🎒🚌School Responsibilities Mod 🚌🎒
🍎This mod adds more realistic schoolwork responsibilities for child and teen Sims. Instead of school performance being based mostly on regular homework, students can now receive extra assignments after school that must be completed at home before the next school day.
🍎These assignments include studying for tests, writing book reports, completing Home Economics projects, and completing Art class projects. Studying can be completed on the computer or via the homework book. The mod is designed to make children and teens feel more like active students with school obligations outside of the classroom.
🍎Completing assignments improves school performance, while ignoring them lowers school performance.
🍎Each child or teen student has a chance to receive one school assignment after school.
🍎By default, the mod checks for assignments between 3:00 PM and 9:00 PM.
🍎Each selectable child or teen has a 60% chance per Sim day to receive one assignment. A Sim can only have one active assignment at a time.
🍎Assignments are due the next school day. The Sim will not immediately receive a grade result after completing the work. Instead, the result is processed after the Sim arrives at school the next day.
The mod can assign four types of school responsibilities:
Students may be assigned a test and must study before school the next day.
🖍️Children may receive tests in:
🖍️Teens may receive tests in:
To complete a test assignment, click the Sim’s homework book or a computer and choose the study interaction under the School Responsibilities menu.
🖍️Students may be assigned a book report that must be written at home.
🖍️Children receive shorter book reports with lighter topics.
🖍️Teens receive longer and more dramatic book reports inspired by funny real-life 2000s movie-style themes, such as popularity drama, sparkly vampires, pirates, teen romance, dance battles, and school hallway chaos.
🖍️To complete a book report, click the Sim’s homework book or a computer and choose the book report interaction under the School Responsibilities menu.
🖍️Students may be assigned a Home Economics project.
🖍️The assignment notification will tell the player that the Sim needs to cook something at home and bring food to school in their inventory.
🖍️To complete the project, the Sim should cook food at home and have the finished food in their inventory before going to school the next day.
🖍️If the Sim arrives at school with food in their inventory, the project should count as completed.
🖍️Students may be assigned an Art class project.
🖍️The assignment notification will tell the player that the Sim needs to paint something and bring the finished painting to school in their inventory.
🖍️To complete the project, the Sim should create a painting and have the finished painting or canvas in their inventory before going to school the next day.
🖍️If the Sim arrives at school with an art project in their inventory, the project should count as completed.
Where to Find the Interactions
The mod adds a School Responsibilities menu to several objects.
Click the Sim’s homework book and look for:
School Responsibilities...
Possible options include:
The available interaction depends on the Sim’s current assignment.
Click a computer and look for:
School Responsibilities...
Possible options include:
The available interaction depends on the Sim’s current assignment.
Click a fridge and look for:
School Responsibilities...
This appears when the Sim has a Home Ec project assigned.
Click an easel and look for:
School Responsibilities...
This appears when the Sim has an Art project assigned.
School Performance Results
Assignment results happen only after the Sim gets to school the next day.
🖍️If the assignment was completed
The Sim receives a positive notification saying they passed the test, did well on the book report, or turned in the project successfully.
Their school performance increases.
🖍️If the assignment was not completed
The Sim receives a negative notification saying they failed the test, forgot the project, or did not turn in the assignment.
Their school performance decreases.
Like real life, schoolwork reduces Fun while the Sim is actively working.
🖍️Default Fun reductions:
Studying for tests: small Fun decrease
Child book reports: moderate Fun decrease
Teen book reports: slightly stronger Fun decrease
Home Ec and Art projects: small Fun decrease
This is meant to make school responsibilities feel like work without heavily punishing the Sim.
🍎 By default, each child or teen student has a 60% chance per day to receive one school responsibility assignment.
🖍️The possible assignment types are weighted like this:
45% chance the assignment is a test
30% chance the assignment is a book report
13% chance the assignment is a Home Ec project
12% chance the assignment is an Art project
🖍️Since the daily assignment chance is 60%, the real daily chances are approximately:
18% chance of a book report
7.8% chance of a Home Ec project
7.2% chance of an Art project
40% chance of no assignment
These values can be adjusted in the tuning file which will be provided separately with this mod in xml format.
For relaxed gameplay, leave the assignment chance at 60% or lower it to 30–40%.
For stricter school gameplay, increase the assignment chance to 80–100% and increase the performance penalty for missed work.
The mod only assigns school responsibilities to child and teen Sims who are enrolled in school.
Boarding school Sims are ignored.
Non-selectable Sims are ignored by the assignment generator.
Assignment results are only processed when the Sim is at school.
A Sim cannot receive a new assignment while they already have an active assignment.
The mod does not replace regular homework. Regular homework still works normally.
