Wishes

The Wishes panel

As soon as your Sims arrive at their new lot, they start expressing wishes to you via the Wish panel at the bottom of the screen. In addition to their Lifetime Wish, Sims can have up to four active wishes awaiting fulfillment. When a Sim has a new wish, it appears in the arched bubble on top of the Wish panel.

To promise a wish and add it to your Sims active wishes, left-click on the wish. To deny a wish, right-click on it. There is no punishment for denying a wish. Your Sim will just forget about it. That doesn’t necessarily mean a new wish will take its place right away. You may have to wait a while before your Sim conceives of a new wish

Incoming wishes can stack up without penalty. Use arrows to cycle through your Sim’s wishes before committing to them or denying them.

To learn more about a wish, just move the cursor on top of it. The full details of the wish appear in a box.

The box explains what the wish is, what needs to happen to fulfill the wish (you can sometimes get hints here), and how many Lifetime Happiness points the wish is worth once fulfilled. Wishes with loftier or more time consuming goals are worth more Lifetime Happiness points

.For example, with the Chat With Sim wish is worth 150 points, the slightly more time-consuming Read 3 Books wish is worth 900 points. The monumental Have First Child wish banks 6,000 Lifetime Happiness points, but that wish sends your life on an entirely new course.

Wishes include activities such as:

Chatting with a specific Sim

Kissing a Sim your Sim is interested in

Taking a class

Raising a skill level

Buying a specific object

Starting a new career

Getting a promotion at a current career

Banking a specific amount of Simoleons

Throwing a party

Going to a community location

Going to an event at a location

Once you have added a wish to the Wish panel, it stays there until you either fulfill it or throw it away. You throw a wish away with a quick right-click, and there is zero penalty

Some wishes are directly related to your Lifetime Wish. These wishes appear with a starburst behind them, indicating that you should definitely consider prioritizing them once promised. Fulfilling these wishes will get you closer to your Sim’s overall goal in life.

Wishes are not universal across age groups. Sims of differing ages will want different things. A child will never have a desire to join a specific career track, but instead want to be talked to, played with, or receive a new object like a toy.

Teen Sims start to mingle wishes with young adult and adult Sims, although you will see slight variations on wishes—many are socially-oriented, too. Because Sims can undergo personality changes as they age, some wishes do not survive the move between age groups. The desire to have a baby will disappear when your adult Sim moves into the elderly age bracket.