#sims2modupdate

Gardening and Fishing Badges

Sims gardening/fishing who have Loves/Hates the Outdoors traits will now go through a check to see if the “room” they are currently in is outdoors or not.

Gardening

Loves the Outdoors: if a Sim is inside and does not have the Green Thumb or Gatherer Traits they will gain Gardening Badge points at the regular rate. If a Sim is outside with the Loves the Outdoors trait without the Green Thumb or Gatherer Trait, the Sim will gain Gardening Badge points at the enhanced rate, from being outside.  

Hates the Outdoors: if a Sim is inside and has the Green Thumb or Gatherer traits respectively, they will gain Gardening Badge points at the enhanced rate. If a Sim is outside, they will gain Gardening Badge points at the slower rate, due to being outside and feeling off from it. 

Fishing

For fishing badges, the checks are done in a similar vein. If you recall, the loop counts for Angler or Loves the Outdoors are significantly smaller (shorter time to catch a fish) than a Sim with the Hates the Outdoors trait, where it would take a longer time to catch a fish.  

If a Sim has the Loves the Outdoors trait without the Angler Trait and is outside, they will catch fish (and gain badge points) at a faster rate. If they are indoors and do not have the Angler trait, they will catch fish (and gain badge points) at the regular rate. 

If a Sim has the Hates the Outdoors trait without the Angler Trait and is outside, they will catch fish (and gain badge points) at a slower rate. If they are indoors and do have the Angler trait, they will catch fish (and gain badge points) at the faster rate. If a Sim has the Hates the Outdoors trait without the Angler trait and is inside, they will gain Fishing Badge points at the regular rate.

Caveat: The game considers greenhouse walls as outdoors (so far in my testing), so the game will recognize anything within a greenhouse as outside. Even if there is only one greenhouse wall surrounded by walls, it will recognize the “room” as outside. If you have a Sim who hates the outdoors, you can probably just use regular windows and doors if you’d like the daylight to come through. So if you have a Hates the Outdoors Sim, you will probably just need to use the sunlight lamps, optionally surrounded by windows in place of the greenhouse walls. 

Cashiering Badge

The mod will now check to see if a Sim is using the antique register from Open For Business. If the object used is indeed the antique register, it will skip over the Technophobe trait and move on to check to see if the sim has the Genius or Computer Whiz traits. If the object is the antique register and the Sim is a Technophobe with a Genius or Computer Whiz (that’s none of my business 🐸🍵) trait they will gain Cashiering Badge points at the enhanced rate. Otherwise, if the Sim has the Technophobe trait and is not using the antique register, they will gain Cashiering Badge points at the slower rate.