July 23, 2020

Coming Soon: Road to Romance mod - a Romance Skill and much more!

Coming Soon: Road to Romance mod: romance skill (10 levels)! With this mod, Sims will be a little bad at love before they're good at it. New interactions! (social interactions with friends and lovers such as '' talk about love life'', "ask/give love advice" , "discuss living together", "express gratitude for relationship", "discuss relationship ideals", "admit to having never woohoo'd", "admit to having little experience", "brag about high romance skill" and etc etc, there's more; Rabbit Holes such as couple's counseling that both partners attend, and Singles Coaching sessions, and dates (with various outcomes for each) computer interactions such as creating a love advice blog, researching romance tips, researching WooHoo tips, and there will be more! Also includes some changes to game behavior, for examples Sims with extremely low romance skill will be unlikely to get the super positive WooHoo buffs (like 'seeing stars') and will get embarrassed / uncomfortable ones instead - they will also struggle more to build relationship points with others - they got to start somewhere! V1. 0 coming very soon (first for patrons, in just a few days, then for everyone else). Want me to add any specific interaction / feature? Feel free to drop a suggestion!


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Ren茅e Cahl 路 July 23, 2020

This is looking like it will be another fantastic addition to the game. Thank the Great Watcher for modders like you!

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Kimikosoma 路 July 23, 2020

Oooh can't wait ! What a great idea! 馃槏馃槏

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Ren茅e Cahl 路 July 23, 2020

By the way, I am love all your mods! Rambunctious Religions is my favorite!

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Lumpinou 路 July 23, 2020

Aww thanks so much! Rambunctious Religions was a lot of work, and I'm always happy to hear someone enjoys it. I hope to wrap it up to v1.0 soon.

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Ren茅e Cahl 路 July 23, 2020

Not sure if you are aware, but the latest wicked whims public release added a sexpertise skill and varied whoohoo buffs. I'm not sure if you could or would want to make a compatible version, but just wanted to let you know in case you did. It would be awesome to have yours complement that system, but it is also great just to have it as an alternative. I, personally, find myself taking WW out of my game from time to time, and putting it back in for little things I miss; this could take the place of one of those things I just re-added it for! lol

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Lumpinou 路 July 23, 2020

Ahhhh, no I didn't know that... I knew they had some sort of WooHoo skill, but that's it. Well well. I will have to look into it - or, I could just have my mod be for people who don't use WW, and make a version that will be WW friendly. Two versions, I think I'll do that. Thanks for the heads up. My skill is really for all things romance, the being awkward at wooHoo is just a little part, so hopefully they and I didn' t have too many overlapping ideas!

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Chaaleesi 路 July 23, 2020

Can you do a rabbit hole for wedding/eloping and or honeymoon? Some of us may want our sims to go off and marry someone but not actually go with them... and maybe depending on their relationship strength they would have different levels of success...like maybe someone had cold feet or the honeymoon was a disaster and they are thinking of annulment, which could be another rabbit hole...going court to get a divorce/annulment. Especially with the annulment, there can be a time period of 2 days or something that they would need to act on it otherwise they would have to go through the divorce process...which I also think should be enhanced. I have always loved rabbit holes to move stories along for some sims and realistic relationship gameplay like the actual process/cost of a divorce. Great job on this, I can not wait!! I love your mods and I hope you take this in consideration with a future update/mod, thanks for everything you do for us!!

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Lumpinou 路 July 23, 2020

I love those ideas! They'd be long work so I won't put them in V1.0, to release it in time (ie sometime by the end of this week), but as soon as that is done, I will be starting on stuff you just inspired. There's a great mod for realistic divorce, by Zero, so I won't really touch that. It's here if you want to look. https://www.patreon.com/posts/ir-divorce-32118547 But elopement sounds fun, and honeymoons! I also think annulment is a neat idea for a bit more drama! (and for some reason now I'm thinking, rabbit hole funerals would be cool too - but, not in this mod haha). Also just dates between established couples but as rabbit holes. I made dates with new partners only so far but you gave me the idea of making them with declared partners too. I agree, I don't always want to follow my Sims around, especially when playing bigger households, but still want them to have stuff going on in their lives! Thanks for the ideas and your nice words.