Mod for Orphanage
HappyThoughts:
Well all I'm really looking for is the ability to sell children. I don't mean this in a horrible way, or inhumane lol. I like adopting children from the regular phone method, but after raising them I want to be able to offer them to other families, like you can do with your pets. Free is fine, but we all know adoption has a price in reality, so realistically a mod that forced a minimum payment would be preferable. I have looked for this without any luck. I have all ep's and sp's as the sticky tells me to include. Any other questions about the 'exacts' I'm looking for just ask me. I just want to run an orphanage, as closely as I can to the real thing. Here's hoping.
kinnika:
This may be the completely long way around this, but you can do this until someone creates an actual mod for you.
You can just grab people and children from the "Townie" or "Downtownie" pool (Summoner tool). You can change their age to "Child" (Aging tool) ~ this way you won't have to deal with any family connection between the children and adults on the lot (hence, summoning them). If you want them to stay at the orphanage during school hours, you can have them home-schooled and add a cafeteria so they don't leave. You can even go dorm-style if that's the easiest. As far as other families adopting, you can summon the child to their house and then add them to the household (Family Tree tool). You can manipulate budget systems using a budget tool or a checkbook to "buy" a child or add or subtract funds to the orphanage. Other options are to add an office and a cash register to your orphanage just for props if you'd like.
Where to find:
Summoner, Aging, Budget, Family Tree tools ~ Insimenator & SimBlender (SimBlender should have these, too)
Checkbook ~ Paladins Place. Click on the green link for Sims 2 Objects. The checkbook will be under the "Other Objects" category.
Home / Private School: Check over at SimLogical (http://dino.drealm.info/den/denforum/index.php). This will give you the ability to school the kids at the orphanage and to set up institutional items (buffet for cafeteria's, access doors, etc).
You may have to register ~ but it's free and Inge's downloads are worth the signing up!
If you'd like you can also download the Prison Collection at SimLogical as well. It will give you all sorts of cool hacks, such as assembly points and tokens that can help track the kids at the orphanage. If you couldn't get to them through the link I gave you: Register / sign in, then go to the Sims 2 Downloads forums ~ in there you will find a link to get to the downloads.
You may just be able to download all the tools you need over at Inge's site, I believe, and get the same results ~ if you didn't want to download the Insimenator or the SimBlender.
Like I said before, this is the looooong way and probably more complicated way of doing things... but if you're like me and can be impatient for the wait of a mod being made ~ this is an option to start up one and work with it until a better way of doing things is invented. Further ~ you may be able to come up with other creative ways until that time, too.
Good luck!
Theraven:
Simlogical download page (under institutions or learning), no need to register ;)
kinnika:
Yeah, yeah... I guess I could have just done that, lol. Thanks, raven.
Theraven:
There is no need to register to get the downloads over there. The forum is mostly for reporting troubles with the mods, suggesting changes, probably requestiong too - and those kind of things.
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