Hobby & Skill pack, what would you want in it?

"RememberJoy;c-17776928" wrote:

Sims could earn points by doing favored hobbies that then can be used to buy perks as with the club system. For example, Mentor (allows sim to mentor others in their preferred skill), In The Zone (instantly puts sim in the best emotional state for learning that skill), Never Regress (they'd have to add the possibly to lose skills with this one), etc.

I really like the perks system, it´s a fun element and make the sims feels more like a “game". But a risk with that system is that after a while you will get an unlimited amount of points and nothing to do with them because all rewards are already bought. (all my sims have A LOT of influence points/club points and I don´t know what to do with them?!).

I hope that we can get a system to sims 4 that doesn´t become pointless after a while (= when you have all perks/rewards). In sims 2 there was an Aspiration bar that affected the sims wellbeing (High meter -“Platinum”? = increased happiness/positive feelings, Low meter - “Depressed?” = decreased happiness, visit from the eccentric therapist). You needed to regulate this bar the whole life of the sim. I would really like something like that, it would also give more challenges to the game.


ASPIRATION BAR / LIFELONG ASPIRATION / LIFE DIRECTION (New Whims/Wants & Fears system)*Choose 1-3 aspirations that your sim wants to focus on right now. Possibility to change the aspirations at any time.
*You will not complete it (like ambitions) but just “strive” towards it (get new tasks to complete throughout life).
*Will give you both negative and positive tasks (Wants & Fears). E.g. a sim with the “family” aspiration will get the positive tasks/wants: have a child, have a successful family reunion, become friend with your child (etc), AND the negative tasks/fears: get divorced, be cheated on, brawl with relative (etc). A sims with the “Interest & Hobbies” aspiration wants to focus on their hobbies and will get positive tasks/negative tasks (wants/fears) about the hobby (skill gain/skill loss, winning game/losing game, influence another sim to become interested in the hobby, earn a Bronze / Silver / Gold badge in a hobby
*Aspirations to choose from:
1. Family 2. Romantic 3. Pleasure (Just want some fun) 4. Career 5. Money 6. Popularity 7. Knowledge 8. Power 9. Hedonism (Enjoying life) 10. Goodness 11. Spiritual development 12. Personal growth 13. Health & Wellbeing 14. Vanity 15. Evilness 16. Interest & Hobbies 17. Wildlife & Nature 18. Occult (or one for each occult, vampire/Ghost...)
*Complete positive tasks (wants/whims) / experience positive events / perform "meaningsful" activities (e.g. hobbies that the sim has an interest in) = raise the Aspiration bar
*Fail/Complete negative tasks (fears) / experience negative events / perform "pointless" actions (e.g. performing a "hobby" that the sim has no interests in) = lower the Aspiration bar.
*A sim that goes for a longer period of time without perfoming their interests (no hobbies) will get the moodlet "Is life just Eat, Sleep, Work?!" (decreasing aspiration bar).
*High Aspiration bar = more positive moodlets, will give the sim a feeling of "meaningfulness" in life
https://i.redd.it/8rwn35j5bv0z.png
Wants & Fears from sims 2
Possible "aspiration levels" for sims 4 could be:
1. Prosperous (occasionally gets a moodlet that increase positive emotions +2, constant and slow increase in Self-esteem points, different positive moodlets)
2. Satisfied (occasionally gets a moodlet that increase positive emotions +1)
3. Ok (occasionally gets a moodlet that increase neutral emotions)
4. Down (occasionally gets a moodlet that increase negative emotions -1)
5. Depressed (occasionally gets a moodlet that increase negative emotions -2, risk of getting mental break-downs, constant and slow decrease in self-confidence, reduces energy bar faster, getting exhausted from work out faster, lower learning abilities and shorter times with focus, risk of getting moodlet “anxious”).
FROM LIFE STRUGGLES PACK: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/986200/life-struggles-pack-updates-sims-4-memory-system-consequences-wants-fears-personality-overhaul

HOBBIES PERK SYSTEM
Similiar to the Fame / vampire perks. You can get to 3 levels in your hobby (not skill level, affected when perfoming the hobby).
Gold: choose perks from level 3
Silver: chose perks from level 2
Bronze: choose perks from level 1

Spoiler

http://thumbs.modthesims2.com/img/3/6/5/9/3/MTS_claudiasharon-1809234-fameperks0.jpg

Use Hobby points / perk points to buy a perk from level 1-3 ("Faster skill gain", "Longer positive moodlets after performed hobby", "faster increased Aspiration bar when performing the hobby" etc). An option to buy an Aspiration potion (increasing your sims Aspiration bar) for Hobby points. That way you can always use your points (the Aspiration bar will increase/decrease throughout life).