Awesomod discussion/questions/helpful tips thread

[rampancy]

As I understand it, making a household Sacred means story progression ignore them. Feel free to tell me if I'm wrong on that.

If I disable Sims 2 style aging, will Sacred households age with everyone else, or does the Sacred status prevent aging as well as story progression? Or are the two things entirely seperate?

[J. M. Pescado]

As I understand it, making a household Sacred means story progression ignore them. Feel free to tell me if I'm wrong on that.

That is correct: Story Progression, either using EA or Awesome, will not affect Sacreds: They will not be chosen as targets for the story actions of others and they will not be the victims of story events. They will still wander about and do generic things, similar to TS2.

If I disable Sims 2 style aging, will Sacred households age with everyone else, or does the Sacred status prevent aging as well as story progression? Or are the two things entirely seperate?

Aging is unrelated to Story Progression. As TS3 time is unified, all sims will age together, but you can slow this down significantly by setting things to "Epic", which is roughly equivalent to playing 30 TS2 famblies in rotation, or use "TS2 Mode" to age like TS2.

[Shelbo]

Uhh so I've been gone for a long time and updated everything, but the ctrl+shift+click isn't working on anything.....Am I doing something wrong? I entered showconfig in the cheat menu, and it shows that awesomemod is installed and working....soo I need a little help lol

I have version 1.11

[Zazazu]

You have to enable the debug modes, as they are disabled by default. Where might you do that?

[ElectricSimmer]

Spawnmoreoverlords does not seem to work anymore. It always says it's an unknown command.

Nevermind, it was the fact that my Awesomeconfig file was in the Compatibility Files part of my Mod folder. This Compatibility thing is getting very very annoying when placing mods. I hate Windows 7...

[J. M. Pescado]

What "compatibility files"?

[wizard_merlin]

Spawnmoreoverlords does not seem to work anymore. It always says it's an unknown command.

Nevermind, it was the fact that my Awesomeconfig file was in the Compatibility Files part of my Mod folder. This Compatibility thing is getting very very annoying when placing mods. I hate Windows 7...

What has Windows 7 got to do with anything?  Either save the config file directly to your mods/packages folder when you create it, or save it elsewhere then copy/paste or cut/paste and move it to the mods/packages folder.

I use windows 7 and have no idea what these Compatibility Files are you're talking about, and don't have any problems installing AM and the Config file in the right location.

Edit: fixed your/you're again.

[The_Goddess]

I use windows 7 and have no idea what these Compatibility Files are your talking about, and don't have any problems installing AM and the Config file in the right location.

Your = possessive (Like your avatar)
You're = You are

I am getting such a kick out of watching you do this time and time again, especially when I look at your avatar.  Thank you for the LOLZ.

[wizard_merlin]

I am getting such a kick out of watching you do this time and time again, especially when I look at your avatar.  Thank you for the LOLZ.

You are welcome.  Glad the mistakes are beneficial in some way.

[jfgraves]

Merlin... I think the r-tard above is confusing compatability file with the compatability view.... LEARN HOW TO USE UR COMPUTER NOOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Freezerburn]

Merlin... I think the r-tard above is confusing compatibility file with the compatibility view.... LEARN HOW TO USE UR COMPUTER NOOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who's the n00b now?

[jfgraves]

Bite me Freezerburn! I was high off of pain meds when I wrote that!. Btw, nice avitar.

[Zazazu]

Bite me Freezerburn! I was high off of pain meds when I wrote that!. Btw, nice avatar.

And what is your excuse now?

[soozelwoozel]

Also, what is with the cutesy r-tard? What an F**** cunt.

[Freezerburn]

Bite me Freezerburn! I was high off of pain meds when I wrote that!. Btw, nice avatar.

And what is your excuse now?

Failure is not an option. I was about to poke him/her about that, but being an ESL makes me think that is some kind of slang.

[rampancy]

Is there a feature (or, barring that, an Awesome-compatible mod) that allows users to see if a person is a Young Adult or Adult? It's slightly annoying to woo a person and find that your Sim is ~10 days to Adult and your potential love interest is ~5 days to Elder.

[phnxflyng]

Is there a feature (or, barring that, an Awesome-compatible mod) that allows users to see if a person is a Young Adult or Adult? It's slightly annoying to woo a person and find that your Sim is ~10 days to Adult and your potential love interest is ~5 days to Elder.

Well, this may not be a complete fix, but I like to "resetage" any sim I'm wooing to make sure that they are at least at the start of their adult phase.

^{edited for stupid error}

[Gastfyr]

A feature in Twallian's Super computer allows you to see lists of all the sims in the hood who are of a given age.  I don't remember exactly what the path is from "Master Controller" but in the end you can get a nice list of everyone who is Adults, or eveyone who is YA.  Oh, and you can also click on the target sim and choose "Master Controller->Staus->Personal" and it lists a bunch of info about the target sim (I think it lists age since that would make sense).  You can also vew "Master controller->Status->Relatinship" to see how many sims they know and if they've been flirting with other sims.  You can also view thier family tree under the "Basic" menu.

[ElviraGoth]

Is the "Work on Late Homework" tone for sim kids at school no longer available?  I haven't really paid attention to this for awhile, so I don't know if it was borked with a patch or not.  I know there was a patch that kept this from being available if the "do homework" option wasn't available, so I guess I assumed that it got lost at that time.

I was trying to figure out how I could set up a default work tone for a couple of jobs, and in my poking around in awesomemod to see how the "late homework" was implemented, I noticed that the default work tones I was looking for were already set up in another function in there.  But my chosen sims don't get those default tones, whether I'm currently playing them or not.

So I decided to check on the homework at school tone for my sim kids, and none of them have it available.  They all have the default "normal effort".

Is it something I have to have set in the config?  Or do I have a conflict?  It seems that I did notice at one time, a long time ago, that my sim kids weren't getting the late homework tone any more, but I don't think I had any other mods at the time.  And I only have a couple of mods besides AM, anyway.

I couldn't find anything anywhere that discussed this.  I've been trying to figure out how to set up a default work tone for a couple of weeks so my playable but not current household sims would default to the tone I would give them if I was playing them, but my searches kept coming up short.  I finally was looking at a tutorial on core modding, which I really don't feel up to getting into at this time, when I found this function in AM.

[Pretentious]

It's strange...

I've downloaded AwesomeMod config multiple times, each time with different settings. But I still end up with 5 x range for CAS sliders (I did enable the sliders and deleted caches between each download). I've tried removing mods but it's not helping. It worked fine days ago but I can't figure out what caused this. I do remember how I had to uninstalled all the .Sims3Packs because of unwanted stuff in my game. I did install everything again plus a new world while having AwesomeMod left in the folders.

It's not the end of the world but I'm not used to it. So has anyone experienced this before? Any ideas how to fix this?

[Claeric]

If only there was a thread for basic awesomemod questions.

[lordrichter]

It's strange...

I've downloaded AwesomeMod config multiple times, each time with different settings. But I still end up with 5 x range for CAS sliders (I did enable the sliders and deleted caches between each download). I've tried removing mods but it's not helping.

Well, obviously, the 5x is set somewhere.  If it is not in the cache, it is in a configuration file.  Delete the cache and AM configuration file and the 5x will go away.  If you delete the AM config and the 5x is still there, you still have a AM config out there somewhere.  Find and delete.  Repeat as necessary.

[Mesha]

Is the most recent AwesomeMod dated 4/9/10? That's the one I downloaded today and I keep getting the message saying it's expired.

[lordrichter]

Clear your cache.

[Mesha]

Already done. Still getting the error.