Awesomod discussion/questions/helpful tips thread

[coconnor]

Yes, AwesomeMod is compatible with World Adventures.  Go back to your original thread and read my post to you there.

[Anonym]

Has anyone else noticed in their games that the premade houses have white 'THIS SHOULD NOT APPEAR IN GAME' blocks at the bases of the stairs? They can't be deleted. What are these?

Those are spawners (can be seed spawners, beetle spawners, etc.).  You probably wouldn't want to delete them if you could, as it seems sims can walk right through them, and if you want to collect anything for any reason that's where collectables come from.

[Moryrie]

They're not spawners. They're something else. Nothing spawns at any of these locations, unless you happen to be having problems with butterflies, beetles and rocks spawning INDOORS at the foot of any number of stairs.

*edited horrible spelling error

[Silent Dreamer]

As far as I could tell when I saw them in my game they appeared when EA enabled stair recoloring. Old, non-recolor-able stairs had those in several of my homes.

I may be wrong, however. I haven't seen them in several months.

[pbox]

I'd think those white blocks are the portals from one level the next; they're visible in my game too on all lots that I built pre-1.7.11 (which introduced the recolourable stairs). Apparently EA did something with the stairs that accidentially unhid the portals.

I wouldn't worry about it - deleting and rebuilding the stairs seems to clean it up for good.

[J. M. Pescado]

The stairblocks aren't spawners, they're a bug caused by a change in how stairs were implemented internally, when stairs became recolorable. Destroying and replacing them cleans that up.

[Claeric]

Is there any way, with awesomemod, to date/woohoo teens without being arrested by psychic police and having your sim's life ruined? Statuatory rape is stupid in the real world and it is stupid in The Sims.

[J. M. Pescado]

Well, the police aren't psychic, so you just have to avoid any witnesses.

[redShoes]

...My question now is, is there anywhere in the mod, commands, or are there any other mods compatible to help my sim gain skills faster?

There is a cheat option for that in the Debug Interactions.

I've been searching and searching for this

Now then, what do I have to do/type exactly, because I can't find the information anywhere?

[cassblonde]

...My question now is, is there anywhere in the mod, commands, or are there any other mods compatible to help my sim gain skills faster?

There is a cheat option for that in the Debug Interactions.

I've been searching and searching for this

Now then, what do I have to do/type exactly, because I can't find the information anywhere?

Really?

http://wikka.moreawesomethanyou.com/AwesomeMod#CONSOLE_.26_DEBUG_FEATURES:

[phnxflyng]

Really?

http://wikka.moreawesomethanyou.com/AwesomeMod#CONSOLE_.26_DEBUG_FEATURES:

I reread some of the cheats, and it raised an old question for me. How does the purgegenetichairs affect the game? I mean, I get the general idea. It gets rid of weird hair. But which hairstyles are considered weird? And how does it get rid of them, does it cause sims with weird hair to randomly choose a new hairstyle? Or does it just break the genetic thingy that causes their offspring to have the same hair? Do I need to send sims to the Mirror and pick a new style for them for it to work?

I'd very much appreciate if someone could break it down for me, as hair is one of the aspects of the game I get the most anal about, for some reason.

[J. M. Pescado]

It will not change the hair setting of any existing sim, it will merely purge the piece of data which causes all sims to inherit that hair.

[Claeric]

I have the no-route-wah-wah stand-around-like-a-dumb-skank animation thing turned on, but it doesn't have any effect. My sims still stand around like 15 year old spoiled bitches every time something gets in their way. I don't have anything else that would get in the way of this...any ideas?

[J. M. Pescado]

That's the foot-tapping thing for routing collisions between sims, slightly seperate from the routing tantrum. I believing stomping that is an XML hack available at MTS2, and there is a similar one as CSMA/CD, but I have found that messing with it TOO much will greatly exacerbate incidents of outright route fail and queue drop.

[redShoes]

...My question now is, is there anywhere in the mod, commands, or are there any other mods compatible to help my sim gain skills faster?

There is a cheat option for that in the Debug Interactions.

I've been searching and searching for this

Now then, what do I have to do/type exactly, because I can't find the information anywhere?

Really?

http://wikka.moreawesomethanyou.com/AwesomeMod#CONSOLE_.26_DEBUG_FEATURES:

Yes really, although I did find it myself about 5 minutes later. Thanks anyway.

[Jackathyn]

One of my Sims back from vacation has a few relics stuck in her inventory. Is there a command to get them out?
EDIT: "destroycorruptsims" also doesn't appear to be functioning. Has this command been removed/modified? Its' still listed on the AM Wiki page.

[J. M. Pescado]

This function is no longer current in WA, no. As for stuck in inventory, have you tried CRTL-SHIFT-Clicking and choosing "Nuke"?

[Jackathyn]

I'll try that next time. Neighbourhood just went up in a spectacular fireball of nonsensical glitches- vanishments, stuck inventories, Lisa Bachelor deciding she wasn't related to her siblings anymore and spider-babies a go-go. It went all twilight-zone on my ass. 

I also have one borked piece of clothing and I can't for the life of me work out what its' from because I haven't recently installed any new CC. It has no upper body part (just makes the head float), but the lower body component is the black silhouette of long shorts and a pair of heels. Is it something broken and shitty I've put in somewhere along the line? It's apparently not deletable, at least from CAS.

I am getting sick of this game so damn hard. If anyone here has ever played Spore, its' also no better in the glitch-tastic fuckuppery department. Christ on a bike, I hate EA.

[phnxflyng]

It will not change the hair setting of any existing sim, it will merely purge the piece of data which causes all sims to inherit that hair.

Does this happen to all sims regardless of hairstyle, or just a few selected as "weird"?
I don't mind if it's everyone, come to think of it. I've always found the inheritance of hairstyles to be very annoying. Who inherits a hairstyle? How scary would that be in RL? We'd all be in bouffants.

[J. M. Pescado]

I dunno, it's not COMPLETELY unrealistic. I inherited my hairstyle from my father, and his father before him. I'm sure there are lots of men like that, it's quite common.

[wat]

Women don't get complete genetic baldness without severe tight pants or disease.

[kiki]

I think my awesome mod needs a boot to the taco. Since installing it, I now can't boot the game up. I use 3booter and FPS limiter, everything is installed in its rightful place and I've cleared all caches but the game will not get past the orange WA loading splash screen without hanging at random intervals. Game previously booted up using 3booter and FPS limiter just fine. I'm not oldversioned, either.

[Claeric]

Is there any reason my sims ignore their expensive bath tubs in favor of going all the frickin way across town for a shower at the gym when using Supreme Commander?

Like, is it a negative to balance out using supreme commander? Is it intentional?

It is really stupid.

[J. M. Pescado]

Bathtubs are extremely suboptimal for hygiene refreshment, and Supreme Commander therefore will only use them as a last resort.

[Claeric]

It takes more time to get across town and take a shower and get back than it does to just take a bath. :|