#ts2globalmod

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Chris Hatch made a hack called PregRel, which causes sims to react negatively to a significant other's first pregnancy bump if it indicates cheating and they pass a logic check (3+ logic to tell that it was cheating, 7+ logic to identify the person they cheated with and get mad at them also), or for any pregnancy if the sims are parents of a pregnant teen sim. The pregnant sim would then do a worry interaction if the pregnancy is from cheating, regardless of whether or not any other sims reacted.

Anyway, this hack doesn't work right with Name the Father, the Surrogate hack, the Sperm Donors hack, ACR jealousy settings, poly relationships, or custom pollination technicians. So I've created a compatibility patch that makes it work right with all that stuff. Added features:

Significant others will not be angry if the father of the baby is a custom pollination technician (and the hack will not cause the pollination technician to show up in anyone's relationship panel)

Significant others will not be angry if the pregnancy was caused using the surrogate hack

Significant others will not be angry if the pregnancy was caused using the sperm donors hack and they were named as the other parent

Significant others will not be angry if the father of the baby or the named other parent is also married/engaged/going steady with the pregnant sim

If the pregnant sim has multiple significant others, they all have a chance to be angry, not just the one with the lowest neighbor ID

Significant others will not be angry if they ordinarily would not be jealous of the pregnant sim romancing other people due to ACR jealousy settings

If none of the pregnant sim's significant others could logically have caused the pregnancy, they do not need to pass a logic check to find out that the baby isn't theirs. The original hack only checks if the two sims have woohooed, I have added checks for gender, RCC toggled/untoggled status, RCC alien status, and the RCC global alien token. This won't work with PregForAllGenders, use the RCC and set the global alien token instead

If a significant other would have gotten angry, but failed the logic check, and they could have reasonably gotten the pregnant sim pregnant (see above), and you have Name the Father installed, and the pregnancy was not caused by the sperm donors hack, that significant other will be named as the father using Name the Father, so they will continue to believe the baby is theirs after birth. You can always change this setting manually afterwards, as normal. If more than one significant other fails the logic check, the one with the lowest neighbor ID will be used

If the pregnancy was caused by the sperm donors hack, angry parents and significant others will get mad at the second parent you selected and not the sperm donor

Angry parents and significant others will not get mad at the father of the baby/second parent if they have never met them and thus have no way of knowing who they are no matter how logical they are

Fixed a bug in the original where recent changes to significant others' logic skills did not count

Baby, Toddler and Pregnancy Mods - Update 10

Not the owner of the mod, just did a recap of the stuff I liked in this mod. There is more inside.

This mod fixes a large number of issues with babies and toddlers, and also finishes and adds Maxis' unfinished Breastfeeding interaction to the game.

- Young Adult and Adult female sims who currently have a baby are now able to breastfeed. The interaction is taxing on their Hunger motive, but increases Comfort and also very quickly increases both the mother's and baby's relationship (both STR and LTR) towards each other. Sims will autonomously breastfeed, but they need to have somewhat acceptable motives and mood to consider this. - Sims cannot bathe babies/toddler any more, if the baby/toddler has a dirty diaper. The unmodded game allows sims to bypass changing diapers, and allows sims to bathe babies and toddlers in their dirty diaper which never made sense to me. You need to first change the dirty diaper before you can bathe the baby/toddler now. All of these rules are also valid for nannies, butlers and apartment neighbour nannies. - Sims were completely unable to consider changing the toddler's dirty diaper while carrying a toddler, so I've added that feature. - Maxis made it so that sims who are carrying a toddler are pushed to initiate social interactions towards the toddler if there is no motive in need of attention. This means sims would only drop the toddler on the ground if the sim had low motives or if the sim was pushed another interaction by another object. Sims will now only consider initiating social interactions until the toddler's social motive is at a certain level. Family sims will interact more and Romance sims won't interact much. I have also made it so that sims will not consider using an object to fill a toddler's motive if the sim cannot access the room where the object is. - Maxis unfortunately didn't add a baby version of the feature mentioned above for toddlers. Sims who are carrying a baby cannot attend to the needs of the baby whatsoever, they just stand there for about an hour and then put the baby in a crib, or on the ground. All of the toddler-related features are also now enabled for babies. There are obviously a few differences. Sims will bathe babies in sinks rather than tubs and so on. Young Adult and Adult female sims with a baby, if their motives are good enough, may even breastfeed while carrying the baby. - Sims won't consider initiating interactions towards babies/toddlers if the baby/toddler is currently being carried by another sim or if the baby/toddler is in a crib and has low Energy. This makes it so that sims don't immediately hold the baby/toddler right after they put them to sleep in a crib. -  Sims will not try to put babies and toddlers into cribs which already have a baby or toddler.

Fixes: - Maxis never updated their code to account for changing tables and cribs other than the base-game changing table and crib. This means that the majority of the code in the game cannot recognize the Freetime changing table and crib, and also all custom changing tables and cribs. This mod fixes this and now the game can recognize all cribs and changing tables. - Maxis added an interesting feature to sims who are currently holding a toddler. Every once in a while, the game checks to see if the toddler needs a motive to fulfill, and if so pushes the carrying sim to attend to the toddler's needs. This is nice, but had a few oversights. The game was only able to consider tubs for bathing toddlers, but was unable to consider shower+tub combos. This has been fixed. - This mod also fixes a small issue that prevents the game from making the toddler show a low motive distress balloon while being carried by another sim. - When a sim considers putting a baby/toddler in a crib, the game will search for an available crib at a further range than before. - When a sim tries to give a bottle to a toddler, the sim will wait for a longer time before giving up and dropping the bottle on the ground. - When the game considers whether a nanny, butler or apartment nanny should be pushed to bring a bottle to a toddler, the game prevents the sim if there is already a non-spoiled bottle with some milk left in it in the same room as the toddler, so that they don't take bottles out of the fridge over and over again. -  In an unmodded game, the nanny freezes if a toddler has low bladder and there is a potty on the lot. Now they will properly attend to the toddler. This fix does not affect custom potty chairs.

Townie Budget Mod

Now, townies are not immediately considered to have infinite funds. Whenever a townie visits your business, there is a chance that they may not have the required funds to afford anything at all, that is they will be there to just browse. This feature already exists for playable sims who don't have the money to afford, and now this feature is also enabled for townies. In addition, every townie now has a money limit, that is, you can't sell townies an object that is priced at something like a hundred thousand simoleons, which is something you can do in the unmodded game, and I consider this to be an exploit. Here is how the mod works: - Regular townies, NPCs, garden club, vacation locals and gearheads are very unlikely to buy anything. If the game allows them to buy anything at all, they will only be able to buy cheap stuff. - Bohemians and Jocks are a bit more likely to buy, and afford more expensive stuff. - Techs, Professors, Coaches and Reporters who are on the job are even more likely to buy, and afford even more expensive stuff. - Downtownies, socialites and vacation tourists are the most likely to buy, and afford the most expensive stuff. - The Diva can always buy stuff, and can afford very expensive stuff. - Grand Vampires are also able to buy at all times, and can afford expensive stuff. - Slobs will never be able to buy or afford anything. If a sim can't afford anything, they will start loitering your business. This is also how it works for playable sims who can't afford anything. This means that businesses will become more lively places. Updates (up to update11): - Townies who can't afford dining won't be seated in restaurants. - Townies who can't afford a make-over from the salon chair won't try to get a make-over. - When a Townie who can't afford a dining podium, ticket machine, salon chair etc. starts browsing these objects, instead of immediately stopping, they will continue browsing for a while before deciding to stop or leave. - Townies on non-OFB community lots won't try to dine or get a make-over if they can't afford it. -  Townies are much less likely to arrive on a lot with no money in their pockets now. The majority of the time they will have at least some money. - Sims who can't afford to buy a drink from a bar, or coffee from an espresso stand won't be allowed to buy any more.

Business Mod - I shorten the full description on some of them

Improvements from the original OBF business (up to update 39): - If you visit an OFB business with a different household, and whenever an unselectable customer (playable or townie, doesn't matter) purchases an object, the game does not credit the owner. This mod fixes this, and makes it so that whenever a customer purchases an object, the customer is always charged, and the owner is always credited. - If the sim cannot pay for all or some of the items, the game removes those items that the customer can't pay for from the customer's Shopping Inventory and refunds the owner. However, it only refunds the owner if the owner is selectable. This has been fixed. Now, the owner is always refunded. - Whenever a sim purchases a make-over at a salon chair, the game only credits the owner if the customer is unselectable but your sim till loses their money. This has been fixed. - When a sim pays for food at a food stand, the game only credits the owner if the owner is selectable. This has been fixed.  - Whenever a sim pays for a ticket or gets charged by a ticket machine, the game only credits the owner if the owner is selectable, and only charges the customer if the customer is selectable. This has also been fixed. - Whenever a sim throws their shopping bag on the floor on an OFB lot, the game allows the owner, employees and CleanBots to pick up the bags. However, if the owner, an employee or a CleanBot picks the bags up while the currently controlled family is not the owner's family, the game refunds the cost to the currently played family, rather than to the owner's family. This has been fixed. - Whenever the player visits an OFB lot with a cash register as part of a date/outing, and whenever an unselectable sim who is part of the date/outing checks out at the register, the sim has a chance to leave the lot. This mod fixes this and prevents sims who are part of a date/outing from leaving the lot. - Whenever a sim purchases coffee or a drink from an espresso stand or bar, the game will properly charge the buyer, and credit the owner if there is one even if the customer or owner is unselectable. - The mod now makes it so that if the owner or family of the owner is unselectable, the game won't charge the owner for restocking items. In addition, when the owner, employee or a CleanBot picks up a pile of bags from the floor, the game will only refund the cost to the owner if the owner or family of the owner is selectable. Expect, whenever a selectable sim checks out at the register the game subtracts the wholesale cost of the Shopping Inventory from the actual sale price, and then credits the owner with this amount. The main issue with OFB businesses was the restocking issue which has now been fixed with this update. (More details about this by clicking the link).

Disease Mod

In an unmodded game: - If a sim is sleeping, they get +8 recovery points every hour. - If a sim is sitting, they get +6 recovery points every hour. - If a sim is not asleep or sitting, then they get +4 recovery points for 50 or higher Energy and Comfort motive, or -4 recovery points for lower than 0 Energy and Comfort.

This mod makes it so that the game calculates recovery like this (update4): - The game now considers every element even if the sim is asleep or sitting. - +4 for sleeping. - +2 for sitting. - +2 for 50 or higher Energy/Comfort/Water-Hygiene/Hunger, or -2 for lower than 0 Energy/Comfort/Water-Hygiene/Hunger. - +4 for Platinum Aspiration, +2 for Gold Aspiration, -2 for upper red aspiration, -4 for lower red aspiration. - +2 for being fit, -2 for being fat. - -2 for being elder. - +2 for being a werewolf carrier. - +2 for being in a vacation neighbourhood. - Bigfoot recovers much faster now. - Recovery is decreased by -2 if the sim is neither sleeping nor sitting.

Fixes: -  makes it so that all symptoms are pushed at maximum priority, which means sims will show the symptom right away, stopping their current interactions. In addition, there is a chance, depending on the current severity of the disease, that the sim may not show a symptom. -  This update makes it so that the sim will be given pneumonia when the severity of their cold gets really serious.

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DESCRIPTION: Sims can get into any career track regardless of degree, but promotions will be limited based on education.

Updated to take into account 2-year colleges and high school grades. The new version requires Smarter EP Check.

There are no college limits on entry into the University careers such as Artist, but the maximum job level is based on the sim's education level.

If the sim graduated college, maximum level is 10.

If the sim completed two years of college but dropped out before graduation, maximum level is 7.

If the sim either didn't go to college or dropped out before completing the sophomore year, then maximum job level is based on the final high school grade:

If final high school grade was C or better, maximum level is 5.

If the final high school grade was D- to C-, maximum level is 3.

If the final high school grade was F, the sim is effectively a high school dropout and has no diploma. Maximum job level is 1.

Bigfoot, plantsims, servos, and adult sims created in CAS are assumed to be average high school graduates so will be limited to level 5. If you use the batbox to give these sims college degrees, then they will get the level 10 limit just like other graduates.

Sims who have hit the glass ceiling have only a 10% chance per attempt of being promoted past the job limit. Yes, your high school dropout can claw up the ladder from Playground Monitor to Education Minister but it's going to take several generations to get there.

LAST UPDATE: May 7, 2012

REQUIRED EPs: University

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from University through Apartment Life.

INCOMPATIBLE MODS: harderjobs from MATY. You can use them together (I do) but mine must load after his. You will lose his job caps, which limits the number of sims in higher job ranks, but will retain the harderjobs feature which lowers job levels offered on the computer. Players who still want job caps can use Job Stopinator to manually stop sims from getting promoted.