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Some Updates and Info

EDIT: Question - Is anyone having trouble with Boarding School? Please let me know on its thread. I am -my sims won't stay away after traveling - but maybe it's just me. I might have to eliminate that as an option if it doesn't work in game anymore. It appears that no rabbitholes (including EA ones) keep sims in them after traveling anymore. 

Hi All!

Hope the Fall is treating you well so far! I've got a lot of info for you so bear with me. 

Public Release for Education Overhaul

I'm going to be making some fixes and things to Education Overhaul before its public release next week so please let me know (on its post, NOT here) if you have any issues. I'm already looking into things I've heard regarding SimCity Academy uniforms, neglect, and graduation but it's tricky since it, naturally, doesn't happen in my game. 

Discord Update

Additionally, I'm reorganizing and trying to automate some things in Discord as I said before. I hope to have that done by the end of the week/weekend but learning something new is always a bit challenging especially because I don't usually use discord bots but I want to make it easier for you to get support while also minimizing some time I spend on it as it feeds into things below. 

WIP Update - Wedding Mod and Family Therapy

I have started to work on two of your poll suggestions - the Wedding Mod and Family Therapy - and wow! You gave me so many good ideas. Some plans for the Wedding mod include a custom wedding venue type, a new NPC officiant,  the ability to hire a wedding coordinator or do-it-yourself via a "checklist" wedding planner on the tablet/computer/phone, create a wedding budget and track it via the planner, get premarital counseling, more socials for the engaged couple to discuss important subjects before the big day, the ability to choose attendants (though that at this point might just be a title without specific actions we'll see), invite who you want, and the ability to have destination honeymoons. 

As far a Family Therapy, right now these are rabbithole, phone, and computer sessions but I'd love to find a dedicate NPC therapist who can also do some house calls. Eventually, I'd love it if there was a way to go to a specific therapist lot but I kind of hate using up lots for one-use purposes (weddings are the exception, *wink*). We'll see! I hope to release both mods over the next few weeks. I have chunks of the Wedding mod already done, crazy enough, but testing takes me ages so when Discord's back up I'll be looking for alpha and beta testers for both mods.

Patreon Tier Revamp

And finally, I needed to revamp Patreon tiers for a variety of reasons including the time and energy required to make the mods and then consistently update them especially as they become more and more complex and we get more and more patches. When I started there was a handful of mods and the tiers seemed to be appropriate for the content, but they no longer are. There are a lot of creators who only have two or three really huge mods but it's becoming apparent that I have several and updating and releasing and supporting all that content becomes more time-consuming and cumbersome while also maintaining benefits especially since I tried to keep only three tiers. 

Regardless of the changes, current Patrons (i.e. anyone receiving this message who doesn't cancel before Nov 1st) will be grandfathered in (i.e. keep all the benefits of your current tier) so you don't need to do anything. Note that if you leave your current tier and come back after Nov 1st you will loose your current benefits at the current tiers and will have to choose one of the new tiers (Cerulean will remain the same, Azure and Violet will be retired). These changes will occur for new pledges starting November 1st. 

Whew, that was a lot! Thanks so much for reading and thanks, always, for your support!

Comments

then you really don't need to download the content.... you realize they do it for us and they absolutely do not have to

Julie Wells

It was another mod that was out of date. Once I replaced that all was good.

For the therapy lot trait- I have built kind of wellness community centers, for support groups, yoga and meditation, some art and crafts, some games, and would love to have a therapy option. I don't see this as wasting space at all! I really would someday love a mod that lets us have a playable therapist career to go with this.

Sam D.

There's a chance you can get them at the end of everyday, but you won't always. But yes, make sure you don't have any mods that conflict or change the school system.

adeepindigo

The EA Parenthood school projects don't show up in your inventory? If they get one from the mod, the little popup will tell you what to do/how to complete it. So like the for music one, they need to have an instrument to play or for the observatory, you need one installed in your game and send them, or coding happens on the computer under the School menu. Nothing but EA projects should show up in the inventory. And it doesn't happen all the time - there's just a chance it happens at the end of the day.

adeepindigo

YESSSS to all of that. Me, too, I'm like $1750 on your wedding, come on! I'm going to have a customizable wedding (you can elope, DIY, or get a wedding planner and go all out) and you'll be able to choose the budget - value, modest, or unlimited and it will be tracked and you'll have to keep track how much it is - how much hair and makeup, the officiant, the wedding planner, caterer, mixologist, baker, etc.

adeepindigo

Yeah in the mod description it notes that phenomenon as daycare is hardcoded into the game and it tries very hard to get toddlers to go to it instead especially if they are the only ones left on the lot (which even though they're in the preschool rabbithole, the game still considers them as at home).

adeepindigo

Health insurance and dental insurance are already a part of their respective mods. Do you mean something more explicit where you can choose from different types of plans?

adeepindigo

Yes I have both.

simawaywithme

I haven't played with boarding schools yet, but my toddler has some days when she doesn't stay at daycare. Most days she's fine, and sometimes she just leaves, comes back and then leaves and stays there. But one day she just would not stay, she kept coming and going and eventually I withdrew her for the day. She was fine the next day.

I don’t know if you have it but maybe with some of your mods. An insurance mod on health, dental etc. Maybe ?

Nicolette Hogue

Yay a wedding mod ! I’ve always wanted the ability to have that spending and cost for venues, etc. Maybe even select groomsmen and bridesmaid ? Idk. Lol. Would be great to have all those options or even a simple elope option. Idk. Lol. Just want them to be able to spend money since some times in sims you need that to waste the money 😅

Nicolette Hogue

Out of curiosity, do you have parenthood or get famous?

adeepindigo

I also dont get any school projects for my teens or children. And when it says my kids have one they dont have anything in their inventory

Shanice

Love the mod - I'm not getting any school projects pop up but I think I might have another mod that conflicts so will look into that.

The error that I was getting is that my teenage sim was withdrawn from boarding school but kept trying to go no matter every day even after I canceled the option. My game also crashed when trying to go to the teen's graduation.

simawaywithme

Thank you

Make it a little more easy on the eye. Sorry, I guess not sorry.

Winter Williams

Thanks for your response. May I add though that I’m never stuck as we whom are not modders do have a choice what we actually download in our games from modders. Also most modders that do the school mods make uniforms for private school a open choice, for example they actually set it to formal wear and we ( the regular players) can then download cc uniforms ( if we choose) and make our sims wear it to private schools, I actually had KS private school mod and that was the choice given and also the other modder that made the private school mod also( same choice) I as a player decided to try your mod(my choice) and because you stated uniforms were given for private school I decided to buy your mod not realising that you would add a accessory leggings plus socks to the outfit. You stated base game uniforms Yes, but remember teens don’t normally have a base game uniform so I assumed you’d

Winter Williams

The idea was to keep it base game only and not need cc. I don't make create-a-sim cc so I'm sorry not sorry you're disappointed in my custom content skills but tbh I never ever ever said I created custom create a sim clothing so that disappointment is self-imposed. It'd be nice if everyone had all the same level of modding and custom content creations skills but alas those are actually two separate skill sets and that's why you usually find creators who do one or the other. You can definitely change the uniforms via the tutorial; it really isn't hard at all and all of us, modders and custom content creators alike, had to start somewhere - Kiara and I were just talking about how we both started so that we could get things in our game that other people weren't doing. Maybe this will be your chance to get out there and be the change you want to see in your game! Until then, though, I guess you're stuck with whatever modders and custom content creators create, unfortunately.

adeepindigo

Yes, thank you, that's known and I believe I have a fix for that!

adeepindigo

Hi love your new mod, I am just getting an issue with my teenager keep getting a pop up for graduation during summer break

Thanks, I’ll stick to the normal school, I have no basic understanding of how to mod anything, even after watching videos on how to do simple recolour I can’t. Never mind I’ll keep it until I get fed up of not actually using this mod I guess. But to be fair I honestly wished you actually gave us some better uniforms for teens, the younger kids snowy escape uniforms is not bad but I’ve never seen a private school uniform that basic before and I was very very disappointed tbh

Winter Williams

You can find that in the same tutorial! They go into how to change the uniforms for school and the awesome thing is it applies to any schools, EA and modded ones and allows you to tag your custom content in a way that then can be used instead. I use custom tags via a script so you'd need to use those but you can find them in the uniform package when you open them up in Sims 4 Studio.

adeepindigo

I didn’t mean that I’d make it, I already have cc uniforms in my game. How do I change the one you have with your mod to ones I already have in my game?

Winter Williams

Yes, I believe Zafire has a tutorial on how to make custom uniforms on Mod the Sims. It's easy and very basic, all you need is rudimentary understanding of python and custom content creation in Sims 4. There's some great tutorials on it if you get stuck.

adeepindigo

It's very strange; I wasn't having the issue before.

adeepindigo

Interesting!

adeepindigo

Im having the same issue you are- my sim travels to school but then comes back.

No problems, my sim just came back home for a 2 day vacation. I really enjoy your mods.

mrscoker08

not sure if that’s what it was meant to be or not but I’d rather my teens go to public school in the clothes I put them in than to wear such basic mismatched outfit

Winter Williams

it was a long sleeve off white shirt and a horrible pleated off pinkish skirt with accessory leggings and socks

Winter Williams

Can I not change it?

Winter Williams


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