[SU] Life dream progess numbers

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[SU] Life dream progess numbers

Post by Perturbee »

Hi,

With the Saddle Up update the little blue cloud indicating the completion of one Life Dream task has changed.
Where there used to be a percentage there is now a strange number, the numbers work as follows:
Bronze: 25,000
Silver: 35,000
Gold: 55,000
Platinum: 70,000
So, what 1% means at each level varies, eg Bronze 250pt = 1%, Silver 350pt = 1% and so on.

(Thanks to EA Matt for supplying the answer).
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Re: [SU] Life dream progess numbers

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That's good to know, thanks!

So now, following on from my earlier thread, it would be great if people who have updated can post the following information:

a) What orb is the sim working towards (bronze, silver, gold or platinum)?
b) What life dream is the sim doing?
c) What number do you get (with the blue cloud) when you complete one life dream task?

I can then collate the results and determine how this new update has affected the efficiency of the goals.

Thanks to everyone who participates; every little helps!
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Towards Bronze:
"I always want to go for a Relaxing Skate on the Ice Hockey Rink"
Relaxing Skate is 6 hours: 718 pts
The 12 hours skating worked for me too: 1436 pts.

NOT tested: skating at home.
(I probably won't be posting many of these, since I only have test games on this update.)
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actually I still have percentages popping up. or maybe the percentages are just for the hobbies that theyre doing for their LD. I could've sworn I saw a % for serious swing earlier today. otherwise that's kind of a pain. I like the % better :?
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Re: [SU] Life dream progess numbers

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Perturbee wrote:Towards Bronze:
"I always want to go for a Relaxing Skate on the Ice Hockey Rink"
Relaxing Skate is 6 hours: 718 pts
The 12 hours skating worked for me too: 1436 pts.
Thanks for this!

So, by my calculations, this translates to 2.872% for the 6 hour task.
And before the Saddle Up update, people reported that it was about 2.5% for the same thing.

So it could have gone up slightly... However, the 2.5% figure from before was likely only approximate, because it always rounded to the nearest percent and so determining things exactly was very difficult.

And, despite how confusing it looks on first glance, this new "numbers" system does have the definite advantage of being more precise, as the rounding error has been significantly reduced (although presumable still exists to a certain degree).

From before though, I don't recall the 12-hour option actually working for this goal. I could be wrong since all my sporty people did the more efficient diving goal, but if this has been changed with the Saddle Up update, then that at least gives you a bit more flexibility - although the percentage is exactly double (for twice the time), so it doesn't make a difference in terms of total active time involved, but all-night sessions (or setting it up while you're at work or whatever) will be more productive (since you're not wasting time).

So in summary, when working towards a bronze orb for this one goal, there is very little difference between the pre and post update versions. There may be a slight change for the better, but nowhere near enough to offset the other changes of the update.

It will be interesting to compare this to the percentages for the higher orbs, and to look at other goals too, so if anyone has any data - please share!
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"I want to write up season statistics on computer" 1hr 36min
Bronze orb: 239 pts
Silver orb: 251 pts

"Snowboarding a lot at the snow park" 1 hr tricks till tomorrow
Bronze orb: 119

"Take a long ride on an inflatable animal" 40mins
Bronze orb: 99

I'll post more later when my other sims complete their tasks...
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Life Dream: I want to catch loads of fish by fishing at the park
Upgrading Orb to Silver
Tasks:
24 hour fishathon: 1day, 3017 in blue cloud, 9% in progress bar
Settle In: 9hrs, 1131 in blue cloud, 3-4% in progress bar
Unwind: 1hr, 125 in blue cloud, >1%-1% in progress bar
Go fishing: 10 min, 20 in blue cloud, >1% *tried it 3 times with the same result*

Life Dream: I want to spend as much time as possible at the Swim Center
Upgrading Orb to Silver
Tasks:
All day dive: 1 day, 3017, 8%
Disciplined Dive: 12 hrs, 1508, 4%
Aquatic Lunge: 1 hr, 125, 1%
Brief Leap, 10min, 20, >1%
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Thanks for the data people!
Stenn wrote:"I want to write up season statistics on computer" 1hr 36min
Bronze orb: 239 pts
This works out at 0.956%, whereas before it was approximately 0.5%.
So it may inded have gone up (104 times to reach 100% as opposed to 200 times before), but that latter figure is only approximate.
Stenn wrote:"Snowboarding a lot at the snow park" 1 hr tricks till tomorrow
Bronze orb: 119
This is 0.476%, whereas before it was approximately 0.5%.
So in reality, I would say there's no change here.
Stenn wrote:"Take a long ride on an inflatable animal" 40mins
Bronze orb: 99
This seems to be a new goal; what age phase was it for?
(It's 0.396% by the way)
Mitzki wrote:Life Dream: I want to catch loads of fish by fishing at the park
Upgrading Orb to Silver
Tasks:
24 hour fishathon: 1day, 3017 in blue cloud, 9% in progress bar
Settle In: 9hrs, 1131 in blue cloud, 3-4% in progress bar
Unwind: 1hr, 125 in blue cloud, >1%-1% in progress bar
Go fishing: 10 min, 20 in blue cloud, >1% *tried it 3 times with the same result*
The times here are roughly proportionate to the percentages you get, although the 24hour option looks to be slightly more efficient.
Whichever option you chose, it comes out at about 0.36% per hour. This is compared to about 0.29% before.
The same is true for the diving one.

So fishing and diving both seem to have increased slightly; for a silver orb it would now take approximately 3 days less than before, although again this is not a hard fact because the previous percentages were only approximate.
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I have some data:
Bronze-tricks till tomorrow-119
Gold-make fan movies-1713
Silver- enjoy view - 52
Silver- engineer trains 377
Silver - relaxing skate-754
Gold-short story-158
Bronze-retro game music-359
Bronze-sports star bio-478
Silver - complain on forum- 1131

My poor senior life guarding towards silver must do the action 6.7 times to get 1%. Ridiculous.

I started three sims as adults and think I have a conclusion; only do it if you're only working towards bronze.
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lissabmont wrote:I have some data:
Bronze-tricks till tomorrow-119
Gold-make fan movies-1713
Silver- enjoy view - 52
Silver- engineer trains 377
Silver - relaxing skate-754
Gold-short story-158
Bronze-retro game music-359
Bronze-sports star bio-478
Silver - complain on forum- 1131

My poor senior life guarding towards silver must do the action 6.7 times to get 1%. Ridiculous.

I started three sims as adults and think I have a conclusion; only do it if you're only working towards bronze.
Good to know. I have added 3 recently as adults, and I am sure I'll have to use LP to rewind them a few times to get orbs. Oh well.
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