#modding advice

I really love the concept of Piqiwi's holiday mod but it has quite a few bugs unfortunately.

I successfully managed to fix sims getting paid for days they wouldn't have been working thanks to @nopke.

And, @jellymeduza implemented a workaround for the problem that it causes the walk to work interaction to be missing completely.

But it has more problems I haven't been able to resolve yet.

From my experience, once a holiday has happened, the sims work schedule will never actually restart, so even on a non-holiday day, there'll be no 'sim needs to be at work in one hour' and the carpool will never show, not until I force off-world errors with the batbox.

Another annoyance, especially with the community time project, is that if the sim is off lot on a holiday at the time they'd usually get paid, they will never get their holiday work pay.

Hello and thanks!

I don't take mod suggestions, however, I can offer a couple of solutions to what you're looking for!

Lyralei (known as GreenPlumbbobLover on Tumblr) has made this mod (Mod The Sims - RPG Manager - Edit your Bin sims, towns and Active household!) where you can distribute skills among other things like money, careers, pets to the families in your town.

I'm sure there's also a way to do something similar via. Nraas Story Progression and/or Master Controller. You could put the sims that you wanted into their own castes and then deal with them accordingly.

And in terms of item distribution, if you wanted to be creative with it, you could use my club mod to add the sims into a subscription-only club, and you could use the subscription gift feature to get the items to them. Or create a formal gathering club and choose a skill to increase.

However, what I recommend the most is: learn how to mod! You can't count on anyone else to make mods that fit every need you have, so what better way to get what you want than to do it yourself! (That's what I did lol)

No, I don’t know where you read that but my advise would always be to use the latest version (SVN rev 653 0108w). As to there being problems installing mods, no rev is bugfree but the latest release is the only version you can get official support for and you will be advised to update to it if you ever run into issues and report them to the me3explorer forums.

Personally I update all my mods to stay compatible with the latest rev, some others do not and this is a problem as some .mods created before rev 623 are not compatible with revs after 623. Similarly .mods created after 623 are not compatible with rev622 and below. Mind you, tpf’s work fine cross version.