Is this a bad thing?I opened a custom hood of mine and noticed that two children in one household had lifetime wants. I checked the other families (there are eight children and two toddlers in the hood) and one other child also had a lifetime want. Is this a sign of corruption or something? I know that some premade children/toddlers have lifetime wants, but this is unusual. It’d be a shame if the hood was corrupted, but not the worst thing ever. I’m pretty sure I haven’t done anything to corrupt the hood (as in any of the actions listed in that game guide on avoiding corruption) but who knows.

From what I've read lifetime wants in children, suddenly randomly assigned can be a sign of hood corruption.

"Pary;c-17522562" wrote:From what I've read lifetime wants in children, suddenly randomly assigned can be a sign of hood corruption.@Pary Exactly correct. I still play TS2 and none of my children have a LTW. Btw, nice to see that you're still around.

It's lovely to see you too @ErnesaT :) I noticed you posting yesterday and left a message on your page. It's so good to see some of the old regulars around a bit.

"Pary;c-17522709" wrote:It's lovely to see you too @ErnesaT :) I noticed you posting yesterday and left a message on your page. It's so good to see some of the old regulars around a bit.Thank you @Pary I still have sim points in the store for TS3 (imagine that). I'm thinking of running a short gift-giving thread. Hopefully I'll see some of the older regulars who helped shape these threads.

@Lucy_Henley Don't abandon the neighborhood just yet.One sign isn't enough to say it's not just a random glitch. If you've installed or uninstalled mods that affect lifetime wants, that could have potentially caused the problem and not corruption.Plus, some people can do a bunch of things that cause corruption, play regularly, and be bored of the neighborhood before the corruption starts affecting game play.

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ZombiePary
Seasoned Novice
5 years ago
From what I've read lifetime wants in children, suddenly randomly assigned can be a sign of hood corruption.
flourfairy
5 years ago
"Pary;c-17522562" wrote:
From what I've read lifetime wants in children, suddenly randomly assigned can be a sign of hood corruption.

@Pary Exactly correct. I still play TS2 and none of my children have a LTW. Btw, nice to see that you're still around.
ZombiePary
Seasoned Novice
5 years ago
It's lovely to see you too @ErnesaT :) I noticed you posting yesterday and left a message on your page. It's so good to see some of the old regulars around a bit.
flourfairy
5 years ago
"Pary;c-17522709" wrote:
It's lovely to see you too @ErnesaT :) I noticed you posting yesterday and left a message on your page. It's so good to see some of the old regulars around a bit.

Thank you @Pary

I still have sim points in the store for TS3 (imagine that). I'm thinking of running a short gift-giving thread. Hopefully I'll see some of the older regulars who helped shape these threads.
Seera1024
New Spectator
5 years ago
@Lucy_Henley

Don't abandon the neighborhood just yet.

One sign isn't enough to say it's not just a random glitch. If you've installed or uninstalled mods that affect lifetime wants, that could have potentially caused the problem and not corruption.

Plus, some people can do a bunch of things that cause corruption, play regularly, and be bored of the neighborhood before the corruption starts affecting game play.
Devalaous
5 years ago
Several premade children in later expansions do have built-in LTWs and that is fine; they wont even keep their LTWs after they age to teens, unless it rolls to the exact same one they were coded to have.

Children born in-game that develop LTWs early is a sign of a problem though. The sheer corruptability of the game has always been the reason I never play the game in serious bursts, I spend months just trying to clean out the initial data to avoid the corruption, then get bored >.>
Lucy_Henley
New Spectator
5 years ago
Ugh, thought it might be. Ah well.
Lucy_Henley
New Spectator
5 years ago
I do have a lifetime want mod, actually. It’s particularly odd to me that only some of the kids have lifetime wants.
garapoes
5 years ago
I don't think that's a good sign but you can still continu playing?
AttilaCoil
5 years ago
Pretty sure that's a sign of corruption.