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Asymmetrical Relationships by lizcandor

"This is a mod to make sims' relationships asymmetrical! If you want sims to be able to think someone who hates them is their friend, this will do it.

Summary Relationships being asymmetrical means that:

What the user interface shows you is now only what the active sim thinks of other sims they know; what they think of your sim isn't visible.

Whether an interaction is available depends on what the actor thinks of the target.

Whether an interaction succeeds or fails depends on what the target thinks of the actor.

Interactions only change how much the target likes the actor, not the other way around.

Adjusting the relationship points bar with testing cheats enabled only affects how much the active sim likes the other sim, not the other way around.

Most long term relationship types can be mismatched - e.g. one sim in a pair can think they're Good Friends while the other thinks they're only Friends. Exceptions to this are Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Fiancee, Spouse, Ex, Ex-Spouse, and Best Friends Forever: these are still applied to both sims, for simplicity.

[Added 6/26/21] Skills that track how many friends a sim has will track the number of sims who consider the skill owner their friend, not the number of sims the skill owner considers to be their friends."

More info + Download @MTS.

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Another new script mod by Lizcandor! At Mod The Sims!

Lizcandor mod notes:

Summary

This mod uses the attraction system to make romance make more narrative sense! These changes can make romance a lot harder to achieve and sustain, so you may need to adjust the tuning to your tastes.

Documentation

Attraction has been altered so that: 1) sims will reject all romantic socials from anyone they don’t find attractive, 2) most sims with committed partners are unlikely to be attracted to anyone other than their current partner(s) and romantic interests, 3) attraction scores between pairs of sims are updated (at most) every two hours, instead of only when they first meet, and 4) attraction can be asymmetrical (sim A is attracted to sim B, but B is not attracted to A).

No Attraction, No Romance

To make sims reject romantic socials based on attraction, this mod checks if the target of every romantic interaction is attracted to the actor, and if not, makes the target reject the interaction. If the target is attracted to the actor, they may still reject the interaction anyway, but it won’t be because of this mod.

Barrier To Autonomous Affairs

Sims who should be satisfied with their current relationships (sims whose relationships with their exclusive partner or partners are above the neglect threshold, and who don’t have the Flirty, Commitment Issues, or Inappropriate traits) get a penalty on their attraction to any sim who’s not already a partner or romantic interest of theirs.

The likelihood of sims autonomously choosing romantic socials when the conversation isn’t already romantic has also been reduced, while their likelihood of choosing romantic socials at all with a sim they’re attracted to has been increased.

Additionally, most sims (all but Inappropriate sims) will see the family, friends, and enemies of their current partners as Off-Limits for romance in the RelationshipManager system used across my relationship-related mods, and will get an attraction penalty with Off-Limits sims.

Attraction Scoring

Attraction score updates are triggered when sims interact with each other. Updates involving a member of the active household are allowed to happen every 2 hours; updates between inactive sims can happen every 24 hours.

Factors contributing to sims’ attraction scores include:

Traits*: Trait conflicts that sims have in common give a bonus. For example, the Shy and Loner traits both conflict with Social Butterfly and Party Animal, so a Shy sim and a Loner sim would get two attraction bonuses.

Career Level*: Workaholic, Frugal, Born Salesperson, Snob, Mooch, Family Oriented, Ambitious, and Schmoozer sims are attracted to higher career levels; Rebellious, Commitment Issues, and Loser sims are put off.

Skills*: Mutual skills are attractive.

Celebrity Level*: Celebrity is attractive to Natural Born Performer, Snob, Diva, Easily Impressed, Schmoozer, Avant Garde, and Social Butterfly sims, and off-putting to Rebellious, Loner, and Brooding sims.

Star Sign*: Supernatural Fan sims with no Logic skill are attracted to compatible (not matching) signs, and put off by incompatible signs.

Moodlets*: Some moodlets apply an attraction bonus and others apply a penalty. This feature is the same as in the un-modded game.

Household Funds*: The highest level attraction bonus for this only applies to Ambitious, Snob, Avant Garde, Mooch, Frugal, Loser, and Family-Oriented sims.

Outfit: Most sims like formalwear, makeover outfits, swimwear, and nudity, while Proper, Never Nude, and Unflirty sims dislike swimwear and nudity.

Age: Increasing age gaps between sims apply increasing attraction penalties. The exception: sims with any of the life stage attraction reward traits added by this mod will get a flat attraction bonus with any sim in their preferred life stage, and a flat attraction penalty with everyone else.

Weight: Distance - in either direction - from the tunable preferred weight applies increasing attraction penalties. The exception: sims with either of the weight attraction reward traits added by this mod will get a flat attraction bonus with any sim who has their preferred body type, and a flat attraction penalty with everyone else.

Fitness: Distance - in either direction - from the tunable preferred fitness applies increasing attraction penalties. The exception: sims with either of the fitness attraction reward traits added by this mod will get a flat attraction bonus with any sim who has their preferred body type, and a flat attraction penalty with everyone else.

* Same tuning as in the un-modded game.

Some bonuses and penalties now depend on sims knowing the relevant information about each other. For example, a Shy sim wouldn’t get any extra attraction to a Loner sim if they don’t know the Loner has that trait yet; a sim who believes in astrology wouldn’t get a compatible sign bonus or incompatible sign penalty until they learn what the other sim’s sign is; and career attraction doesn’t apply if a sim doesn’t know what the other’s job is.

You can make the mod update and report the attraction score between two sims by using the “Update Attraction” interaction on the sim you want to learn about. This is a debugging interaction and is normally hidden, but it can be made visible by entering the cheat “allowManualAttractionUpdates”.

Traits

This mod adds a set of custom traits used in calculating attraction scores.

Hidden Trait

Not Looking For Love: This trait is given to sims who are satisfied with their partner(s) and not interested in starting new romances, and removed if those relationships end or are neglected. It applies a tunable penalty on a sim's attraction to any other sim who isn't already a partner or romantic interest of theirs. Sims with Commitment Issues or Flirty don't get this trait; sims with Proper or Family-Oriented don't lose it when their relationships are neglected, only when they end.

Reward Traits

Attraction: Muscular, Attraction: Delicate, Attraction: Lean, Attraction: Fat: These reward traits specify what body type sims find attractive. By default, the maximum (tunable) attraction bonuses for weight and muscle are given for sims at weight -0.75 and muscle 0.75 (both tunable), and the bonus decreases and eventually becomes negative moving away from those values. These traits give a flat bonus to sims meeting a threshold (default: +/-0.8 weight or fitness) instead, and a flat penalty otherwise.

Attraction: Elder, Attraction: Adult, Attraction: Young Adult: These reward traits specify what life stage sims find attractive. By default, the maximum (tunable) attraction bonus is given to sims who are the same age in sim-years, decreasing and eventually becoming negative as the age gap grows; these traits give a flat bonus to sims in the corresponding life stage instead, and a flat penalty otherwise. Note: if you're using Battery's How Old Are You mod, your settings for that mod will be used to calculate the age gap between sims in this one.

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A new script mod by Lizcandor! At Mod The Sims!

Lizcandor mod notes:

Summary

This is a mod for improved non-monogamous relationships! You still can’t have multiple EA-defined partners (e.g. going steady), but you can give romantic (or platonic - this mod does both) relationships involving any number of sims more complexity than you get with just No Jealousy and Above Reproach, and do it without any sims getting mad.

Documentation

This mod works by adding extra rules regarding jealousy, based on its own relationship types, traits, and interactions.

Open and Closed Relationships

Take two sims in a relationship, A and B, and a third sim C not yet involved with either of them. A can see their relationship with B as:

Open - if A has the Open-Minded trait, A won’t get jealous if B starts a romance with C, although A may still be hurt if B lets their relationship deteriorate while flirting with C in front of them. Depending on A’s other traits, the liking points threshold for A to feel overlooked by B is either kNeglectThreshold (default: 40) or kSpecialNeglectThreshold (default: 20). See the Additional Traits section for details.

Closed - A will get jealous if B starts a romance with C, unless A 1) has the Open-Minded trait and 2) also has a Closed relationship with C. If both conditions are met, A won’t mind B flirting with C – unless, again, B lets their relationship with A deteriorate.

The mod will automatically put sims in Closed relationships with each other when they become EA-official partners, unless they were in an Open relationship already.

If A and B are romantic interests but not in a committed Open or Closed relationship, A won’t get jealous over B until the romance has lasted at least kSeriousRomanceThreshold (default: 4) days. After that, how A reacts to B’s romances with other sims will depend on A’s traits - if A has both the Open-Minded trait and the Prefers Non-Monogamy trait, A still won’t get jealous.

Additional Traits

The Open-Minded trait unlocks most of the social interactions in the Interactions section, and allows sims to not see non-monogamy (in their own and other sims’ relationships) as a betrayal as long as the terms of the relationship in question are being respected.

All sims without this trait (even sims with Prefers Non-Monogamy!) will behave as usual.

Sims with this trait may get a happy moodlet from seeing their partners do romantic socials together.

The Open-Minded trait can be gained through gameplay (see Interactions) or bought with lifetime happiness points; it’s available from childhood onwards, so it can keep the children of polyamorous parents from getting upset with their parents for having multiple partners.

The Prefers Non-Monogamy trait gives sims a different threshold for feeling forgotten by their partners (kSpecialNeglectThreshold instead of kNeglectThreshold), and sims with Prefers Non-Monogamy will get a sad moodlet instead of feeling betrayed if they’re neglected in favor of their partners’ other partners.

Sims with this trait will still feel betrayed if a partner does something that violates the boundaries of the relationship, though, and they will still need the Open-Minded trait to not get jealous in non-monogamous relationships.

Prefers Non-Monogamy is a Create-A-Sim trait, and can be given to sims randomly when they’re created or when they age up.

Interactions

”Define Relationship” Menu

Express Devotion initiates an Open or Closed relationship and (if you choose the romantic version) adds romantic interest status.

Comes in romantic and friendly versions.

What type of relationship each sim gets depends on their personality and the context, so it's best to check by using Ask/Show Relationship Status afterwards.

Ask for Open Relationship changes the relationship type to Open for both the actor and the target.

Comes in romantic and friendly versions.

Won’t affect sims with the Commitment Issues trait, even if they accept or initiate it.

Ask for Closed Relationship changes the relationship type to Closed for both the actor and the target.

Comes in romantic and friendly versions.

Won’t affect sims with the Flirty trait, even if they accept or initiate it.

Ask To Include Sim In Relationship gives a partner of the actor the selected type of relationship with the selected sims. This is the interaction to use for asking for Closed relationship partners' permission before starting romantic relationships with new sims.

If the actor isn’t in Open or Closed relationships with the chosen sims within kTimeLimitForNegotiations (default: 24) hours of this, the target’s relationships with those sims will revert to whatever they were before.

Sims may refuse this interaction if they dislike any of the other sims their partner is proposing.

”Friendly” Menu

Discuss Polyamory has a kChanceOpenMindedFromDiscuss (default: 10%) chance of giving the target the Open-Minded trait.

If sims Discuss Polyamory with a partner whose perspective on the relationship is different than theirs (one thinks it’s Open, other thinks it’s Closed), there’s a kChanceRelationshipUpdateFromDiscuss (default: 10%) chance that whichever of them has higher charisma skill will change the other’s mind.

Ask Relationship Status makes the target report their relationships.

”Mean” Menu

End Relationship* ends a relationship and makes the actor and target exes.

Other Interactions

Self Interactions

(click on active sim)

Show Relationship Status reports the active sim’s relationships.

Object interactions

Research about relationships* on the computer has a kChanceOpenMindedFromResearch (default: 25%) chance of giving a sim the Open-Minded trait every 30 minutes.

There’s also a kChanceOpenMindedFromBook (default: 25%) chance of getting the Open-Minded trait from finishing a romance or trashy novel.

* = Does not require the Open-Minded trait.

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This is a mod to make sims' relationships asymmetrical! A new script mod by Lizcandor at Mod The Sims!

Lizcandor mod notes:

This is a mod to make sims' relationships asymmetrical! If you want sims to be able to think someone who hates them is their friend, this will do it.

Summary

Relationships being asymmetrical means that:

What the user interface shows you is now only what the active sim thinks of other sims they know; what they think of your sim isn't visible.

Whether an interaction is available depends on what the actor thinks of the target.

Whether an interaction succeeds or fails depends on what the target thinks of the actor.

Interactions only change how much the target likes the actor, not the other way around.

Adjusting the relationship points bar with testing cheats enabled only affects how much the active sim likes the other sim, not the other way around.

Most long term relationship types can be mismatched - e.g. one sim in a pair can think they're Good Friends while the other thinks they're only Friends. Exceptions to this are Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Fiancee, Spouse, Ex, Ex-Spouse, and Best Friends Forever: these are still applied to both sims, for simplicity.

Use

This mod makes very small changes with potentially very wide ramifications, so use it at your own risk! I'd recommend not activating it in a save that's important to you right away, try one you're less attached to first.

By default, the mod is inactive and does nothing; enter the cheat "unlinkRelationships" to activate it. This only needs to be done once per save, you don't need to re-enter it when traveling.

When you want to return the game to normal, enter the cheat "relinkRelationships" to make relationships symmetrical again. If you've traveled, do this in every world you've traveled to.

If you don't use the relinking cheat before removing the mod, any asymmetrical relationships that exist will stay asymmetrical, which may cause some unexpected game behavior.

Compatibility

This is a script and a core mod; the core mod component edits Sims3GameplaySystems.dll, so it's incompatible with any other core mod that edits that same dll. Which is most core mods. It's compatible with NRaas ErrorTrap though, since ErrorTrap edits a different resource (thanks to Chain_Reaction for clarifying!)

Otherwise, this mod shouldn't be able to conflict with anything! If you think it's conflicting with another mod you have anyway, please give the most detailed description of the problem that you can.

And finally, this mod was made on patch 1.69, and also works with patch 1.67.

Reported Bugs

None yet. If you have a bug to report, again, please give a thorough and detailed description!

Thanks

To the creators of

S3PE

of course!

To BailaBaila99 for their core modding tutorial

And to lolly123453, MissPat, and SonyaYu for testing!

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Summary Free your sims from carrying their toddlers up and down stairs! They have better things to do! A new script mod by lizcandor at Mod The Sims!

Uh oh! There goes the neighbourhood! 😂

Lizcandor Mod notes:

Details

This is a combination script, tuning, and default replacement mod that lets toddlers use stairs.

The default replacement part replaces the StairHelper object's OBJK with a version pointing to a custom Stairs class that toddlers can interact with. If this mod is inserted into an ongoing game, existing stairs may need to be deleted and re-purchased for the replacement to take effect.

The tuning part edits the LocomotionConfig XML to insert stairs animations for toddlers, demonstrated in the gifs above. Toddlers who have learned to walk will use the slightly faster standing animations, while those who haven't will crawl.

The script part (in addition to letting toddlers use stairs at all) replaces the Go Here interaction and toddlers’ interactions with some of the objects they can use, lifting the restriction that blocks those interactions from being used by a toddler not on the same level of the lot as the object in question. (See Conflicts for the list of un-restricted interactions)

Expected Updates

Animations will be upgraded once my skills improve enough - this has been my first attempt at animating, so think of the current animations as a beta version.

Currently, only straight staircases have been unlocked for toddlers' use; spiral staircases to come, they have separate code.

Stairs will be unlocked for kittens and puppies once I learn to animate pet rigs.

Compatibility

This mod will conflict with any others that edit the LocomotionConfig XML or replace the OBJK of the StairHelper object. It may also overwrite the effects of mods to the Play interactions on the xylophone and pegbox, the Play With interactions on toy box toys and stuffed animals, the Play With Blocks interaction on the activity table, the Use interaction on the potty chair, and (toddlers’ version of) the Read interaction on toddler books.

There are two versions available to download, one compatible with NRaas GoHere and one not; only install one.

Don’t install the GoHere-compatible version if you don’t have GoHere, it will not work and may crash your game. If you use the non-GoHere-compatible version with GoHere, nothing bad will happen, but it'll undo some of the improvements GoHere applies to the Go Here interaction.

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Not every person will have the same feelings about a pregnancy - so not every sim has to either! A new mod by lizcandor at Mod The Sims! :)

Mod notes:

I've never liked the +20 pregnancy moodlet. The flavor text even acknowledges that not everyone feels the same way about being pregnant! So why is every sim happy about it the whole time anyway? Why, EA, why?? I liked it even less once I decided to play with 4 seasons to a sim year, and realized that meant looking at that silly, arbitrary +20 for way longer than just 2 days, so I fixed it.

This mod (inspired by Arithmancer's, but going further and designed to avoid conflict with mods that edit the Buffs XML) replaces the default pregnancy moodlet with a custom version that has no mood effect, and adds two new moodlets (Anxiously Expecting, -40; Eagerly Expecting, +20; each lasts 9 hours, and it's possible to have both simultaneously) that have a chance to be assigned on every hour that a sim has the pregnancy moodlet. There's a base chance of any pregnant sim getting the Anxiously/Eagerly Expecting moodlets, and it's increased by having certain traits: Dislikes Children, Neurotic, Brooding, Grumpy, and Commitment Issues increase the chance of getting the negative moodlet, while Family-Oriented, Nurturing, Excitable, Hopeless Romantic, and Brave increase the chance of getting the positive one.

The hourly base chance for each moodlet is 15%, with a +15% modifier per contributing trait present, and sims who dislike children are barred from ever receiving the positive moodlet. I'm open to adding flavors with different base chances, trait modifiers, and contributing traits if a consensus emerges on flavors people would like.

Conflicts:

This is a script mod, so it shouldn't conflict with anything that doesn't specifically mess with the pregnancy moodlet. It does not edit the Buffs XML, so will work just fine with most mods that do. If you have mods that edit the default pregnancy moodlet through the Buffs XML, it'll just be as if they're not installed, since this mod replaces that moodlet entirely; if you have another mod that also replaces the pregnancy moodlet (I've never seen any, but somebody might make one in the future), it might be a problem but I can't say for certain.

Known issues:

The pregnancy moodlet has no title or description when you mouse over it, just an icon. This is a bug with replacing moodlets the way I've done here; it doesn't affect gameplay, and the meaning of the moodlet is pretty self-explanatory even without any text, but I will still look (casually) for a solution and update if I find one.

Additional Credits:

PuddingFace, for explaining how to alter moodlets without editing the Buffs XML - thanks PuddingFace!

NonaMena, for extremely useful tutorials on script modding and buffs

Arithmancer, for the More/Less Cheaty Pregnancy Moodlet mod, which inspired me to make this one

And as usual, the creators of S3PE, for making so much possible.

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