Everything Sims 2

Adds a soft limit to children’s book studying for Cooking, Cleaning, and Mechanical. Children can still study these skills, but they become less likely to continue as their skill rises, effectively discouraging them from maxing adult practical skills from books.

All 7 skills can be studied from all bookcases, not just the education career reward – although you’ll still need the education career reward to get that fast skilling rate. There’s also a version that is compatible with mrclopes’s read books autonomously if it loads after. There are versions of this mod that make studying cleaning build science instead of nature, based off of gummilutt’s mod.

This allows autonomous studying according to the Sim’s personality and aspirations. The attractiveness of studying autonomously are at their lowest for playful pleasure-seekers and at their highest for serious knowledge Sims. The field of study that is most attractive is biased a little by the interests and personality, and there is very little attraction to study a subject the Sim is already maximised on.

Occasionally when a Sim goes to study autonomously, he will tell himself “uh-uh I am not in the mood”. This is usually if there are books already lying around, because I think he starts to think of using one of those, and they are obviously not carrying my hack.

This mod will boost the speed of skill studying with normal, non-traditional and special skills on the regular bookcases and the career reward bookcase (with the Golden Book attached to the top). The Sims will spend around an hour or two gaining the first 4 skill points individually. At around the 4th skill point, it takes slightly longer and then thereon, with each skill point gained, the Sim will spend a bit more time, BUT they won’t take forever to gain all 10 skill points in a given normal skill such as Cooking, Cleaning and Mechanical.