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Quote: Originally posted by mdsb759
from my understanding, characters that died keep their aspiration scores when resurrected.
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You're probably right. I tend to forget that The Sims 2 is a game, and, because it's a game, Sims can actually come back after they're dead. For myself, I think I see it more as life simulation, so I try to look after my Sims well in their first life, rather than hope I can bring them back for a second go. That's probably also why I don't do repeat play-throughs. In the pre-made 'hoods what has happened in my game has happened, and becomes for me the definitive history of the place. Like in Real Life, if we mess things up, we seldom get a second chance.
To come back to the title subject, I too was under the impression that LTWs were un-moddable, but if someone has found a way to do it, then all power to them. However, even if it does work, it looks like we'd be limited to the number of pet LTWs released, and, judging by the variety of suggestions in this thread, it would be hard to devise a mod that would suit us all. I suppose we could get round that by using different mods, just like we do in many other areas of the game. I don't think it would help me anyway: I don't hap Pets (because I understand it could burn out my graphics chip) so in my game the Pets LTWs aren't available to be reused.
If the idea doesn't work, we can go on doing what quite a few of us are doing already, assigning custom LTWs. The game doesn't recognise them, but we make a note of them somewhere (I use the Sim Bios), and then, when it is achieved, manually make the Sim permaplat as Peni described.
I don't like to go for negative criticism, but seriously I think that some of the suggested custom LTWs are even sillier than some of the Maxis ones. The idea of a Lifetime Want is that it's a dearly-held wish that the Sim wants to fulfil over the course of a lifetime. Now why on earth would anyone, no matter how mean and nasty, want to have 20 simultaneous enemies? It may be a nice little challenge for the player, but it makes no sense at all to the Sim. It's just not at all a desirable state of affairs. You could have 20 enemies at once, and all 20 come round every day and beat you up!
A much better LTW would be to win 50 fights or win 100 fights.
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