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Storytelling Socials v2.0 is here! The main feature of this update is that it's updated to ensure compability with the latest patch. Because of that, I reworked how the mod adds interactions to Sims.

But it's also the sexuality update for the mod. There aren't that many romance interactions (I think there's 10 or so?) but all of those ten were missing failure states for sexuality and tests to prevent Sims from using them on Sims not attracted to them or on Sims they aren't attracted to. You may not have noticed this because the vast majority of those (with one exception, Impress with Fame) were unusable unless you were already in a relationship with a Sim. But now, if a Sim's sexuality changes mid-relationship, those fail too.

I also did, a while ago, the pronoun update, as well as the pie menu update, so this is pretty much completely up to date with the game's current interactions.

In accounting for the new interactions I can now give an actual count of interactions in the mod. There are 87 new interactions included in this mod, and the pie menu should load quicker now that the script is gone and each interaction is not injected individually.

Once again this mod REQUIRES XML INJECTOR. To install this, make absolutely sure you delete both v1.7 and its script file from your mod folder. Then you can just throw the package file attached in.

Download (free). Technical stuff under the cut.

Hello everyone - I'm sorry for my long absence. It's become clear that between work and family obligations I don't have time to maintain or rewrite my tuning mods anymore, especially given that some of the tools I used to make them are no longer updated or supported. Since this is the case, I'm open to other serious modders 'adopting' my projects such as Preferences Plus, Fear Factory, social interaction packs, etc so that you all can continue using them. I still hope to provide an occasional CAS set and periodic updates to CAS Sanity as time allows.

FYI I've been trying to pause billing on a monthly basis to avoid people being charged during this period. Unfortunately the only way to stop billing for a longer period of time is by deactivating the page entirely, which would make my mods no longer accessible.

Thank you for your patience and support! I wish you all good health and happiness.

<3 helaene

SAKURA VILLAGE LOADING SCREEN by SakuraMoonYT

Storytelling Socials v1.6 is live for everyone! Storytelling Socials is an expansive mod that adds 60+ interactions with an emphasis on storytelling. Roast your friends! Stick it to a bad parent! Call your ex inferior to your current partner! In this update, there are 12 new interactions:

Accuse of Ruining Friendship: If two Sims have been friends before but aren't any longer, both can do this interaction. If it succeeds, the Target gets Sad—but not if they're Evil or Mean!

Mock for Losing Job: Sims can mock others who have just gotten fired. It's especially brutal to Ambitious Sims.

Share Painful Truth: Gloomy Sims can make other Sims sad with this mischief interaction. Upon success, the Target gets a +3 sad moodlet. Useful for putting a Sim in a sad mood. If you know what it's a reference to, give yourself a pat on the back!

Call Incompetent Parent: Sims who are not the children of the TargetSim can insult their parenting now. This is useful for stories where one Sim is standing up for the Target's children, or sticking it to their parent-in-law!

Blame for Relationship Issues: This is a second-level interaction! If a Sim uses the interaction "Complain about Relationship" on their partner, they get a buff—"Ungrateful Partner." Once their partner has this buff, they can turn it around and blame their significant other for the issues that they've complained about. To put it simply, if Jesse complains to Rebecca, Rebecca can in turn blame it on Jesse. There are two other interactions like this:

Assure of Faithfulness: if a Sim has been accused of cheating by their partner, they have one of two options: they can use this romance interaction to assure their partner that they're faithful. You know, the civil option.

Angrily Deny Cheating: or they can do the opposite: yell at their partner for the mere accusation. If this succeeds, the accuser regrets floating the idea...

Call Lazy: mean interaction for Active Sims. Lazy Sims don't even get offended.

Pretend to Break Up: Sims can pretend to break up. Will fail for Hot-Headed and Romantic Sims; Romantic Sims get a special buff. Goofball and Noncommittal Sims take it well. Everyone else gets angry.

Accuse of Excessive WooHooing: If a Sim has WooHooed with 3 or more people, another Sim can insult them for it. If it fails, it backfires and the Sim gets confident instead of angry. Teen+ only.

Express Doubts about Pregnancy: Pregnant Sims (second-trimester+) can do this interaction to friends. There are three potential responses: the Target gets confident, glad that they were entrusted with this information. The Target gets tense, worried about the child. And the failure, where the Target gets uncomfortable that someone would tell them that.

Insult Work Performance: a mirror of the "Insult Work Ethic" interaction for active careers, made so that you can do it outside of working hours.

It's finally here! Easy Sentiment Cheats v1 is live! Now public!

Easy Sentiment Cheats is a mod that enables you to easily add and remove every base game sentiment with additions for separate packs coming soon.

Ever get tired of how complicated and somewhat ineffective sentiment cheats are, particularly in removing sentiments? Not only do you have to type the name of both Sims—which sometimes doesn’t even work—you have to remember the tuning name for every single sentiment, which means you have to constantly look each one up. On top of that, even if you remove a sentiment by typing all of that out, it doesn’t fully remove it!

Easy Sentiment Cheats fixes all of this. It allows players to easily assign sentiments through a pie menu which is divided into four categories, ensuring that adding a sentiment is only a few clicks away. ESC was made using only Base Game sentiments, so players without Snowy Escape can still use it!

More info under the cut!

Now public!

This is v1.0 of Better Autonomy, a mod that re-balances Sims' autonomous behavior to make it less grating. Sims will be more likely to clean, work, and socialize and less likely to waste time watching TV, playing Chess, and other things of that nature.

This should be the final version if nothing else pops up (such as balancing issues!). Please let me know if you encounter any issues!

Overview Below:

Patrons can now play around with this latest work-in-progress build of PrefPlus 1.1.0 and for the first time, the new (optional) auto-add feature.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/69247314

PrefPlus 1.1.0 includes:

3 new Flavor preferences:

Eggplant 🍆

Garlic 🧄

Mushroom 🍄

3 new Cuisine preferences:

Ice Cream 🍦

Meat 🍖

Pizza 🍕

6 new Personal preferences: (...and fixed crazy Teeth Brushing behavior)

Bragging

Deep Conversation

Flirting

Gossiping

Hugging

Swearing

16 new Interests:

Art

Books

Dating

Dinosaurs

Family

Horses

Investing

Magic (lllusion Magic, not Spellcaster Magic)

Military

Movies

Paranormal

Philanthropy

Sustainability

Trains

Vehicles

Voidcritters

AutoAdd Feature (aka. Preference Bomb!) 💣

As soon as you load the game or exit CAS, etc all Sims in your game will have preferences intelligently applied (if they don't already have a like and/or dislike in that category). It shouldn't overwrite any existing preferences that are set.

If you don't like what gets rolled for someone, you can remove that preference (or all preferences) and either use the 'add random' feature in the Actions menu, or open/close CAS again and it'll add new ones.

There's LOADS of logic in it. For instance, it's as specific as Father Winter being quite likely to Like Cold Weather Clothing and Winter Holiday Music. ;) I've done countless tweaks to this over time after observing the results, and I'll continue doing so, so don't be afraid to provide feedback.

There are 4 flavors available to choose from (pick one):

Likes and Dislikes, all Sims

Like and Dislikes, only unplayed Sims

Only Likes, all Sims

Only Likes, only unplayed Sims

I highly recommend if you want to test this feature, you do so in a new save for now, so that you can see how it works and determine what flavor you prefer.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/69247314