Not an official update but oh my God I am a genius. I finally figured out how to use NRAAS Retuner to make it so Nicky can steal 10 objects per day and start at 7am.
Is this cheating?
I do not care. I'm so happy I figured it out.
And look! It worked!
I probably did it wrong and my game is probably 10 seconds away from exploding into a giant fireball of death but I did it!!
You didn't think I was going to leave you hanging, did you? I made a brief (lmao no it's not) tutorial with text and pictures of how I changed the settings to give Nicky more swiping freedom.
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing when it comes to NRAAS (and everything else in life tbh) and I was just clicking things with the vaguest notion of where I was going or what I was doing based solely on this post on Reddit and I just inferred the rest on my own. If this is wrong or borks your game or causes your computer to explode in a giant fireball of death or makes your parents not love you anymore or makes the IRS audit you every year until you die, it's not my fault. You were warned.
Click the cut to begin.
Edit: Now in handy .zip file format with sequential file names to help you flip through easily!
Welp, here we are, just you and me. Let's get started. The first thing you need is Sims 3. The second thing you need is NRAAS Retuner. The third thing you need is a lot of patience because there are more menus to click through here than...something with a lot of menus, Idk.
1) Locate City Hall in your town. I'm in Hidden Springs so this is what mine looks like. Yours may look different depending on what town you're playing in.
2) Click the City Hall bubble to open the general interactions menu.
3) Click NRAAS to open the NRAAS menu.
4) Click Retuner to open the Retuner menu. If you're wondering if the rest of this tutorial is going to be similarly painstakingly-detailed, yes, yes it is.
5) First we're going to change how many objects your Sim can steal per day. Click Settings.
6) Click General.
7) Click By Tunable XML. I told you there were a lot of menus. Just wait. It gets worse.
8) Scroll down almost to the bottom until you find Sims3.Gameplay.TuningValues.
9) Click that bad boi.
10) Click TraitTuning. We're almost to the good stuff.
11) Scroll down until you find kKleptomaniacTraitObjectsStealPerDay
12) Click it like you mean it.
13) Here's where the magic happens. Type in whatever number you want for the amount of objects your kleptomaniac Sim can swipe per day. The default is 3. As far as I know, there's no real limit to this number. You could probably put something ridiculous like 100 if you really wanted to, but I haven't tested that out myself so I can't recommend it. I was a little less wild by comparison and just increased mine to 10 swipes per day.
14) Click the checkmark to save your settings and return to the previous menu.
15) Now we're going to adjust the times of day your Sim is allowed to swipe objects. Scroll down until you find kKleptomaniacTraitSwipeEndTime
16) Click it, click it good.
17) Type in whatever time you want the game to stop allowing your Sim to swipe. The default is 6 as in 6am. Note: NRAAS uses the 24 hour clock for this. I left mine at 6am but you can change this to anything from 0 (midnight) to 23 (11pm). I do not know if this setting allows for half hours or even more precise times like 6:02 because I haven't tried it. You're welcome to mess around with it however you want but just know it may not work. It's possible this only allows for hours and not minutes. Again, I haven't tried it. Now Nicky will be forced to stop swiping at 6am and can't swipe anything else until the beginning time, which we're going to set next.
18) Click the checkmark to save your settings and return to the previous menu.
19) Now we're going to change when your Sim is allowed to start swiping. Scroll down until you find kKleptomaniacTraitSwipeStartTime.
20) Click it with gusto.
21) Type in whatever time you want the ability to swipe to start. The default is 19 as in 7pm, so by normal game settings you can only swipe from 7pm to 6am. I changed mine to 7 as in 7am. Now Nicky can start swiping at 7am until 6am the following day. See step 17 if you're wondering if you can set more precise times. I really don't know.
22) Click the checkmark to save your settings and return to the previous menu.
23) Click the X to back out of menus until you're back in the By Tunable XML menu.
24) Scroll down until you find Sims3.Gameplay.ActorSystems.
25) Click it quick before it gets away.
26) Scroll down until you find TraitTipsManager.
27) Click it with the combined might of your ancestors.
28) Scroll down until you find kKleptomaniacCountofStolenObjects.
29) Click it like you're getting really tired of clicking through menus.
30) Change this number to match whatever number you made the number of objects to swipe per day. The default is 3 and I changed the number of objects to swipe per day to 10 so I changed this number to 10 as well. Full disclosure: I don't actually know what this setting does, but I felt like if I didn't change it, something bad would happen. You're welcome to experiment with it if you want. I don't know if not changing this actually affects anything or if this step is absolutely crucial, so I included it just in case. It didn't make anything bad happen in my game and swiping all day every day works just fine for me, so I guess changing this didn't hurt at the very least.
31) Click the checkmark to save your settings and return to the previous menu for the very last time. You're done! You can close out of all of the NRAAS menus now and go enjoy your new swiping freedom!
There are a lot of other kleptomaniac-related settings to change and I haven't messed with any of them, so if you find something interesting in there, let me know in the comments or in my ask box, please. I know next to nothing about NRAAS's magical functions and I'm always willing to learn something new.
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