Getting aspiration award items to malfunction? I have boughta bunch of elexirs of life, and now I'm trying to make them malfunction so that they will make you older instead of younger. You see, I have five teens that I suddenly got bored with them being teens and getting top grades in school all he time (see the private school thread, lol). The two first of them turned instantly adult. They had green level of aspiration and not very bad scores on their needs. Now there are three left. I do all I can to avoid fulfilling their aspiration goals (gah). All of them have moved down to the green field, and now ther are extremely tired to boot. However, the elexir STILL works on them without side effects. Gah. I want them to grow up NOW, &%#. Any hints?
Green aspiration is still considered to be "good". You can make it get much, much worse, by realizing a few fears and driving it into the red. This will make it MUCH more likely that the item malfunctions, since even in green aspiration, it seems to be a roughly 50/50 shot of working correctly, which is not going to get you very far, since you're effectively playing randomwalk with the age meter. The drawback, obviously, is that they'll grow up badly. I am yet uncertain as to what the ramifactions of growing up badly on a teen to adult transition is.
