#religionmod

Okay, last thing from me for this year and it's fitting that it's mostly with my Religion mod which was my very first Tumblr post! Happy Holidays everyone!! 🤗🎆🎇

Religion Mod (Peteran):

I fixed the issue where Sims keep getting up every 5 seconds during sermons. (so dumb, I had changed from an "&&" to an "||" at some point for some unknown reason which was the issue) They will now stay seated and listen until the sermon is over barring any motive distress.

Added speech bubbles for sermons and other interactions

Added advertising to the sermon tunings so priests will autonomously use it (if you don't want that, use the original ITUN files in my previous version)

Sims can now give Holiday Sermons (they're just regular sermons but they have a higher attraction rate for Sims to autonomously listen and can only be done during Snowflake Day and Love Day)

Sermons also now give a small job performance increase

Added skill stats for the Peteran Skill (the last two are related to features not active yet in the mod so you won't see new interactions but I've loaded them in now since I'm testing it in my game) and two skill opportunities. See image below.

Fixed the issue where the "Gossip about Churchgoer" interaction was available all the time (it's only supposed to be available after going to church) Download the updated file HERE

Smoking Mod :

Added the missing string for the vape flavors. Thanks to the anon who let me know about it.

I also believe I've finally (finally! FINALLY!) fixed the issue of the broadcaster constantly spitting null value exceptions when teens smoke outside in front of a punishable adult.

This is a small update for my Religion mod specifically for the Omiscan religion.

So you probably don't think of bongs when you think of religion but the use of psychedelic substances was a very common practice in ancient religions as people used to use them to commune with spirits and higher powers. As the Omiscan religion is based on ancient MesoAmerican and West African animist religions, it fits right in and makes for some fun gameplay.

If you play as an Omiscan, then you know that there's a special unlock you get for maxing out the religion which is a psychedelic herb called Banisteria. It's based on ayahuasca. Sims eat it and gain temporary "enlightenment" or they may have a negative reaction to it.

It's always been the plan to make a drinkable tea version (which is how you normally take ayahuasca) but while I was doing the vape pen, I added the option to smoke banisteria as well for my freewheeling free-lovin Omiscans.

Since the Omiscan religion is all about communing with others and the spirits, I wanted the smoking (and eventually drinking) to be a shared experience but the idea of sharing a vape seemed gross to me (do people do that IRL?). So I created a bong which is, in theory, just as gross, but at least that's what you normally do with bongs so I can let that slide.

Requirements: You need the updated banisteria and Peteran (that's where the buff effects are) files and my Smoking mod here to use this and University for the herb effects. If you are downloading the religion mod for the first time, please read through the documents and the original post first.

Credits: The bong is an edited conversion from Chisami's Highlife set. Sadly their blog is no longer active but you can still find their stuff on a graveyard site. You may be able to use other bongs but I shorted this one to fit the animation so you'll have to trial and error to see which other cc bongs will work.

Download after instructions after the cut

Hi and thanks! I was on vacay so sorry for the late response. This usually happens when you are missing a requirement for the mod to run. Please refer back to the post to make sure you have the required files (marked as Necessary) and additional mods that are required (e.g. Nraas, Script Utility).

Hi @poppy091 and thank you!! It never hurts to ask (unless the cc creator specifically asks you not to, of course). I'm also not big on IRL cleaning at all but do enjoy it in the Sims. Ani has a scripted object mod that tracks dirt in your house (I'm too lazy to track it down but I'm sure someone else knows it). I think she's also ported over the broom sweeping and cleaning interactions from Sims Medieval. I have soooo many unfinished projects in my queue and I just got an Apple TV+ subscription and am back on sugar so I don't foresee myself getting to this anytime soon. But I feel like this is something that some other modder has also thought about so 🤞🏾

Speaking of unfinished projects... 👀

Student Counsil: Successfully held campaign "Feedback Day" doesn't bring a day off for school.

Private Clinic:No orange and white lifeguard sign blinking over the head of waiting patients.

When therapists give individual counselling to patients, no thought/speech balloons pop out over the patients' heads.

Offering psych evals will trigger EA interactive "inkblot test', or just inform me "There's not much more useful information an evaluation can provide your doctor".

Even if I turn off the clinic controller, waiting patients won't leave the lot autonomously.

The interaction, "Teamocil" in hospital or grocery store, always displays as "Teamocil" in English, despite I've translated its object package files.

Religion:

When clicking Mausoleum RH to donate, the donation amount is random, sometimes can be zero or a negative number.

Neither peteran nor nonbelievers receive moodlets from giving to the church, or their moodlets disappear the moment they exit RH.

To test these mods, I intentionally removed old saves and other functional mods, keeping only a few essential mods. They should theoretically not conflict with each other, here's the list:

NRASS MasterControl+Cheats/Career/Overwatch/ErrorTrap

Battery Utility

CCLoader

store item fix by phantom99 I tested three saves on three different computers, and all of them had these issues. Not sure if I did something wrong or missed any steps, but perhaps you could fix them in the future?

Shang Simla is my favorite place to visit! 😀 Your country is beautiful. Thanks so much for kind compliments. :) Also thank you for translating in both simplified and traditional. You can send the STBL files to me via Mediafire or any other free file transfer site you're most comfortable with.

Thanks also for the detailed bug report, however some of these are NOT bugs but features.

Student Counsil: Successfully held campaign "Feedback Day" doesn't bring a day off for school. YES BUG. Thanks for letting me know. I'll put in a fix for this.

Private Clinic:No orange and white lifeguard sign blinking over the head of waiting patients. NOT A BUG. The latest version does not use the lifeguard sign anymore, I probably just forgot to update that in the doc but please make sure you have the most updated version of this mod here.

When therapists give individual counselling to patients, no thought/speech balloons pop out over the patients' heads. Also NOT A BUG, please read documentation.

Offering psych evals will trigger EA interactive "inkblot test', or just inform me "There's not much more useful information an evaluation can provide your doctor". NOT A BUG. There's nothing left to learn from the psych eval, it's telling you to stop giving psych evals!

Even if I turn off the clinic controller, waiting patients won't leave the lot autonomously. NOT EXACTLY a bug. I just never put in a method to push patients to leave. But this was noted in the testing for the Optometry module so I've implemented this in the next version of the clinic where patients will be pushed to leave the lot after being treated or if they are on the waitlist and the clinic is closed.

The interaction, "Teamocil" in hospital or grocery store, always displays as "Teamocil" in English, despite I've translated its object package files. NOT A BUG. Since Teamocil is a brand name, I didn't think it needed translating but I guess even brands are translated into other languages so I've noted this for a future update. I'm curious to know what you would use as a Chinese translation. 🤔

Religion:

When clicking Mausoleum RH to donate, the donation amount is random, sometimes can be zero or a negative number. NOT FULLY a bug. Donations will always be random and are based on current mood, traits and household funds. So they can be zero but shouldn't be a negative number, that part is a bug. So noted for fixing in the next update.

Hi and thanks! Yes, this is a known issue I've encountered as well so it's not just you. I have to isolate the cause but the interim fix is to reset either the food plate or the table itself and then have your toddler go back to it and that fixes it.

I've jotted it down for the next Activity Table update to fix it.