Why do two sims not have lifetime wishes?

Sims don't have to have a lifetime wish until the young adult stage. The one who doesn't have one will get one when he/she ages up, which you will be able to choose at that time if you are playing that household.

The change lifetime wish reward can only be used when the original LTW has not been completed. There is no provision in the game for giving a sim a second LTW after already completing one. You can only do that with a mod.

Some teens will get a LTW offered as an opportunity, the player chooses if that will indeed become this sim’s LTW (like with every opportunity: yay or nay). For me this feels quite realistic. Some people grow up having a calling they indeed will stick to the rest of their life, but many of us just don’t know and need time (into adulthood) to decide what our purpose of life is.

Sometimes teenagers are influenced in their lifetime wishes by the places they go to. I had one teenager go on a class trip to the Theatre, and roll the LTW to become a Movie Composer, while another went to a game at the Stadium and rolled the LTW for Superstar Athlete.
It doesn't always occur, but it sometimes happens.

You could also change their LTW going into CAS I suppose (through Mastercontroller or - if you don’t have mods - testingcheatsenabled true)? I remember playing a teen once who I gave a LTW. Then Pets came out with its new LTWes, and I changed it into one of them. So it must be possible (and I didn’t have mods back then).

I believe the mod is required to give a sim a new LTW when they have already realized their original one and the player wants them to begin on their next one. But @JoAnne65 is correct, any sim that can be brought into testingcheats CAS should be able to have their LTW changed without mods provided they haven't satisfied one yet. :)

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17074973" wrote:

"CursedDice;c-17074714" wrote:


I have no way to remove their wishes now

You mean the teen who already has a lifetime wish? You can replace it with the LTR that changes them, but that's very expensive. Or better yet, you can use MasterController with MasterController Cheats installed to change the lifetime wish anytime you want without using points. I think you can use that on the mom too.

When those mods are installed, just click on your sim > nraas > master controller > intermediate > lifetime wish.

I gave the two who had no wishes, wishes using the reward. They're the ones I'd be interested in removing again

When you open CAS (using testingcheats or mastercontroller, so I don’t mean through the mirror), you can open the section where you can set their traits, their voice, their zodiac sign, their favourite colour etc, and also their LTW. You can just change it into another one when in there. It’s the button with the plumbob.

https://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/screenshots/reviews/thesims3/02.jpg

That section isn't there for teens though, or any sim under YA. Everything below "Change Traits" is just blank, even in MC's version of CAS, with MC Cheats also installed.

A while back, I edited a couple of teens' outfits in MC CAS, so I could check out their sliders. The girl came out with a different LTW than what I'd assigned her as a child, although the boy's stayed the same. (Neither had completed it.) I always thought it was because the girl's wish—Renaissance Sim—had nothing to do with her traits; she'd rolled it when she hit level 7 of her first skill as a child. (The boy's wish, Perfect Private Aquarium, played into his Angler trait.) So I figured the game had selected the girl a new LTW from among those that would have been displayed based on her traits, even if I couldn't see the wishes.

I couldn't replicate this when I tried later, perhaps because by the time I got around to testing, she'd already maxed two of the three required skills. (The boy's total was zero when he went into CAS.) But I didn't have any trouble reassigning her original LTW via MC.

I really have to spend some time out there in the real world without MasterController once in a while. Sorry about the lack of complete information.

For a teen or younger, yes enter either MC's version of CAS or EA's using testingcheatsenabled, change them temporarily to YA, select or change the LTW, set them back to their original age stage, save. Just tested this on teens and children and it worked on both versions of CAS including without MC Integration in place. It may take a short while after doing this for the LTW to show up on the sim's info panel if they are active. Be sure not to save the sim without setting their age stage back or you may have a rather deformed looking YA on your hands.

Note that the testingcheats CAS method, without MC Integration in play, may subject the sim to a random age change (number of sim days) within their current age stage as EA's version of CAS is so famous for doing.

For those already using MC anyway with the MC Cheats module, it's much simpler to use its LTW command on sims in any age stage. But the point is, LTWs can be set or changed on any sims without mods as long as they haven't fulfilled their LTW already.

"IreneSwift;c-17074374" wrote:
Sims don't have to have a lifetime wish until the young adult stage. The one who doesn't have one will get one when he/she ages up, which you will be able to choose at that time if you are playing that household.

The change lifetime wish reward can only be used when the original LTW has not been completed. There is no provision in the game for giving a sim a second LTW after already completing one. You can only do that with a mod.

Been a while since I’ve played. I used the lifetime reward to give them s wish. Now I wish I hadn’t