Like Pes said. Get utorrent. Then go torrent the stupid stuff pack.

Some thoughts for such a mod:


-STR shouldn't "decay" so to speak.  It should tend to drift towards the LTR.  The further the STR is from the LTR, the faster it drifts that way.

-LTR doesn't drift upwards because you got STR to 100 in one day.  It will continue to drift upwards towards the STR if the sim is actually "on the lot" whether physically or on the phone.  You don't have to interact with a sim compulsively to boost LTR, you have to interact enough to get them to "like" you (STR) and then just spend time near that sim for the LTR to go up.  The LTR gain while the sim is in the vicinity is greater than what it was previously, to compensate for the fact that it won't be going up at stupid times like when your sim is sleeping.

-When the sim isn't around or on the phone, LTR will slowly decay.  Because STR moves towards LTR, this leads to STR decay.  If STR is lower than LTR, the LTR decay is greater.

-LTR gain is boosted on dates, outings, and parties unless the score is bad.  This will change the playstyle for popularity sims.  No longer do they "win" by calling up random people until they get to 100 STR and then wait until they become best friends.  The fastest way to make a lot of best friends will be to throw a lot of big, successful parties.

-As for romantic interactions, attractiveness should play a MUCH bigger role than previously.  Because lets face it, you can be best friends with someone that you aren't attracted to, but you aren't going to suddenly fall in love with them.  If two sims have "Bad Chemistry" they can still be friends, but lovers will be impossible or nearly impossible (but don't despair, since bad chemistry can usually be remedied with makeovers.  It won't cause enough chemistry to make things EASY but it can still be possible)

Of course, I am nowhere near awesome enough to help out, other than testing it when it's ready  

I hope someone does look into it though.

If so, I might take it on as a side-project, although I'm not sure if programming games as a job, AND as a hobby would be a healthy prospect.

That would be because the alien template is in the "hide in cas" collection (see globalcatbin.bundle.package) so it won't show up even in debug mode. It has to be removed from that collection and added to another for it to show up, it's very time consuming and frustrating because you have to manually find the references to the correct xml by looking at each one.

EDIT: Wait, why are we even hiding these instead of fixing them? It looks like the only reason they weren't showing up in CAS when Motoki tried it was because they weren't added to the archetype collection, I had the same problem enabling the alien skin fitness textures but they're working perfectly now.

So these are templates using your customized faces, but they turn #21 and #25 into full sets with all ages instead of just the adult faces?

If they could be fixed--and better yet, working replacement templates made so we could futz with them like with the others--that would be beyond awesome.

It does not appear that any obvious method exists in-game to feed animals people-food. I may consider implementing this as a macro-feature to automatically whip a plate out of inventory and drop it in front of the dog.

The paradox of maintenance is that more maintenance will actually make it EASIER to keep. If there is no "maintenance", you're not obligated to do anything, so any state becomes a potentially stable state. More maintenance would simply force this tiresome chore on you. It's the same reason why in Life Stories, a relationship can be allowed to simply "slide" at 60, but in the Real Thing, everything goes to 100/100 because you're forced to maintain it. Maintenance turns things into all or nothing.

I agree that Sim relationships are too easy. My problem is more that you can get them maxed out really fast and then it just sits there - there's no change in STR/LTR unless you make one sim do something to upset another. I'd rather have more autonomous negative behavior, and make it continue even if two sims have a high relationship score.

Rather than type out the whole thing, I'll just post the link to the thread I started about it: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,6633.0.html

I'd still like to know which method I need to use to make beds from stupid creators who cloned the cheapest bed into actual useable beds -- the more complex one that's used for bathtubs, or the simpler one used for fridges?