Sim Fu Lie, Please help!

LucyBorgia wrote:


Actually, it seems like a bit of realism - your Sim has sparred with his friends, he knows how they react & which moves they use, whereas the townies from China are unknown quantities so he doesn't know how they'll fight!

Not realism at all. Frankly I have a really popular Sim who basically makes friends as soon as they meet him practically. His Charisma skill is maxed out and he has the Attractive lifetime reward so making friends for him is simple and even when he knows and is best friends with a sim he still gets his *** kicked in tournaments by sims whose skills are sub-par to his own. Realism if you wanted it to be realistic would be the sim with the highest skill level, the most tournament experience standing the greater chance of winning. That's far from the case here. And if you're going to say that it's more realistic to not know your opponent having an impact on your sim's ability to win? That fact would go both ways if being realistic about it since the other sim wouldn't likely know your sim either. One unfamiliarity would negate the other.

One of his best friends in china I just had him spar with. She has all of three skills. Athletic = 9, Handiness = 2 and Martial Arts = 10.

My sim is Athletics 10, Chess 7, Logic 6, Martial Arts 10. He has completed all special skill challenges in Martial Arts, including the Sim Fu King Challenge. He also has the discipline trait.

He is a vampire. His mood was extremely high, all bars were filled when they sparred. Out of 10 matches, he won 3. Hell, when he challenged her to a ranked tournament he had to fight her four times just to win one match. So the whole being unlikely to lose if you've achieved the Sim Fu King rank is BS. So what is the point of having that challenge in the game when it's this meaningless? The minute you have to fight a sim with a brown/black or black and gold suit, you are unlikely to be able to win your tournament first time so the odds are most certainly not in your favor. Hell, my sim had a much greater win ratio without having obtained the Sim Fu King rank. His ability to win went down after that. So the entire challenge is BS.

I don't have a problem with my sim losing the occasional matches. They can't win all the time but having to re-fight a sim with skills of a less advanced level than your own, and even missing skills that are supposed to go hand in hand with martial arts training such as chess and logic four freaking times just to win one match is ridiculous and totally negates the whole 'your sim will stand a much greater chance of winning matches' that the challenge promises.