Thanks, these are all interesting ideas and helps it all make more sense. It's not a big deal, but I thought if I could tweak something to help it make more sense for those Sims who should be very skilled it would be nice.
And I completely understand
Jseg's point; you can read all the cookbooks in the world and that doesn't mean you are a good cook. ie: I took years of piano lessons and never quite got
great at piano. And now that I haven't played in over a decade, I doubt I could easily read and play with any real skill. Plus my piano is so out of tune it's cringe-inducing. And piano tuners are truly had to find these days and there never really were a lot of them to begin with.
I was only annoyed because my elder sim lost to a newbie and he's been sparring at level 10 since he was a YA
, my lifespans are long so he'd eared every skill on his own by the time he was halfway through his adulthood. So other than age, there should be no reason he lost. And he'd only just become an elder, so by real life standards he was barely into retirement. I know people in their late 50s who could spar against any average in-shape 20-something and beat them easily.
Of course not me, I last had defined abs in my early 40s...now that I've hit the half-century point I sorta let myself go.
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But I only sorta regret that...I never was too big on exercise, but did it out of vanity. Now I'm the invisible age, so I just don't care so much about looking fit, but do just enough to maintain my heath. I happily leave the ripped bods to the young and the celebrities who get paid to look good..
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