Top 10 Aging Actions in The Sims: FreePlay

07. Hygiene - The Soap Meter

Here's a bit of an obvious one - or is it? Informal surveys among my fellow gamers has revealed that just like with the other stats, the mental conditioning of game play makes most simmers equate taking a shower or bath with filling the Hygiene Meter...

The rub here can be found in a sampling of that activity however:

70s Future Shower - Quick Rinse - 12 XP - 54s

Glitz and Glam Shower - Quick Rinse - 12 XP - 48s

Japanese Bath - Quick Dip - 30 XP - 4m

Long Tiled Bathtub - Quick Dip - 30 XP - 4m 30s

Stylish Marble Bathtub - Quick Dip - 30 XP - 4m

What we have learned from this is that we should tell our Sims to stay as far away from bathtubs as possible because they are the king of inefficient hygiene! Showers on the other hand appear to be a much better deal, and that is certainly true when your Sim's Hygiene Meter is very low, but what about when it is less than halfway depleted?

In that situation even a shower is excessive - so what is the hack? Well, how about your sink??

Brown Stylish Sink - Wash Hands - 7 XP - 6s

Classic Sink - Wash Hands - 7 XP - 7s

Designer Sink - Wash Hands - 7 XP - 5s

Japanese Basin - Wash Hands - 7 XP - 6s

Pure Black Sink - Wash Hands - 7 XP - 6s

With the Meter less than half-depleted a few runs under the faucet gets it topped off in a fraction of the time even the best Shower can manage! That is a nice hack!

Posted: 12th Jan 2015 by CMBF
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