Play in the Ocean?

DivinylsFan​  Does it help to move the sim closer to the water before telling her to play in the ocean?  I haven't done anything with Monte Vista beyond loading the world and looking around, but I've never had an issue with this wish elsewhere, so I don't think it requires child Athletic skill.

If you want to test though, without wasting time on building the skill when it might not matter, you can use MC Cheats (click the sim, MC > Advanced > Skill Level) to set the child Athletic skill to 3.  If it doesn't work, or it does work but you want your sim to do the work to earn the progress, set it back to 0 or -1, the latter meaning "has not started building this skill at all."

I will try it in a World Adventure world. Or with an adult. She wasted too much time trialing it. After all the times they go to autonomously do it ... And its only worth 150.

Would you happen to know what value or use the wildflower collection has? The set, nor the individual one's seem to come up in the collecting tab of their individual skill guides, it does come up as a wish though. 

DivinylsFan​  Let me know how it goes.  And you can always start a new save just to test, then delete it (or just decline to save your progress).

As for the wildflowers, there's no real point to them other than selling them.

She was able to play in the ocean at Shang Simla when the option came up for it there. There must be a problem with the Monte Vista beaches, because the option comes up plenty of times, but it never lets her go through with it. Oh well. 

The wildflowers are serving a purpose of fulfilling a few little wishes, and slightly more for to collect 10 and 20. But she gets an allergies moodlet after picking a few of them, and then starting to feel ill after more. So they need to be paced. I wonder if that's reduced with a loves the outdoors trait. She has loves the heat. 

DivinylsFan I always give my sims the Simunity lifetime happiness reward to stop them reacting to the wildflower. And they don't get other illnesses as well.   I find collecting wildflowers and selling them can be helpful when starting a new game, otherwise I don't usually bother with them unless the sim gets wishes to pick them.  I notice the lifetime rewards gained for picking more wildflowers grows each time until they become quite lucrative if you are after lifetime happiness points.

Thanks Karritz, nice to hear from you. While other members of the family have the needs-boosting or rather slowing rewards, its annoying when a new family member doesn't have any yet and is needing more attention all the time ... The wishes for my child sim seem to be very simple yet, as in low level for things that don't seem to have any other benefit, so doing my best to do some. After getting sick from it once she didn't seem to get sick from picking them after that. I wondered if Simmunity also avoided pregnancy sickness, because in my intended generational sims I put off getting that one until after they grow up and have the next generation.

The most my sim has wished for picking yet is 20, and it hasn't been clear whether it started again or is accumulative and I don't know which one's in her inventory are the newly-gaining ones. I suppose I would take one out at a time and see what effect it has on the wish-tally total.

The family are starting to have some comfortable funds, around $70K spare while they have most of their needs covered. I think it gets a bit annoying when they get too much too fast. Maybe I will get them to buy expensive cars or statues to waste some. Maybe a new house, while the one they've started in was getting glitchy and is hard to renovate - a pre-built in Monte Vista which doesn't have much spare land, not enough for a quick-gro station. Some of the patio paving could go but it might take away from the vibe. Why do I feel precious about the preservation of these lots when surely they are not replicas of a real deal.