Is anyone familiar with how interests are generated? I'm trying to determine the highest legitimate total of interest points. I understand that sims can have different totals, and I can swap points with magazines, but I don't know the absolute highest total that a sim can start with.

Any info is appreciated, please.

It depends on what you're asking. If you want to know the highest total of interest points supplied by the game, I have no idea. Reading a magazine makes you lose a point in something else because there's code in the magazines to do that, not because you've gone over some maximum.

SomeSimThings has a hacked object called the supersculpture that will let you set any interest to 10 points; it also has an option to set ALL interests to 10 points. So the game doesn't enforce a maximum on interest points.

Thanks! Yes, I’d like to know the highest amount of points the game can supply sims on creation. I’ve messed around with interests using hex editing and hacked objects, but I’ve never figured out the highest total the game itself can provide outside of modding/editing.