New jealousy hack at MTS2...

[Jelenedra]

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=185019

Supposedly only allows sims would are married/engaged/going steady to have jealous reactions.

Not fully tested for OFB.

[Gwill]

I like the concept.  I think I'm going to try it out for a while.

[Jelenedra]

It would keep your teenage townie hearthrob from getting upset when their crush grows up and starts having kids. =p

[Tyyppi]

Sounds like a good hack. The damn sims are so jealous that it's almost sick.

[J. M. Pescado]

I thought this was mostly covered in the Romance Mod, really...for obvious reasons, I doubt the two can be used together, so if you trade in your Romance Mod for this, you'll get your random, completely baffling spaz attacks and cow predation back.

[Gwill]

Could we get the exact workings on the romance mod?
All I read about it was that it was dependent on aspiration and personality.

[Jelenedra]

Yeah, it's in the director's cut, but there is no RTFM for it, and you're unawesome if you put something in your game without knowing what it does.

[J. M. Pescado]

I think the documentation for it is in the old Uni-version package.

[Gwill]

You really don't want people to RTFM, do you?

"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display ..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."

I just felt like quoting that. 

[J. M. Pescado]

The new standalone version of it has been placed up for OFB/NL. Now you can read the RTFM in all its majesty. It's not a new update or anything, I just extracted the DC version.

And leopards pwn you.

[Jelenedra]

Could someone PM me the RTFM? (Not the file, but the text. Still cannot dl stuff until this weekend)

[Gwill]

Could someone PM me the RTFM? (Not the file, but the text. Still cannot dl stuff until this weekend)

CHANGES:
Significant alterations to the way romance and jealousy works:

1. Sims can now exhibit loyalty to existing relationships and do not randomly
fall in love with anyone who happens to flirt with them. Pleasure sims have
resistance only when in a committed relationship, Romance sims have none. All
other sims have resistance values if they already are in a relationship. This
value increases with level of commitment. Object-assisted actions not presently
supported and bypass this check. Still provides defense against cow attack!

2. Sexual orientation of a sim now actually matters! A very straight sim will
decline homosexual interactions and vice-versa.

3. Sim-jealousy will make more sense: Romance/Pleasure sims, depending on
personality(Nc+Pl+Ou >= 15), are more likely to have "open" relationships
(Pleasure sims only do this outside of commitments), and will not become
jealous (although some are simply hypocrites who think the rules apply to
everyone but them and pleasure si), and sims will no longer spaz at random
people for no discernably sensible reason. Romance sims should never spaz.
It is no longer defined as "cheating" if you are not in an actual committed
relationship, and you will not have knives-memories or "caught cheating" fears
satisfied unless you are actually caught by a partner in a committed
relationship (steady/engaged/married).

4. Flower rage is stomped. Sims no longer spaz out when looking at datereward,
since these have no timestamp and could pertain to a preexisting relationship
or one that no longer exists.

[Jelenedra]

Yeah, okay this is much better. I will have to shove it back into my folders. =p

[syberspunk]

Heh. Was there ever any doubt? MATY pwns you! Everything else is pretty much non-awesome. 

And what's the deal lately with all these new modders cropping up redoing work that's been done. It's kind of great that more and more people are getting into modding and what not... but why redo work? Why reinvent the wheel? What kind of programmer/modder are you if you're not being beneficially lazy? In other words, what's the point of putting work into something that's already been covered unless you're actually putting your own unique spin to it. What a waste of energy and effort.

Now I don't mean to seem all high and mighty and what not, because I am certainly far from awesome myself, but it kind of seems pointless to me and lazy, but in a bad way. It's good to be lazy about seeing if other people have done work that you can actually build upon, but it's bad to be too lazy to actually bother searching if something has already been done. Now I know there are several modding sites out there... and one can't be expected to scour the entire net to see if a hack already exists... but when the hack already exists on the very site you are posting... Plus, I also think that pumping out junk tends to just produce inferior work, add a bit to the confusion, and possibly lead to potential conflicts for the less informed end user.

I know someone already mentioned this in RL, but I just felt like bitchin here.

Ste

[Jelenedra]

It's a good point, I just remember in some other topic here someone was talking about jealousy like this.

[Gwill]

This particular hack was a direct responce to a request in the MTS2 forums from someone who had tried awesomeness but wanted something simpler apparently.