Re: How do you trigger Full Parental Mode?
@CGrant56 Oh, that's a tricky one, I agree. Now, I do believe that the only prerequisite that is required for full parental mode is having parenting skill maxed at 10. Once you have that, it should get triggered when performing several parenting interactions in a row. Those include encourage, influence, discipline, force among others. The precise number of those interaction is unknown to me, but the parent usually starts to "sparkle" at around 5 or more. The sim does not need to have any family aspiration active for it to work either. What I didn't know is that it might be triggered by a timed interaction, like mentoring. Did you by any chance perform any other parenting interactions before mentoring? Because I've never seen it happen just from mentoring, unless you do that like five times in a row.
An easy way to trigger full parent mode consistently is when teaching a sim about saying Thank You or Sorry. Just before the interaction finishes, the "Encourage Learning about Thank You/Sorry" appears and it can be queued at this precise point in time! I'm sure it's an exploit as it should only be available once, but to be honest, those values rise so slowly that I often just queue the living hell out of it. Doing that will always trigger full parent mode without fail, provided that you have parenting skill 10, of course. I hope this helps!
Now, on a personal note, you honestly fooled me, because I thought you were an old, established name here. I find your posts well-written stemming from a solid knowledge base and I always enjoy reading them. What I will say, and I hope you forgive my candor, is that I'm a bit uneasy about your given XPs. I'm rather new here myself and in the beginning I only gave XP to posts that actually taught me something new. But that's apparently not what XP are really for it seems. They are more similar to a simple "Like" on other forums. I found that a whole bunch of badges here only become unlocked when the number of given XP is exactly equal to the number of received XP. Since then, I've been giving them out a lot more frequently, and in doing so, have received many more in return. This is, of course, a personal choice and you should give them at your discretion. I do however often refuse XP to posts from members with an abysmal ratio of given to received points. But hey, that's just me, my opinion and observation so please don't hang me for it, and like I said, please use them at your own discretion.
Happy Simming!
