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Aceeee82
Rising Hotshot
2 years ago
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Focused and confident moodlets last longer

I have a sim who gets 6 hours effect from ponder chess moves, playing chess, research gardening., browsing simpedia and viewing mathematical diagram.  I've turned the game upside down trying to dupl...
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  • Aceeee82's avatar
    Aceeee82
    2 years ago

    It's a childhood trait!

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simsplayer818
Hero
2 years ago

@Aceeee82 It's triggered by reading a skill book/practicing a skill or using a Research Archive Machine the night before and keeping that routine going. As soon as my Sim had an evening where she didn't practice any skills she lost the boost.

I found this explanation: 

"If they can keep practicing, which is really very easy since you can just read four skill books for 5 minutes each day… They can keep their 180% skill boost. Permanent Double Boost Week!" But it's not just the skill boost, they get this massive boost to focus too.

I'm going to keep working with it today. It's definitely boosting her promotions at work in the legal career she's crushing it. Have to admit I was really unsure about this trait and didn't think I'd use it from early descriptions of it. Sims Community Guide also says:

"How this ‘practice makes perfect’ works: By default your Sims learn all skills at 50% speed. But by practicing a single category (Creative, Social, Physical and Mental) continuously, they can up the speed to 90%, 130%, 160% and even a whopping 180%

However, once they stop practicing, this buff starts to decay. Their practice will be checked daily, if no bugs occur. So they need to practice each category every day. And it will eventually drop back to 50%. So it’s kind of a challenging trait other than a reward one."

Once it kicks in it's really useful. It's the keeping momentum thats important, but they actually get a "Momentum" buff that tells you they're on a roll.

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Sketch793
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago

Ah, that makes sense now. I thought my Sim was supposed to only use skills from one category and that seemed pretty close to impossible.

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    simsplayer818
    Hero
    2 years ago
    @Sketch793 As I'm testing it I'm finding that the Skill Boost itself only picks one category. I think there may be a glitch because mine is now stuck on Social Skills Boost even though my Sim is covering Logic, Fitness, Handiness, Cooking and Dog Training. She'd already used it to boost her Charisma but moved on from that skill some time ago.
    I had the Mental Skills boost for ages but now that it's saying Social Skills I don't feel like that makes sense and wonder if the diverse variation in her current practiced skills may possibly have confused it.
    When she was only concentrating on the Mental Skills Logic and Research she got the Mental Skills boost.
    So far I think the Skills Boost having such distinct categories is a little limiting. But as the explanation says it's a trait that's meant to add a challenge, perhaps that's the challenge.
    I also noticed she gets a 24 hour Focused Buff each evening so I gave her the Seldom Sleepy Reward Trait to keep pushing and see if I could increase it beyond 24hrs but that seems to be the Max and the best a Sim can do is achieve it again the next evening but it won't go higher than 24hrs for me. I actually find it more useful than the Skills Boost.

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