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simsplayer818
Hero
1 year ago

Re: Focused and confident moodlets last longer

@Aceeee82 I've been testing the new Practice Makes Perfect personality trait from the Happy at Home login event today and hit the Focused Jackpot. I got 17 hours Focused one morning just when my Sim woke up and it was 18 hours Focused the next day. She's been building her Research and Debate Skill and her logic skill for her legal career. She has the Personality Traits Over Achiever, Self Assured along with Practice Makes Perfect and Cheerful (from a Self Discovery moment). But I also found that the new "Take Soothing Shower" shower option that arrives with the new personality trait cancels out their focus and makes them Inspired instead.

I noticed that when we she went one day without practicing a mental skill though she lost her Focused mood altogether. I'm going to keep testing it tomorrow.

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  • Aceeee82's avatar
    Aceeee82
    Rising Hotshot
    1 year ago

    @simsplayer818 Good to know!

    Still, The trigger is pretty arbitrary.

    This moodlet is not caused by an interaction.

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    simsplayer818
    Hero
    1 year 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.

  • Sketch793's avatar
    Sketch793
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year 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.

  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    1 year 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.
  • Aceeee82's avatar
    Aceeee82
    Rising Hotshot
    1 year ago

    It's a childhood trait!

  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    1 year ago
    @Aceeee82 So that was the difference after all, a childhood Trait. If you don't want to always have to rely on that, so if you are creating an adult Sim I recommend that Practice Makes Perfect Trait. My Sim who has it is focused virtually all the time now. In fact some players are unhappy their Sims are excessively focused because of it. It's so ironic we have one thread trying to get Sims focused and another trying to get rid of too much focus!

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