Tiny previews
Added 2022-03-11 03:17:20 +0000 UTCHello, a tiny progress brief today!
I have put the first prototype of all the new stuff in my game today, so I can give a few screenshots. Some things are still missing, all text is subject to change later, etc etc.
1. First, that little highly requested small feature I mentioned I was delivering with the next update too? It's mostly done, so I can reveal what it is - as I said, nothing big, but -
There is the choice to have pop-ups or not according to your decision on pop ups for the sims concerned.
A notification of the answer shows, and if a pregnancy occurs, the Sims who expressed a preference will react accordingly to being told about the pregnancy and, for siblings, also to the birth. A sentiment will be given out also.
This applies per pregnancy so, by the next pregnancy, you can do the choices all over again.
2. Quick word about an upcoming update to "Custom Moods for Game Moodlets", which I have been sitting on for a while and could have released long ago already but I wanted to expand it first, but we'll see - with it, some moodlets from my mods will also have custom moods if you so desire! Here's for example a moodlet from module 8 of Relationship & Pregnancy Overhaul. If there's specific moodlets from my mods and / or the game you think would fit a custom mood, feel free to make requests on that. I've already set aside the more obvious ones from my mods that I could think of.
3. The fertility revamp is mostly done. Only a few things left on that but the biggest part is behind us. All is going well on that end! I'm very happy with the new system. It's not big changes but it makes things just better.
Just as said before - sims who can be impregnated have a fertility metric from 0 to 100. Impregnators have a metric from 0 to 5. 0 means 'Infertile' and gives out the matching trait. The cycle option moves from the Sim's individual fertility baseline.
New sims will be on the new system automatically. For existing sims, they won't be given fertility automatically - they'll still be on the 25% rate. There is an interaction to manually give them the new system calculation, which is also an interaction that serves to re-assign the proper fertility metrics when a Sim switches from 'can Impregnate' to 'can be impregnated' or from 'neither' to either of these, etc.
4. Miscarriages are also progressing well. The main system works and is mostly in place. Still haven't done the special triggers so there's that, a few moodlets, etc, but we're moving well. PS don't pay too much attention to the text, I might rewrite it.
The Sims will show distress and sims around will also react. Then the sim automatically goes to the hospital. As I said before, the other parent will be sent as well if on lot. If the other parent is not the significant other, the significant other will be sent too anyways. If the parent has a low relationship with the pregnant sim and is not officially in a relationship, they won't go.
There are several possible outcomes to this situation. I'll tell you more in detail when I have finished this add-on but it al goes in the lines of what I've already told previously :)
(this is the moodlet initially obtained for sims who want children. They get other moodlets down the road too, just as for termination of pregnancy. I have meaningful Stories so the moodlet shows longer than what I set it for)
I'm hard at work to keep progressing on this and finishing it soon!
Thanks for your support and patience,
Best,
Lumpinou
Comments
Well thank you 😊! I'm all about family gameplay and have been doing rotational lately between 5 families so excited for this and the rest of the update when it's ready!
Simslegacy5083
2022-03-31 19:41:38 +0000 UTCConsidering these two already exist, it would be quite easy to make them available to friends and family. So as it would cost me little effort to accommodate your request, for those I can say yes and that I will do it within days. I just hope people won't get confused by it. For making new interactions it's not time yet but I hope for room for all sorts of additions
Lumpinou
2022-03-31 18:05:45 +0000 UTCWill part of the family oriented updates include the ability for sims to talk about more aspects of pregnancy with others besides their partner? For my "he doesn't/she does" scenario I really wanted him to be able to vent to his brothers/dads (or even friends) about "hopelessness about future" and "bemoan not using birth control" but I only got those options when he talked to his wife and for my story he wouldn't say those things to her (he loves her and its just adding insult to injury). Just curious
Simslegacy5083
2022-03-31 18:00:40 +0000 UTCI just realized yesterday that they do react to new siblings in the game - but just at random. So now I have to 'block' that if they have a wish from my thing - but in the end it'll be more fun so it doesn't have to be random if you think a sim feels one way or the other! Thanks for your support ❤️
Lumpinou
2022-03-16 17:53:03 +0000 UTCI love the idea of asking kids if they want siblings. It feels immersive. I appreciate your hard work on mods. :)
Lizzie S.
2022-03-16 17:35:30 +0000 UTCSo excited for this update!!!
Pamela Berg
2022-03-16 17:01:44 +0000 UTCThey stop automatically upon becoming young adult. And if not canceled it will try again at every launch. Do you have an old version? Something that could be messing this up? You can manually end it in the actions menu of the parent clicking on themselves.
Lumpinou
2022-03-16 00:24:36 +0000 UTCIs there a way to stop the custody visits. My sims kid is a young adult and still visits
2022-03-15 23:50:20 +0000 UTCYes I tried , but the child is a toddler so nothing comes up. When I click cancel current scheduled visits on the mom she does nothing. I live in tartosa on the far back left lot where the starter home was
Jasmine Thompson
2022-03-14 22:50:43 +0000 UTCThat is quite strange. Did you try to cancel it from the parent / child depending on whom you tried from first? Just trying the other one. Where do your sims live? (what lot)
Lumpinou
2022-03-14 20:19:48 +0000 UTCEvery time I click cancel current scheduled visits it won’t cancel. I want to cancel it so I can just do a new one or just stick to do the 1 or 2 day visit. Also the one time it did work for the 1 day visit I wasn’t able to call and end early if I wanted to
Jasmine Thompson
2022-03-14 20:14:44 +0000 UTCDid you read under 'limitations' to see what to do in those cases
Lumpinou
2022-03-14 20:12:14 +0000 UTCSo after my sims divorced she took custody. So she then just sent the toddler son to visit him for 2 days and that worked fine. Then after that I set up the advanced scheduled visits for 1 day every 5 days with the father. When the time came for him to take there toddler son I was away from the lot. It’s been 6 days and now the second attempt never happened and whenever I try to cancel the current scheduled agreement it doesn’t cancel it so I can just do the one time visit or 2 day visits that seem to work better than the scheduled. Can you help me fix?
Jasmine Thompson
2022-03-14 20:11:08 +0000 UTCI don't understand what you Mena by 'try'. Can you re explain the situation step by step?
Lumpinou
2022-03-14 17:30:59 +0000 UTCHello! For some reason I’m having issues with the custody part of the mod. My sims divorced but have a toddler. I set up to start for the son to go over the dads house for 1 day every 5 days and for some reason it tried once while I was going to send him to the dad but hasn’t tried again in days. How do I redo it? Everytime I try to cancel current arrangement nothing happens
Jasmine Thompson
2022-03-14 17:09:28 +0000 UTCI can't wait for this mod.
2022-03-13 17:01:48 +0000 UTCWhy not, it just won't be consistent with the list of donors seen when doing surrogacy. Because that would make the list very small
Lumpinou
2022-03-12 20:19:52 +0000 UTCThat's not fully up to me as integration depends on agreement of other modders :) For a first release, I'm focusing on making things integrate with the game. Cooperation and authorizations from others or not will have to wait till later
Lumpinou
2022-03-12 20:19:23 +0000 UTCHopefully, one of the triggers include Basemental's mod. It'd be realistic. But nevertheless, this is awesome and I can't wait to get it!
SimsCtrl
2022-03-12 19:40:08 +0000 UTCI love how amazing the features you consider "little" always are. 🥰
Sheila Lobert
2022-03-12 18:34:17 +0000 UTCQuick question, do you plan on adding an option for the male sim to donate sperm?
Liz Upton
2022-03-12 00:35:57 +0000 UTCIn any case as said above it is to be revisited to add reactions so, there will be no problem to access this. :)
Lumpinou
2022-03-11 23:10:50 +0000 UTCIs it? I have never been able to tell my kids that I’m expecting 😩
Breoni Hester
2022-03-11 23:09:33 +0000 UTCThat's already doable normally?
Lumpinou
2022-03-11 23:09:01 +0000 UTCwith the new siblings feature, is there the possibility of being able to "share the big news" with kids & teens as well?
Breoni Hester
2022-03-11 22:33:06 +0000 UTCThis looks so amazing! It gives us way more gameplay options and more depth in storytelling. I love how passionate you are and I appreciate all the hard work you put in! I admire you <3
Mendy
2022-03-11 20:04:06 +0000 UTCWhat a thoughtful feature (the siblings one), it will be lovely to have that. Love your dedication to this mod, so happy to be a Patreon!
2022-03-11 19:10:01 +0000 UTCThanks, I appreciate that! Before I started modding, I was very frustrated how some mods are literally just one interaction, I would just go '???' and never see the point of having such tiny mods 😂 to each their own of course haha, that's just not fo me. So my goal is always to make a consistent whole packaged together... That got kind of out of hands because this mod is ridiculously big now 😂 but I'm glad it's a format users appreciate too!
Lumpinou
2022-03-11 16:24:34 +0000 UTCThank you so much for all this work! And as always, not just the fun content that adds a lot to the game, but the way you construct the mods themselves is a godsend! I hate needing a thousand tiny mods to get the gameplay I like, especially when they're all stuff related to one topic. Yours and ADeepIndigo's mods are the best quality for my type of gameplay because of this, you package your mods in such amazing ways and I very rarely have any issues with them! Like really, aside from giving the people what they want, the quality and module-based-system of what you deliver is *emoji 100 percent* ! Have a great weekend!
Manon B
2022-03-11 16:18:44 +0000 UTCI'm so excited for this, thank you so much for all your hard work! I have LMS miscarriage mod but for some reason the cramping moodlet will show but nothing can ever be done about it and the miscarriage never goes through so I'm excited for yours.
Ayz
2022-03-11 15:50:19 +0000 UTCIt's an add on, can be taken out, as most things in this mod
Lumpinou
2022-03-11 14:21:43 +0000 UTCIs it possible to turn off the miscarriage setting?
Astrolatte
2022-03-11 14:03:47 +0000 UTCOn my previous post I answered some comments about this if you want to refer back
Lumpinou
2022-03-11 13:09:30 +0000 UTCIt's either. It's my usual pop up system. If you have decision pop ups enabled for that household, you choose. If you have them disabled, you don't choose. They're enabled by default
Lumpinou
2022-03-11 13:08:30 +0000 UTCI'm really excited for this, this will make story telling more fun.
Liz Upton
2022-03-11 10:31:15 +0000 UTCyesss ive been wishing for this
Kirah Elisse
2022-03-11 07:48:08 +0000 UTCThis is soo exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How would the fertility work with wicked whims. Would we have to disable the fertility on there? (It controls periods and stuff)
Jessa Stephens
2022-03-11 07:37:44 +0000 UTCCant wait! so excited! :)
Sis
2022-03-11 05:42:21 +0000 UTCSo excited for this! I might have read it wrong but I hope that the sims picked if they want more siblings instead of us as the player but I'm happy either way! Thank you for your hard work
Lily
2022-03-11 05:42:20 +0000 UTCI love the asking is a child wants a sibling! that was a feature I always meant to ask about but always forgot, so im glad I wasnt the only one who wanted that.
Heather
2022-03-11 04:09:25 +0000 UTCI'm so excited! I'm so glad you added the sibling interaction/reactions. Makes me les disappointed that my sim got pregnant before the update.
Hot Mess Simmer
2022-03-11 03:43:08 +0000 UTCVery excited for this revamp!!! Can’t wait for it to come out!
Aaralyn Phoenix
2022-03-11 03:21:15 +0000 UTCP.S. yes I see the typo in the moodlet haha! As I said, text is not final or finished. I type it quickly to move on to, you know, making the code! ;)
Lumpinou
2022-03-11 03:19:47 +0000 UTC
