Resetting a Sim
Zach:
I don't really know how or what to ask here, so I'll just describe the situation. I will say, though, that this is no "OMG! My favorite Sim is ruined!!!11!!" situation or anything. :-P I'm just curious if it's fixable.
Background
Just for fun, I decided to create a fat, lazy Sim and play with him for a while. I set his Neat and Active traits to 0 and maximized all the rest evenly (with the points I had left over).
My goal was to have him never clean or exterminate and then hopefully see him attacked by a swarm of flies or something. Instead, he complained 24/7 about the environment, and boy does that 15 Sim-minute animation get aggravating after seeing it for the fiftieth time! (I didn't get that. What's the point of being a slob if all you are going to do is complain about the mess??!? :brain:)
Needless to say, it became very annoying and absolutely no fun to play, so just using the boolprop cheat, not SimPE, I readjusted his traits to more of a normal Sim which, in turn, changed his Zodiac sign.
Problem
Now that his traits and Zodiac sign have changed, his attraction-related features are out of sync. When he sees someone he's attracted to, he gags; and when he sees someone he finds disgusting, he swoons. :lovestor: And sometimes the attraction-enabled Pie Menu options become instantly available even though there's one or more red x's on the other Sim's portrait.
Bottom-line, it's all completely out of whack. :happy8:
Solution?
Would there be any ill-effects if I deleted him (in boolprop cheat mode)? (I know he'll just reappear at the mailbox the next time I load his house.) And would this be different than just doing a "Force Error" on him and then resetting him?
caffeinated.joy:
If you have simpe, you can use it to change your characters attraction flags to be what you want them to be. There's also a "don't scream at me" mod on More Awesome Than You that will stop your sims from doing that annoying whine. I'll track down the link for you.
MissDoh:
You can also change the attraction meter by using the "aspiration" module of the Insim. If you change the zodiac sign of your sim, for sure it won't be attracted to the same sims as before since zodiac sign plays a part in attraction.
BTW, good luck in having a sim actually die by "death by flies" it is really hard to achieve.
And even sims with neat level at zero will still clean and complain about the environment thanks to Maxis poor programming. Thank god for people that make mods to fix that partially, the one cafeniated offer should do part of the job.
Zach:
Quote from: caffeinated.joy;868580
If you have simpe, you can use it to change your characters attraction flags to be what you want them to be. There's also a "don't scream at me" mod on More Awesome Than You that will stop your sims from doing that annoying whine. I'll track down the link for you.
About the hack on MATY, I look forward to the link. Thanks!
But about the attraction business, I'm not talking about the flags. Those haven't changed. Those flags (hair color, fit/fat, etc.) are just one small factor in how the game engine calculates an attraction score. It's also based on Zodiac sign, traits, career, and aspiration.
What I'm saying is that because I cheated after his initial creation, the game engine is now confused. For some features (character reaction animations for instance) it uses his new traits and Zodiac sign to calculate it, and for other features (bolt icons, pie menu options), it is still using the old values. It's out of sync.
I'm just wondering if deleting him will sync him back up again, or if not, is there any other way.
MissDoh:
You can use Twojeffs college adjust to "sync genetic" accordiing to its new zodiac sign, that mod can be found on the Inteen site here: College Adjuster
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