British. Female. Have been obsessed with The Sims 3 and NRaas mods since June 2009! Currently in hiatus. Usually posts about mod settings and game-play pictures. Mainly original content with the occasional re-blog.
Do you use the NRaas mods? Has the information on the NRaas website and forum ever been useful to you? If so, a moment of your time please!
I’d like to share the current situation with Simblr – which you can also read about directly from the site owner here:
https://www.nraas.net/community/topic15428
While it seemed like we were entering an era of old-internet revival and indie websites in the fight against the dead-internet, a significant road block has emerged. Prices have inflated drastically for server parts, memory, storage, and server-hosting itself. This puts all non-profit online communities in peril.
As a result, the site owner has opened a Patreon so that the community can help cover the costs of keeping us online.
Important clarification:
The NRaas mods are NEVER going to be paywalled.
The project will remain open-source and free for everyone. Donations are optional.
These mods are still in active development!
The site and mods have been maintained by Chain_Reaction since Twallan's retirement, providing countless updates and support. Lots of cool stuff over there if you haven't updated in a hot minute.
There is no pressure to donate if your situation does not allow for it. Thank you for the consideration!
Long post ahead with information on the situation and some incentives for reaching membership goals.
If you've had some trouble accessing the site over the past week or so:
The situation is directly caused by the greed and encroachment of something we’re all uncomfortably familiar with: AI companies and the companies investing in them (of simmer relevance, that includes EA and Krafton (InZoi)).
NRaas is not the first nor will it be the last to be affected. Website servers already suffer from bots trawling and scraping their content – including your content that you write and share just about anywhere. Now they’re being bought off entirely.
Archives and file-hosting are at high risk. Myrient is a recent example of an archive that went offline for this very reason.
It can feel a bit grim, but I want to assure you that the burden isn't yours to bear as an individual. As a community, it's actually quite easy to become hostile - and more important, unprofitable - to these invasive species as it were.
The past 26 years of modding and storytelling was OVERWHELMINGLY built upon free software, non-profit websites, and shared resources. A few unscrupulous paywallers and corporate greed isn't going to rewrite that history. Greed is the minority - but it does try to eat everything in its path.
That's all I ask - if you enjoy the fruits of The Sims community or enjoy being a part of it, make it just a little more inconvenient to swallow us.
Do not tolerate GenAI in our community spaces.
Do not support EA or Krafton. Let obscurity and irrelevancy devour them.
Do participate in the community wherever you think you'd find a little piece of purpose - make a blog for your stories, come chat with us in the Chatterbox forum at NRaas, make your first mod.
Lastly:
In a separate post, I'll be posting some CC incentives that will be released as milestones are reached. This content will not be paywalled - it will be posted for free as thanks to the community.
This is being offered on my own accord and is not the official reward for any particular tier. None of the proceeds are going to me!
Please look out for that over the weekend, I still need to take all of the preview screenshots which is perhaps the least exciting part of making CC.
And thank you, on behalf of the volunteers at NRaas.
HI Sarah! hope you're well! I just have a question about your updated Retuner settings package file. I'm interested in importing it into my game. Do I put the file into my mods packages folder? Or is it done a different way?
Hi Anon!
Sorry it's taken me so long to reply but life has been a bit hectic over the last few months. You've probably worked out the solution already but just in case you haven't, I'll answer it anyway.
The Retuner settings package file (and any other NRaas mod settings package file) go into the Library folder and are imported in-game through the NRaas Overwatch menu, as explained in the second paragraph at the top of my NRaas Settings page. More detailed instructions are also linked on the NRaas website here: How do I save my settings so I can use them in a new save?
May I ask how to set up a Nraas Story Progression caste of "Degree required for Promotion"? (for active family), I would like to post my failed attempts but I don't know how to insert line break in here.
Hi Anon!
Sorry it's taken me so long to reply but life has been a little hectic over the last few months. If you haven't managed to find a solution yet, please read on. :-)
I'm really sorry but I don't have the time to work out a detailed answer for you at this time, however, I can point you to a post by igazor at NRaas, who did answer a very similar question a few years ago. It's not very detailed but it might be enough to point you in the right direction.
So here's the link: Career Promotion Question
Take a look at the last paragraph in that post.
Hello, I was wondering if you could make a file for all your NRAAS settings. I have all the modules but I’m just getting lost in all the setting options. I really like your style of gameplay and would love to recreate it in my own game.
Hi Anon!
Sorry, it's taken me so long to reply but life has been a bit hectic over the last few months.
To answer your question, I already have separate settings files available for download for each NRaas mod that I use. They are on my NRaas Settings page. I don't have a combined file with all my settings as a couple of them, namely Story Progression and Retuner, really need to be imported separately, in order to work correctly.
Hi Sarah, I'm telling you, I switched to a mac only for the 64-bit version of the sims 3 and I didn't know more about error 12. I continued with the issue. I had to uninstall some things due to the incompatibility of mods and the difficulties of installing, as I see in mac it is more difficult to install the awesome mod anyway my problem is that I have a game with a family that I have more than 5 years and today for the sake of fate the game is removed as you recover it
Hi Anon!
I'm really sorry but I don't understand what you're asking for help with. Also, I don't have any knowledge of the mac operating system so I would be no help with that anyway.
From my limited understanding of the 64-bit version of The Sims 3 for the mac, it appears to be worse than the 32-bit version and I have not heard anything good about it.
However, please feel free to post over in the NRaas Chatterbox forum as we have a few mac experts over there or maybe someone else here on tumblr will be able to help you when they see this post.
I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question, but I'm trying to edit my retuner tuning file and I'm not sure if I am doing it correctly. I got script errors mentioning rows and try: tuningbooter? I'm not sure what I did wrong or if I don't have it set up correctly in the tuning file.
Hi katinksims!
Do you still have the ScriptError xml files? If so, can you upload them at NRaas? For details on how to do this see our How To Upload page.
Alternatively, does my previous post about the Retuner tuning file help at all?
I hope this points you in the right direction. Good luck! :-)
Hello, I was wondering if you could make a tutorial on how to make your own Retuner tuning file. My mother and I tried and we cannot figure this out. There are a string of errors. So would appreciate if there was anyway of a tutorial. I'm sorry if that's such a big ask. Can you also send a screenshot of what the settings are supposed to look like in S3pe because this driving me insane. Sorry for bothering you if you cannot do these.
Hi artisticsimmer01!
I'm not sure if you're asking about how to make a Retuner tuning file from scratch or if you want to convert your current Retuner settings from your game into a tuning file. As I don't know how to do the first one, I'm going to assume it's the latter one you're asking about.
So here's a very quick guide and the screenshots you asked for under the cut. :-)
1.If you don't have it already, download the NRaas_Retuner_Tuning_V2.zip file from the bottom of the main NRaas Retuner page and extract it someplace where you'll be able to find it later. The extracted file will be called NRaas_Retuner_Tuning.package
2. Load a game that contains the Retuner settings you wish to convert into a tuning file.
3. Click on: City Hall > NRaas > Retuner > Export Tuning. This will generate a ScriptError xml file in your "Documents / Electronic Arts / The Sims 3" folder.
4. Exit the game.
5. Find the above mentioned ScriptError xml file in your "Documents / Electronic Arts / The Sims 3" folder and open it with Notepad. As an example, this is what the beginning of my file looks like.
6. Select all the text and copy it then close Notepad. There's no need to save.
7. Open the NRaas_Retuner_Tuning.package file with S3PE and right-click the NRaas.Retuner.Tuning XML resource in the left-hand pane, then select Notepad.
8. In the Notepad window that opens, delete all the text that's already there, then right-click and select paste.
9. Click File then Save and close the Notepad window.
10. In the Commit changes? dialog box, click the Yes button.
11. In S3PE you should see the old xml resource crossed through and the new xml resource underneath. Now click File then Save.
The old crossed out xml resource will have disappeared and your file should look similar to this. Now exit S3PE.
12. Place the newly saved NRaas_Retuner_Tuning.package file in your Mods/Packages folder alongside the NRaas Retuner base mod package file.
I hope this helps but if you need more details, let me know. :-)
Hello! I saw your autonomous sit down to watch TV with baby mod. I was looking to make a mod where the baby is not put down for ANY interaction unless the sim is directed to do so. I understand that the animations may be off but im still interested. Do you know how I could do this?
Hi Anon!
I'm really sorry but I'm afraid I don't know how to do this. :-(
However, there are many, many great modders at Mod the Sims who know a thing or two, so perhaps you could post your question over there, in the Modding Discussion forum? Here's the link: https://modthesims.info/f/547/
Hello, does compressing CC using the Compressorizer Redux reduce the quality of what is compressed? I ask because I've got bad looking hairstyles like pixelated, can see through hair and some have broken textures. Note that I increased "RenderSimTextureSizes" inside of "GraphicsRules sgr" to 4096. Thank you.
Hi faromir25!
I'm afraid I'm not sure about this, sorry. Have you tried installing the hairs in question without compressing them? Are they still pixelated if not compressed?
I've never messed about with the Sim Texture Sizes in GraphicsRules.sgr so don't know if that would have an impact or not.
Sorry, I'm not much help on this subject but hopefully, someone else will see this and let you know. :-)
Hello, the links to your NRaas Portrait Panel Settings, NRaas Mover Settings and NRaas Traveler Settings don't work. Would it be possible to provide the link to download them. Thank you.
Hi Anon!
Sorry about that. I'm not sure why but all those links had mysteriously been changed to "temp_url".
They've all been fixed now, so please try downloading again. If you still have a problem, let me know. :-)
Hey Sarah! I am going through and changing gender preference for sims for my bachelorette challenge. I thought I understood how it worked but now I'm not entirely sure. Purely straight or equal gender interest bisexual seems easy enough (super high numbers) but it feels a little more complicated for bisexual sims that still have a preference. Let's say I have a bisexual sim who still has a slight preference for women. What would be the optimal way to set their preferences with MC?
Hi Heaven!
I'm afraid I don't have much experience in this area. The best I can do is link you to this post by igazor at NRaas which gives a good explanation of the settings:
https://www.nraas.net/community/post64057#p64057
From my limited knowledge, for your sim in question, I would say you need to set the preference for women to be slightly higher than their preference for men but if you're asking for actual numbers, I've no idea, sorry.
For a more detailed answer, you may want to post at NRaas in the Master Controller Discussion Forum.
Hi, I'm at the point of configurating story progression with most of your settings and I'm playing with no aging. When I enable story progression for the first time, it says if I want to adjust the manager speed to the new span. That changes every speed settings in the flirt, frienship, etc. I would like to know, since you play with very long span, did you keep the base speed or you let story progression automatically change it for you? Thanks for the help.
Hi Anon!
The short answer is, I keep the base speed.
The long answer is, I click the 'x' when Story Progression asks me if I want to adjust the manager speeds to the new age span. Otherwise, as you've noticed, SP will change all the manager speeds so that they align with the new Life Span you've selected. :-)
Hi I’m trying to figure out how to use the Nraas Traveler Mod to take pets to the future, do you know how to?
Hi Anon!
I've never tried but according to this reddit thread, it should be possible if you just allow pets to travel in the Traveler mod. See the following FAQ for details:
Is there any way to remove the restrictions that prevent certain sims from traveling?
If they still can't after doing that then you may want to post over at NRaas in the Traveler discussion forum for some more help. :-)
Hi Sarah ! Thank you for your postings you’re a life saver ! 😭 I would like to know how to slow down relationships between npc… they hook up A LOT, get married, break up etc all the time 😭 and, most of all, they’re always moving to each other’s houses, I don’t want them to change houses that often 🙁 I also have the woohooer mod and I have the option for romantic relationships between teenagers and adults activate but it doesn’t work, I think it may be because of SP and the casts options but I can’t figure out what to change, I just want my sims to pursue their relation with their high school bf/gf after one them grow up 😭 plus, could you please explain the immigrations and emigrations options ? I don’t understand what it means at all in game 😅 thank you for the hardwork!
Hi plumarbre!
That's a lot of questions! LOL!
This is going to be a long post so I've put it all under the cut. :-)
You can slow down the speed of the whole Story Progression mod with one simple setting. The path for it is...
City Hall or any computer > NRaas > Story Progression > General Options > Adjust Speed > 3.Default
I have mine set to 1.Snail but that might not be enough for what you want to accomplish. Try it first anyway and see what happens. If it's not enough, try the following settings as well.
To slow down relationships between NPC's specifically, I'm presuming you mean the inactive residents of your town, yes? If so, you need to change the following setting:-
City Hall or any computer > NRaas > Story Progression > General Options > Options: Flirt > Cooldown Between Partners = 3 (Default)
I have mine set to 7 (sim-days) but you can make it longer if you wish.
To stop inactive resident sims from moving house so much, you need to change the following setting:-
City Hall or any computer > NRaas > Story Progression > General Options > Options: Households > Cooldown Between Moves = 5 (Default)
I have mine set to 15 (sim-days) but again, you can make it longer or shorter as you wish.
To make the romantic relationships between teenagers and adults work, yes, you do also need to alter the Teenagers Caste in Story Progression, as follows. Take note that you must click on the (Reset To Defaults) option at the top of the list after clicking on the Teenagers caste.
City Hall or any computer > NRaas > Story Progression > Caste Options > Teenagers > (Reset To Defaults) >
> Flirt: Disallow Caste > Young Adults
(To allow flirting between Teens & Young Adults)
If you also want to enable pregnancy between Teenagers & Young Adults and pregnancy between teenagers, change the following within the exact same path as above, after clicking on (Reset To Defaults).
> Pregnancy: Disallow Participation Caste > Young Adults
(To allow teens to become pregnant by young adults)
> Pregnancy: Allow Participation = True
(To allow teens to become pregnant by teens)
To explain the immigrations and emigrations options, I'm going to point you towards the NRaas Story Progression FAQ Immigration page for these options because it does a much better job than I could ever do. Emigration is also covered here further down the page so I would recommend reading it all to fully understand it.
