Easy Break Up hack

[Lady Moiraine]

I looked on the list of workable hacks and didn't find this one anywhere.  I just downloaded it and tried it in the game but it never appeared on the pie-menu.  Is this hack still good?  I have all expansions except the fun pack and holiday pack. 

[ZephyrZodiac]

I haven't used it for a while, but I think you just have to get your relationship below a certain point and the option to break up should appear.  But whether it's compatible with OFB I wouldn't know, as I only ever used it when I wanted an easy option, usually I make my sims work very hard at falling out of love!

[Lady Moiraine]

usually I make my sims work very hard at falling out of love!

  I use SimPE to just make them not be married anymore but for some reason, it's not working, everytime they leave the house, they're married again.  I was hoping this easy breakup would make it easier on my sims, as it is, I had to make them not be in love anymore and  I did lower their relationship to 70/70.  Before I go into the game again, I'll go ahead and do it the old fashioned way and lower it to 0/0 and I'm sure the breakup will be in the menu, I just hate the furious reaction, for such a loving couple, I really wanted to avoid that angry reaction.  I just don't want them to be married anymore, they started out romance sims but I wanted to see how their kids would turn out so I made them family sims and of course they wanted to get married.  It used to be so easy with SimPe by just 'unmarrying' them but that's not working anymore.

Thanks ZZ for your reply.   

[RainbowTigress]

This hack is not compatible with NL or OFB.  I tried it myself just to be sure because I wanted the same thing.  You might try looking at this thread from a couple of days ago where we were discussing this very thing.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=4592.0

[J. M. Pescado]

This product has been discontinued as of NL due to the way they drastically changed the way it works, and it was judged to not be worth the effort of maintaining as part of the cutback program.

[Lady Moiraine]

This product has been discontinued as of NL due to the way they drastically changed the way it works, and it was judged to not be worth the effort of maintaining as part of the cutback program.

Ok thank you!  I'll remove it from my game!

[liegenschonheit]

Squinge has an easier breakup hack though, check out that thread Blue linked to for the exact link. I'm too lazy to go look

[Lady Moiraine]

Squinge has an easier breakup hack though, check out that thread Blue linked to for the exact link. I'm too lazy to go look

Ok thank you!  I grabbed that one and the no furious one.  I've never used any of his hacks before, I've always been a Pescado girl myself but I also don't like the break ups the way they are.  Thanks again!

[J. M. Pescado]

* J. M. Pescado looks horrified.

NO FURIOUSNESS? Furiousness is awesome! The blood! The guts! The fighting! How can you not love furiousness?

[MsMaria]

There's no blood or guts. Pfft. You're scaring people.

The fighting's pretty darn cool, though. 

[Paperbladder]

Sure, the furious state has flaws but I wouldn't want to remove it entirely.  Some of these flaws are fixed by other hacks, such as allowing your sim to ignore a fights and no furious states over balloon puddles.

As for break-ups, I've never found them useful at all.  It'll just increase the time you play if you sync and you'll have two families named "Whatever".  Also, why the hell are they married if you don't want them to be together anyway?

[liegenschonheit]

It isnt always married sims, it's sims that are engaged or whatever. Also, its the only way to clear the stupid little hearts in game (without insiminator) without having them always slapping eachother around when they flirt elsewhere. So there, Mr. Rat Flail

I find myself enjoying the furious state much more since I've started using a hack that gets rid of the dust cloud. It looks stupid when they sink into the ground while fighting, but with the cloud my game absolutely crawls. Also, you can never go wrong with flaming bags of poo.

[Paperbladder]

I thought they only left the bags of poo after a horrible date?

Breaking off engagement makes more sense, but I think a slightly better option would be to allow multiple engagements or enable fighting at near 100/100 levels.  I believe there was a hack that enabled all socials in TS1 such as fighting, and I think there might have been some pet ones in there also.

[MissDoh]

Squinge "easybreakup" version can be found here:  http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=14851

[ZephyrZodiac]

I find the majority of romance sims are quite happy in a committed relationship as long as they get the requisite number of woohoos, and having 3LBs doesn't make the slightest difference to how much they fear being rejected by their partner.  Even the ones with the 20 lovers or 20 woohoos LTWs are totally devastated if they get found out and the partner breaks up! 

Now some family sims, on the other hand..........

[laeshanin]

Family sims are whores, pure and simple.

[ZephyrZodiac]

True, the male ones are just as bad - John Burb is just a lech!

Now, I've never ever had a romance sim initiate a cheating action in front of their spouse, but family sims do it all the time!  (And usually it's some poor unsuspecting romance sim that they've brought home from work, at least that's Cassandra's method, bring them home and leap into their arms!)

[J. M. Pescado]

I think the biggest irony of Family sims is that Maxis has set them as being compatible with Knowledge sims...

...except practically every player that would classify themselves as a knowledge sim recoils in horror from them!

[RainbowTigress]

Ok, enough with bashing Family sims.    I don't know how you guys manage to have it happen in your games, but I have never ever had a sim, Family, Romance, or otherwise, initiate an autonomous romantic action towards a sim they aren't already romantically involved with.  Romance sims are sluts, male or female, because they always want to have more than one lover.  You give them one, they want two.  You give them two, they want three.  And so on.  Family sims are happy with just one.  In case you can't tell, I am quite fond of Family sims, although Knowledge is probably my favorite aspiration.  I play Romance sims for a change of pace, but apart from friendship, I keep them separate from the Romance sims.  I can't really identify with Romance sims.  Brandi and Cassandra were both very faithful in my games, they had several children and had very successful careers.  They might bring home a friend from work like all sims do, but they never acted inappropriately.

[J. M. Pescado]

I concede I've never observed inappropriate behavior from family sims either.

I BLAME IT ON THE WORK OF THE NON-AWESOME!

This, in no way, stops me from recoiling in horror at what they represent: a BFBVFS waiting to happen.

[RainbowTigress]

I don't let them fill their 10 kids want.  I am only letting my sims have one child, MAYBE two, now.  Other than that, how are they a BFBVFS waiting to happen?

[neriana]

I don't know how you guys manage to have it happen in your games, but I have never ever had a sim, Family, Romance, or otherwise, initiate an autonomous romantic action towards a sim they aren't already romantically involved with. 

That's odd. With the romancemod, my Sims won't initiate romantic interactions with a Sim if they are already committed to another one, but they will certainly initiate all over the place if they aren't already committed. Family Sims seem more likely than others to initiate as well. I had two non-controllable, non-lightning bolt Sims, popularity and family, fall in love at their friends' wedding all on their own, for instance.

[liegenschonheit]

I've long thought we need another aspiration, because the slutty 'romance' aspiration isn't at all romantic. I would like one where they want to fall in love and get married, then roll a want to have a kid or two, but mostly roll wants to do things with their significant other. Instead, I'm left with the choice to have a sim that wants to slut it up all over town, or a sim that wants to have a million mewling little brats.

[neriana]

I've long thought we need another aspiration, because the slutty 'romance' aspiration isn't at all romantic. I would like one where they want to fall in love and get married, then roll a want to have a kid or two, but mostly roll wants to do things with their significant other. Instead, I'm left with the choice to have a sim that wants to slut it up all over town, or a sim that wants to have a million mewling little brats.

Actually, that's pretty much what my most of my Sims end up being. They'll get obnoxious wants stuck there sometimes: have 10 kids, be abducted, woohoo in public with 3 different Sims (which every aspiration gets), etc., but after a few Simdays I'm usually able to make them want what I want them to want, and just ignore that one obnoxious want. The only exception I've found yet is the pleasure aspiration. When the "major wants" info panel on the character creation screen shows a bunch of measly 500 point wants, you know you're in trouble.

There's no easier Sim to keep happy than one with a romance aspiration and job-related lifetime want.

[RainbowTigress]

I don't use the Pleasure aspiration because it just seems like something Maxis included in NL to pimp all the new features.  It's not very well developed at all.  I think the wants have gotten better since the original game though.  I usually am able to have my sims have wants that focus on their SO, even fortune sims, which I had quit playing for awhile because they never wanted to have anything to do with their family or friends unless it pertained to them getting a promotion.  Now especially with NL, I can have them chat with a friend or check out their SO, and their wants will usually roll up things to do with that sim.  And all aspirations seem to roll up the Woohoo in bed want from time to time, which they never did before.  That's usually good for a quick boost to their aspiration score, as long as they have someone to woohoo with.