Time Relativity Mod by IceM

I downloaded the time mod to have a play with, over at Mod The Sims. It's by a fellow by the username IceM.

Now it works like it says, and slows down time to better manage and keep up with your sims. However. Your sims actions won't get any faster. Meaning that they slow down just as much as the time does.

There is a part of the code that you're told not to edit. But I decided to go right ahead and fiddle with some basic values. I'll copy them below so you can better understand the feedback I am about to show you.

#Do not edit below!
with sims4.reload.protected(globals()):
    TICKS_PER_REAL_WORLD_SECOND = 1000
    MILLISECONDS_PER_SECOND = 1000
    SECONDS_PER_MINUTE = 30
    MINUTES_PER_HOUR = 30
    HOURS_PER_DAY = 24
    DAYS_PER_WEEK = 7
    SECONDS_PER_HOUR = SECONDS_PER_MINUTE*MINUTES_PER_HOUR
    SECONDS_PER_DAY = SECONDS_PER_HOUR*HOURS_PER_DAY
    SECONDS_PER_WEEK = SECONDS_PER_DAY*DAYS_PER_WEEK
    INVALID_TIME = MAX_UINT64

Now using those values I had a play around and came to, not a conclusion so much, but an opinion that I wouldn't be using this mod, just yet. Below is my feedback I left on the Mod The Sims website for the mod download.

So! I decided to play with the values down below where it says 'Do not edit below here'.

Because reasons.

What I found was that by changing the day, hour, minute, second, millisecond and tick values it DOES speed up the rate at which my sims did things. I first decided to double these. Which seemingly made my sims take way way longer to do things. Then I decided to halve the original values . Logic dictating that doing so would make the sims go faster.

However I was finding for some reason my sims were going to school and work every few hours , for about an hour and a half. This was with all the settings cut in half. bar the week setting which I left at '7' days. What I also noticed what that my days, had been pushed forward. From Thursday right into Sunday.

Now, I figured this was because of the 24 hours setting being cut in half so, I put it back to 24 hours in a day. But to no avail, my sims were going to work and school EVEN MORE FREQUENTLY.

SO. I put the millisecond and tick options back to 1000, leaving the seconds and minutes at 30. Again to no avail. My sims were doing things faster, time was slowed down a little. Perfect! BAR the fact they were going to work and school every few hours still.

I can definitely see why this hasn't been put in yet, as I dare say it will take a LOT of tweaking beyond merely changing some values for how long stuff takes the sims to do.

But it was certainly fun playing around with the code and seeing what certain values did. I have taken the mod out, and can attest that doing so makes everything go back to normal. So if you're a bit code savvy and want to have a play there's no real danger in doing so in this mod file.

If only, there was a way to change the hour/minute/day etc values without them totally disregarding the work and school cycles. This could be an amazing Mod and I sure hope you are able to figure a way past this strange little quirk in the system.

I am so hoping that someone, in here knows more about Python and how we can change the speed at which our sims do things, without that strange work and school every few hours quirk that started happening. Rather than just slowing everything down together.