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Anti Vacation Actions for TS2BV
Made by: Flying Fish Systems (J. M. Pescado)

Congratulations to: Draklixa!

Special Thanks To:
Hobbsee the Scrawny Pencil Neck
Fat, Hairy-Bellied Ness
Rohina the Ugly Butted

INSTRUCTIONS:
Place in your MYDOCU~1\EAGAME~1\THESIM~1\DOWNLO~1 directory.

FEATURES:
Sims, particularly locals, will resist performing inappropriate vacation-related
actions:
Tai Chi will not be performed outside of Far East unless appropriately dressed.
Tai Chi will not be performed in other vacation neighborhoods.
No Slap/Hula Dancing by locals in other vacation neighborhoods.
No autonomous Sea Chanties in other vacation neighborhoods.

COMPATIBILITY:
This hack is fully compatible with all FFS hacks. For TS2BV.

SIDE EFFECTS:
May cause computer damage, incontinence, explosion of user's head, coma, death,
and/or halitosis.

WARNING:
Do not open, crush, dispose of in fire, put in backwards, short-circuit, or mix
with non-awesome hacks - may explode, leak, or catch fire, resulting in injury
and/or death.

Just pointing out that there is already an update, and even though I've only just got the game reloaded it appears to have fixed the problem.

ETA: Still getting the errors when clicking on the currently selected sim.

Try now.

Death to all Nesses.

The updated version is working.  No errors on home lots or vacation lots.

I did have one sim I couldn't direct to join a slap dance, even though one of the locals was doing it along with about 5 other sims. I don't know if there's any other reason a sim might not join. Otherwise fine, no more shanties or Tai Chi in the mountains. YAY!

Oh and my one sim that knows how to fire dance do not have the option anymore, while on his home lot.

This error should already be fixed in the current version. Redownload.

My version was dated September 10. 2007, 17:58:00, the downloadet had the same date and timestamp. So no its not fixed sorry.

Edit: I remember the other error sayd 'Interaction - Perform Tai Chi TEST' (whatever spelling) now it says "firedance"

Strange. It's fixed in my version, but I have reuploaded it again in case the server was stupid.

Redownloaded, the file is different (bigger and more recent). I will try it in game and report back.

Jep the current file was bigger and more recent. Works without Errors now. Baaaaaa!

Does this also applies to the gestures they learn?  If not, can these be added too.

Well, currently, your sims are allowed to continue behaving like stupid tourists, but the locals won't catch the fever. At least, they're not supposed to.

Ok thanks, I will check if the gestures are spreading too when I go on regular hood community lots.

If so, you will hear back from me for sure, Sims are annoying enough with that on home lots already....

Odd. I was under the impression that they didn't like this header tweaking, but that may just apply to PersonGlobal functions rather than interactions. I know for sure this kind of thing would at least cause a lot reset in a "function" tree.

Lot resets can be caused if you mess with the version-header or change the lines too much in some personglobals and globals, but usually not in peripheral interactions.

Hack is great.  I was thinking that Japanese sea chanty singers might be funny, but probably only for about 2 minutes.  One small issue: loading antivacationactions Sept 11 version appears to disable the ability to "invite over" using the maxis house phones in the main neighbourhood.  I can still invite household, but not the individual "invite over".

Did a couple of tests with and without the hack loaded.  With it loaded the "invite over" does not work, and with it unloaded, it works again.  That's as conclusive as I can be at the moment as no error messages popped on this (debug mode was on).

Just checking to see if this is supposed to be the case - i.e. is it a feature and not a bug?  Not sure if this is limited to my game, but I'm running with only awesome hacks at the moment (updated almost daily at present).

I place the blame squarely on tight pants, since my invite over works just fine, and this hack has nothing to do with invites. Perhaps your invite was simply made of fail.

OK then, I'll have to check to see what else might be causing this.  I doubt that looser pants will help, but you never know.

Update: OK, fixed - It was tight pants after all.  My apologies.  The mods are, as always, awesome.

I just read somewhere this morning that this was happening to others and it may be another BV glitch (more work for Pes).  I havent checked my game yet but others were saying they were missing thier 'Invite 1 person over for right now ' interactin after installing BV.  Also no more trash bin for makeup or hair in CAS.

Hi. Did you read the posts directly above you? Check your pants.

I think the ability to join depends on available space. Yesterday, my sim wasn't able to join a tai chi group on a terrace, until one of the group quit and went inside the house and thus made room for her.

Does this hack influence local gestures towards tourists, too?

With Anti Vacation Actions installed, I have a sim not being greeted by any local ever, not even by those she is already friends with. She had to learn the bow from the Wise Old Man, on the very last day of her 7 days vacation. Same happens on Twikkii Island - no local would greet her with the hang loose gesture, though she is friends with some of them already, too. Witch Doctor learning is not an option, because of his sleeping sickness.

In my pre-AntiVacationActions game, my sims (three so far, all of which visited all three vacation destinations) learned the local gesture on day 2 at the latest, mostly by locals they've just met.

Coincidence, or does this hack stomp all actions from locals to tourists? Or does a sim have to be "best friends" with a local to earn such a preferential treatment (which would be cool btw)? Vice versa, everything's normal, stupid sims trying to bow to Twikkii locals etc. ;D

I had two or three families on a holiday since installing this and they learned the local gestures very quick, so I think it is simply coincidence or at least not related to the hack. Since I am sending my sims on a holiday all the time at the moment, I got the impression that the events always work differently. The first sim digged and digged and would not find a map (he found a very expensive object though), since then I had other families which found maps immediately, sometimes all three of them, digging only once.
I had three island vacations which made me doubt that I would ever see a hula dance. I put a jukebox on a lot, but now they are hula dancing in other places (with only a speaker) too. Nobody would do Tai Chi in Asia, then suddenly, another family on holiday, you see Tai Chi everywhere.
Some of this might be related to the fact that I stopped their obsession for water balloon fights, but I noticed it before. I believed that some occurences - like finding a map - would always have the same likelihood, but now I think that it is completely random.

Yep, coincidence ;) - fired up my game and was greeted promptly by one of my local friends :D.


It is - sometimes, my sims dig up 20 stones in a row, sometimes I get at least one map for every secret location in less than two ingame hours. All in my backyard, of course, which makes me wonder who'd lived there before (not to mention all the bones buried there) ;D.

I feel better now. So far I have sent three different families on vacation, one to each of the three destinations. I saw neither hula dancing nor tai chi, and I visited all the lots.

I have been playing with this hack installed from the start.

The vacation locals do not use the local gestures to my sims, until my sims get a high enough relationship score for the gesture option to appear in their menus, and then the local will respond of course.

That's good to know, 'cos I only get rocks and bones out of any of my sims' back yards.  I only get maps in holiday hoods so far, and only maps to secret locations in other holiday areas (i.e. if I'm on Twikkii, the maps will be either for Three Lakes or Far East).  I'll just have to send the permaplat elders out every morning to dig for treasure all day (in between their baby care duties, of course).  Might as well do something useful.

I find the hula dancers a bit trying.  Any way to trigger them?  I saw them once in a 4 day vacation, and 2 members of the family learned to hula.  The dad was busy chatting financial issues with a townie tourist or local (bloody fortune sims!) and by the time he got a want to learn the dance, they were gone.  Never found them again.

My theory is that the neighborhood is built on the ruins of The Sims 1.

Is the Hula viral? Can one learn it from an existing sim who has?

Not sure about viral.  However, when my sim family got home from Twikkii, the spawn had a want to hula dance.  He turned on the stereo and hula-ed away.  Another sim from another lot did a walk-by and was greeted by sim mother.  Mummy sim went to the terlet leaving visiting sim alone.  Visiting sim made a beeline for the stereo and started to learn hula from the spawn.  I did not check to see if there is a "teach hula" interaction, but it certainly appeared that if a sim is doing the hula, another sim can learn it from them. 

This was in my main hood, not in another vacation hood.

I am not sure about your theory. I still have a living Sims 1 civilization on my other computer (I haven't checked how they are doing for a very long time though).

Yes, the Hula works like the other dance and Tai Chi. Once a sim is doing it, others can join and learn it. 

When I had sims dig in the vacation hoods, they always got maps for the hood they were in.  I had a sim dig for grins on his home lot (in Strangetown), and he got a map for the island secret place on the first try.  Then just rocks after that.

Last night I had two uni students do the dig thing at a dorm; one just came up with rocks and bones, but the other got a treasure chest with $5k in it on the third or fourth try (and rocks and bones on the rest :) ).

You can get maps for any place you don't have a map for if digging on a non-vacation lot for sure, and I'm not sure the rules change even on a vacation lot.

Apparently, they don't. From what I have seen, you can find all three maps on the same vacation lot, and it doesn't even matter if you have a certain map already. I remember deleting three "Burrow" maps from my sim's inventory after returning from Twikkii island, because a fourth was already hanging on her wall. Secret lots, my ass. It's more like someone handed out leaflets with directions.

I quit digging with my first sim in Queen's Cove, Lilly, due to the fact that she must have been touched by Midas. I rarely saw a bone or rock with her. It was all sculptures and, at the point when I quit the digging, a total of six treasure chests in just over a week of digging, 2-4 hours each day.

As for learning the dances and tai chi...I had to cheat and select a local and make them do it. The only one I saw done autonomously was the hula, and apparently I didn't have my sim follow along long enough for it to stick.

About the hack, it's working well on vacation lots, but the greetings and dances are still viral in the main 'hood. Basically everyone at the public beach does the slap dance about as much as the smustle. Bows and chest pounds all over the place (they don't seem to care about the hang loose sign as much). I'm surprised they haven't started telling the dragon legend to each other...Logan has an almost daily want to tell it that I frequently indulge, and the beachgoers flock to him to listen. It's cute...little session of tai chi, then everyone settle down for a story by the campfire.

I love it!  Thanks Zaza.  This has suddenly re-sparked my interest in sending sims on holiday (I got bored with the "stand around on comm lots watching these idiots build sandcastles" thing).  Must get a dragon legend teller in my hood!  Time to send the Wagners on an East Asian vacation, methinks.

Arrr! (concession to Pirate Day).

They need the roll thing (parchemin in french, the english word escapes me right now) in their inventory to be able to tell the dragon legend, so it cannot become "viral" like the greetings or the dances...

It is possible to suppress the dragon-legend-tellings simply through removing the Dragon Scroll from the sim's inventory, and storing it more ornamentally somewhere on the lot, like blocking all the free coffee and end tables so sims can't try to dump cups on it.

I believe "parchment" is the English equivalent that you seek.

Must get dragon legend - avast ye eastern townie scum.  Surrender yer booty!  My sims be coming!

The dragon legend is gained from the Wise Old Man, not the townies, so don't bother harassing the townies. If you bug them, it will take them longer to teach you the bow thing, after which they are mostly useless.

That's the equivalent English term, yes. In-game, it's called the Dragon Legend Scroll, which matches its appearance...since scrolls are rolled up, and the legend is as well.

I like the want, actually. It's an easy aspiration boost.

This isn't intended to stop greetings spreading in the home hood.  It just restricts locals to appropriate greetings in vacation hoods, but your own sims can do whichever greetings they please.

I had this, and could not for the life of me find anyone to learn any dances or Tai Chi from. I removed it (and updated my phone hack - which I think was causing my game crashes - oops) and found everything just fine.

But, I had another vacationing Sim that couldn't find people dancing even without this, so I figure it must be some random thing. So I've gotten this again, to keep the Sea Shanty singing in the Woods and in Asia to a minimum (now if only I could keep my own Sim from doing this).

Is there a way to add "no sunbathing unless there is actual sun" to the list? My Sims will put on sunscreen at midnight and stay there for hours unless I stop them.

Odd.  I know in my game I have never had a case of autonomous sunbathing after dark, nor is the option available on the sim's menu after dark.

my sims will autonomously sunbathe at night too, I think it's funny  :D

Yeah, I get it when they're on vacation and when they're at their home lot.

/me doesn't see how sunbathing at midnight is possible

Moonbathing, it's called. Great for avoiding radiation burns.

Morticia Addams used to do that

Is there a hack that prevents them to do the greetings at home? For some reason I find chest pounding quite inapproriate during the mayor's fancy formal party.

Not that I know of. To some degree I actually find the behaviors amusing. Not sure how it could be properly restricted from said "fancy formal party" and yet still be available at other times to amuse me. How would one define a "fancy formal party"?

Guests and host in formal wear, having dinner and drinks and a civilized conversation, not acting like a bunch of lunatics. It's my fault though, I'm the one who sent the mayor on a vacation to Three Lakes.

And since the greetings can't be restricted, I'm just going to find them amusing from now on  ;D Thanks for the hack anyway, Your Royal Awesomeness.

I don't believe this is possible in the Sims.

Strictly speaking, they COULD be deactivated from autonomous use entirely, but I kinda LIKE having my sims behave like a pack of nutters. I mean, have you seen Awesomeland lately? Pirate songs, slap-dancing, gorilloid chest-pounding, and FIGHT!

The urge to spread these actions seems to die away by and by, if you only suppress them rigorously enough. One of my sims was obsessed with the sea chanty after his return from Melee Island, I was x-ing out ad infinitum (I would have killed him, but he's my favorite). Still, the only things his daughters (born long after his travel) were taught autonomously were the hanging loose gesture and the hula, which I approved of because their mother is an islander. I never saw a want or an attempt to sing the sea chanty ever again - I have high hopes that the knowledge will die with the "Sim who was best friends with Cpt. Dregg" ;D.

Actually, I have no problems with the chanty per se, but I hate it being sung by females (except drunk old whores with adequate voices), and there's no way to prevent it once the plague has begun to spread.

Sounds quite idyllic, in its way.  Formal parties are so much more fun when half the, say, wedding guests are slap dancing and pounding their chests, and the other half are upset that X is marrying Y "when she was obviously not my girl anyway, but damn I'm pissed off", and then fighting in the aisle while the happy couple exchanges rings.  Makes for a much more memorable day, in my view.

I think if my sims stood around having drinks and hors-d'oeuvres and engaging in "civilized" conversation, I'd have to kill some of them to liven things up.  Grim likes champagne on occasion.

We are beggars here, not choosers. If it weren't for the bowing, slap dancing, and chest pounding, these sims would likely still be endlessly playing Punch U Punch Me, Pillow Fighting, RPS, Catch, and many other MUCH MORE annoying and stupid things.

Mine still pillow fight, outside, at places where there are no beds.  I don't care that much.  ACR helps a lot since if their gender pref is right, a lot of them will spend hours necking in the back yard.  I only have about 12 townies all told.  I should really check on their relationship scores with each other.  I'm sure the 'hood is crawling with crushes.

I get a bit annoyed by spontaneous sand castle building since it takes so long to break out of the queue.

I was keeping track of my townies for awhile, since they do all their "activities" on one lot...well, now the brothel is added in, but they get into huge smustle marathons more than they use the suites. It got too confusing. Janet Ball, especially, had around 8 guys she would get it on with. I made her the first whore at the brothel, so now at least she gets paid for it.

The only ones I keep track of now are my playables. My self-sim's daughter Ashley Dyer is all but shacking up with Kyle Young (scandal! She's a teen, he's an adult). Kennedy Young likes a little romp now and again with his wife Stella's Enemy #1, Rochelle Norris. Edmund Young samples Janet Ball's wares quite a bit...both at the beach and at work, but luckily the alien probe doesn't get jealous and has deemed him worthy of carrying the second alien overlord (both natural abductions). Other than that, my playables generally keep to their intended matches.

My Sims can become paid whores?  What do I need to make this possible?  I have one Sim in my hood who is poor and is a romance sim, so I'd want them to sell their ass for food-money - the only reason I don't is because I have no anti-jealousy thing and I don't want them to be in love to screw.  I also don't want all the sims in my hood to start screwing without being in love, just that one whore-to-be sim.

As for the greetings stuff - can touring vacationers spread greetings from other locales?  I had random people (non-locals) on the island come up to my Sim, trying to greet her with a bow, but I noticed they were bowing to the island locals as well.  I am unsure if any locals tried to do this with my sim (though I have this hack).

It requires a dollup of imagination, but yes. You need TwoJeff's ACR (from the Insimenator Inteen site). Then open up an OFB business. What I have is a community lot business with four little bedrooms, a bar, and a massage table. I have the business owner manning the massage table and an employee on the bar, then have a girl and guy whose uniforms are underwear with no assignment. Then set the ACR controller to Brothel and Ignore STR/LTR and gender preferences. The "whores" get paid for their time...either entertaining the customers or having some private time.

EDIT: Thanks, Dizzy. I was mixing up my small animal killers.

Inteen site, that is.

Yes, the locals will still teach your sims the gestures.