More Awesome Than You!

Sorry MATY,but  because of attached file size limit :( I post it as Alexx58 on Insimenator and MTS2 with title"Fights for points".
http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=47141

I'm not certain, but I think that promoting your stuff is techincally Retardo Land material.

What the difference if I can't post it on MATY?But maybe as info post it is for Podium section.

Or perhaps Peasantry.  No little description of what this is?

Alexx, you owe me one for posting what you should have. ;)

Alexx, have you seen JM's "wants & fears sanity"? It's a similar concept.

Any concept from J.M. about Fight Wants&Fears.Or maybe you see these wants&fears in your game with J.M.mod installed? ;D
I asked him about it several times and finally made it themselves.And else - retuning + retriggering and hack is very different things.
TreeWans package contain 303 trees with full game wants & fears tuning system and check all links not easy at all.
I almost sure that when you try this you will say"How can I play without it? :)
Also I will plan globally rebuild Party Wants section.Kick off annoying hang out and pillow fight and replace for something more resonable.Is many other missing wants that must be invoked in game.But ...if i will find time for this.
P.S.And please, no more comments about compares with other hacks or mods.I don't steal anything from anyone. >:(

While interesting, this is really an Insim item. As a technical thing, we cannot recommend tampering with the core install as a good idea.

After almost week of playing with this "item" installed all I can notice-no side effects ,no game crashes,no other wants or fears disappeared.Waiting tactic is a wisdom tactic but(sorry for joke) :) it's time when Fights Runs You.

I wouldn't expect it to CRASH, but modifying core game files breaks patches and you can't install anything else that affects that file. As for the rest of your post:
(http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/crapola/pancake_bunny.jpg)

Thank you very much for nice picture!I put in on my desktop as warning about before installing any patches or EP I .of course must remove any hacks or modified packages.This thread may be closed! :)

Did you mean thread?

If not, what's a trat?

Yes Thanks it was error :)

While the latter part is true... I think something might have changed about the former part, possibly since Pets, maybe even as early as OFB?

When I installed Pets, I totally forgot to revert back to my original Wants folder (since I am using my teenwoohoowants hack And, at the time, I was using Squiinge's Uni Career LTWs hack - so all 3 "core" files are modded in my game).  Pets installed AND patched fine, with no complaints. *shrugs*

Just to test this again, I purposefully didn't bother to revert back to the original files when I installed Seasons.  Again, no complains from that or the patch[es].  Same thing goes for Celebrations! Stuff.

So... just like with the LTWs... it appears that something might've changed.  It makes me wonder if you can mod the WantTrees by sticking the .package file in the Downloads folder too?  I haven't tried it myself yet. :-\

Ste

No I don't know too if it possible to make something that goes to downloads.I've made it simply for playing right now and not
with next patch or EP or in next year.You always have choice-install or not install or other choice remove or not remove.
Maybe I'll try to do somehing more compact and universal,but not now.

I wasn't implying that. I just wondered if you had looked at JM's since it is similar, and you might get a bigger response promoting it on a site not of JM's, since a lot of us have his version. A lot of hackers/modders come out with similar work and that doesn't mean they've stolen from each other...just that the annoyance the mod is addressing is bad enough that more than one person cares to fix it.

I'm not downloading your particular hack, but that's just because I already have JM's, and his does what I want. Yours does some things I don't want (personal taste). Specifically "No more senseless fights or fights for fun only!" Fights should always be senseless.  :-*

Cannot be any conflicts with any hacks or mods installed.But if you don't want have fights wants&fears, of course don't download
this "item".And don't be so serious :) It is only game-nothing more. ;D

Actually... it would conflict with my teenwoohoowants hack, which modifies the same file, hence Pescado pointing out his disdain for such "core" file type hacks, because there can only be ONE! :D

Ste

What do you mean The same file?Wanttrees.package?Seems Wanttrees is icon recharging and retriggering system and I don't
see any links with hacks in Downloads.It is "other side of the moon" :)

I think that Syberspunk is referring to this hack (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,4464.0.html).

And I think these sort of hacks only break patches if the patch needs to modify that file (which is why some patches barf if you just edit Graphics Rules.sgr, it isn't the file the patch expected, but non-patched files aren't read).

Ok Trees that was modified don't have any attitude to woohoo or any same interactions.For EP4 I only lowered
chance to appear some Wants in Wants slots.
Nothing important not changed at all.And of course I don't remove any core trees,but only
add in some trees Wants and Fears about fighting.When you play in uni - game run EP1 trees and after it
fillfulled game run random trees with chance of random wants as Fight,Invite someone,see any ghost t.c.
In this case I don't see any chance to conflict with hacks in downloads or packages in other EPs directories.
All I wanted is to have some missing wants in my game and made it not for competion in modding!
And my favorite prog not SimPE but CubaseSX because in 'not sim life 'I make music.
In any case thank you all for discussion :)

I believe they're saying that any changes to those trees IS important. Hence the conflicts.

I think that right way to say anything about anything is to try this at first. :)

You also promote using deleteallcharacters and trashing sims with wants & fears from the bin. Both of which, when done regularly, cause ye ole ball of fire.  So, yeah....perhaps it would be a good idea to recognize that the top hack/modders here may know better.

You've got a very big obsession with fights, too. I think even Pescado would be alarmed.

About obsession with fight you don't right at all.I'm not sportsman and Klitschko not my friend but only countryman.And I don't
have any wish turn game to fightsmadness!About J.M., it was only joke and I'm really sorry if it somehow insult him.But your captiousness surprise me a little. ;D

I like fights. But modifying the core game files is "not recommended", as it may break patching and only a single such item can be installed. As such, this sort of thing is not recommended.

You might want to intensify the heat on your rhetoric. Remember what happened when you told MisterPaper you wouldn't recommend something?

Ahh... interesting Squinqe,syberspunk and others who made similar core mods known about it?Or maybe exist some kind of
permission or privilege to make some modification? :) As I noticed above I even don't want to think about competition in modding.
Thank you J.M. for warning and I want to ask anyone on MATY Do Not Download this item!

yes, they know. Most of them post "not compatible with any other core-altering files hack".

But always can be updated. Right? :)

Pissing off a bunch of cat lovers is different than replacing core game files.

I don't entirely agree with this "don't replace core game files" thing.  As long as you backup whatever you replace then it should be fine.  Just be aware that some hacks may screw up your game though.  For patching the patching issue, just replace any modified file with the backed up file.  Then again, the Sims community is one where people don't even know how to open a .rar file so I doubt they'd do this stuff.

The practice of replacing core files wasn't recommended in TS1 either but not many people actually did it.  You could replace the effects of core game files by sticking an .iff file like "PersonGlobals.iff" in the directory which contained the object file's archive (Like "Globals").  The archives, which were .far files, would be the ones modified by any patches.

Hey, don't roll your eyes at us.

We're trying to help you not create a hassle and possibly a very large problem.

You should be bowing down.

May be interesting too!Read reply 20 and 21 http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8273.0.html
It appears that invoked (in my manner)And realy I ask somebody for help?And about what problem are you talking?
Game cannot be problem(especially large)even it's totally crashed! ;D

Captiousness? No, I wasn't trying to find faults, I just was listing some other behaviors you've posted as suggestions before which are well-known game-killers. This makes me trust your stating that your hack isn't potentially problematic unlikely as compared to the posts of others.

The fight-loving comment was based off of a couple posts you made before about sims of yours who have had 450+ and 100+ fights. That's a heck of a lot of sim-on-sim action, and was noted as an observation as to why having a fight mod was so important to you, and also a minor dig at JM's vindictive nature in regards to his sims. Not that I can't be accused of the same...I'm in the midst of a mass-murdering, zombifying, neighborhood-flattening spree. Plus, a recently deceased dog in my neighborhood (Bert) was in approximately 15 brawls as apparently he was the neighborhood's bitch.

Well, I especially like to play in uni dorms and many of YA with very low asp points (and in enemy state with someone) can gain
points from fighs with enemies.And finally with all monsters that presented in game  I don't think that TS2 really kind game. :)

For me what it boils down to is who do I trust when it comes to modding my game.

Do I trust someone who has been keeping my game running by providing bug fixes and quality advice since before uni came out.  Or do I trust someone who recommends doing things KNOWN to break the game (such as using delete all characters, or deleting characters from the sim bin).

Pescado's advice can be a little conservative at times.  I believe the reason for that is because there are people in this community who don't even know how to make a Downloads folder or how to unzip a file.  He pitches his advice to the level of people who don't have a clue in how to avoid a BFBVFS.

Don't mistake me for a Pescado-sheep.  There are times when I ignore his advice.  I've been playing this game and been in this community long enough now to be aware of the implications of my decisions when it comes to choosing mods for my game.  If a core-altering game file does something I REALLY want, then I'll use it but ONLY if I trust the modder.


This is a weird attitude for a modder to have.  To paraphrase: "If my mod crashes your game ... then it's no problem".  Well, not for you as the modder, maybe.  But it would be for me as a player.  I spend a lot of time preparing my neighbourhoods to play, and then a heck of a lot more time playing my characters.  If a mod (by anyone) turned my neighbourhood into a BFBVFS then it would be a huge problem for me - all the play time since my last backup would be lost.  I spend time playing my game to have fun.  I don't want to spend time isolating which mod has stuffed up my game, then restoring the game from backup, then replaying the sim events that were lost.  That's an exercise in frustration, not fun.

Alexx, I think I need to introduce you to Gali.

What's a backup? *prefers to live dangerously...stupidly...but dangerously*  I backup my custom content periodically, but not my 'hoods.

You must do backup of EA Games Directory with all contents - C:\Documents and Settings\User name\My Documents\EA Games :)

I like to use SimPE to back up neighborhoods.  It names the files using date and time, so you know which is the most recent.  You do have to do each neighborhood separately, though.

Thanks, kids. I know how to do it, I just don't, and was poking fun at myself.

But I think that better way don't lose anything ,it time to time make backup on DVD-RW with all EA Games folder contents,because
don't forget about that HD can crash.

I use Syncback, a free backup/synchronisation tool. I backup the downloads folder, pictures from both storytelling folders, my hood, movies, collections, config folder and saved sims. These can be backed up to a zip file as long as it's under 4GB, so I make a zip of each folder. I back up the hood before every play session, takes less than a minute. Once a week I copy all the backups to an external hard drive. (Saturday morning when I do boring RL housework). Syncback does all that for me, I have preset profiles which can also be exported/saved.

I don't trust SimPE, it's corrupted hoods before, for me.

I'm absolutely accept about SimPE.It still very unpredictable tool and I had totally crashed one of my hoods with it.
Thanks for info about Syncback.I don't know this tool.Need to keep look on it.

http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html


ETA: The only thing I haven't worked out how to do is append dates to the zip filenames automatically.

Mod was updated with new features(futures).If you interesting, you can find it on Insimenator. :)(link above)

A bright new future awaits you on Insiminator!!  ;D

Oops!Sorry for funny misprint!

Hey! Funny misprints are good, no need to apologise. Only boring misprints are bad.