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I'm not yet sure if it still works with most recent patches. I haven't quite got round to looking into them. But seeing I'm currently messing with the High School career, students, teachers and venue in the same way as those older career mods, I'm sure it won't be long now before I do examine how they are. I'm actually itching to get my scientist back to the labs, it's been nearly two years since I played those careers. So yeah, soon I'll give them a checkup when the Teen High School is finally fit for purpose and nothing like the crappy Maxis default version.

Yeah, if you feel up to it. Menanceman has already done exactly that. He updated the Voidcritter mod and, rather than post it on MTS with all his other mods, he uploaded the 1.63 update in the mod thread here. So great, if you want to do same with a few mods. Kimi says it's fine, as long as I agree. So please, by all means, fix up whatever you feel. It's all good. Thanks, Chaavik. 

I did not know that! Hi, @Ingeli if you could please post the links again in the comments section of the Cornucopia Buffet Table mod, then I'll know where your mods are. Since your Buffet Table does rely on that Buffet mod's files, it's best if the links were there. Plus I cannot recall if I saw a link to the Cornucopia Buffet table in your mod description? I know you mention my name (though not spelled correctly) as you mention your mod uses my files. But given that the Cornucopia Buffet Table's files are very unlikely to be broken in patches, - (Maxis simply have no need to re-tread over that old ground. I've only ever updated it to include new foods, never because Maxis tampered with the files.) - it would be nice if there were a link on your end directly to the original table, so those downloading your mod can see the original resource. That's usually the way of it throughout the community; a link and a credit. Thanks.

Very nice work. Thanks for links. I do like those larger round tables. I'm sure I'll be grabbing those soon. Cheers, Ingeli.

This is not the right section to make requests. Site rules say do not do that here.  And I don't generally take requests either.

Finally, as I only make mods I'll actually use in game, I'd have to say no to making the Sulani Power an instant trait for all sims. Given it needs to remain an autonomous interactions for the visiting Sulani Spirits to use as part of their event scenario, when giving it to normal sims they too use it autonomously and often, and the regular raindown of volcano bombs becomes somewhat annoying - thank goodness for the forced cooldown delays! The normal sims I'd given the trait to, I took it off them. They just abuse it, it had to go. It needs to remain seldom seen and for event purposes only, as far as I'm concerned.

I was thinking of doing a hybrid Laptop/Rotating Photo Frame. Such that you can store all photos in a laptop's Storage/Memory, but also the laptop, when idle, has a screensaver effect where it regularly rotates through a selection of photographs to display.

No promises on this, as I only looked at the coding the other day of the Rotating Photo Frame while I was doing some tweaks on laptops and imagined it was doable to blend the Frame's display functions into a laptop's screen display coding. I haven't yet tried any tinkering to see if it will actually work. Due to working on other projects, it's presently a back burner project I'll not get round to fiddling with for some time.

I don't generally take requests. But if it's something similar to what I'm already considering, then I'll respond pretty much in the same way I have done here. 

Thank you.

No. I've never worked on that element of the game.

You can find those in the Career Mods section. Glad to see you're back and hope all the to and fro to hospital has been helpful to you.

hello, there.

Thanks for the nice message, mollipop.

Funnily enough I started going through my mods this afternoon, (Saturday) trying to pick up where I left off last November. Little bit of a mess, to say the least. But I've been plugging away at it all day now. Slow going, I've only managed to get most of the Food & Drink mods up to 1.36 compatibility. (Those trillions of damn recipe XMLs!) I haven't even patched my game to 1.37/1.38 as yet. Hopefully midway next week I'll be doing that, then checking the blasted mods again for any alterations.

I estimate another 10 days till everything is confirmed 1.38 compatible, before I upload anything. Just in time for the 1.39 patch!

Always look to the "Patch News" threads in my mods sections for current patch details. It is against site rules to ask modders directly about updating timeframes. I always let members know what's going on with patching and updating in those Patch News threads.

Forgot to mention, another trick I've used in other mods, is to blacklist or whitelist various traits that govern who can and cannot interact with an objects. This approach can get very specific, painstakingly so, because you then have to make sure all sims in the world either have or do not have the traits blacklisted or whitelisted. Hands down it's the most accurate for a barring and allowing system, but so much micromanagement involved as you really have to know all your sims and who's got what traits.

I use this system mostly to ban unwanted sims turning up at venues. 

The attraction to use autonomously does not distinguish between played or un-played NPC sims. It's an all or nothing deal when it comes to autonomy. The only other way to wrangle it would be to edit the hidden buff_appropriateness for pc usage out of the role XML. Each sim is assigned a specific job with an accompanying role for whatever lot they are on, whether community or residential. All the unique roles have hidden appropriate buffs for the dos and don'ts for each venue type. Some will allow pc usage, other will disallow it. But again this leads it back to an all or nothing situation if adding or removing the appropriateness buffs.

Cloning the pcs and giving them their own new no-auto xmls at least allows for both a do and a don't computer of the same model to be placed on any given lot. The best of both worlds.   

I don't know if I've said it in a reply here or when my mods were on MTS, but I won't be dumbing down the default computers any more than I have already. Lest those community cyber cafes and library comps become nothing more than décor objects. Though, having said that, I do at some stage intend to clone a few models of the computers and have them governed by new XMLs I'll make specially for them, thus rendering them totally non-autonomous. So that you can have them at home knowing household sims or invited guests aren't going to jump on them straight away for the rest of the day. It's certainly on my list of things to do, but I can't give an ETA on that right now.

Hello Miriah

I've just read your post over on MTS in the No auto drinking mod. I've just posted there also that it will indeed conflict with my No Auto Drink From Fridge mod.

When it come to making tea and coffee no autonomous drinking, I guess you mean from the brewing machines? I did try that once ages ago, but if I recall correctly it was problematic. I can't remember why I didn't persevere with it. Something about it glitching because the sim always has to drink that first cup after brewing. It was a long time ago when I was new to modding, so I gave up back then. The fact that in all this time since no-one else has made a (seemingly easy) no auto mod for it means others may have run into same glitch I did.

If I ever find the time I may take a look at it again, now that I know how to handle xmls a lot better and could probably find out why it's glitching. Or maybe it was because I was a cack-handed newbie back then and was just doing it wrong. I'll take a second look, out of curiosity. 

Hello there.

That issue is as old as the Get To Work EP, there from day one. Nothing to do with my mods. Sending your sim to the hospital to give birth has absolutely no connection to the files I used for my Doctor Career mods. I did once try to take a look at why the doctor on duty takes an absolutely criminal amount of time before tending to pregnant sims, but could not see any reason for it. The same story has been told all too frequently on EA Help by non-mod players. Waited so long for doc after checking-in. Clicked on reception again thinking the original check-in must not have been registered. This somehow makes the doc finally move their ass. Go have baby, but then the second check in is still queued so the new parent abandons baby to go attempt another check-in. Whole scenario spoilt through confusion and crap coding. All Maxis I'm afraid. Though I've lost count of how many players over this past year-and-a-bit since I released the mods have PM'd me asking me to take a look at my mods again. I can't blame the players, though. Who wants to believe Maxis is just that rubbish?  The Emergency Pregnancy Event for the career has also been broken for six and a half months now! Guess who also keeps getting blamed for that? Yep, Maxis really are that rubbish and modders take the flak for it.  

Hi, sharris8, the Portable Galaxy Lightshow is up now! Find it in the General Mods section.

You're very welcome. Happy science-ing.

Hi, sharris8

I'll be uploading that soon. It'll be in TS4 General Mods section when I upload. On my PC, it's in a folder with other object tweaks, such as No Fade Ceiling Lights, and I'm just working my way through the folders before I finally get to that one. Won't be too long.

Not long now. Hope to have it all done during the course of the week. 

It's all happening steadily day by day. No too long till they're all up.

It was only very recently I reinstalled TS3 and downloaded all Store stuff again. Just when TS4 got toddlers! Though that was only coincidence. I noticed the launcher was different from I remember three years ago. The 1.69 patch put all the EPs and SPs for the game in a new place in launcher where you have to tick to make sure they all load, or un-tick because all of them together will overburden your game. (If Maxis just made TS3 64bit they wouldn't have to do these silly things. This procedure is them openly admitting they designed the game too weak to take all the EPs and SPs they continually sold us.)

Not only that, but I never used Origin originally for TS3, but obviously using it now to download all my old TS3. What I found out, that was really blooming annoying, is that every other time, all the EPs and SPs were automatically un-ticked and if I load the game all I got was base game and nothing else. Is this the same thing you are mentioning?

Did you install TS3 by discs, or digital downloads from Origin? If it's digital downloads then always start with Origin first. If I click on the launcher first before opening Origin, that's when all the EPs and SPs get un-ticked and I just want to start shouting and swearing.

Open Origin first, start play via Origin. This will then start the launcher running. After launcher opens, get into habit of checking everything is still ticked in launcher, then press play in launcher. That's what I have been doing lately and so far so good, it doesn't automatically un-tick anything.

Is any of this the same problem you are having?

Hi, DemonPoster

Thanks for the support an kind words. It's good to be here to settle in for a great new start of things.

Hi, aparkison

In devilgurl's case, I can't say for certain, but I would guess that she did not like being told to take down her remakes of DrChillgood's mods, now that he's back on the scene.

devilgurl, like me, had remade a few of his. I did the no smash dollhouse one and faster eating & drinking. The irony in my own case was the dollhouse one is the very thing a month ago where I had my first rude awakening with an unfriendly moderator. A new modder made exactly the same mod, exactly the same, and after I reported this I was given the BS about mine was impossible to find. The double irony being, the new modder took theirs down as an apology to me, admitting to me in a PM that they did not search enough. (Had the rude moderator stayed out of it, I may well have still been on MTS today.) But then DrChillgood came back on the scene and redid his old dollhouse mod. Crazy irony, no?

He approached me and said thanks for keeping his food & drink mod updated in his absence. (In other words, he wanted it back.) I hadn't reposted my dollhouse mod in protest to the moderator, so as far as DrChill was concerned, it seemed nobody had touched it while he was away!

I was actually happy for him to take food & drink back. All the heavy patches these few months made it feel I've bitten off more than I can chew.

devilgurl was not so happy after he posted same generic line to her as he had to me. I remember saying at the time she would not be happy about that, given she has posted her DrChill remakes on various websites. She did, of course, politely refuse DrChill to take down her versions. I guess a certain site moderator told her otherwise.

Me, personally, if a modder has publically announced they have retired, and others takeover their projects, then they should not have the cheek to demand them back if they decide to come out of retirement. After all the hard work devilgurl put into them, they are hers now, not his.

And the final irony. DrChill has only updated those mods that others had taken over. All the ones others did not touch in his absence, neither has he since his return. Sound fishy?

NightTourch also took down his TS4 mods, in solidarity protest regarding my case.