ACR - Autonomous Casual Romance

[twojeffs]

Autonomous Casual Romance - Version 1.09
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

[Jeza]

Hi,

About the fix, is it still needed with ACR even with EA patch installed ?

Or maybe the good question is : can i continue using your fix even after installing the patch ? It would be nice as i trust your fix much more than any EA code

I hope my English isn't too bad, sorry f i did mistakes (I'm french)

Bye

Jeza

[twojeffs]

No, it's no longer required if you've patched Free Time. I've removed the note from the first post. Forgot about that when I moved the fix to the Dead Pool.

You can keep my fix in, but EAxis copied my exact fix in theirs so it really isn't necessary.

[Jeza]

Ok i'll remove it then

thanks for your very quick answer 

[Firestaar1]

Question on the more realistic jealousy under this...it says that it's based on aspiration..so does that mean that my pleasure sims will not get jealous when their mate cheats??

If not how does this work??

[twojeffs]

Nomally no for both pleasure and romance sims. It's fully customizable though and you can set each sim up (or lot) however you want. Details are in the docs.

[Firestaar1]

I bet you hate newbies...so once I download this...what does it look like?? I'm guessing it'll be found in misc/misc again..
I'm sorry I keep asking you questions

[twojeffs]

Yes, on community lots (for pre-placement), but normally you just spawn it:

From the Getting Started section above:

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]

Well, woohoo may not make them jealous, but leaping into arms etc. still does....personally, I think the other way round would be more realistic - plenty of people turn a blind eye to their partner playing around and flirting at parties, but would draw the line at taking it that one stage further!

[karmalkiss]

I would just like to state for the record that this is the best game mod for The Sims 2 that I have ever downloaded.... and I have quite a few mods now. Thank you very much.

[TheISZ]

ACR and Inteen totally makes the game for me.  I am thankful that TJ and Jase have given us these fantastic mods!

[MadameUgly]

After reading all the documentation, I just want to make doubley sure ACR is the way I want to go.

My issue:  I have a polyamourous household (3 sims all in love with each other, 2 family, 1 knowledge).  Currently I use inSim to turn off jealousy on their lot (and any lot they go to).  In this same hood I also have a whorehouse (again, just turn off jealousy for whole lot).

So, from what I read, I have two options with ACR.

I could turn off jealousy by lot AND/OR turn off jealousy by sim.

Yes?

It would seem the best option for the whole hood would be to set each sims' individual jealousy and, when in doubt, turn off jealousy for a lot (say a community lot if throwing a party and I want to avoid any unfortunate slapfests).

AND, if I don't want to be bothered with all the autonimous interactions, I can set individual sims (or lots) to "no ACR" as well?

I'm really trying to find the best way to manage my complicated relationships (the hood is a story hood, so I have to be a fairly evil task mistress) WITHOUT using inSim (I can't resist the pull of FT any longer).  It looks like combining your "sim blender"  and ACR will give me all the main things I use from inSim (plus other fun stuff if I feel so inclined).

Is there anything I'm missing?  Am I oversimplifying?  Advice?

Thanks for entertaining my questions.

[twojeffs]

Yes to all your ACR questions. Sounds like it will do just what you're looking for.

[seattlecak]

 I've been playing with ACR but never did the Hood Setup. Even though I understand that it will have setup tokens at 830 anyway, is there any reason to go ahead and run the Hood Setup at this point? (Would it be bad to run it at this point?)

Thanks!

[seattlecak]

I read this thread before I posted my question, but now I found and read the ACR FAQ and it sounds like I can/should go ahead and run the neighborhood setup.

Sorry for asking questions that are covered in the FAQ!

Thanks for the great mods, TJ!

[Original Sim]

I have the mod and love it, but the thing that I don't like is if I have a married sim who has no intention of cheating and another sim comes up and flirts, even if it's rejected they still get a 'cheated with' memory and their partner gets furious at them, even if the flirting sim only wolf-whistled at my married sim. I don't want play with jealousy off, so how could I get around this happening?

[twojeffs]

Minor update posted.

[Sleepycat]

I have the mod and love it, but the thing that I don't like is if I have a married sim who has no intention of cheating and another sim comes up and flirts, even if it's rejected they still get a 'cheated with' memory and their partner gets furious at them, even if the flirting sim only wolf-whistled at my married sim. I don't want play with jealousy off, so how could I get around this happening?

do you have Pescado's romancemod? it should take care of that.  I still wonder why maxis coded it that way 

[Sleepycat]

Minor update posted.

grabbed it but you forgot to change the link to say version 1.08  and not that it really matters but you didn't put the version number in the zip name 

[twojeffs]

Picky, picky.

[Sleepycat]

  

[yetyak]

It's nice to have the version number for those of us who have the complete collection....

[wkndplaya]

Thanks for the update.javascript:void(0);
cheese

[twojeffs]

I re-uploaded ver 1.08. I had included a buggy pre-release version of the hot tub controller by mistake. OOPS! Please redownload if you've already updated.

[Firestaar1]

Is this compatible w/ inseminator do you know?

[zephyrzodiac]

http://www.pinelandpress.com/faq/homeinsem.html

I shouldn't have thought so!

[Sleepycat]

Is this compatible w/ inseminator do you know?

yes they are compatible

[Hawthorn]

Hi, just a (probably) dumb question for you.

I use Hystericalparoxism's Megahood. Would this mod work ok in that?

All I have to do is take one sim, spawn the adjuster, and then the rest of the areas in that particular hood are covered?
It starts off with pleasantville, for example, then you have the uni, downtown, bluewater (and in the shopping districts, veronaville and all other maxis made hoods)
Am I making sense? I'm so thick when it comes to things like this LOL.

Many thanks!

[Emma]

Yes, it will work fine. I am currently playing in the Megahood and all the sims have their tokens

[Hawthorn]

Great, thanks Emma 

[zephyrzodiac]

Don't forget, if you want it to work for teens, you need to spawn the adjuster