To make a long story short, I had to restart my current world, Tillage, because I was trying to uninstall a mod but it couldn't be done safely and was spurting out so many script errors and lagging my game etc etc. So, I have all new sims living in Tillage!

The last family in my rotation were who I made the taxes and benefits mod for, and this current family has sparked this new mod.

What's the point of having a liquor shelf, when the only liquor isn't even drinkable because it has the Hobo Script OBJK attached? I haven't had that mod installed for years!

Not only is there alcohol, complete with different glasses depending on the occasion...

There's also fruit juice, that even toddlers can enjoy...

And water, straight from the kitchen tap.

So there's something for everyone (except babies!).

Drunk sims may act differently depending on their current traits/buffs. Hangovers creep up on sims and the symptoms can be lessened/managed through certain activities. Binge drinking is a thing, and can have consequences.

I even made a custom commodity/motive so that sims may be pushed to do certain drunken activities autonomously.

This mod has been a bit difficult because I really hate working with props + converting animations means finding appropriate voice files, and making jazz scrips and whatnot.

This mod really isn't perfect however, I'm like 85% finished and it's finally completely stable!

Durand Family - Round 6 (Week 70!!)

A rare gameplay post!

Even though Patty and Evan were divorced last round, they've been unhappily living together while Evan tries to find a new house. Patty is having the worst time of the two.

Fired from her new job as a youth pastor, she has to go back to full-time work at her shop.

Therapy can only help so much...

Life for Evan, on the other hand, has only been getting better. He was offered a job at Tillage hospital...

and (after failing the medical license test 3+ times) quickly pivoted into a new career as the town's optometrist, putting his science and medicine degree to better use.

Soon after, the offer he'd put in to rent a flat outside the town centre was accepted. A £70 deposit is crazy...

He also becomes the first sim to test out my newest mod (to be released soon) - meaning I can delete the ugly fence in his office keeping townies from using his computer.

Also, your girl Imani gets a brand new hair cut and colour to honour her complicated feelings on the whole ordeal!

Plummer Family - Round 4 - WIP Clubs Mod

While Freddie waited for his shift at the arcade to start, I decided to set up the bowling club that he would head. I’ll take you through the process.

First things first was to create the club using the new club scheduler object. For a bowling club, I was going to need to create a ‘Custom Club’. This opens up a dialog where you choose the owner of the club.

That set, I opened up the scheduler planner window and started editing the settings. This club will run every Friday from 18:00 - 19:00 and it’s only for ages teen - adult. 

I also toggled it to be an open-invitation club, so sims can join and leave the club as they please. I added some trait restrictions too, however they were quite broad so I won’t list them here.

Then I set the club activity, which would be bowling.

That turns the club into a ‘Gamer Club’. Certain sims will be more drawn to this club than others.

Now, since I want this club to be “owned” by the arcade, even though Freddie is set as the owner, I don’t want Freddie to receive any of the money generated by club fees. 

So, I opened up a Bronzo account for the arcade and linked it to the club scheduler.

You can see all of my open clubs in town on this list!

Now, whenever the club fee is collected, money will go straight into the linked Bronzo account instead of Freddie’s family funds.

The club revenue will then be spent on upgrading the arcade, giving Freddie work bonuses, or whatever other use I find for the money.

Once the first member joins the club, I’ll turn on automatic payments for the club fee. Otherwise, this club is ready to go!