theblindbat

That's what I was afraid of. I was hoping Maxis would have distinguished between played (household but uncontrolled at a moment) sims from totally uncontrolled sims. Oh, well. The custom buyable objects would solve the problem, though.

Imagine how much easier this would all be if EA had only release an SDK for TS4.

Anyway, I do appreciate all your work and your time to talk with me. I'll be closely watching any further work you do! (Dang, why do almost all of these emote options make me feel like a preadolescent schoolgirl?)

That would do it then. Custom objects for played homes would solve it easily.

But is there a way to differentiate between an object's 'attraction' (or whatever it is--I don't code TS4) for played sims versus NPCs? Is the attractiveness of objects completely based solely on the object or is there some sort of hook where you could treat a played household differently from NPCs?