Ok, thank you! Glad to hear it's not something to do with Awesome mod.

If you're using AwesomeMod's story progression engine, you would see anything happen and have the option to be notified it. However, I didn't make a story progression event that specifically creates or destroys occults, so that's definitely not a thing. And the Sacred tag explicitly forbids a sim from being the target in any story progression event for EAxis or AM's engines, so unless you have another third party engine doing it, what you're seeing is NOT a story progression event. Without knowing what else you've got running and what options you picked, I couldn't really even begin to speculate what is going on. Keep a closer eye on YOUR specific sims see if there's anything which causes them to suddenly lose their occult status. It shouldn't be hard to do: AwesomeMod is heavily slanted towards "world play" and makes it really easy to take control of or monitor everything that is going on. You can literally track the movement of every character or control them on the fly to see what is happening.

I'm not sure to be honest. If I were to to guess, I'd say probably not. When I was still using EA Story Progression, random townies would get turned into mermaids and stay like that for a while, before turning back into humans. Not sure what the system behind that is but I feel like that's what happened with my sims as well.

Hmm. Can't say I've heard of that before. There isn't even a story progression event that changes occults back to normal, so obviously, protection from Story Progression does nothing. Do they lose their occult status immediately when you switch out or something?

I've been playing with three households in Isla Paradiso, all of which I've made Sacred, and two of them contain mermaid sims. When I switched over to them after playing with my human household, the mermaids had tuned back into humans. I had to make them mermaid again with NRaaS Master Controller but I'd like to avoid doing that every time I switch to my mermaid households. So I'd like to ask, is there a way to protect occult sims from loosing their occult status and turning into humans?

Gotcha, that makes sense. I imagine changing that might also affect how skill classes work. It seems taking a class will still raise a skill by a vanilla amount although I haven't thoroughly tested this.

Hmm, I think the reason for that is because, unlike most forms of skills progression, your Gardening gain is being driven by one-shot event-driven gains which are not a function of time, which is different from regular skill progression over time. For some reason I applied the patch only to this one spot instead of globally to core AddPoints, and I can't remember why. What I am not sure about is what happens if I change it and whether this will have some sort of unexpected fallout.

I started using awesome mod to slow down skill and job progression because I play with epic lifetimes. It seems to be working for the most of the skills I have tried so far, such as cooking and painting. However, gardening is still leveling up very quickly, seemingly at the vanilla rate. Each action gives approximately 300 or so points, and my sim is leveling up gardening after working on 5 plants or so. In an attempt to fix this, I have set "ScaleSkillDifficultyToAging" to true, "RegularSkillingDifficulty" and "VacationSkillingDifficulty"  to 10, and checked that is shows up in game with showconfig. Is there something else I can do to make gardening not level up so quickly? Thanks in advance for any help and thanks for making the mod!

Thank you. I'll probably start using NRaaS, since it allows me to do so.
In that case, I guess I can still use the Sacred household feature, since it lets me skip the whole edit town hassle when I wanna switch control to a different household.
Ok I'm so sorry, this is actually mentioned on the XCAS page at Mod the Sims. The two mods aren't compatible, I guess I didn't see it yesterday because I skimmed quickly through the page but today I read it again and it's explicitly mentioned there. For anyone who might be having the same issue, I managed to get the expanded tattoo locations by using NRaaS Master Controller with the Expanded Tattoo module + the Cmar package file provided at the NRaaS homepage. You just need to click on a sim > NRaaS > Master Controller > Basic > Tattoo. It doesn't work in regular CAS though.

Thanks for helping me!