The Birth Control Mirror

[J. M. Pescado]

I keep reading this as some kind of contraceptive item or technique. Also, #grah requires moar WITCHY POOFS!

[Buzzler]

Updated to Version 7. See first post for changes.
I hope next time I say something silly like "simple revamp the whole thing into an object-less mod" somebody is kind enough to slap me with a fish. What a pain...

Now I get two messages for each birth.

Fixed.

I keep reading this thread title as 'The Birth Canal Mirror'.   

That's an association I don't take responsibility for. Really, I don't even want to imagine what a "Birth Canal Mirror" might look like ... too late, I just imagined some kind of periscope. Thank you very much!

I keep reading this as some kind of contraceptive item or technique.

There's no way out of it for me, is there? I couldn't have called it pollinator or anything, because twallan already had something like that. Next time I meat Doc Brown, I'll kick him in the nuts, steal his De Lorean and influence myself to name it "The Mirror That Does Things To Women".

[CaptaiNemo]

Thanks for the objectless update, very nice!

But I've got an.. uh.. hunch that the BCM is responsible for a lot of crashes to desktop I've been having lately (usually right after switching to a sim from a different household, when the camera starts to zoom all over the town, roughly about every 20 minutes or so, and more frequently if I switch a lot). This occured to me when I updated to version 7 and the mirror was initially disabled - and I had not a single crash for several hours. After turning it back on it crashed just 20 minutes later.

Any chance something bad can happen right when the active household changes?

[Buzzler]

@orion: Well, I think there's nothing in there that could cause a CTD, but if you upload your 'hood, I'll have a look at it. I can't give you a timescale though, because RL is keeping me busy lately.

[CaptaiNemo]

Hm. The crashes currently aren't very frequent and my hood file has become unwieldily large (is there a way to clear out old data, e.g. sims that died 500 years ago and noone knew anyway?), so I rather not upload it - maybe when it crashes every 20 minutes again, it'll be easier to reproduce as well.
I did notice though, that the interaction on the mailbox to return a stolen item causes a crash that seems identical. Do sims autonomously perform that interaction? If not, it might even have been an insane, kleptomanic sim, choosing the interaction randomly every now and then when the camera happens to sweep by his house.

[morgy]

is this comp. w/ WA?

[Buzzler]

is this comp. w/ WA?

No, right now it's not even compatible with version 1.6.6 of the base game. I'm going to look at it tomorrow to make it compatible with 1.6.6. Hopefully it's going to be compatible with WA as well then, but I don't have WA and it's not really a must-have to me.

[morgy]

is this comp. w/ WA?

No, right now it's not even compatible with version 1.6.6 of the base game. I'm going to look at it tomorrow to make it compatible with 1.6.6. Hopefully it's going to be compatible with WA as well then, but I don't have WA and it's not really a must-have to me.

thank you buzz!!!!

[Buzzler]

Updated to Version 8. See first post for changes.
What I wrote about the AgingManager applies to this mod too. Should work with 1.6.6/1.7.9 (and WA) now, but I'm not absolutely sure. Please report errors, if they occur.

[morgy]

Updated to Version 8. See first post for changes.
What I wrote about the AgingManager applies to this mod too. Should work with 1.6.6/1.7.9 (and WA) now, but I'm not absolutely sure. Please report errors, if they occur.

thank you so much hun!!  You make my game sooooooooooo fun!!!  Can I have your sim babies?

[krustie]

hi im going to regret asking as im sure im going to sound like a tool, but i have a "stuck chicken" as you put it and would love to see if this will fix it but cannot find it in game.  i read it is no longer an object, but was wondering how i go about unsticking this darn chicken? i dont normally use mods so this is a first. cheers!

[Buzzler]

@krustie: Click on the rectangular mirror that costs 300§. Then click 'Birth Control' and 'Extract Stuck Chicken'. A menu will pop up which lets you select the afflicted (or soon to be afflicted) Sim.

If you don't have a 'Birth Control' menu on the mirror, the framework isn't installed correctly.