Aspiration Lock?
ReneeFox:
Hope I don't get burned in the Burnination Chamber for asking for this. ;)
Does anyone know of a hack that prevents Aspiration from not going down, but only going up? I keep forgetting to turn it on and off with the cheat before the hour changes, and haven't hacked anything since The Sims 1 (forgot a lot since then). More specifically, something that Locks Aspiration at :59 past the hour, and Unlocks Aspiration at :01 past the hour for any given lot I'm playing. I tried to get into understanding hacks with this game, but it would take forever for me to get a good understanding of the code to create this myself. Thanks for any leads. :)
J. M. Pescado:
So, you want "no aspiration decay"? That's not hard to make. Just stub out BHAV 0x7FF64E02, 0x1004.
dizzy:
Another option would be to modify the BCONs at 0x7FF64E02. That way, you can control which levels of aspiration decay and which ones don't.
ReneeFox:
Ohhh Thank you, Pescado and dizzy. No, I don't think it would be hard for people who create hacks, objects, etc.; I've never done it for TS2. When I read other people's hacks, maybe you can imagine all the confusing activity going on in my brain ... like was this something build-in already? Where is the resource list of all the literals and constants I see all over the place? How do I know whether this is a personglobals hack, or some other kind of hack? What code is essential when building hacks related to Sims, and how do I know what the parameters should be? How do I make this thing turn on at hh:01, and off at hh:59 or vice-versa? Why did this person create the same GUID in 3-4 different places in the hack? Basically, all the things I went through when I started hacking TS1 objects; I got fairly good at it. Making hacks in either version of the game reminds me of crazy-code with so many Goto's, that it's hard to figure out the flow. And, TS2 is quite a different animal that would take me a long time just to start a hack. I did manage to hack someone else's hack (just for my game), and that took about a week or two of figuring out what they did, and adding to it. It only had 1 BHAV with 20-30 lines. That was just a couple of weeks ago. I think it took a few months for me to know how to start a TS1 hack from scratch, let alone a TS2 one. Oh, another question that keeps lurking is how the heck 2 different BHAV's in the same object are interacting with each other & the game, because I saw no references from one to the other or vice-versa? I did find a resource related to the lock aspiration cheat, but I haven't studied it, yet. Of course, some of the questions running around in my head may be irrelevant, but I don't find out until I try to make one of these hacks.
Another messed-up issue is that I may lose my Internet connection soon, which is absolutely essential to read the tons of material about SimPE and hacking things. I was just trying to save some time that I may not have ... to actually create this hack. But, I will take a look at the stub and BCON. It IS something I want to be Global, and happen everywhere I go within the game. Oooops, I forgot to answer your question, Pescado. Yes, I don't want the decay, but I want the increase. Locking aspiration makes it so nothing happens to that meter, even when a Sim gains a want; and as I play, I keep forgetting to turn it on and off before the top of the hour. I'm usually trying to manage doing a bunch of things at one time (while in pause), and you'd be amazed how many times I kept forgetting that one simple task when I let the game rip! I'll study the code, and if I can't figure it out in a week, I'm coming back and begging to have someone create this hack for moi! :)
Soylent Sim:
One, is this supposed to bypass all ASP loss, or just the hourly decay?
Two, even if you do keep loss from fears around, the wants/fears game is so laughably easy that you just reinvented permaplat. You can already set the permaplat flag with the lot debugger, so if this doesn't pan out you can skip reinventing the wheel. If you want a sim to be unhappy then decay will already work in your favor.
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