Male Pregnancy Trait
(I hope CAS is the right place to put this. I waffled between here and gameplay...)
The Male Pregnancy Trait is designed to provide a more "realistic" experience for pregnant male Sims.
I've always felt the male pregnancy experience in the Sims 4 could be improved so this is my attempt at making the gameplay a little more challenging and unique. I've approached it from the standpoint of an advanced medical procedure that a male Sim has chosen to undergo.
This trait offers two "base" moodlets:
• Experimental Medicine: +2 Tense (when not pregnant)
• Biological Changes: +8 Uncomfortable (when pregnant)
In addition, there are over 50 custom moodlets, most of which occur during pregnancy. These include: False Labor, Prenatal Vitamins, Sore Back and Swollen Feet, just to name a few. Some of them also come with custom buff tuning; being Dazed and Confused from fatigue and low blood sugar while pregnant also means your energy/vampire energy decays more quickly. It might be best that your Sim take a nap when that moodlet shows up! While they're not all negative, many of these moodlets are designed - like Biological Changes - to be extreme. Fighting past the discomfort your Sim is feeling when pregnant should not be easy.
Along with the custom moodlets, I have re-purposed many already in-game moodlets to simulate things like mood swings, as I very much wanted the experience to feel a bit like mad science. For example, if you have the Vampires game pack, you may see "Mysteriously X" emotion pop up as a possible result of said experimental medicine. If you have the Cool Kitchen Stuff pack, you may see the ice cream moodlets like Plant Matter appear as "nutritional supplements". If you have Spa Day or Outdoor Retreat, your Sim might come home from work with a Fertility treatment or potion. None of these expansions or packs are required; I've done my best to cover as many bases as possible within the confines of the base game, too.
CAVEAT: Because of the sheer number of moodlets I'm trying to re-use, I may have chosen some that don't exactly match with the trait theme as I didn't have their in-game text available to me and chose it because it sounded like it might work in context. Even with rigorous testing, I haven't seen all of them, so if you notice any that appear out of place, please let me know and I'll remove them. This also goes for icons for custom moodlets; when available, I chose ones available in the base game, so if you see any blank llamas, alert me to that as well.
The trait also comes with a whim set.
While the trait is called Male Pregnancy, I've done my best to make it transgender friendly. Rather than using male/female as my test condition, I'm using pee standing up/can be impregnated, although many of the moodlets use he/him as pronouns. I do not intend to re-create this trait for women.
Planned Updates:
• Broadcasters: Currently, adding broadcasters with MC4 causes the game to load very, very slowly (in excess of 15+ minutes). I've alerted Zerbu, but for the time being I have removed the broadcasters I added to the trait until this is fixed
• Tattoo: A CAS overlay to force a tattoo (I'm thinking wrist barcode) to Sims that have the trait
• More Moodlets: If you have anything you'd like to suggest, please let me know. It does not need to be strictly pregnancy related. Anything family oriented on normal interactions work as well. I've hit a creative wall which is why I've decided to publish rather than sitting on this trait for another few months
• Custom Interactions
Recommended Mods
Havem's Longer Pregnancy (I use THELONGESTPOSSIBLE because I am a masochist). It helps get the most from the mod, since the in-game duration for pregnancy is fairly short
Uncomfortable Overhaul from roBurky or Uncomfortable Changes from Zerbu (bring the pain)
The trait (along with in-game screenshots!) can be found on my Tumblr: https://sresla.tumblr.com/post/183709848212/male-pregnancy-trait
Additional Credits:
Zerbu for creating Mod Constructor v4 and being patient with my questions in Discord channel
Havem for discussing integration of their mod with mine; we decided against it because there was no way to restrict just for men, it's all or nothing with pregnancy
Sims 4 Studio which helped me re-create the trait when my original .ts4mc got corrupted. It also allowed me to edit the Active animation when the trait is selected to something more appropriate
Kutto who listened to me gripe, helped me work through some of my own issues with MC4 and provided the overlay code for my planned tattoo update
My poor Sims, who I have put through multiple trimesters over and over while testing
Updates
3/28/19: Identified via LE submission (thanks Onyxangel) conflict with “Be Funny” interactions. The “Dad Jokes” moodlet has been updated to be occasional, rather than relying on specific social interactions to trigger.
If anyone is receiving LEs from this mod and you're willing to share them, please let me know via PM. I have tested it in my own game with no mods except MP and received no errors, but it's possible one of the many random moodlets I added as part of the "mood swings" aspect won't play nicely if you don't have the pack/expansion it comes from. Given how many there are, it's possible to have playthroughs were you don't get to see everything (very likely, in fact). I'd rather just remove it completely if that's the case. It's also possible that it conflicts with something I've never used in my game as a mod - not sure what it could be but certainly possible - and in any case, I want to be pro-active about making sure people have a good experience with the trait.
The Male Pregnancy Trait is designed to provide a more "realistic" experience for pregnant male Sims.
I've always felt the male pregnancy experience in the Sims 4 could be improved so this is my attempt at making the gameplay a little more challenging and unique. I've approached it from the standpoint of an advanced medical procedure that a male Sim has chosen to undergo.
This trait offers two "base" moodlets:
• Experimental Medicine: +2 Tense (when not pregnant)
• Biological Changes: +8 Uncomfortable (when pregnant)
In addition, there are over 50 custom moodlets, most of which occur during pregnancy. These include: False Labor, Prenatal Vitamins, Sore Back and Swollen Feet, just to name a few. Some of them also come with custom buff tuning; being Dazed and Confused from fatigue and low blood sugar while pregnant also means your energy/vampire energy decays more quickly. It might be best that your Sim take a nap when that moodlet shows up! While they're not all negative, many of these moodlets are designed - like Biological Changes - to be extreme. Fighting past the discomfort your Sim is feeling when pregnant should not be easy.
Along with the custom moodlets, I have re-purposed many already in-game moodlets to simulate things like mood swings, as I very much wanted the experience to feel a bit like mad science. For example, if you have the Vampires game pack, you may see "Mysteriously X" emotion pop up as a possible result of said experimental medicine. If you have the Cool Kitchen Stuff pack, you may see the ice cream moodlets like Plant Matter appear as "nutritional supplements". If you have Spa Day or Outdoor Retreat, your Sim might come home from work with a Fertility treatment or potion. None of these expansions or packs are required; I've done my best to cover as many bases as possible within the confines of the base game, too.
CAVEAT: Because of the sheer number of moodlets I'm trying to re-use, I may have chosen some that don't exactly match with the trait theme as I didn't have their in-game text available to me and chose it because it sounded like it might work in context. Even with rigorous testing, I haven't seen all of them, so if you notice any that appear out of place, please let me know and I'll remove them. This also goes for icons for custom moodlets; when available, I chose ones available in the base game, so if you see any blank llamas, alert me to that as well.
The trait also comes with a whim set.
While the trait is called Male Pregnancy, I've done my best to make it transgender friendly. Rather than using male/female as my test condition, I'm using pee standing up/can be impregnated, although many of the moodlets use he/him as pronouns. I do not intend to re-create this trait for women.
Planned Updates:
• Broadcasters: Currently, adding broadcasters with MC4 causes the game to load very, very slowly (in excess of 15+ minutes). I've alerted Zerbu, but for the time being I have removed the broadcasters I added to the trait until this is fixed
• Tattoo: A CAS overlay to force a tattoo (I'm thinking wrist barcode) to Sims that have the trait
• More Moodlets: If you have anything you'd like to suggest, please let me know. It does not need to be strictly pregnancy related. Anything family oriented on normal interactions work as well. I've hit a creative wall which is why I've decided to publish rather than sitting on this trait for another few months
• Custom Interactions
Recommended Mods
Havem's Longer Pregnancy (I use THELONGESTPOSSIBLE because I am a masochist). It helps get the most from the mod, since the in-game duration for pregnancy is fairly short
Uncomfortable Overhaul from roBurky or Uncomfortable Changes from Zerbu (bring the pain)
The trait (along with in-game screenshots!) can be found on my Tumblr: https://sresla.tumblr.com/post/183709848212/male-pregnancy-trait
Additional Credits:
Zerbu for creating Mod Constructor v4 and being patient with my questions in Discord channel
Havem for discussing integration of their mod with mine; we decided against it because there was no way to restrict just for men, it's all or nothing with pregnancy
Sims 4 Studio which helped me re-create the trait when my original .ts4mc got corrupted. It also allowed me to edit the Active animation when the trait is selected to something more appropriate
Kutto who listened to me gripe, helped me work through some of my own issues with MC4 and provided the overlay code for my planned tattoo update
My poor Sims, who I have put through multiple trimesters over and over while testing
Updates
3/28/19: Identified via LE submission (thanks Onyxangel) conflict with “Be Funny” interactions. The “Dad Jokes” moodlet has been updated to be occasional, rather than relying on specific social interactions to trigger.
If anyone is receiving LEs from this mod and you're willing to share them, please let me know via PM. I have tested it in my own game with no mods except MP and received no errors, but it's possible one of the many random moodlets I added as part of the "mood swings" aspect won't play nicely if you don't have the pack/expansion it comes from. Given how many there are, it's possible to have playthroughs were you don't get to see everything (very likely, in fact). I'd rather just remove it completely if that's the case. It's also possible that it conflicts with something I've never used in my game as a mod - not sure what it could be but certainly possible - and in any case, I want to be pro-active about making sure people have a good experience with the trait.
