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[twojeffs]

Autonomous Casual Romance - Version 1.10.10
Requires: NL or Higher


MAJOR FEATURES:

• Casual Interactions: All romantic bed and hot tub interactions, woohoo in Photo Booths, and a custom built woohoo on sofas, along with some of the regular flirts and kisses are available to sims much earlier in their relationship than standard Maxis interactions. All casual interactions are self-contained and heavily modded copies of the Maxis interactions so you can still use mods that affect the regular Maxis interactions, like Inteenimator with no conflicts.
  
• Autonomous Casual Interactions: Sims can autonomously choose casual interactions –  flirt, kiss or woohoo (including trying for baby) with another sim. Autonomous behavior  is controlled through a custom memory token that is included in the mod. Sims without a token will not perform any autonomous casual interactions. See the readme file for details about the tokens.
  
• More Realistic Jealousy: This is the only part of the mod that is global. It will affect all romantic interactions for sims that have an ACR token. Jealousy is based on aspiration, personality, and relationship level, instead of just relationship as before. Another global no-jealousy mod will conflict. JM Pescado's Romance mod will not conflict however.
  
• Teen enabled interactions: All ACR interactions are teen enabled. Teen try for baby/risky woohoo is only enabled if you have Inteen installed. This can be disabled however either on a per sim or hood-wide basis using the adjuster.
  
• Gender Preference Adjustment: Set a single sim's gender preference, randomize a single sim, or randomize the entire neighborhood. Includes safegaurds for not changing any sims who are already in a relationship. You can also set target percentages for the number of straight, gay, and bi sims you would like in the hood.
  
• Much, much more! See the documentation for full details.
  
  

IMPORTANT NOTES/GETTING STARTED:

• If you are installing for the first time, you should spawn an adjuster (click on the active sim and select adjust...casual romance…spawn adjuster) and run setup neighborhood from the tokens...hood menu before the mod will completely work as designed. The mod will install the tokens automatically at 8:30am/pm however if you don't before then.
  
• For teens and elders to be able to perform any casual interactions autonomously you must have an adjuster object present somewhere on the lot.
• If you wish to uninstall the hack completely you should run uninstall from neighborhood on the adjuster before deleting the mod files from your downloads folder.
• Keep in mind that it will take a while for the autonomous interactions to 'kick in' after being newly installed. Give it a few sim days before panicing.

COMPATIBILITY NOTES:

• This mod contains some of the global game code relating to jealousy in order to enable the per sim jealousy settings. This is the only part of the mod that affects both casual and Maxis interactions.
• This mod will most likely conflict with a global no jealousy hack. It does conflict with Lizzlove’s no jealousy at all hack.
• It does not conflict with any other hacks/mods by me or Pescado. Pescado’s romance mod is highly recommended as well as my teen/adult attraction fix.
• It is fully compatible with the Inteenimator and Jenflower’s woohoo teens.
• The vast majority of this mod is self-contained and uses private code that affects only the interactions included within the mod. Each one of the interactions included is a complete and separate clone of the Maxis interaction. Casual woohoo, for example, will not be affected by any hack that modifies normal woohoo (say a risky woohoo mod for example). The reverse is also true; any setting you change will only affect Casual interactions and not the regular Maxis ones.  The one exception to this is the way jealousy is handled.

ACR.zip
ACR - Documentation - English.zip
ACR - Documentation - French.zip

Recommended Additional Mods:

• Romance Mod by JM Pesacdo available here: here (Free Time version but others are available)
  
• No Instant Loves also by Pescado and available at the same link as above if you want to make it a bit harder for sims to fall in love. (Note: not compatible with Inteen)
  
• Teen/Adult - Adult/Teen attractions Fix by me (this in not needed if you also use Inteen)
  
  

ACR Plugins

Maxis Cheating Fix
This plug-in for ACR will force the interaction tests for all autonomous Maxis romantic interactions to follow most of the same rules that autonomous ACR interaction follow. Should significantly cut down (bug not totally stop) the stupidity of sim romantic interaction choices by forcing the use of the ACR target checking and jealousy checks. Both sims involved must have ACR tokens or the ACR tests will be bypassed and only Maxis original tests will be run. There is a chance that this plug-in will cause a reset (like a new EP was installed) upon install, although you might get lucky. This plugin conflicts with Pescado's nopedostalkers and must load after JM's mod for both to work as advertised.

ACR - Plugin - Maxis Cheating Fix.zip - NL or Higher

[C-Carman]

Really it's strange, but this download "ACR-Plugin-Maxis Cheating Fix" will some how not work in my game, have read the instructions serval times but find no adjust option on the active sim ?? "you should spawn an adjuster(click on the active sim and select adjust...casual romance…spawn adjuster)"
Is purhaps this "Autonomous Casual Romance - Version 1.10.10" an other file than the ACR-Plugin I try to use  ?
However I can't find this download the "Autonomous Casual Romance - Version 1.10.10"

Even I can't find an adjuster in build mode

Instructions are:
What about community lots?
The same rules apply to community lots. If you use a sim to spawn an adjuster on a community lot, it will work for that session of play only. There is a buyable adjuster you can access for community lots in build mode (look in miscellaneous).

[ancienthighway]

The plug-in is transparent to you.  It doesn't show up on any menus, it just happens.

[Sleepycat]

the plug in is also worthless without ACR. The link you need is the one that says ACR.zip



ACR = Autonomous Casual Romance

[C-Carman]

Aha thanks you Sleepycat , I have al this time some how overlook this ACR zip glad you tell me

[Sleepycat]

your welcome

[kamra61]

I am a first timer on this stuff and downloaded the ACR, but need 1st grade how to make work.  Getting Started did not help me.  When I started my game and went to one of my lots the couple will not talk to each other any more.  The pie chart just has flirt and kiss and so on.  They will sleep in same bed but not relax.  The sims just keep poping back out of bed.  I don't have a clue what a adjuster is or how to get it.  You say (click on the active sim and select adjust...casual romance..spawn adjuster).  I don't get anything like that when I click on my sims.  You also said something about setup neighborhood from the tokens...hood menu before the mod will work.  How do I do this?  Is it like when you do a boolprop?  I don't have a token, adjuster or anything I can figure out.  Totaly lost, sorry.  Please walk me though it step by step as I have no clue how to even undo the hack now if I can't get it to work right.

[twojeffs]

Do you have NL or a higher EP? I don't know how much more step by step I can get. Something is not installed right or it's not compatible.

[zephyrzodiac]

Click on your sim and when you see the Adjust option, click and spawn adjuster.  A set of telephone books should appear.  However, as TJ says, if you don't have Nightlife or higher, it won't work (and Uni is not higher than Nightlife.)

[kamra61]

I have nl and all expansion packs.  But if I click on my sim there is no adjust option.

[zephyrzodiac]

Which version did you download?  Do you have a capital D for your Downloads folder?  Did you enable custom content?

[neovente]

be nice if i knew what this adjuster  looked like...
If you are installing for the first time, you should spawn an adjuster (click on the active sim and select adjust...casual romance…spawn adjuster) and run setup neighborhood from the tokens...hood menu before the mod will completely work as designed. The mod will install the tokens automatically at 8:30am/pm however if you don't before then.

[zephyrzodiac]

The adjuster looks like a set of telephone books, but you have the option to change it.  Since it will spawn right next to the sim you click on (don't choose a child or you won't get the option) there should be no problem recognizing it.

[neovente]

thanks i had restarted my game thinking it would automatically spawn or something

[zephyrzodiac]

If you are installing for the first time, you should spawn an adjuster (click on the active sim and select adjust...casual romance…spawn adjuster) and run setup neighborhood from the tokens...hood menu before the mod will completely work as designed. The mod will install the tokens automatically at 8:30am/pm however if you don't before then.

Why, oh why, don't people read the stickies?   

Glad it worked, but you would have saved yourself a lot of time if you had read the above (quoted from the sticky at the top of this page)!

[neovente]

actually I did but i didn't know what to look for when it spawned

[zephyrzodiac]

You didn't notice the telephone books? So, you did this while your sim was in motion.... there's the option then available to Zoom to Adjuster when you click on your sim - Casual Romance/Zoom to Adjuster.... so if you lose the adjuster again, that's the quick way to find it!

[Doghound]

It works fine for me, but I wanted to mention..
My sim and his wife (Dustin and Angela) had a daughter, she's a teen now. Dustin slept with her daughter. Angela was furious at both of them..
But I guess stuff like that happens, even in real life

[Zirconia Wolf]

Erm, to my knowledge incest isn't part of ACR.

I'm thinking you have another mod at work....

[Doghound]

I also have Inteenimater

[miros1]

Given that my teen Sims woohoo just fine with just ACR, I never bothered with InTeen...

[Zirconia Wolf]

I don't recall InTeen enabling Incest either...but heck, how knows anymore! 

I use InTeen mostly for the YA options, as I really don't care about horny teenagers that much. I also like the fertility settings & various *risky WooHoo* flavor packs.

Every time I think about installing ACR, I balk.

I live in terror of my Sims doing nothing but WooHooing & having babies, which would totally ruin the whole TS2 experience for me. I know ACR is supposed to be quite customizable, but I keep on seeing reports of un-expected births/cheating...I suppose I'll just have to bite the bullet & give it a whirl (in a Test Hood) for a bit & see if the claims are true or not!

[Sleepycat]

Neither ACR or InTeen allow incest!

[miros1]

I don't recall InTeen enabling Incest either...but heck, how knows anymore! 

I use InTeen mostly for the YA options, as I really don't care about horny teenagers that much. I also like the fertility settings & various *risky WooHoo* flavor packs.

Every time I think about installing ACR, I balk.

I live in terror of my Sims doing nothing but WooHooing & having babies, which would totally ruin the whole TS2 experience for me. I know ACR is supposed to be quite customizable, but I keep on seeing reports of un-expected births/cheating...I suppose I'll just have to bite the bullet & give it a whirl (in a Test Hood) for a bit & see if the claims are true or not!

There's options so that your Sims can only be Autonomous with their "One" or their spouse/fiance.  You can also turn off the random chance of pregnancy.  I leave it on; my Sims only "try for baby" at my direction if they really want a baby and are approaching "middle age" (the 3 days before elderhood).

[Zirconia Wolf]

Neither ACR or InTeen allow incest!

That's what I thought.

It's getting pretty annoying when people insist a mod does something it doesn't & *refuse* to believe otherwise. Never mind that they have 7 or 8 other (all out-dated) mods installed: by golly, it's got to be ACR or InTeen...both of which are 2 of the most thoroughly tested/documented/updated mods around!

Grrrr....

Miros: Yeah, I know I'm being paranoid! I have promised myself that ACR is getting installed once I am back to "play mode". (Still fussing about with my skins & deciding how far I want to go with custom body shapes...)

[Doghound]

So mean! I have no idea what caused this, and I (obviously) don't have any incest-enabling modware. Both my Inteen and ACR are up to date, there's also no known conflicting. No such interaction is available to choose manually, it happened by itself.

"It's getting pretty annoying when people insist a mod does something it doesn't & *refuse* to believe otherwise."
It's too attacking and inductive reasoning towards me, I didn't insist anything nor do I *refuse* to believe what the makers of this mod tell me. I only know what happened.
Glitches happen, I think it's forgivable and I'm not making a deal out of it.

[Zirconia Wolf]

 

My frustrations were directed at the zillions of post we get on this site from people who claim over & over that ACR and/or InTeen have caused all sorts of things to happen that they simply do not do. (My car won't start! My boyfriend left me! My cow just died! It's raining outside! etc...)

Nowhere in your first post did you say anything about this being some kind of glitch you have no problem with: you say you had ACR & an occurrence of incest, period. When it was pointed out that ACR doesn't cause such things, your only response was to say you also had InTeen.

If you didn't want anybody to think you were asking if/insinuating that ACR and/or InTeen was "the culprit", then why post such a post?

Obviously, the two Sims in question were (somehow) not *flagged* as family by the game, as that's the only way (excluding certain mods) such stuff can happen with ACR and/or InTeen...

...which was pointed out quite well by Sleepy Cat, our resident Evil Goddess/Moderator. You are clearly new here, or you would know 2 things:

I am hardly considered a "mean" person around here
&
Don't annoy the cat!

(That last point is very important, BTW....)

[ancienthighway]

I can think of three mods off hand that will enable incest.  Then there's a couple of mods that while designed to flesh out the family tree and remove family ties also.  There's probably more out there than I can imagine.

If you don't want incest in your game, you need to take a close look at the mods and objects you have in game.  If you do want it, fine, but you don't need to tell us.  Incest is a very touchy subject, and personally I don't care to hear of any sicko's incest fantasies.

[Zirconia Wolf]

If you don't want incest in your game, you need to take a close look at the mods and objects you have in game.  If you do want it, fine, but you don't need to tell us.

Ditto!

I don't care if it "happens in RL": I don't want certain things in my game, period.

[miros1]

<snip>
I am hardly considered a "mean" person around here

Actually, Zirconia is very mean.  We just feed her lots of treats, and she becomes very nice!

[Zirconia Wolf]

 

[taimao]

 

...Sleepy Cat, our resident Evil Goddess/Moderator.

Wait does this mean Sleepy Cat is so good at Resident Evil games she's a goddess or that she's a zombie goddess who will turn us all into her zombie slaves in the near future only to be barely defeated by some guy who used to be a STARS?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.


Frankly, I don't think I would ever touch a mod allowing incest.  I want family trees that branch.

Edit: corrected spelling errors

[Zirconia Wolf]

Wait does this mean Sleepy Cat is so good at Resident Evil games she's a goddess or that she's a zombie goddess who will turn us all into her zombie slaves in the near future only to be barely defeat some guy who used to be a STARS?

 

Actually I think both. It just depends on her mood at the time!

Frankly, I don't think I would ever touch a mod allowing incest.  I want family trees that branch.

Same here.

I'm not interested in playing The Sims 2: Back Woods edition...

[Sleepycat]

*is NOT evil* 


Doghound, here being mean would be me telling you to go fuck yourself, which I didn't do. I merely stated quite clearly that ACR and InTeen don't allow incest and no one else was 'being mean' either.  I didn't even point out that your 'issue' shouldn't have even been posted in this section as the sticky post clearly states. *regularly has to clean up these threads anyway* 

[zolabee]

It's an evil job and someone has to do it.  *just kidding of course - you aren't the evil one - the non readers are*

[SmilingSweetly]

Evil? SC? 

[kacidama]

[Zirconia Wolf]

*is NOT evil* 

Actually, I meant it as a compliment! I'm all for enforcers who actually enforce. One only has to sneak a peak at other sites to see what happens when rules are treated as optional.

Here's a plate of chocolate covered strawberries, if it helps. (You can pretend they're mice if you want... )



(The strawberry/mice are also to say *sorry* for my repeated & willful posting where posts should not be posted!)

[TheISZ]

I'm starting to get a taste of needing to enforce at my site.  Not as fun as it looks. 

[Zirconia Wolf]

I don't doubt it!

It's probably the biggest reason I keep putting off my own TS2 story site: not sure if I want to deal with the *stupidity factor*!

[ancienthighway]

I don't doubt it!

It's probably the biggest reason I keep putting off my own TS2 story site: not sure if I want to deal with the *stupidity factor*!

I've been fortunate with the stupidity factor.  Maybe because nobody makes a post there, but that's fine with me. 

[Zirconia Wolf]

I've been fortunate with the stupidity factor.  Maybe because nobody makes a post there, but that's fine with me. 

 

Actually, I always liked the way you had the *security questions* as a requirement for the first several posts.

Seems like a good way to keep the BBS crowd from spamming for *benes*!

[hhodso1]

Firstly, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but if someone could help me that would be really great   

I've had ACR for ages but recently it's started to display loads of error messages - every time I load a lot it says something like:
"An error occurred in object "Controller - Casual Romance - Main" #186,
Error: Problem executing script (AttractionScore): Run-time: (none):0: attempt to perform arithmetic on field '?' (a nil value) stack traceback:
 (none): in function 'AttractionScore'"

If I click on cancel it just comes back straight away and if I press reset it goes away for a few seconds and then comes back again. If I press delete then I can't use most of the features of ACR on that lot. I've tested my whole Downloads folder with a set of new game files and this problem doesn't happen so maybe there's something wrong with my game files or something? But I also have loads of other hacks which might be contributing to it too but I'm not sure if they would be the cause of the problem because it works fine with the rest of my Downloads folder..

The EPs & SPs I have installed are University, Nighlife, OFB, Pets, Seasons, Apartment Life and Glamour Life.

I'm sorry if there's something really obvious I've missed :S but any advice would help - it's a great hack and I really want to be able to use it again lol

[ancienthighway]

It's a problem with townies not having aspirations set properly.  Beginning with FreeTime, you are able to age up towies your sims know.  However, children aging to teens don't have their aspiration set, it remains Grow-Up.  It's possible for that teen to then age to adult, and still have the Grow-Up aspiration left over from childhood.

To fix it, use Blender to give those sims aspirations.  It allows you to set them without making them selectable.  Or you can make them selectable and choose a proper aspiration for them.

[hhodso1]

Thanks for the advice :]

I did have Free Time installed at one point and a few of the townies did grow up with my sims, however I don't remember which ones they were. I downloaded the blender and looked through all the townies and checked the aspirations of the ones who I remembered having grown up to teens (I don't think any of the children became adults though) but they all had the proper aspirations.

After checking their aspirations though, the problem didn't go away and I was wondering if there was an easier or quicker way to correct the aspirations. I'm confused though because I still get this error even when there are no townies at all on the lot, but I don't know, maybe it affects the whole game or something..

[zephyrzodiac]

I believe that any townie (or other sim, such as an NPC) anywhere in your hood who doesn't have their aspiration set can cause the problem.  So yes, it does affect the whole game.

[hhodso1]

Ahh right.. thanks everyone for your help :] and sorry about posting on the wrong thread, I literally only just noticed you're not meant to ask for help on this thread lol