#mod support

Hi!

If you meant @lilbabydilljr's Homework Sometimes, then yes, it conflicts with my homework mod (and edits of that mod conflict too).

(anon about CJH's visit other sims mod). By the way, I also tried to check for conflicts with CJHWalkToOtherSimsAL, but SiMidge would stop responding when I did that. If the conflicts shown on the screenshots I took are solvable by loading order, would you mind trying to check for conflicts with that one file as well, please? I'm guessing it's unlikely, with that many conflicts, but anyway, I'll keep the mods I previously had if those conflicts can't be avoided. Happy New Year, Midge!

Generally with a complex mod like visit other sims you need it to load after mods it conflicts with.

Go back to RS and get RomanticStandards-objectinteractiontestfix-visitothersimscompatible, not RomanticStandards-objectinteractiontestfix. This is an exception to the aforementioned rule and should load after visit other sims, since that version is specifically designed to work with that mod.

As for the side effects of having visit other sims load after the other mods: with risky woohoo car woohoo won't be risky. With the visitor controller, sims won't be automatically forced into the lot's set outfit upon exiting a taxi/car/etc if you use that VC feature. With adults go steady there won't be any issues.

My guess is the conflict with woohooteens would have visitothersims preventing teens from woohooing in cars. Mood swing will lose some dialogs needed for popups unless you copy them into the dialog string set in visitother sims. I have not looked at Cyjon's maternity pay BHAV, but that looks like it might be a pretty crucial BHAV for the mod and this might be a one-or-the-other situation.

Download Source Warning...Again

A fellow simmer brought this to my attention; they found this site has taken my files and re-hosted them on their own mediafire/mega accounts. Without permission of course. Not only is this super annoying, but also frankly rude as well as potentially harmful to someone else’s game. I’m not sure how to contact them to get them to not host their own links, and they probably wouldn't stop doing it anyway if I did ask. Not to mention if you’re going to take something...you could at least explain how it all works. Snatching the title picture and nothing else just tells me you don’t really care anyway.

So I’m taking this time to post a firm reminder about Sun&Moon files;

IF YOU DID NOT DOWNLOAD THEM FROM A SFS LINK FROM THE SUN&MOON TUMBLR/KEEP POST, AND FROM THE SUN+MOON SFS USER PROFILE, THEN THE FILES YOU HAVE ARE CONSIDERED UNSUPPORTED AND OUTDATED.

Limited time and limited budget.

Like, when Sega enabled Steam Workshop support for their Genesis Emulator, that's because there were decades of user tools already out there in the wild, with hundreds or even thousands of ROM hacks ready to be dropped in to that system.

If Sonic Mania launched with Steam Workshop support, we'd largely be working with the same tools used to create the game, which may not be very user-accessible. Making a Sonic Mania level probably isn't as simple as Super Mario Maker, and probably not even SonEd2. It would only support exactly as many features as the developers themselves needed, and only in exactly the ways they'd need them.

The argument could be made that friendlier user-made tools could come eventually, and that would be true, but it also comes down to what Sega would be comfortable with, too. Official development tools would require QA (quality assurance) testing before release, which costs money, and if you figure the tools were scrapped together to support only the bare minimum of features required to ship the game, then the code would most likely be a patchwork of different messes. Which means a security risk. Which means it wouldn't pass QA.

Steam Workshop support would undoubtedly add weeks or even months to the development timeline as they plugged all the holes in their tools in order to prevent people from accidentally damaging their system.

That's a lot of money and a lot of work for something that probably wouldn't even be that useful anyway. It might be smarter to just start over from scratch and rebuild brand new user-facing tools, keeping in mind cleanliness and accessibility. But then that's even more months of development. I mean, just look at how long its taken for Sonic Studio. That's been in development for, what, three years? Now that's just one guy, and it's something he only works on in his spare time along side other hobbies, but still. It's not something that's simple, easy or fast.

And that's not even touching on the backend support of actually plugging in to the Steam Workshop so that you could upload levels and then download and put them in to the game. That's a whole separate tech of menu systems and protocols and more QA.

Plus, for as cool as Workshop support was for their Genesis Emulator, it’s become an unmoderated cesspool of people uploading pirated material, something I just know is probably going to get Sega in to trouble eventually. Sega doesn't actually care about the Steam Workshop, or if they did, those people don't work there anymore.

Quick note: if you have an LE and the name of the mod in the LE is NOT lazarusinashes_StorytellingSocials, your mod is outdated and cannot be supported. 

i got everything downloaded - i extracted the files from the zip folder.

i go to the installer and try to do the patch thingy

then this screen comes up. i already deleted the patch.fat.rtroBak file but i still can’t progress past here.