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I'm getting rather annoyed with all the fighting, poking, slapping, arguing and general mayhem that seems to occur everytime sims are together for any extended period of time.

I don't want to eliminate this autonomous behavior ( I know Squinge did a mod for that). I like that my sims do more things autonoumoulsy since NL.  However it's over the top.  People don't fight THIS much, not even drunk in a bar on a Saturday night.  Okay bad example.

Anyway, couldn't we have a mod to tone  down this behavior?  Make it so that these negative behaviors will only occur if the sim is grouchy, in a bad mood or has negative attraction?   This probably already exists in the game, but judging from the amount of negative behavior the criteria need to be tightened, IMO

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=1286.0

i was thinking this today as the past couple of days playing, the welcome wagon has broken out into fighting every time they go over to welcome a new resident. doesn't matter what combination of the group it is, except for the Servo. she behaves herself as she should in someone elses home.

thanks crammyboy for the link. i didn't know about it because i have never needed to notice it before. the sims mainly stay polite but it was striking me hard (heh) today how severe the fighting had become recently, for some weird reason

I've concluded that I must have one of the most boring games going since my Sims always are well behaved.  True, right after I installed NL there were the brawls, but those have gone away.

Maybe I'm overcontrolling - but I do hate discord.

Oh God, Barney! I liked that show (what?) but the kids in it creeped me out, mind you, kids in kids shows always seems to creep me out. o_0

I did notice the Downtownies fighting a lot when I installed NL, and when I got OFB, the grouchy sims got well, a lot more grouchy, they would just come up and poke the manager for no apparent reason, and what I found very annoying was Maxis didn't put in a option such as "Ban from store." or "Ask to leave." and the sims actually err, not returning 5 minutes later, yeah, very realistic. ::)

Thank god for hacks. ;D

All grouchy sims will stop fighting, if you befriend them with the ones, with whom they want to fight - even without hack. I never turned off the free will, since TS2, but always took care that all my grouchy sims will be friends.

Anyway - thanks Crammyboy for the Awesome hack, it may help a lot too...:).

When I read this sentence (before coming to the word "sims"), I thought you are talking about MATY  :D

Jysudo, this is allowed only at the Retardo Land - not at the Podium. We have  "serious" discussions here...:)

 

Thanks Crammy for reminding me about this hack.  I'll put it in my game for sure.

However, it's not just the fighting that is annoying me...it's all the other negative behaviors.  It seems to me that a fair percentage of my townies are walking around furious.  I just think it's over the top. I just want all the poking shoving, arguing, annoying toned down and made more realistic.   

If it was the same for romantic behaviors, every public place would look like the basement during a teenager party.

Interesting. It seems to me - now maybe this is just my imagination, or all my townies have made up, that since OFB there is less fighting and negative behavior on community lots in general. I still do have the shoving and poking and whatnot, but these actions don't seem to escalate as rapidly as they did pre-OFB/post-NL. Has anyone else noticed this, or have I just been graced with some pleasant community outings lately?

it has got worse in my game , Pegasys, so yes i think you are blessed  ;D

playing again tonight, there is still a fair amount of argumentative behaviour but thanks to crammyboys mod there has been no unseemly brawling

I know after NL, my neighborhood was plagued with burglaries, dormies were getting into all kinds of fights, and my neighborhood was starting to be over-ridden with furious sims.  It was so bad it was making me furious!

Since installing OFB and playing it a LOT, I've had one burglary.  It made me wonder if Maxis increased the chance of burglary to show off their new furious feature.  I've been less than impressed with that one from the get-go.

You want *ME* to make *LESS* fighting? I DO NOT THINK SO!

"The lawn asked the thorn to grow flowers"...:)

Well once you install Crammyboy mod in, the Sim will fight less with each other and will be less and less furious for no obvious reasons with each other since there will be less fighting.

I strongly suggest you also use Crammyboy's "reduced furious walkby fix" and also "noforcedwatchfight".

I have all these 3 in my game and I just love them.  I don't like Sims fighting for no reason like "I don't like your t-shirt" or "You like hot dogs, well I don't".  I am sure you get my point.  :P

They still fight with these mods installed-just not as much ;D

That is what is so great about that mod, it does not stop it completely it just make it happens with a little more sense.

Especially if you have Pescado's Fight Club mod installed also ;D

ROFL, it probably makes a weird match.

I'm with you. The fighting makes me laugh.

Seriously, though, my grouchy sims are even more tetchy than they are usually. I tend to play mean buggers as they are more interesting than the somewhat insipid nice sims, and it is a bit disconcerting to have to turn the sound down (more, as I loathe the lift music TS2 comes with) because all they're doing is moaning and whining. What is funny is if you have a ticket machine installed on a home business and they come over to see a friend/lover because they will refuse to stay and just stamp off in a big huff.  :D

Heh I just knew you'd say that, lol. 

I just want the aggressiveness to make more sense.  In my mind only nasty grouchy people (in a bad mood) would go to random strangers and start arguing, poking and shoving.

Since all of your sims are nasty grouchy people, that would not generate less fighting in your game :)

Does anyone know of any hack that speeds up the decay of the furious state?
I kind of like it but it lasts way to long.