So, I haven't been on much lately...playing the game when I am not doing that whole work thing. But Wednesdays are my day off and I am always up for a challenge for my sims. So, I have decided to create a legacy family that is defined by impossible wants. Like the one I have been working on forever...having one sim obtain all six degrees from University...still working on that one. Yes, I will have a yard full of Platinum graves when I am done...that is the goal! Ten generations of hard as heck sims to please!

Mine would be "Chat with toddler"! Appearantly the interaction went missing with ITF patch 1.63, but the parents still get the wish when having taught a toddler to talk - impossible wants! (I know Overwatch is said to fix it). But you maybe meant Life Time wishes.

"Auroraskies;c-17036999" wrote:Mine would be "Chat with toddler"! Appearantly the interaction went missing with ITF patch 1.63, but the parents still get the wish when having taught a toddler to talk - impossible wants! (I know Overwatch is said to fix it). But you maybe meant Life Time wishes.Installing a NRaas mod brought back that interaction for me! Not sure which one but hurray (because it looks so cute).

@JoAnne65 One for the future then, thanks!

If we are talking about seemingly impossible wishes rather than full-on LTWs, it can be a lot of fun to hold onto some of those that we know can be fulfilled much later. Sometimes it seems like too much trouble to reserve one of the four promised wish slots for what could be a very small LTR points benefit though.Pillow Fight or Text Another Sim who happens to be a newborn baby -- great, but the target does have to be quite a bit older first.Marry a particular sim -- one to whom your sim is already married. Alrighty, can do that, but they would have to break up/divorce first and then get back together and remarry. That could be tricky.Register for Uni on a sim who is currently at Uni -- hmm, mind if we finish up the current term first?Then we have a few that I have no idea how to approach, even theoretically, other than dismissing them as silly. For example,Learn How to Drive (or teach your teen how) -- when the teen has already learned how to drive, has the certificate on their wall, and is happily motoring all over town in their own car. Guess I could use a mod (MC) to have the teen "unlearn" their driving skill and start over, but that sure seems like a lot of fuss and bother. Someone at MTS suggested this one means their parents are old enough to have forgotten (most) everything in the way of recent events including the time spent teaching Junior how to drive. Sadly, it does happen. But I don't see any way to proceed with that one the EA way, without mod usage. :)

"JoAnne65;c-17038011" wrote:@igazor Which mod was it again, that brings back the chatting interaction for toddlers? I’m almost positive you were the one making me aware of this.That was indeed Overwatch, it was provided for in an update right after ITF and Patch 1.63 were released so many years ago. :)

Impossible wants! They are HARD...but loads of fun!

11 Replies

DonroaAkashu
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Mine would be "Chat with toddler"! Appearantly the interaction went missing with ITF patch 1.63, but the parents still get the wish when having taught a toddler to talk - impossible wants! (I know Overwatch is said to fix it). But you maybe meant Life Time wishes.
astridentanja
6 years ago
"Auroraskies;c-17036999" wrote:
Mine would be "Chat with toddler"! Appearantly the interaction went missing with ITF patch 1.63, but the parents still get the wish when having taught a toddler to talk - impossible wants! (I know Overwatch is said to fix it). But you maybe meant Life Time wishes.

Installing a NRaas mod brought back that interaction for me! Not sure which one but hurray (because it looks so cute).
DonroaAkashu
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@JoAnne65 One for the future then, thanks!
igazor
6 years ago
If we are talking about seemingly impossible wishes rather than full-on LTWs, it can be a lot of fun to hold onto some of those that we know can be fulfilled much later. Sometimes it seems like too much trouble to reserve one of the four promised wish slots for what could be a very small LTR points benefit though.

Pillow Fight or Text Another Sim who happens to be a newborn baby -- great, but the target does have to be quite a bit older first.

Marry a particular sim -- one to whom your sim is already married. Alrighty, can do that, but they would have to break up/divorce first and then get back together and remarry. That could be tricky.

Register for Uni on a sim who is currently at Uni -- hmm, mind if we finish up the current term first?

Then we have a few that I have no idea how to approach, even theoretically, other than dismissing them as silly. For example,

Learn How to Drive (or teach your teen how) -- when the teen has already learned how to drive, has the certificate on their wall, and is happily motoring all over town in their own car. Guess I could use a mod (MC) to have the teen "unlearn" their driving skill and start over, but that sure seems like a lot of fuss and bother. Someone at MTS suggested this one means their parents are old enough to have forgotten (most) everything in the way of recent events including the time spent teaching Junior how to drive. Sadly, it does happen. But I don't see any way to proceed with that one the EA way, without mod usage. :)
astridentanja
6 years ago
@igazor Which mod was it again, that brings back the chatting interaction for toddlers? I’m almost positive you were the one making me aware of this.
igazor
6 years ago
"JoAnne65;c-17038011" wrote:
@igazor Which mod was it again, that brings back the chatting interaction for toddlers? I’m almost positive you were the one making me aware of this.

That was indeed Overwatch, it was provided for in an update right after ITF and Patch 1.63 were released so many years ago. :)
bekkasan
6 years ago

And we thank Nraas and crew so much for fixing EA/Maxis's oversights! <3

The one I get the most is marry so and so and they are already married to each other! :open_mouth: Silly sims! I love them anyway!
KevinL5275
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"igazor;c-17037950" wrote:

Learn How to Drive (or teach your teen how) -- when the teen has already learned how to drive, has the certificate on their wall, and is happily motoring all over town in their own car. Guess I could use a mod (MC) to have the teen "unlearn" their driving skill and start over, but that sure seems like a lot of fuss and bother. Someone at MTS suggested this one means their parents are old enough to have forgotten (most) everything in the way of recent events including the time spent teaching Junior how to drive. Sadly, it does happen. But I don't see any way to proceed with that one the EA way, without mod usage. :)

I never get credit for that one, even when wished for before the teen has learned to drive.

I also had one where the gardener sim wished to grow a particular plant, and I had lots of them in the garden, but that sim didnt actually plant the seed, so I'm guessing that's why it didnt trigger.
SJNorway
New Hotshot
6 years ago
There are certain wants that come with each aspiration...like the family aspiration has "Have 30 Grandchildren"....that is IMPOSSIBLE in my book! Unless your sim has a bunch of kids and the kids have many offspring! It all depends on the traits you give them...I have been trying to get just one sim to graduate from University with all six degrees FOREVER! I get bored with it quickly.
igazor
6 years ago
"pisceschick75;c-17038449" wrote:
There are certain wants that come with each aspiration...like the family aspiration has "Have 30 Grandchildren"....that is IMPOSSIBLE in my book!

I find that one ridiculous if the sim only has one or two children. If they have twelve or fifteen, it seems quite natural. It depends on the context. :)

Playing families that large, and spread out among NRaas Traveler mod connected worlds as I like to do, is where I learned that a family reunion (love those!) is better off having representative members of the extended family invited and show up. If you want to see the definition of lag, try arranging and managing a wedding or other kind of get together with 60 or 80 sims on the active lot!