The Birth Control Mirror
Buzzler:
The scope of this mod thing...
The BCM is supposed to be a tool that helps you in the effort of sustaining your 'hood, and getting it back into shape if things went bad, i.e. if whatever Storymode you use, didn't/doesn't manage to sustain you 'hood. You'll still need a Storymode to create couples, because Parthenogenesis is bad, m'kay, and the BCM will only pollinate sims who have a valid pollinator in store.
If you basically like ASM, but don't like the crib dependency, this might be the solution you seek. The BCM doesn't perform checks for crib presence (or bed slots). I'd still recommend to place at least a couple of cribs, just for means of immersion.
Be aware, though, that the BCM can only increase the birth rates in your 'hood, so there's a possibility it will lead to over-population in the long-term. I thought about implementing automatic and/or random abortions, but I think this would be just as bad as BusKills.
What this is...
This is an object-less scripting mod. All interactions are added to all Hi Def Mirrors listed under "Birth Control".
The added interactions are...
- Raw Data
Just some numbers I found helpful in the progress of making this. Might come in handy if you use the other interactions or mess around in your neighbourhood manually.
'Normalized Birth Rate' is pretty much the same as the 'Buzzler Factor' in twallan's NRaas Supercomputer. The exact numbers might differ a little, though, because I did some additional tuning to it. Chances are, if the figure wasn't as useless as a barrel of skunks before, it is now.
'Demographics' Deviance' shows you the discrepancy between the current numbers of Sims in every lifestage and the number of Sims a theoretically perfectly stable 'hood would have. Elders aren't taken into account, because the goal is to reach a stable amount of fertile adults.
'Current Limit of Reason' is yet again based on an awful lot of completely dirty and possibly invalid math. It tells you how much births per day your hood needs to sustain itself, plus one. Sustain-o-Mat uses this figure.
- Pollinate...
Exactly what it says: Takes a random female Sim of the chosen type and pollinates her. See below for rules.
- Mass Pollinate...
Exactly what it says: Pollinates all female Sims of the chosen type. See below for rules.
- Specifically Pollinate...
Lets you choose from a list of all female Sims of the chosen type. See below for rules.
- Sustain-o-Mat...
Activate/Deactivate Sutain-o-Mat to auto-pollinate Sims. Depending on the mode setting pollinations will be executed at different times. Every night at 2:30 am for the classic mode, and spread over the day for smooth and maintain mode. Configurate the scoring system it to your likings. Use the ShowScoredBCMVictims cheat to see how the potential victims are scored. Sustain-o-Poll does the same thing as Sustain-o-Mat, only it's doing it only once and immediately.
Classic Mode is pretty much the same thing as the gentle mode in previous versions. Smooth Operator Mode is based on the same principles but will spread the pollinations over the day. Maintain-o-Mat will try to uphold a certain, adjustable population.
- List Of Untouchables
Use it to protect sims from the fangs of the BCM. If you use the AwesomeMod, this is kinda pointless, since making the concerning sims sacred is more convenient and will have the same effect.
- Inform on Births
Well, what could that mean? I wonder...
- Extract Stuck Chicken
Allows you to abort specific pregancies. Despite the name, there are no checks if the chicken is really stuck. All Sims with a true IsPregnant-Flag or a non-invalid Pregancy-Handle are listed.
- Dragons' Dance
If you've read Douglas Adams, you'll get the idea. If not, your loss. See below for rules.
The pollination rules...
Victims are only Sims which are female, are YA or Adult, aren't pregnant already (Duh!), aren't homeless or ServiceNPCs, live in households with less than 8 members, don't belong to the currently active household and aren't marked chosen/sacred with AM.
All pollinations come in plenty of flavors. FYI: 'Married' is just a further limitation to 'partnered', since 'partnered' means married, engaged or going steady.
Some advice...
Have a look at the current number of victims and the current BR, before doing anything. Stupidly pollinating a massive amount of Sims, resulting in clusters of equally-aged Sims in the future, is what you don't want! That is, unless you're desperate to re-populate your hood. What you want is a smooth demographics distribution, so if NBR is significantly lower than 1 and there are lots of victims available, be hesitant to perform Mass Pollinations. In that case it's your choice if you want to intervene manually by Single-Pollinating Sims or if you want to give Sustain-o-Mat a chance.
The usual thanks...
Big thanks to twallan for enduring my questions, and for answering them, too.
Compatibility
Supported for game version 1.24 aka code version 0.2.0.154.
Bug reports and general feedback are appreciated.
Disclaimer...
Do I really need to tell you to make a backup of your 'hood, or that this comes without a warranty? If your answer is 'Yes, you do!', please don't download the file and just go away.
Updates
2011-07-26 - Updated to game version 1.24.
nanisim:
Woa! I can't believe you did it, just what I needed, without infinities or so... :o
Ready to pollinate my infinity Buzzler hood!
veezee:
Only Pescado gets away with cryptic, unspecified commands :P
So, what does Dragon's Dance do..?
witch:
Quote from: veezee on 2009 August 27, 10:12:36
So, what does Dragon's Dance do..?
There's a little known app on the web that helps you locate information. Here, let me show you: www.google.com
veezee:
Quote from: witch on 2009 August 27, 12:04:22
Quote from: veezee on 2009 August 27, 10:12:36
So, what does Dragon's Dance do..?
There's a little known app on the web that helps you locate information. Here, let me show you: www.google.com
Should've expected that really, chastisement fair in this case. Although, that said, google was of no use in finding the answer as was Wikipedia. Shall try it and if anyone would like to know they can then ask me.
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