible to max the LTA meter (it came with Freetime), and the Sim will get actually get a memory for maxing it. If the LTA meter is maxed, it will make the Sim permaplat regardless of if they filled their LTW unless the player has a mod to stop it.



In the pic above, the LTA meter is next to the Sim's Aspiration Meter. Miranda's isn't very full since I just moved her family into a house.

Reputation came with Apartment Life and it is also possible to max that also.



Sims in neighborhoods other than Belladona Cove start with their Reputation meter in the middle (where Miranda's is), and then based on how they interact with other Sims it goes up or down. In Veronaville Tybalt Capp's tends to drop because of his tendency to fight. Miranda's tends to be in the positive because she has more nice points than her cousin. (8 points versus 2).

Other than maxing the LTA meter, the LTW's mentioned in this thread won't give a new memory or fill LTW, but the player can keep track of if they filled it or not and can use them to explore other aspects of the game if they want.

One of my favorite LTW's in Sims 3 Decedent of DaVinci where the Sim maxes the sculpting, invention and painting skills. In Sims 2 a equivalent could be maxing the creativity skill, getting a gold robot making badge and maxing the mechanical skill.

I thought of another one:

55. Surrounded By Family - Have X living relatives (by blood or adoption) and be friends with them all.

And I'm going through the list of TS3 LTW's on Carl's Sims 3 Guide and adapting some of them for TS2. So far I have:

56. Master Artist - Have a gallery with X pieces of art that you've created. Can include paintings, photographs (with the UNI camera?) and sculptures.
57. Gold Digger - see the ghost of a rich dead spouse. Marry a rich sim (and get the Married A Rich Sim memory) and then see their ghost after they've died.
58. Professional Author - publish X novels (or X books, including novels and restaurant guides).
59. Jack Of All Trades - Reach level 5 in X career tracks.
60. Graduate Extraordinaire - Earn A PhD (this one only really works if you play your game with more education levels than the normal EA game - earning a normal degree just isn't as impressive!).
61. Master Romancer - Woohoo with X sims in X different places (places include bed, hot tub, hammock (BV), photobooth (NL), car (NL), walk-in closet (AL) and sofa if you use ACR).
62. Property Mogul - own X community lots and X vacation homes.
63. Surrounded By Family #2 - Raise X babies from infant to teen (or adult).
64. Swimming In Cash - Have $X simoleans on hand (i.e. in household funds).
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=464697
65. The Animal Resucer - Adopt X strays.
66. The Ark Builder - Have X each of dogs, cats, parrots, womrats and aquariums (if you use custom animals, like Bienchen83's lizards and rodents you could include them too).

I'm planning to make an elder "Presidential" career path, with job levels of "Primary Candidate," "General Election Candidate," and "President of the United States of Imagination." The pay at each level will be awesome. Each chance card will have a very high probability of the Sim getting fired up until they reach President, where there either won't be chance cards or their chances of being fired will be very low (since how many POTUSes have actually been impeached). Entry level will require maxed out charisma and high logic & creativity. The President represents most states of the imaginary world (from GTA to Animal Crossing), although other nations exist (Red City, for example, is part of the Union of Fictional Socialist Republics (UFSR)).

Now if there were only a way to make a LTW to go with this career path....

If you made it as a default replacement of one of the Maxis careers there kind of would be, but I don't think there's another way of doing it....


We're on an amazing roll! 66 extra LTW's and counting! :-)

Except I want it as an elder career path rather than an adult career path, and all of the career-related LTWs, as far as I know, are for adult career paths.

That's true. I think it would be possible to make an elder career that overwrote an adult career, though I'm not entirely sure about that. And it does mean you'd lose one of the in-game careers.

So these Sims will have a game-generated LTW as well as the player-given custom one? Still I suppose it's unlikely that the game-generated one will be fulfilled by chance while you're trying to fulfil the custom one. When that is fulfilled, do you manually make them permaplat and give them extra aspiration and influence points using SimPE or something?

I must say I'm not very happy with the limited selection of LTWs available to me in the game. My romance Sims only seem to be able to get the three career-related ones of Celebrity Chef, Hall of Famer or Professional Party Guest. I reckon I know Jack Gill better than Maxis does, and I know he doesn't want any of these. He's still a teen, and he recently got a memory of having "earned" 10,000 Simoloeons, nearly all of that from his money trees, so he just doesn't see the need to work at all. I tried to use the batbox to change his LTW to "Have 20 Simultaneous Lovers", but, although I kept cycling through them and rerolling them, I could only get the 3 career options. I wonder if it's because I don't have university, or whether I should just keep on trying. But, if I can't get the game to give him a better LTW, I might just keep a manual tally like these "custom" ones. Since Jack styles himself as "every [gay] boy's dream date", the "have 50 dream dates" LTW might suit him too, but that's only for Pleasure Sims. Surely it's just as suitable for Romance ones!

I've got another (adult) romance Sim doing well in the politics career, and, if he makes it to Mayor, I think I'll just make him permaplat, rather than start him off again at the bottom of the culinary career, so he can eventually become a celebrity chef.

Similarly I could give permaplat to Sims who make it to the top of my custom careers. And I must do something about gentle helpful Julian Moltke, who supposedly wants to be a master criminal (with both his doting parents in the police!)

Sorry not to add any more custom ones to the list, but I suppose I could add one for every custom career.

Lauratje and Jo, do you tie your custom LTWs to specific aspirations, or do you make them available to any Sim? Personally I think I might be happy with the Maxis ones if they weren't tied to aspirations. Why shouldn't a romance Sim go into politics? (Don't say Bill Clinton!)

Yes, they will have a game-generated LTW as well. I'll make sure my sims with player-created LTW's have a game-generated one they won't achieve accidentally - probbaly by using career ones for them to make sure! When they fulfill the custom one I'll make them permaplat using the Bat Box (I think that's what I use to do it, can't remember now). I hadn't thought about aspiration and influence points - I may add them using SimPE or a mod (if there is one that allows it) or I may just leave them if it's complicated to do!


I think that one came with University. A custom one might work well for him - as you said, I think that the first/dream dates ones work well for Romance sims as well as Pleasure sims, I wish EA had set it up like that....


I think I'll be tying some of them in to aspirations, as well as having a few that are reserved for mean sims (like the ones relating to murder, for example!). Quite a lot of them will be available for two or more (or all) aspirations though, as I don't see them as being linked with aspiration. It does kind of annoy me that the Maxis career ones are linked to aspiration, as their links often don't make sense to me. So I plan to rewrite all of them and choose (or randomize) from a list of player-created aspirations rather than using the in-game system. I need more variety in my game! There is a mod that makes all LTW's available to all sims, regardless of aspiration, but that doesn't make sense to me either - my Family sims have no interest in having 20 lovers, thank you very much! I would link it for you in case you wanted to check it out but I can't find a version that works with your EP's....

The bat box has an option to toggle LTW satisfaction on or off. The player could use the bat box to toggle LTW satisfaction on after the Sim reaches one of the LTWs in this thread, or fill the in-game LTW as well as filing one of the LTWs from the thread.

Just noticed this - must've overlooked it before. I have a slower skilling mod as well, and I think I may make it gain 2 (or 1?) gold badges in crafting and make at least one of each possible item for that craft. It could tie in nicely with my sims' "one hobbies", I reckon. I don't let non-Fae sims make snapdragons, though, so it won't work as well for flower arranging.

Yes they will still come with a LTW. This is not a mod, just a way of playing. I check and change the LTW on the bat box to one I know wont accidentally be fulfilled. Once the sim has completed there LTW as given by me I will use the Bat Box to make permaplat.

Sims often fill the Free Time meter anyway. Yesterday a sim become Chief of Staff in the medical career. That was my LTW for her, but I noticed she was already FT platinum when I went to set it! That feature of FT can be quite annoying. Her actual LTW was something else because even though I had spun it many times on the Bat Box, Chef of staff never showed. I think since I got LTW variety I actually have less variety! http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...812b&topic=28.0 I've had the occasional sim only roll 3 LTW on the Bat box and that was it no matter how many times I rolled, it would be those same 3. That mod is supposed to make LTW be tied to personality, but I don't see Denise Jaquet as a stand up comedian! Anyway the plan is once the sim fulfills the LTW you have decided on you then use the Bat Box to set perma platinum. I don't bother with the aspiration points as most of my sims have plenty.

Even randomizing on the Bat Box can still leave a sim with very few options.

I have a few custom careers and sims will have LTW's tied to those as well.

I decide the LTW based on the sims character and who I see them as.


Oh I know about those, they happen all the time. Reversing the reputation meter to zero might be a challenge, but filling it happens all the time without even trying.

I have one:

Become the Grim Reaper: personally bump off X (20) different people during your lifetime, using various means. They don't have to be enemies, necessarily-just people who've crossed your path and you don't like.

I've found the easiest way to lower a sim's reputation meter is to have them start fights. Happens all the time to my cheated-upon sims who go around slapping their straying spouses and spouses' affair-partners. There's something really wrong about that . . .
Change the interests and LTW variety will change the available LTWs, in case you don't know.

How do you change their interests? Is there a mod apart from reading magazines? Or do you do it by boolprop? if so never mind I don't like using Boolprop because I'm weird like that.

You can randomize interests using the Simblender, I think.

I know, but I want to set them exactly. Interests show up in what the sims talk about or hate to talk about. I'd like to be able to set my thief as having a lot of interest in crime, not fashion. maybe most people don't take notice of the speech baubles when their sims talk but I do and things like that bug me a bit.

You can do it very easily in SimPE.

Just go Tools - Neighbourhood - Neighbourhood Browser, open the correct Neighbourhood.

Tools - Neighbourhood - Sim Browser, pick your sim.

Go to plugin view and just above the sim's picture will be several tabs. Interests are under one of those and you can make them as high or low as you want.

I was thinking of using simPE, just I was hoping there might be an in game mod. I'm just being lazy. :P

I have no idea if there's a mod or not: I always have boolprop on and if I need to just click to raise or lower. Magazines and SimPE are the other ways I know to do it.

Does boolprop work beyond the current game session?

I have a vague memory of someone saying they used Boolprop to change interests and it had reset the next time they loaded the game.

If you turn on debug mode (boolprop testingCheatsEnabled on) in your userStartup.cheat file, you don't have to worry about it turning off.

I've come up with a little twist I'm going to use with regards to LTW's - some sims will have to complete two LTW's before they become perma-plat. I have this in mind for sims who are very ambitious in any respect - sims who expect the most of themselves (and sometimes of others too) and who are under pressure to be successful - whether that pressure comes from themselves or from others. Obviously this will be something I'll have to decide for each sim, based on their back-story, behaviour and personality. So far I have one sim with two LTW's to meet in order to be happy - Daytona Beech wants to be popular (have 10 simultaneous best friends) and well off (earn $50,000) - she has high expectations of herself, and is keen to earn enough money to put her son Hamilton through university to give him the opportunities she never had without being willing to compromise her social life.

I like this. I think I'll use it for sims with secondary aspirations, then I'd have to complete one each to satisfy their 'popularity' primary & their 'knowledge' secondary, or whatever combo they have. Besides, I get tired of those sims who complete their LTW early and then are permaplat happy for the rest of their lives, blech. I once had a teen complete the 20 best friends want. I thought, Well, you've got nothing else to look forward to for the rest of your life. Enjoy!

Ok, here's one that hasn't been aired:

"Master of the Universe" :master 5 or more professions from Sims 1.

In Sims 1, a sim could reach the top of a profession, and then be switched over to a level in another profession.

Do the same thing, using the careers in Sims 1 by Lientebollemeis in game.

Shall add that one to the list, FranH! :-)

I've been working on deciding which LTW's to use in my game, and I've been dividing them up into categories - by aspiration, career-related, general and ones dependant on other factors, like species, personality, religion and hobbies. I want my sims' LTW's to reflect an aspect of them as individuals, be that the fact that they're very family-centric, or the fact that they love art and crafts or the fact that they're really mean sims. How do you all intend to use expanded/extra LTW's (if you do plan to use them, that is!). Will they all be available to every sim? Will you divide them up based on aspiration, or some other dividing factor? Will you generate them randomly (using a random generator of some kind, pulling them out of a hat etc) or will you pick them for each sim, or for your favourite sims? Do share your ideas - and more suggestions for extra LTW's to add to my list are always welcome too :-)

Were all the Sims 3 LTW added? Most of them can be changed to fit Sims 2.

I am deciding LTW by who I see the sim to be. If I don't have a good idea I will use the random generator that Seri put up. If nothing makes sense I will roll it again. Of course I might also change my mind along the way, even in rl people change their goals depending on what life throws at them.

I've always wanted one that is make 100 of X crafted item (robot, sir bricks-a-lot, kite, rose bouquet, etc.)

Oh gosh, I'm going to have to add this to my sims spreadsheet, aren't I? Sounds exciting but complicated.

Sorry to bump an older thread, but I found this which could potentially be a solution/something to play around with. It sounds potentially corrupt worthy, since it enables you to use normal wants as lifetime wants (meaning endless possibilities) but it might be fun to play with in a test hood or something.

http://simpeforum.ambertation.de/si...a-lifetime-Want