Full Skilled Sim: Cas question, please

"Stormkeep;c-18075089" wrote:

"Kerrigan;c-18075082" wrote:
How do you 'clone' a sim with zero skills, please? that seems pretty vague advice and nowhere near as simple as you try to make it sound.

I may be wrong, but I think they mean how you can import an existing sim into CAS using the "Add a Sim" button down in the lower left corner and then choosing to add a sim from your gallery.

Or maybe they mean using the clone machine (from GTW).

I did some research on this.
It is not 'simple'.
What you need is a Scientist that is able to do cloning.
Then cloning a Sim will create an exact duplicate. The duplicate will have no skills. (Allegedly. I have not tested this)

@Admiral8Q Yah, that's why I said that I think maybe they meant the CAS-Cloning method, because there's nothing simple about using the cloning machine.

Cloning a sim should reset all skills. I agree it is more fun playing with a sim with not all skill maxed out. Hm... on the other hand, I don't think I ever had a fully skilled sim, might need to try that! :)

I downloaded a couple once that had maxed skills, a bunch of reward traits, several hundred thousand reward points and many promotions on top of their top-level career. They were really boring to play. There were a few skills they didn’t have from EPs, so I worked on those, but I had to use cheats to remove the reward traits because they never had to eat, pee, shower or sleep, and the nights were crawling by with nothing interesting to do.

Some people make Super Sims but I just think that waters down any unique abilities or interests they could have if they focused on skills that fit their personality or career choice.

So the clone button is in CAS where you can add sims using DNA, right? What a good thing to keep in mind if I get another of these nightmare sims.

The first time I got one, I didn't even know max skills was a thing on the Gallery. I kept noticing the sim just appeared from room to room. The Sim appeared in the kitchen and started cooking and I knew right away the cooking was maxed out. I open the skills and everything was 10. At least that explained the teleporting! The aspirations were all max'd too and he had like 119000 aspiration points. I was like "What a great looking sim that I have no reason to play with now..."

I didn't know that about the Clone machine though! Another good reason to play through another scientist and see if I have any max'd sims in the gallery I'd like to clone.

You can clone in CAS by making a twin. You'll have to do the tedious process of updating all their outfits and makeup and such, but I think a twin is pretty much identical

"permanentrose;c-18075258" wrote:
You can clone in CAS by making a twin. You'll have to do the tedious process of updating all their outfits and makeup and such, but I think a twin is pretty much identical

Oh that's cool! I didn't realize it was an option when creating a Sibling using Genetics.

You see, things like this are annoying to deal with. So I created some highly requested CAS QoL improvements.
Please check it out and give it your vote if you like. Devs said they're watching, so I suppose if enough people support it, we could see it in the game in the future. :smile:

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/997947/cas-qol-improvements

Thanks @Arzekial @EmmaVane @permanentrose o:) yes I was talking about CAS cloning. Sorry I should be more specific about the question.

@Admiral8Q The cloning machine from GTW works different: a good clone will keep all the traits, rewards but zero skills. A evil clone will get different traits. But sadly the evil clone do not get the epic red eyes, anyone remember those? This cool feature has been broken for years :s

@Kerrigan beautiful super sims are ok if you want it to be a NPC, just to embellish the sims streets lol but they are useless for gameplay: yes, they are boring :p Also I do not think creators upload super sims to avoid players to "steal" their work, it is because people like them. (Yes, players should not reupload stuff, but I feel many players do this to keep lots, rooms and sims that they like safe at the gallery).