Whatever happened to bringrealfriends?

[pbox]

I used to have this hack, and loved it. It seems to have vaporized now .. I just went through all of the /ffs directories, no dice. Does it still exist? Or can anyone recommend an acceptable substitute?

(bringrealfriends used to make it so that sims would bring an actual friend when invited, and not some random stranger)

[GayJohnScarritt]

I used to have this hack, and loved it. It seems to have vaporized now .. I just went through all of the /ffs directories, no dice. Does it still exist? Or can anyone recommend an acceptable substitute?

(bringrealfriends used to make it so that sims would bring an actual friend when invited, and not some random stranger)

   I have no idea if this one also fixes that particular nuisance (will await the official word from Pescado himself, BUT, nodiningwithscum forces the game to assign a friend when your sim dines out (i have no idea how or when i got this one, had to have been when i was picking thru the Director's Cut, since it's not available on it's own).  My sims do seem to be bringing over friends, when they are granted permission to bring a friend along.

[Gwill]

I assume it's been merged into some other mod.  nofraternization.package would be my guess.
I have the complete DC, and I've never seen sims bring anyone but actual friends to visit.

[pbox]

I have the almost complete DC too -- I definitely have nofraternization, but I was thinking that only affects who they bring home *from work*? (What I'm looking for is something that deals with the phone invites, the "Can I bring a friend?" friend .. in my game, those "friends" are random folks, not friends)

[jolrei]

I generally have sims invite people over only when I have a specific interaction in mind - becoming best friends, trying to boost a crush to love, woohoo, etc.  In this context, stray hangers on would be counterproductive so I usually don't let sims bring other people.  I usually only allow them to bring a friend if the playable sim needs more friends, and then I don't care who it is - it's a new sim to get to know.

In the MATY hood, I always allow, bring a friend, because I know it will be another MATY sim and there might be interesting story possibilities that arise.

[notveryawesome]

I would also like such a hack, as well as one that causes the Seasons wishing-well to summon only playables. One of my sims needed a friend for work, so she wished for some friends, and the wishing well sent a bunch of townies that I'd never even seen before. I tend to segregate townies from playables in my game, and it gets annoying when the game wants my sims to bring townies home from work, or as visitors when an invited sim asks 'Can I bring my friend too?" I don't necessarily want sims that my playable already knows, but it would be nice of only playables were selected for invitation.

[Assmitten]

Pbox, I understand what you are asking for, but what might come vaguely close is Two Jeff's visitor controller. You can set it to only allow certain classes of sims on each lot and I believe friends is one of them. So you can roll the dice, "yes, bring your friend" and they will get harmlessly zorched away if they are not already friends. That might be a stopgap. (It's on simbology.com in case you don't have it.)

[J. M. Pescado]

This hack was cut due to maintenance and the fact that nofraternization has effectively superceded it.

[Ellatrue]

Twojeffs has a "bring friends dialog" for the school bus that does similar things. It lets you choose if you want to let the kids bring friends or not, and controls it so that the game will choose playables over non-playables. I don't remember if the functionality extends to the friends they bring home from work, but in any case you can find it on his new site (simbology).

[pbox]

Thanks for the input everyone -- I already have the Visitor Controller and the bring-home-from-school one, but they don't do the same thing that I was hoping for .. ah well. Right now if I don't like who the sims bring along, I simply don't greet them, so it's not actually a problem in my game, just a missing/unuseable feature.