Phone Hack v6.8: SHINY EDITION! (07/29/05)
J. M. Pescado:
New Phone Hack update, adds improved headmaster invite (can now call headmaster if toddler will make autotransition to childhood at 1800 during headmaster scenario, instead of waiting until next day - no longer necessary to only try for babies on Thursday). Now possible for teen to introduce adults to callee: No longer strangely shouted at unless join is declined. "Harassment is bad, 'mkay?" protection moved further down in the call process to support future sims with nocturnal living habits.
UNI: phonehack.zip
RTFM:
Phone & Taxi Hack: SHINY EDITION! (v6.8b) for TS2U v1.0
Made by: Flying Fish Systems (J. M. Pescado & Doctor Boris)
Special Thanks To:
Quaxi, for writing SimPE
LilAbner, for the Swedish translation
Congratulations to: Draklixa!
INSTRUCTIONS:
Place in your MYDOCU~1\EAGAME~1\THESIM~1\DOWNLO~1 directory.
BUGS FIXED:
1. The parent of a child who is on the phone will not invite himself inside.
2. The Headmaster will no longer self-invite himself when he calls you, nor
will the phone freeze up.
3. You should now be able to properly invite new Headmasters even if your Sim
has married a Headmaster.
4. Sims invited to community lots either by "Invite Sim To Community Lot", or
by calling them using a standard phone installed by a hacked community
collection, will no longer stand there like logs unless someone interacts
with them until they pee themselves. They will either be controllable by
you, or, if you invited your own family members for some reason, they will
function as standard visitors. This is done because of weirdness involving
taxi boarding if members of the same family which did not arrive together
are present when one leaves by taxi.
5. Visitors invited in such a manner, if controlled by you, can be directed to
go away by clicking on a public phone and choosing "Go Home". They will
walk off the lot. "Call Taxi" is disabled for such visitors because it
causes bad things to happen.
6. "Invite Sim To Community Lot" taxi option disabled on standard phones if
you are already on a community lot when placing a taxi call, because it
will not work and causes weirdness. Nonfamily controllable sims may not
place a taxi call using this phone, either: It causes badness.
ANNOYANCES ELIMINATED:
1. Sims will no longer hang up the phone before repairing their relationships:
They will now converse until their relationship with the sim they are
speaking to is fully repaired (from their perspective), AND their Social
need has been fulfilled. No more babysitting and forcing them to keep
calling until they actually are DONE. After the relationship is at 100 and
they are fully Socialized, they will automatically hang up.
2. Teens can now go and sneak out even, or especially if, they lack a guardian.
This should not be construed as support for parenticide, although we're sure
some of you are going to try it now. In event that no adult is present, the
teen sim no longer requires permission to go out, because, obviously, he has
nobody to request it from but himself. The options to "Go Out" and
"Sneak Out" will appear at the appropriate times.
3. Midnight Call Lock - Ever wondered why your Sims somehow seem to decide to
go to sleep earlier when you're not playing? Tired of them simply screaming
at you even though normally, they never go to sleep under YOUR direction
until like 2 in the morning? We couldn't make insomnia-tracking to determine
which families are regularly insomniacs, but you are now protected from
accidentally doing this: If your sim attempts to call another sim outside of
valid calling hours, he will pick up the phone, then realize this is a bad
time and put it down before bugging the other sim. You may still attempt to
place emergency, service, transportation, sneak-out, and crank calls
normally.
4. No more dumbass phone calls: Friends who miss you no longer make stupid
phone calls just to waste your time with their whining: They will instead
make a USEFUL phonecall, so if a friend you haven't heard from in awhile
calls you to talk, instead of bitching about it, this is why.
5. Sim-children should no longer bug random adults that they bumped into on
some community lot by phone. Sim children should only call their relatives
or other children.
6. Sims should no longer place casual calls when they are NOT SUPPOSED TO BE
HOME. No more truant children calling for kids which are at school, or
people calling when they SHOULD be at work.
7. Now possible for teens to introduce people to adults using the phone:
Teens no longer shouted at unless phone call join is declined.
8. Now possible to invite headmaster if toddler will auto-transition at 1800
while headmaster scenario is in progress.
9. Calling in sick no longer generates a useless NPC to clog your data files.
FEATURES ADDED:
1. Set Ringer - Set the number of rings you want your phone to ring when an
incoming call is received: 5, 10, 15, the default 20, or even OFF, which
means you will not be notified or receive any incoming calls.
COMPATIBILITY:
This hack is for TS2 University. It does not function with the non-expansion
pack version of the game.
SIDE EFFECTS:
May cause computer damage, incontinence, explosion of user's head, coma, death,
and/or halitosis.
CHANGELOG
v6.8: Fixed toddler HM call. Added anti-useless-NPC.
v6.7: Code reorganized, cleaned up. Added Headmaster tweak, anti-teen-shouting.
"Harassment bad, 'mkay" protection moved further down to support future
sims with potentially very different rest habits.
v6.6: Issues with freaky dead kid collection fixed.
v6.5: Corrects new issues introduced in the expansion with invited sims on
community lots: Should now be properly controllable or autonomous and
leave properly when told to bugger off if controllable non-family.
v6.4:
1. Incoming calls received on cellphones no longer abort without answering.
2. Novel publisher call now overrides ringer setting to default so that
you don't accidentally miss this call.
reggikko:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 July 26, 09:16:21
New Phone Hack update, adds improved headmaster invite (can now call headmaster if toddler will make autotransition to childhood at 1800 during headmaster scenario, instead of waiting until next day - no longer necessary to only try for babies on Thursday).
Oh, yeah! Every time I play my Email lot I wish for this. Perfect.
Katze:
Thanks alot, need to get a kid in private school soon.
fff:
Oo, yay, this is great - thank you!!
P.S. Who is Draklixa, and why does he/she get congratulated in every RTFM?? Just curious, is all..... ;D
themaltesebippy:
I couldn't live without this but I have one problem with it. Caller ID repeats and repeats itself when phone rings. I always wind up turning phone off but in new homes I often forget and this happens.
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