Beginning of Month Update: May 2021

Hey everyone! I hope you've had a good month. Here's a bit of what I'm working on:

Storytelling Socials

So, I've been working on a few -- wait a second.

A pie menu. 🤔 I wonder what happens if I click on Romance...

They're greyed out?! That's right, I finally got this squared away. It was a big pet peeve of mine from the get-go. My modded romance interactions now cannot be done when your Sim is sad or angry. This was one thing that bothered the living hell out of me when I initially put out this mod. I couldn't figure out how to do it. Disabling it for an emotion just made the option disappear in my eyes. The secret was the tooltip. Without it, the option vanishes entirely.

That, to me, goes a long way in making the mod immersive. I've made some changes to Beg Pathetically to Be Taken Back, but now that's not showing up. Good grief. It's supposed to be only available if your Sim is sad or embarrassed but... it doesn't seem to show up whatsoever. I'm sure I'll get it figured out.

I've also been playing around with making I MIss You and Confess Love for Best Friend weightier. I coded the former to shoot up romance by 60 and the latter to shoot it up by 45. But... I broke it somehow. I know what I did, though. I think. 

New interactions: still haven't had a chance to test Needlessly Embarrass, but everything else should be fine. Right now, I'm working on Parenthood interactions. I noticed that the reward traits for Sims with positive values kinda suck. Compassionate in particular is lackluster. I want to inject some sense of impact into them so that players can actually use them to tell stories. I probably won't touch the negative traits in the upcoming update; I think those are sufficient. But Compassionate and Responsible are on my list. My tentative idea is to have Compassionate Sims be able to check on people, which will give the target a happy moodlet. Not groundbreaking stuff and I really don't want to use the animation for Ask Question, so I'm still brainstorming.

Easy Sentiment Cheats

So it's out! Not much left to do but finish coding the "Remove Sentiments" portion and then it's onto SE sentiments. 

Small Mods

• No Annoying Club Invites: Does what it says on the tin. I think it's done. I keep getting a Last Exception in my game, but I think that's because I'm playing in lilsimsie's save file. Got a mod for it and it seems to be squared away, so I'll likely put that out in the coming days, if not today.
• No Reputation Loss Texts for Disliking, Despising, and Fighting: Also does what it says on the tin. I think it works. Not 100% confident, however. Immediately after getting the mod I got one, but it may have already been scheduled. I'll have to have my daughter fight someone and find out that way. I just don't want her to lose because then I'll be upset.
• Any other mods on the last update that are not yet released are in the same state. Most of them, I just haven't had a chance to playtest yet.

As always, thanks for your support! This may never come out, so I didn't include it in the above list, but I'm currently investigating if there's a way to make gender preference influence romance outcomes. We'll find out.