Awesomemod Request Thread

[Madame Mim]

If I remember correctly the child to adult is paedobait - assuming that I've spelt it correctly and it isn't hyphenated.

[wizard_merlin]

If I recall right, if you gave a teen the paedobait trait, they were more susceptible, and more likely to accept the advances of an adult.

[J. M. Pescado]

The displayed localizations are stored in a STBL, so it is pretty easy to STBL-override them.

[Metalkatt]

Nerfing of automatic pumpkin carving?  Stupid sim, I want to make pie out of those!

[J. M. Pescado]

What Feeble Metalkattian Thing is that?

[wizard_merlin]

If you do make adjustments to AM in the future, would it be possible to exclude LTW's from being filled when the "fulfill wants without locking" option is enabled?  I had a teen sim max 3 skills, and when the renaissance sim LTW spun up, the game fulfilled it, and when my teen aged to YA and I selected a different LTW, it showed as being fulfilled even though none of the criteria had been met.

[Metalkatt]

What Feeble Metalkattian Thing is that?

Not something I put in, dude.  There's some douchebag code that says if sim has pumpkin in inventory and has been left alone for a nanosecond, s/he will whip that fucker out and start carving it.  So much hate.

Also, now that we have poison apples because magic, I want my damn poison wine. 

[J. M. Pescado]

If you do make adjustments to AM in the future, would it be possible to exclude LTW's from being filled when the "fulfill wants without locking" option is enabled?  I had a teen sim max 3 skills, and when the renaissance sim LTW spun up, the game fulfilled it, and when my teen aged to YA and I selected a different LTW, it showed as being fulfilled even though none of the criteria had been met.

That's an interesting interaction. Technically, the grayed out fulfillment plate is keyed to you completing an LTW, not to you completing a specific LTW, but I will update it in the next update so that the sim will not be flagged as LTW-complete if you manage to fill a really easy one as a whim.

[Borka]

I would really like an option to increase/decrease salaries in Awesomemod. There is a mod which decreases the salaries, and that is XML-tunable, but it is incompatible with Awesome. Is this a feature that would be possible to incorporate?

[wizard_merlin]

I would really like an option to increase/decrease salaries in Awesomemod. There is a mod which decreases the salaries, and that is XML-tunable, but it is incompatible with Awesome. Is this a feature that would be possible to incorporate?

Are you sure the mod is incompatible with AM?  Generally XML tuning mods are fine with AM, in which case you could just make your own or modify the one that decreases the salaries into one that increases them.

[Borka]

Well, the mod's author says that the part that decreases salaries is incompatible with Awesome and I had to take their word for it, since I don't have Sims installed at the moment. The mod is Minimum Wage over at MTS if it's of interest. At the moment making my own is beyond my abilities, but I might give it a try in the end. I do like the thought of sims drudging along on minimum wage it would go well with increasing the difficulty to get promoted with Awesome.

[J. M. Pescado]

It won't cause a fatal reaction if you combine the two, provided you load theirs last, although odd side effects may occur, like ending up with multiple mayors again. The Careers.xml thing isn't critical to AwesomeMod and I am thinking of removing it and placing the data into a different file to improve compatibility.

[Metalkatt]

When a sim drinks a bliss elixir, then is put on supreme commander, the macro uses the motive manager to get rid of the positive "blissed" moodlet.  Nerf, please?  Very irritating; I wanted the LTH bonus of a higher bar.

[wizard_merlin]

If you feel so inclined at some point, would it be possible to stop the ask for autograph and have photo taken options from queue stomping and cancelling any and all queued actions?  I could live with the interaction either being inserted as the next queued interaction, while leaving the other queued tasks remaining, or placing it at the end of the current queue.

[J. M. Pescado]

According to the code, the AskForAutograph action occurs at NonCriticalNPCBehavior level, which is lower than actions you queue, so it should not stomp. What exactly is occurring? Are your sims asking, or being asked?

[wizard_merlin]

According to the code, the AskForAutograph action occurs at NonCriticalNPCBehavior level, which is lower than actions you queue, so it should not stomp. What exactly is occurring? Are your sims asking, or being asked?

My celebrity sims are being asked by random sims, and it queue stomps everytime, placing the "Be asked for autograph, or "have photo taken" action as the only thing in the queue.  I can requeue for after that, but should another random sim approach and ask, the new queue gets stomped and replaced with the actions for the next random star-struck sim.

[J. M. Pescado]

Next time you see it happen, do a "What Are You Doing?" as the action starts and show me the results. That will dump the data on the current interaction and tell me where to look for the problem.

[Venusian]

There definitely appears to be a core block preventing negative spells of any kind from being cast on pregnant Sims, even simple motive curses, because I could find no means to remove the restriction in any of the ITUN files. Can you tweak Awesome to remove it?

[J. M. Pescado]

Possibly. The reason some of those blocks exist is because of lack of animations, but others are simply all about MUH FEELS. I have not, however, felt the need to randomly curse other sims because it does not serve any useful purpose.

[tizerist]

Would it be possible to make  'object > enable / disable interactions' permanent through a save?

[J. M. Pescado]

I am not familiar with this functionality, it is probably a core EA debugging function and not part of AwesomeMod, so tampering with it is not wise. In any event, to make something like that persistent across saves would involve altering the save format of the game and thus be further unwise.

[vorpal]

I have a request to make AM compatible with the EA travel system and the Traveler mod by NRaas (twallan). NRaas Traveler allows you to travel to any installed world, either for vacation or permanently. However when one travels to a regular world (EA worlds, Store worlds or user-created), one will run into the "red box" issue. I don't know the details of this, only that the relationship panel will break and display red squares instead of a Sim portrait and will leave the relationship panel broken.
Another NRaas mod, RelationshipPanel, has a fix for this, but this mod is incompatible with Awesome as it uses the ctrl-shift-click command for different functionalities. My request therefore is to have the fix for the "red box" issue as part of AM, so that I won't need the other mod to fix it, especially as I have no use for the additional functions in the RelationshipPanel mod. I'd rather use the AM functions.
Here's a bit of info on this:
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/RelationshipPanel+Phase+Ten
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/share/view/72303184?replyId=79726670

[wizard_merlin]

I have used the Nrass traveller and travelled to isla paradisio (or whatever) and returned (also travelled to a couple of the EA vacation worlds) without any major issues, the relationships and panels remain intact, no red boxes of anything.  I just stopped using it due to minor annoyances, mainly that it cancels out the no aging potion and causes the sims to age, and it maintains a sims job when they are travelling, sometimes the sims simply are not required to go to work, other times they are required to go, especially in the future.  Also, get the settings wrong and you don't get any future relations when going into the future.  I also do not use, and have never used the relationship panel mod.

My main reason for wanting to use it was the ability to freeze aging in the vacation worlds, and to allow my sims to do the islands and houseboats thing at different times, but too many minor annoyances for my liking, so I stopped using it.

[J. M. Pescado]

I don't know of this issue, probably because I have never attempted such an abomination. What exactly does this relationship panel do that fixes it? Removes the broken relationships? Simply hides them?

[vorpal]

I don't know of this issue, probably because I have never attempted such an abomination. What exactly does this relationship panel do that fixes it? Removes the broken relationships? Simply hides them?

As I said I don't know very much about the details, but here's what I found.

The red box issue looks like this:


It is basically that one Sim breaks while displaying the relationship panel and turns out as a red box; all relationships that are supposed to turn up after the broken one will then miss from the panel. It is an issue that can also occur without traveling and in homeworlds. I know that I have had this occasionally in my homeworlds, too, when I changed households in quick succession with ctrl-shift clicking.
From what I remember it is mostly caused by the game failing to update career stats in the relationship panel. And that's probably why I run constantly into this when I use Traveler to travel to a regular world, because there are Sims with careers in those destinations. I had it even when traveling to a fresh world and in a fresh game. My Sim knew a few people in his homeworld but none in the destination Bridgeport but when he arrived there the red box showed as the first relationship and the rest was completely empty (it should have shown some 10 Sims from the homeworld as greyed out relationships).

According to NRaas FAQ it is a general bug in the game but only made more apparent when traveling to "non-legit" destinations:

A relationship listing consisting of a totally red portrait is the result of a script error while displaying the contents of the Relationship Panel.
This may be caused by a corrupt relationship link, or simply by an EA error while displaying the sim's portrait

Since the Core game stops adding portraits to the window after a script error, you may find that many of your relationships are no longer listed.

To correct the issue install RelationshipPanel.
That mod replaces the display mechanism on that window with one that catches and reports script errors, allowing the window to continue displaying regardless of the error.

And now that I mention this I remember that I've had it before without the Traveler mod installed when I traveled to the future and one household member bounced the panel with a script error mentioning career data and Awesome. I thought that I had posted this script error here in the bug report but cannot find it anymore.