Which are your favorites and why? I'll be delving into Mods for the first time soon here and this is what I'm looking for so if you can help me out.... that would be wonderful!Game StabilityMod to Remove ALL Sims from a WorldSupernatural Hybrid Mod (I really want to have my vampires be able to ensorcel people like the Genie can!)Is there a Mod that will allow you to sick your dogs on the Paparazzi and robbers? LOL I know, that's probably really reaching but I just thought I'd ask!Is anyone familiar with the Monarchy Mod and how it works?A Mod to get rid of cars?A Mod for "cheating" to set Skills.Any other Mods I should have?And while not Mod related...does anyone know which fog emmitter code is used for when your Sim transforms into a vampire after being bitten? Since I'm clearly not getting my bats and belfry I'm thinking I might try to make my own!

About Types of Mods:XML/tuning mods:The most common mod that most people will shop around for is the XML/tuning mod. It is the easiest mod to make, and so you will find multiple mods that do essentially the same thing, and change the same bit of XML/tuning code. The chances are good that one modder didn't copy the other modder. There are only a finite number of tweaks that can be done to a particular bit of code, after all.That being said, you will want to carefully read the modder's explanation of what their particular mod does, because they may have combined two modifications into one mod.Some websites, like TFM’s Naughty Sims Asylum do only XML/tuning mods. The modders on that website will try to assure that you know which of their mods will conflict with another modder's mods on that site. But since they are always creating mods, the final responsibility of preventing conflicts will still rest with you.On other sites, like Simlogical, NRAAS, and Mod The Sims, you will have to either choose the proper category for XML/tuning mods, or read each part of their respective sites to determine which kind of mod it is.The XML/tuning mods are patch level dependent, and should match your patch level unless the modder specifically says the mod does not need updating. Check both the place it was originally posted, and also any comments made after that for an indication of whether or not the mod is updated to your patch level. Some modders have a stickied post that shows what mods have or have not been fully updated to the latest patch.If you want to try your hand at learning XML/tuning modding, check out the tutorials at Mod The Sims (NRAAS also has something about this, on their site). You will need to learn the basics about using the S3PE program, which can be found at Simlogical.Override mods:Some override mods replace an EA original with a changed version. They do not change the original. They just force the game to read the changed version first, so it gets used instead. The mod may replace lighting/water/terrain in a world. Or it may replace an object, giving you a version of that object with particular changes made (like enabling the object to be recolorable, for instance). A mod may replace a feature, like giving your faeries different shaped wings.Other override mods change what shows up in CAS, or change whether an action is autonomous or not. An override mod may even allow you to view startup screens from a previous EP of your choice, even though you have ITF installed.Generally, you can only use one override mod of a particular type. You can only have one lighting mod at a time, for example. Object mods:Object mods are changes to a particular object that may give you a new object with added functions or a new object with some functions removed. The object mod may be written to give you the object in addition to the original EA object, or it may be written to override the original EA object. One example of an object mod is a piece of art that only showed one version of picture within a certain frame. The object mod unlocks three versions of a picture to be shown in that same frame. Or the original EA version had a stencil, and the object mod gives you both the stencil and stencil free versions in the same object. Or, an original EA object may not allow for recoloring, but the object mod allows you to recolor one or more parts of the object. Or it may even be an object that looks like a hand-held harp, but works like a guitar in the game.Generally, an object mod will not be patch level dependent. (On rare occasion, this is not true, however. Object mods had to be updated around the time Pets was released. You will need to check old object mods with TSR RigFix, to prevent "blue lot" corruption, which irrevocably destroys a save.) Object mods that are not also an override will usually not conflict with each other. They are separate objects that will be added to your game. But you will probably want to choose the most useful one, so your game isn't cluttered with similar objects. Non-core scripting mods:These mods change or add scripts, rather than just tweaking a tiny bit of code. They require a more in-depth knowledge of coding, and are made by advanced modders. They may add animations, as well. Scripting mods generally won't conflict with each other. But they will have to match your patch level, unless the modder says they need no change. Check both the initial place the mod was posted and also the comments section, where the modder may have said the mod needed no updating for a certain patch. Core mods:Core mods overwrite core code, which is serious code at a very deep level. They are made by very advanced modders, only. Assume core mods will conflict with other core mods unless you have been assured by the modder that their mods will not conflict with another core mod.Twallen and Pescado are the two most well known and trusted core modders. It should be noted here that Twallen abandoned his mod before the final two patches of the game. The last version of NRAAS that was written exclusively by Twalllen was made for patch level 1.63 and that patch doesn't have the changes in it required by the game once the servers go down. The last time I looked at NRAAS, they still had links to the last version of the mod that Twallen wrote, exclusively, which is compatible with patch level 1.63 only.The current version of NRAAS mods has been rewritten to match patch level 1.67, which does contain changes required once the servers go down. Be aware, however, that the NRAAS mod has been changed by a group of talented modders, and is no longer Twallen's mod, in that sense. (Had Twallen been involved, he may or may not have approved those changes. But the group of modders have made every attempt to stay true to Twallen's original vision of his mod, according to their statements on the site.)Pescado has not changed his awesome mod since May 8, 2014; however, he has yet to say that he has finalized the awesome mod, so you will still be required to download his mod, on a regular schedule, until the awesome mod is finalized. Pescado's mod requires patch 1.67 to run.The NRAAS mod isn't just a single mod, like awesome mod. Instead, NRAAS is a suite of mods, made to work together. Initially, the Twallen vision involved making a group of mods that individually modified the game (mixing and matching at will), without resorting to rewriting the core of the game. Eventually, he was forced to also make some core mods, in order to control the game and stop game errors. NOTE: Twallen's core mods do conflict with some store PC, and indeed, Twallen was very open that he did not intend to support store PC. So choosing to use Twallen's core mods means being willing to give up whatever store PC items are in conflict. From what I have read about the post-Twallen core mods, this situation has not changed. Do not be surprised if/when you run into problems.Twallen's original vision means that you will have to learn not just one mod, but many, many mods. Each one has a learning curve. Be prepared to spend a good deal of time acquainting yourself with the ins and outs of the various parts of the NRAAS suite. Read not only the description, but also the comments from other people. Invest your time wisely, and learn what you are getting before you plop it into your game. Pescado's awesome mod has changed much since the base game. What all it can do now includes so much that he no longer attempts to describe it all on his site. Instead it is all explained in the Read Me document that comes with every version of his mod. READ IT!!The only way you will learn about awesome mod is to read the Read Me document, because awesome mod works ENTIRELY in the background. You put it on your game, and forget it. In the background, it tirelessly works to fix game errors, optimize play, prevent common problems, remove irritations, etc. Awesome mod allows for configuration by the player, giving you many choices about how you want your game to play. The first way it does this is with a configuration website page that lets you toggle certain items on or off. The configuration page link is right under the link to download awesome mod, on his site. Once you open the website page, it is titled, in typical Pescado fashion More Stupid Than You. Read every line and make your choices. Then agree to let the website keep track of your choices, because you need to update the configuration whenever you redownload the awesome mod. And then click the Generate button. The configuration will be saved to your desktop or OS download folder. It is the aweconf.pkg document, and does not need to be uncompressed. Do not try to open it. Put it in the same place you put the awesome mod.The other way to configure the awesome mod is with the menu accessed through key commands within the game -- the same menu you use for testingcheatsenabled and moveobjects on. When that menu opens, type in the word help, and you will see a gazillion new options for game manipulation and modification. Well, not really that many, but there are a LOT of them. To really make the most of awesome mod, you will want to be aware of all the new commands he makes available.One other thing you need to know: Pescado has his own version of the framework that is optimized for his mod. If you got your framework from another source, verify it is also optimized for the awesome mod. The mod framework package below, that I use in my own game, has been optimized for the awesome mod, but can be used without it, as well. If you are in doubt, then download my version of the framework, to be sure.http://www.mediafire.com/download/dtidsn2sa4sd10i/Mods.rar

Katty0 wrote:Amojie I wish I had your patience!!!Where did you get the fish and minor pet no death mod? And the no spin saddle mod?What does the dragon mod tweak? Does the leaf raking one tweak how long it takes?Thank you for such informative posts!The fish and minor pet mods are at TFM’s Naughty Sims Asylum. The fish mod comes in two parts. One is for only aquariums and the other is for only fish bowls, by two different modders, so look for both. The no spin saddle mod is also at TFM’s Naughty Sims Asylum. As is the leaf mod. In fact, I have seen more than one leaf mod there, so look at all the different modders to find all the possible versions/variations until you see the one you want. They all do something a little different.The people at TFM’s Naughty Sims Asylum are very good about letting you know if their mods are working well with the latest patch or still need updating. I think everyone's mods are now updated except some by TFM, who has real life things slowing her down. She will eventually get them all updated -- she has gazillion mods, so it takes a while to do them all. The ones I use of hers have all been updated to the last patch.It is worth your while to sign up, there, and look at each modder's offerings. The site index can be somewhat confusing, but persist, because it has, by various modders, the most comprehensive listing of mods that I have ever seen, and you really need to be familiar with what is available. The dragon mod is at Mod the Sims. It does different things, depending on what you download along with the mod itself. The main thing I got it for was to make actions non-autonomous, so sims don't keep putting the dragon on the floor and losing it. It's called Dragon Valley Dragon Mods, by Margaret Pendragon. When I asked if it was working with patch 1.66, she said "It should, though I haven't played with the dragons in awhile. Store content isn't usually affected by general patches." If it was good with 1.66, then it should also be good with 1.67, because nothing changed that would affect a mod like that. But apparently she isn't going to check further, because she never answered if it is compatible with 1.67, which is the problem I have with most modders at MTS. They don't seem too eager to tell us their mods are safe with the latest patch. (Some modders there actually told me not to ask, but to assume things are working unless someone complains they aren't. What??? I think that is irresponsible modding.) At any rate, I haven't had any problems with the main dragon mod. I don't use her add-on mods that can go with it, so I can't tell you anything about them. Mod the Sims used to be the best place for mods, but I have been less pleased with them in the last year or so, primarily because they are not responsive, anymore, for the most part. Some people also have their own sites, and keep those sites updated more than they do their things at Mod the Sims. (For instance, EllaCharmed has more on her site, unless she has since added those things to Mod the Sims, and I haven't noticed, recently.) So, while I use Mod the Sims from modders that verify their mods still work with the latest patch, I no longer completely trust that site, like I used to. Sigh.

Bronwin2 wrote:Amjoie, you might want to read what The Sims Resource is saying about moding the Sims 4. As for AM I often thought about trying it, but I got confused about his installation instructions and I didn't want to put a 3rd party file in the actual Sims 3 installation files. Also I didn't like the rudness and meanness on his site. If you know of a place that has simple and updated instructions on its installation for a game patched to 1.67 I might give it a go in a new user data folder.The awesome mod and separate config file (where you made choices for what you want the mod to do) go right into Packages inside the normal Mod folder. Only the Resource.cfg inside the regular Mods folder needs to be changed, to include a couple extra lines that awesome uses. Those extra lines will have no effect on a game that isn't using awesome mod.But if you want to try awesome, just download my mod folder framework. It is already set up for awesome mod, and you won't have to change a thing. Just transfer any files you have in your current Mods folder, to the new Mods folder, and put the new Mods folder into your Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 folder. Then you are set to go. :)Link for a Mod folder already set up for awesome mod -- can be used without awesome mod, as well:http://www.mediafire.com/download/dtidsn2sa4sd10i/Mods.rar(But throw away the blueprints I made, if you don't want them. I left them in their for AmaraRena. The blueprints are the only extras, and everything else is just empty folders waiting for renaming, if necessary. You'll see what I mean when you open Packages inside the Mod folder.)So, nothing of the awesome mod goes into any Programs folders. That was the old way of doing things, when ANY mods needed to be installed into Programs folders. But since EA made it possible for us to use a Mods folder right inside our The Sims 3 folder, awesome mod is used like any other mod, being put right in Packages inside the Mods folder. Nothing needs to go into any Programs folders.Or are you confusing the FPS limiter with the awesome mod? The FPS limiter is totally separate, and can be used by anyone, whether they use the awesome mod, or not. The FPS limiter is put, along with its associated files, loose inside the base game folder. See my Know Your Game thread for pics and how that is installed.http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/766086.page

Katty0 wrote:Cinderelli What lots do you use with this? and can they go to the regular science lot? Can they work the career in the regular way if i want them to?I want this mod just want to be sure I understand it and how it works. Mini explanation:* The mod allows sims to work in 'open' workplaces, so they don't disappear inside a rabbithole.* You need the rabbitholes (or rabbithole rugs) in the world to get the option to work in that career. I found I required a Town Hall rabbithole as the mod's interactions didn't show up on the rug, but you can hide it in a basement if you like.* Once your sim is in a career, you click on the Town Hall in Live mode and choose Zerbu-->Ultimate Careers-->Enable/Disable Careers--> and then toggle the career you want enabled.* Sims in that career will automatically travel to the lot that the rabbithole is on but they do not go in the rabbithole. They will automatically start using objects appropriate to their career. See: http://zerbu.blogspot.co.uk/p/ultimate-careers-v3.html* You can choose ANY lot to be the workplace simply by clicking on the lot and choosing Zerbu, and then (something like) 'assign the career rabithole to lot'. Sims will now route to THAT lot to work.* You can toggle the career on/off at any time. (When off the sims will return to the rabbithole as usual).* You will need to build an appropriate workplace for them. I built Crumpleton with this mod in mind so it has many buildings which can be used as career workplaces. Like a bank for the business career (with computers/business planners/registers/whiteboards/etc).Iron Seagull has reviewed the mod on his Youtube channel, but bare in mind he recorded most of them with older versions of the mod so it will work slightly differently. Use the videos to get an idea of what the mod does, not as a tutorial.

NRAAS Master Controller allows you to set Sim skill levels. I have:NRAAS Master Controller and Master Controller CheatsNRAAS Cupcake Mod (allows you to keep bakery racks stocked and stocked with whatever food items you want)NRAAS Overwatch to keep Sims running smoothly. This mod will also find and reroute stuck sims.NRAAS Story Progression and Story Progression Extra. SP Extra puts map tags into your game. I use Burn Waffles lighting mod for Midnight Hollow.

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Luvtehgeeks
Seasoned Veteran
12 years ago
Master Controller...after you become a member a number of us can help you over there ;)
amjoie
Seasoned Ace
12 years ago
Bronwin2 wrote:
amjoie, just a question about your post. When you said that NRAAS mods messed up your game and you had to do a complete uninstall and reinstall. Does that mean you tried to do a factory reset and that failed?

The reason I am asking is that I was unaware that these mods modified the actual installed program files. In the technical section it is rather rare for us to recommend a full reinstall. So far as I was aware all the game changes would be taking place in the user data folder.

Good information by the way.

A factory reset did nothing, which shocked me silly. I assumed that the mod was affecting only the save, like awesome affects only a single save at a time. So I thought just changing the save should have been enough, and for sure, a factory reset would do the trick. In fact, it never occurred to me that it wouldn't.

I had actually started with a factory reset test game, and put in the post-Twallen NRAAS suite I had chosen to use. Overwatch was one of them, and I know Traveler was one of them. Errortrap, as well. And MC, of course. (I know I had a couple others, but I can't remember what. I tested both before and after patch 1.63, so it is a bit confused in my mind which were which, and whether before or after.) I had done extensive reading about the post-Twallen mod, so I know things were all installed correctly, etc.

Then I tested. I was trying for something equal to the function awesome gave me, but with the addition of Traveler. I was hoping for the same type of smooth running game. Instead I got unaccustomed sluggishness, and more than one glitch. Just little stuff, at first, but enough to raise my eyebrows. And that was just in a test game, vanilla except for the NRAAS suite.

It got worse when I finally added my store things (a fresh copy of newly installed DCCache/DCBackup, etc, with only the store things I own). I played the NRAAS suite for some time, juggling different combinations of things, to see if I could stabilize it. I finally took out Traveler, but that didn't help as much as I thought it should.

After messing around with NRAAS mods for an extended period of time, I finally gave up. I put the test game in the trash, and emptied it.

I put my real The Sims 3 game back in, and started to play. The game was acting strange, like it was too sluggish. That alarmed me. I had a backup of my real game that I had made just before testing the NRAAS suite, so I just threw away the sluggish real game.

Then I did a factory reset and chose an EA sim to play in a new world. I had problems I should never have had, and that really worried me. But I thought maybe it was just the particular world, which I hadn't tried playing for quite some time (because all worlds play a bit different). I quit the game and restarted it.

I opened a new Moonlight Falls. I am very familiar with that world and know exactly how it plays. I STILL had problems. Sluggish. A couple glitches, here and there. Small stuff, but unusual. Things that had not been happening before I tested the NRAAS suite.

I am a fussy, fussy player. I want my game to snap. I am sensitive to small things that other people may overlook. If one of my worlds isn't acting right, I find out why and fix it. I don't just put up with sluggish and lagging. I know I don't have to, because I know I can get it right and enjoy a smooth, no glitch game.

If a person was not used to a game running really good, the kind of thing I'm talking about might not have even been noticeable. But it was glaringly obvious to me.

To my mind, there should have been no way a mod could affect the guts of the game. It didn't make any sense. But something was going on, that was affecting my game no matter which The Sims 3 game folder I played. And that threw up the red flags all over the place.

So I manually uninstalled, including the registry. I was taking no chances. I wanted whatever had gone wrong to be eradicated.

After a clean install, I was able to open my real game and play like normal, nice and smooth. This was my backup copy of the same exact real game that had been sluggish immediately after testing the NRAAS suite.

So, what happened? I have no idea. Was it just a coincidence? Was my actual game in Programs teetering on going bad, and it reached the tipping point right after I tested NRAAS? Could be, I suppose. Sometimes base games need to be uninstalled and reinstalled to fix arcane problems. So who knows?

I sure didn't expect the problems after testing NRAAS. It shouldn't have been possible, from all that I know, for a mod to affect the guts of the game. But I cannot deny what actually happened, and something messed up the game across more than one The Sims 3 folder. It is suspect that it happened right after testing the NRAAS suite.

I can tell you this: It scared me enough to never try it again. It just isn't worth it to me, because I found both the before and after patch 1.63 NRAAS suite to be too sluggish and glitchy for my taste. Traveler, especially, was glitchy -- and that was the shiny I wanted most. So, I'm not going to worry about it.

Obviously, other people are playing with the mods and enjoying their game. Since they really like the mod, they won't be taking it out, anyway. And if they are willing to put up with the glitches and slower game (and maybe they don't even notice that it's slower than it should be), then it hardly matters. If they are happy, then I'm happy for them.

But I'm not going there. I like my game smooth as silk.
amjoie
Seasoned Ace
12 years ago
stilljustme2 wrote:
AldermanTom wrote:
Hi

Housecleaning for all Sims by Buzzler

Gives you the option to right click in the house and gives you the Clean Hourse option, normally reserved for Neat Sims. I view this as more of a convenience rather than a cheat, since you can do the same thing without the Mod, except you have to click on each thing.

I just downladed and started using
The Professional Juice Bar Mod by Icarus_alsorts. It makes all Juice Bars into functional late night bars. So all those stylized juice bars in the game finally have a purpose in home. All juice bars in store venues are also updated. And you can tweak some of the functionality.

I'm going to have to look for those two -- the juice bar mod would save me a lot of work in updating venues where EA puts in juice bars. And it would nice to have Sims have the option to clean house without saddling them with the Neat trait. :roll:

Do all those bars, that have been auto-turned into Late Night bars, get bartenders? Even the ones in a residence?
AldermanTom
12 years ago
The bars in the private residences do not get bartenders, at least the one in my active family's house did not. I believe the other ones did. I am playing in a world called hollyweird ( excllent world ) which is a modified save file of bridgeport on the exchange. So I am not sure how the creator set the lots.

The mod description gives some info on the various tweaks availabe. I think you can opt a home bar out of the whole deal so it is a regular juice bar. I dont know if the option exists to have the home bar staffed by a regular bar tender or not.
bae288474f321b5
12 years ago
I have 19 non-Nraas mods (mostly just small tuning stuff) and 31 Nraas mods so I won't list them all, but here are the ones I'd recommend for the items on your list.

Game Stability

Nraas Overwatch; if you are travelling then also Nraas Traveler; if you are still having problems then also Nraas Error Trap

Mod to Remove ALL Sims from a World

Nraas Master Controller

Supernatural Hybrid Mod (I really want to have my vampires be able to ensorcel people like the Genie can!)

Nraas Hybrid

Is there a Mod that will allow you to sick your dogs on the Paparazzi and robbers? LOL I know, that's probably really reaching but I just thought I'd ask!

I don't know of one, but if you don't like Paparazzi Nraas Register has an option to turn them off

Is anyone familiar with the Monarchy Mod and how it works?

Not me - sorry!

A Mod to get rid of cars?

Shimrod's No Cars mod over at Sims Asylum. You have to create an account to get it. (To get rid of the decorative taxis in Bridgeport you'll also need Nraas Traffic).

A Mod for "cheating" to set Skills.

Nraas Master Controller. You probably need the Cheats add-on.
amjoie
Seasoned Ace
12 years ago
AmaraRena wrote:
I would also love a Mod that allows you to dress your butler however you want. I want my smexy cabana boy dammit! ROFL!

Oh, and I wanna be able to edit him in CAS so I can MAKE SURE he's a smexy cabana boy! LOL

I actually just wanna be able to change Sims' work outfits in general. Sometimes I just don't like what various NPC workers are wearing darn it! LOL

I don't play careers, so I haven't tried it -- but I thought since Showtime, that you could choose a second work outfit, through the plan option of the dresser. I don't think you can alter the first one the game chooses, but you can add a second one and then put them in that before work. They should always use the second one, after that.

Does anyone know if this still works after the patches between Showtime and now?

I do know there is a mod somewhere at TFM’s Naughty Sims Asylum that makes sims not change into work outfits at all, which means you can dress them any way you want, for work. There is also one to not allow the various martial arts uniforms.
Cinderellimouse
Seasoned Ace
12 years ago
AldermanTom wrote:
Cinderellimouse wrote:
Hey Amara, you funny bunny! :D

* Ultimate Careers

---> This mod is amazing!!! One of my top top mods! It means that your sim no longer needs to go into a rabbithole to work. I build my own open workplaces and enable the career, and my sim will go to work on that lot and use appropriate objects that improve their career performance.

I modded the mod to make it so that my sim doesn't lose work performance when not using the career related items. So I have a lot of freedom to do profession-like jobs that I think are appropriate for that sim. One of my scientists is particularly interested in oceanography, so when I play her she might go off the lot to go to a dive spot and collect fish, taking them back to the science lab. :D My politician will do a lot of networking, throwing fund raising parties, and using Ani's tax collector mod to collect tax from the town. :D

This mod has made the game what I want it to be! I made Crumpleton specifically with Zerbu's mod in mind. :D

There is a small learning curve so I recommend playing around with a test save first, until you get used to it. :D

There are quite a few other little mods I use, mostly from Mod the Sims, like the curfew remover. And of course, I have quite a collection of my own mods now! :lol:

WOW. How did you Mod a MOD? I really want to add the mirror object to one of the careers ( acting or Music I think)( there is a modded object on around the sims I think that has a micorphone modded as mirror, plus you update sounds amazing. Can a user make that happen?

Lots of mods can be modded! If you look in the descriptions the modder will often list which settings can be edited to tweak different things. Some basic knowledge of S3pe/modding is required. Zerbu put up some tuning files which he already set up, you just pick the one you want and install it alongside the mod. There is also a custom tuning file, that's the one I used to set it so sims do not lose performance when not using career objects. It helps that Zerbu is pretty awesome and helpful and basically told me what exactly I needed to change! :oops: :D I'm afraid actually adding different individual objects to the list is beyond my modding capacities at the moment. :cry:

The settings I edited are:

I changed the value to 0 so that I can direct sims can wander off the lot and do their own thing without the performance going down. An example would be my politician holding a rally at the park.

and:

I changed this value to 0 which means sims won't lose career performance when not using career objects. They still need to use the objects to gain work performance, but this means I have more flexibility to do my own weird imaginary jobs for sims. An example would be my journalist has to deliver newspapers to the newspaper kiosks (cc newspapers and kiosks from Around the Sims).
bae288474f321b5
12 years ago
amjoie wrote:

I don't play careers, so I haven't tried it -- but I thought since Showtime, that you could choose a second work outfit, through the plan option of the dresser. I don't think you can alter the first one the game chooses, but you can add a second one and then put them in that before work. They should always use the second one, after that.

I'm really glad they introduced this feature but (like so much in the game) I wish it had been set up differently!

The problem I've experienced is that when your sim gets a promotion the game overwrites what's in the number one slot (i.e. the latest career outfit your sim wore, i.e. the one you designed) with whatever the default is for their new position, so you have to take them into CAS and redesign the outfit.

To combat this, I try to remember to fill up all extra tabs with my custom career outfits, so that when promotions come I have copies of the outfit I designed and can switch one of those copies to number one by having my sim change into it. Then I make another copy to replace the one I moved to number one and the cycle continues...
AldermanTom
12 years ago
OK. The world I am playing has been populated with ALL late night bars. So all I could tell from that was that my home bar worked. My mixologist can create drinks and "discover" new ones from his own house now with just the juice bar from the 50s set.

I then went into a fresh game in Dragon Valley. McsSomebody's pub had a juice bar. I clicked on it and chose the "enable profession bar" item. About 2 sim hours later, a mixologist showed up, but I could only order a spine reticulator

So I went into edit town, and changed the pub from Visitors allowed to a sports bar. Everybody got booted out of the bar. My sim went back in, and in about 2 hours the same bartender sim showed up. This time my sim could order a number of drinks, including the Bad Cheerleader, which geve him the "In the mood " moodlet.

So, that is what I know about the convert all bars mod so far. Hope it helps
AldermanTom
12 years ago
Cinderellimouse wrote

Lots of mods can be modded! If you look in the descriptions the modder will often list which settings can be edited to tweak different things. Some basic knowledge of S3pe/modding is required. Zerbu put up some tuning files which he already set up, you just pick the one you want and install it alongside the mod. There is also a custom tuning file, that's the one I used to set it so sims do not lose performance when not using career objects. It helps that Zerbu is pretty awesome and helpful and basically told me what exactly I needed to change! :oops: :D I'm afraid actually adding different individual objects to the list is beyond my modding capacities at the moment. :cry:

The settings I edited are:

I changed the value to 0 so that I can direct sims can wander off the lot and do their own thing without the performance going down. An example would be my politician holding a rally at the park.

and:

I changed this value to 0 which means sims won't lose career performance when not using career objects. They still need to use the objects to gain work performance, but this means I have more flexibility to do my own weird imaginary jobs for sims. An example would be my journalist has to deliver newspapers to the newspaper kiosks (cc newspapers and kiosks from Around the Sims).

hmm. so you were able to alther the mod by only changing 2 variables to zero. Did you just do that in notepad, or do you need a special editor for SIMS files?

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