-Now, as soon as you hear risky woohoo, most of you will think of ACR. But that’s not what I use, for 3 very specific reasons.
1) For some reason, it disables reaction of family members/friends when someone is cheating. I saw this online, tested it myself and it’s absolutely true. Angela and Lilith saw Daniel making out with Kaylynn and didn’t care at all. With ACR removed, they got pissed, they hate them and are furious with them both. AND because they saw it, they COULD gossip about it to Mary Sue and she could find out about the cheating that way.
2) Out of curiosity, I tested ACR some more and I didn’t like what I saw. Mary Sue caught Daniel cheating, is now furious at him and hates him. But when I went to have them woohoo with ACR, she accepted. And when I had them to woohoo the normal way, she rejected him. Same with all the other interactions. ACR accepted, normal EA interactions rejected.
I’m pretty sure that ACR doesn’t take into account how the recipient of the action is feeling towards the person that’s initiating the action. Or maybe it’s something else, but either way, it’s weird.
3) If they took out reactions to cheating, what else was taken out is my question. I’m wary of it now, because I don’t know what else was changed without it being stated.
Now,what I use instead is RCC by Midge The Tree for these functions:
Now, onto the list of what I use it for.
1) Risky woohoo. I put it at 15℅ while Try for Baby is 50℅. That’s just my personal preference.
2) It enables teen woohoo, young adult woohoo and woohoo with Bigfoot. Yeap, that’s right, you can get it down with Bigfoot.
3) A playable sim that’s visiting can get pregnant if there’s a risky woohoo or a try for baby being done.
4) There’s also fertility options as well, along with being able to toggle and make a sim infertile.
5) I use it for same sex pregnancy.
All in all, an amazing mod with all these great options.
And, yes, I use same sex pregnancy. But I don’t care about realism, this game is extremely unrealistic in some aspects anyways. And besides, in The Sims 3 ,in Into the Future, there’s an option to engineer a baby for same sex couples. The Sims 3 is canonically DECADES before everything in The Sims 2 happens. Who says that some medical procedures weren’t done with the help of aliens or something and now everyone can become pregnant? Considering men can already get pregnant because of alien abduction, same sex pregnancy also because of that aspect + the medical procedures, isn’t even unrealistic and I don’t know why people say it is.
But, if you want same sex pregnancies and you want realism, simply do this.
1) Have your sim in a same sex relationship go for a walk or a jog or something.
2) Take away 2000 simoleons from the household.
3) When the sim comes back, use Sim Blender to make them pregnant.
There you go. You can pretend it’s like in The Sims 3. They went to a hospital and engineered a baby together which cost 2000 simoleons to do. I prefer this because I want to see the genetics of my couples mixed together.
As for sexualities,I use Sim Blender to randomize them. This is how that's done:
1) Click on Sim Blender.
2) Click on "Traits"
3) Click on "Hood"
4) Click on "Gender Pref"
And there it is! You can adjust the percenteges, run the randomizer and show hood census!
And that's basically it,ACR replaced as easy as that. For me,sims already flirt by themselves enough,so I'm good on that front. Maybe Romantic Standards by Midge also helped with that,I don't know.
I have a link to the adjusted percentages of risky woohoo on RCC. Try For Baby is 50% and for risky woohoo there's multiple options,the percentages on the folders are the risky woohoo percentages.
I’m in love with @midgethetree mermaids. But they don’t fit my sims aesthetics. So I made my own overlay. Adds scales, a soft green overlay and sharp teeth.
Blond = gold, Black = grey, red = salmon, brown = brown, grey = light grey (not pictured)
Should work with every skintone and works well with other supernatural overlays (plantsim and vampire pictured). The Sims pictured use @pooklet kids in technicolor and my supernatural addons as base skintones.
Download
Please note: You can’t have booth my and midges files at the same time.
@charmandersims isn’t the only one who was concerned about all the death, especially young death, in Robin River this past round. I certainly was. Maybe you were too?
I started playing them on an in-game winter Monday. The next Sunday, Bruno and Agnes died, and every one of the ten game days since, at least one sim or pet has died. Twice, three have died on the same day. As of this posting, Jenny’s cheated death by old age four times, and Helena’s done the same three times; that isn’t going to last much longer I’m sure. Granted, I started out with eighteen elder sims and pets, so that’s going to be most of the death. But Billie? Francine?
I do have “real sickness” as well as @midgethetree‘s “death by childbirth”. Francine is a victim of the former and Billie of the latter. I’ve never had a sim die of sickness before. They always get enough rest, take their medicine, and have their comfort soup. Francine refused to do any of it. I’d send her to nap on the couch, and she’d play with the dogs. I’d tell her to take a bubble bath, and she’d jump out, cough, and then play with Peaseblossom. She literally died on her way upstairs to take the medicine Thor made. Before this, I’ve had two sims try to die by childbirth, but other sims pleaded with the Grim Reaper and won. Not so with Billie. Honestly, my game is usually not so filled with death. I guess it’s a combination of factors, and I’m not sure whether to be amused by the misfortune or to wonder who cursed the Huckleberries.
In a dark humor sort of way, I guess we can celebrate with/for @episims...it looks like there won’t need to be a lot of townification of distant relatives to get the hood to just a few playable households? Provided they keep the birth rate low, of course. And, *side-eyes ROS*, provided I can not roll a lot of adoptions.
Edit 07/10/21:
I’ve seen, that this post has been liked and reblogged a lot. (Thanks for that!) But I just want to point out, that I changed some parts of my “romance mod system”. The current one can be found here. The information here is still valid, just wanted to clear up, what is up to date. :)
Ok, while some of you might be interested, others might not. For all of you, who are not interested: Here, have a nice picture of the Cullroth’s home and the Sunflower Inn from neighborhood view:
For the ones, who want to know, how I set up the new mods, and are not afraid of a good ol’ wall of text you may continue here:
So, one of the main-reasons, why I wanted to uninstall Inteen, is the fact, that it conflicts with everything, everybody and their cat. I read a post by simgigglegirl, where she explained, how she edited ACR to work with Romantic Standards (a mod I wanted to use for ages), so that was a motivation as well. And forgive me, but I’m getting the creeps, when an elder is heart-farting over a teen, who just aged up (so in my mindset is barely 12 years old). I wanted to get rid of that “feature” as well. ACR is hilarious at times, because sims are horny af, but I wanted the sims of twinhills to be somewhat modest. Drama: Yes. Unneccessary, stupid drama: Meh, sometimes, but -please- not all of the time. Raising the needed STR/LTR for romantic interactions was my solution, so far, but it did not always work. The love-triangle between Moira, Madleine and Hesel is somewhat disturbing.
Midgethetree uploaded a mod to add a chance for death by childbirth. And how in the name of someone holy can you play a historical game without that mod? It’s also incompatible with Inteen.
Don’t get me wrong. Inteen and ACR are a great set and I used it for many years and I am very grateful, that people put their time and effort into the mods, so people, who are hopeless, when it comes to mods like myself, can enjoy the new features. And it’s all FREE. Simbology’s Inteen and ACR are still enjoyable and if used carefully do not blow up your game. They enhance your experience and will add many handy features.
Still, I wanted to get rid of Inteen, and so I did. I tried to make my progress as clear as possible, but I don’t know, if I succeeded. At the end of the post will be a list of all mods with links.
First, I made a list of the features, that Inteen had provided so far and I need for my gameplay, which was honestly more time consuming, than I thought. I dug through forum entries and mod desriptions just to see, what's even possible and/or compatible. At the end of the day I came to the conclusion, that I need:
teens, who are handled as adults, so they can get married, give birth, take over responsibilities etc. sooner
Chance for miscarriage, which is sad, but a feature, I don't want to miss
Romantic relationships only between adults/elders and teens, who are old enough
autonomy in romantic relationships, but not as strong as ACR, mainly for reproduction
And that was it. I thought, Inteen is such a big thing, surely there is more of it, that I need....
No. XD
So, after getting an idea on how to make the new set-up working (more on that later), I read instructions on how to uninstall inteen. Surely the uninstall-instructions of Inteen are there, but there are a few tips, I found here (post #15). This is, what I gathered; Quick and dirty:
Make a backup. I feel, there is always the need to say that.
Terminate any teen-pregnancy in your game (luckily no need for that in Twinhills)
Delete the Inteen-files in your program files and in your downloads folder EXCEPT Inteenimater_C. It contains the miscarriage memory. Deleting it will cause corruption, when a sim already had a miscarriage. If you don’t want to keep the memory file, you’ll have to delete the memory and all of it’s traces with Simpe and I have no clue on how to do that.
Gather and Install new Mods :D
There is a whole ton of things, I feel like, I have to explain, so you’ll understand, why I made specific changes. Alright. Let’s follow my own list of features, I needed and how I incorporated them with the new mods:
Teens, who are handled as adults & Romantic Relationships between Adults/elders and teens, who aren’t too young
That was easy and hard at the same time. I use Midgethetree’s Independent Teens. Teens become for all purposes adults, but they’ll still look like teens. Perfect. Excactly, what I wanted. The only problem with that: The span of independent teens only lasts 7 days in the original setup. I use Almighty Hat’s Aging mod, so my sims spend 24 days as teens. (In Almighty Hat’s calculation one year equals 4 days. Which make the lifespan of teens 6 years, from 14 years old till 20 years old) So, 7 days is really not long enough in my setup. Luckily Midgthetree included Bcons to edit the mod to my liking. My sims will spend 8 days as young, innocent teens, who do not woohoo and if they have romatic relationships, they’ll only have them with other teens their age. The rest of their teen years (16 days), they’ll spent as independent teens, who are for all intents and purposes adults. This also gets rid of the fact, that elders/adults hit on teens, who are way to young.
Any sim, who wants a college education, will spent 8 day as a teen, 8 days as an independent teen and 8 days as a young adult, because I use Dave Luv’s Faster College Education Mod, which is very much compatible with Squinge’s Mega College Pack.
Only problem, mortia mentioned, when I discussed diffrent alternatives to Inteen with her, is the fact, that independent teens do not go to school. I don’t have a school in Twinhills so far, so that is not a big deal. I think, when the time arrives and I do have a school and a college in Twinhills, I will eighter have independent teens employed in their future career or will make a student career, where they can earn skill points with chance cards. I also use Cyjon’s Edukashun Iz Gud, so the independent teen’s maximum level for any career is level 5, even if they had a A+ grade in high school. The third option (which is my favourite) is to have an actual college/school lot for independent teens, who aspire to have a college degree. The best I can think of right now, is eighter to have a few apartments, where sims rent only a room and can study in the common area or to have them live at home and set up a community lot as a school. Uuh, the community lot could be owned by a sim, who is also enrolled in the education career and his employees are professors. (Who I could add as another pool of marriageable sims... yeah, I really like that idea...) Maybe an idea for the set up of guilds? I have no idea on how to include them in my game so far, so maybe that would be a good start. Maybe it will be a mix of all of the above depending on the sim’s social status? But I digress... Sorry.
Chance for miscarriage
That one was easier, than I thought. I installed Chris Hatch’s Alternate Pregnancy Controller. Yes, it also enables teens to become pregnant, even if they are not independent teens. But I myself will have to make my sims reproduce, if the parents are teens. And if I don’t, they won’t. I have full control over teen pregnancies except for teens, who run away or teens, who sneak out. Midgethetree extracted Risky sneak out and Risky Runaway, which matches my taste perfectly. Teens, who rebel and do not follow the rules, aka run away from home/sneak out without their parents permission, are more likely to have a child out of wedlock. *evil cackle* Excellent.
Autonomous reproduction
Frankly, when you read through simler90′s complete mod description for romantic standards, it’s so engaging and interesting, I wonder, why this mod doesn’t have more likes. (145 updates?! Come on, even if you don’t like the mod, that is impressive.) I encourage you to read the whole description, because honestly: It made me really excited! The progression of romances in the game are much slower and sims need a little time to warm up before they’ll consider to woohoo. They’ll value their existing relationships and depending on the version you get, it can be based on chemistry. You can add or remove autonomy add ons or get rid of them. It’s highly adjustable. I like this setup much, much more than ACR’s “I just met you and this is crazy, but there’s a hottub, so woohoo maybe?” (Simler90 has also a mod to overhaul the attraction system, you should check out.)
Still, I can’t deny the allure of surprise pregnancy, that comes with ACR. Luckily as mentioned above simgigglegirl had the idea to use romantic standards and ACR side by side. She also uploaded the updated ACR-controller, which I think, is really kind. The problem, I ran into, was again the age span. ACR only considers the ingame age, so pretty much all adults in my game are too old to get pregnant this way. But glorious as she is, Almighty Hat included an edited version of the ACR controller to work with her age mod. Simgigglegirl asked Midgthetree for help and I follwed the instructions to edit Almighty Hat’s version of ACR. And lo and behold! It worked out for me! ACR is not uninstalled from my game, but the only option available for sims is reproduction. So, deprived romance sims can still woohoo all the way with strangers like before and knock up/be knocked up, but every other romantic encounter will take time and effort for them. Also, jealousy is handled so much better by romantic standards. The sim will always take into consideration, how serious the relationship has been before they explode and slap the cheater.
Phew. That took some time.
As promised here is a list of the mods I use for the intermingling of sims (and the ones I mentioned, but not linked above).
ACR, with an edit by simgigglegirl
(follow midgthetree’s instructions on how to edit ACR yourself, if you use a diffrent version of ACR)
Romantic Standards by Simler90 (+all add ons)
New Turn Ons - Young Adult + Education + Aliens + Influential + Travel + Great Dancer + Pet Lover + Great Fighter + Eye Colours + Rich + Poor by SImler90 (You can pick and choose, which version you like the most.)
Age Transition Teens keep loves from Simblogy
Chrishatch Alternate Pregnancy Controller
Independent Teens by Midgethetree
Risky Honeymoon, Runaway, Sneak Out by Midgthetree
Death by Childbirth by MidgetheTree (slightly altered the Bcon, so sims who are younger are also affected, but the chance is significantly lowered, so sims, who give birth in later stages won’t die no matter what)
PregRel by Chris Hatch - look for “pregnancy relationship change“
Original Instuctions: “ For when a sim's pregnancy first shows and those around her realize she's pregnant.
If she is a teen living at home (with at least one biological parent) her parents will become furious with her and lose a lot of LTR and STR toward her. Just how furious and how much of a relationship drop depends on her school grades. Parents of A+ students will get a lot more upset than those whose daughter wasn't doing so well at school.
If she's married, engaged or going steady and the baby is not from her spouse, fiancé or boyfriend and he figures that out then he will also get mad at her and lose a lot of LTR and STR. If they've never had a woohoo he'll know the baby can't be his, otherwise he needs a logic skill of 300 (out of 1000 or 3 bars) or more to realize. If he has a logic skill of 750 or more he'll also figure out who the real father is and get mad with him as well.
There is also a small LTR and STR increase from the baby's father to the mother when he realizes that she's carrying his child. That is unconditional and applies regardless of if they are married or he was just a fling.”
If only it would affect reputation as well *sigh*)
NoBiGenderPreferenceDecrease by DeeDee
ACR Asexual Plugin by Midgethetree (For nuns and monks, who should not woohoo)
It's the Proportion -Gestation-Based Age Duration Mod by Almighty Hat
Edukashun Iz Gud by Cyjon
Faster College Education by Dave Luv
Mega College Pack by Squinge
And that’s it. I hope you’ll find this information useful! Please consider install instructions and load order.
What mod do you use to have same-sex couples have babies?
I use ACR by TwoJeffs, which adds the ability for same sex pregnancy as well as risky woohoo, infertility, birth control, etc. It has an autonomous feature, which is what ACR stands for, Autonomous Casual Romance. If you want a non autonomous version of ACR that basically keeps all of the same abilities, you can download RCC by @midgethetree. It’s a fabulous mod as well, it just keeps the baby making to players choice opposed to Sims choice. If neither of those tickle your fancy because they add too many options, there’s just a straight to the point same-sex pregnancy mods that you can google but tbh most TS2 players use one of the two mods I listed above :)
