.:RE-Enhanced Aliens - Mod Refresh of Nyx's Refreshed Aliens:.

.:They're out of this world

**UPDATE: SOME FEATURES BROKEN

There has been news in the sims community that this mod (and Nyx's and LowMotivesWarning original mod) contains bugs regarding infants. Unsure if I can update this but I will post updates if this gets sorted out. For now it's recommended to remove this mod from your game.

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SO! Basically I ended up picking up GTW and I wanted to mess around with aliens. I've seen and heard that they got cut short from the occult pool (much like mermaids) so I though "no big deal. A modder probably had long since made them more fun to play.

Good news: Someone (Nyx) did make a mod for them!

Bad news: It broke.

Good news again: Someone (LowMotivesWarning)  updated it!

Bad news again: That broke as well..

After a bit of moping and browsing the thread in hopes of someone else taking up the task I was disheartened to see nobody had. So I'm attempting to change that. LowMotivesWarning did a great job of fixing up the files Nyx originally left us so I'd like to thank them very much! And of course the same goes towards the now inactive Nyx for giving us such a nice slice of alien life mod to begin with. This mod had since broken down with the infant patch and considering there's been 0 activity from LowMotivesWarning for over a year I doubt they'll take the project up again (though if you're out there reading this and up to the task, I'm sure myself and many others here would appreciate it). That and technically the files are free to edit as far as I'm understanding from Neil's website.

Which brings us to now. Considering you haven't already skipped to the download link or the TL;DR I'm here to announce that I have made an attempt at updating this mod to the best of my abilities. I am by no means an advanced modder nor am I claiming any of these files or ideas as my own (besides the custom coloured motive, that was all me), and I'm certainly not monetizing this post. I'm simply a fellow member of the community who enjoys some good occult gameplay and wishes to share that with other likeminded individuals. So I'm leaving the edited package file for anyone willing to risk their game files for some properly treated aliens.

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.:What I have Changed

∆ Removed the Enhanced alien trait from the traits store and added its perks to the base Occult Alien Trait directly - I suspect this is what was causing wants and fears to be broken as well as making things more complicated that it's worth. Now all aliens should be able to do all interactions without applying the trait (Untested for half aliens, fake aliens, and the like). Wants and fears should fire as normal

∆ Made Motives Decrease again - For some reason the bladder and energy motives were set to never decrease which seemed unchallenging from a gameplay standpoint. I mean it's literally a game based around keeping your characters in good health. As such I made them lower overtime like a regular sim (sorry if you liked that feature). I also made the decay rate for the brain power motive decrease ever so slightly slower than before

∆ Adjusted Sleeping Pod Recovery Rates - The sleeping pods from get famous now restore more Brain Power than napping or sleeping in a regular bed. Nap, Sleep, and Subliminal Slumber each give increased Brain Power gain in that order (Subliminal being the fastest) I figured it would be cute considering it's a futuristic pod so it would remind the alien of home thus getting it a better brain rest than a normal sim bed :)

∆ Lowered cooldown for Recover Brain Power - Low's original interaction took around 2 hours to complete which seemed a tad long to me even thought you could cancel it. I have since reduced it to take about 15-30 sim minutes instead, while still having the option to cancel it

∆ Various Restore Tweeks - A lot of interactions caused the brain power bar to fill up instantaneously when preformed (sleeping, napping, and so on). From a gameplay perspective having a need fill whenever just like that seemed boring so I made it so they recover slowly over the course of the interaction instead

∆ Fixed Recover Brain Power Interaction - Before the alien would kneel as scripted but it would not replenish the brain power var. Now aliens should slowly gain brain power from doing such overtime. The gain is slightly that more than the basic sleep/nap/etc interactions and slightly less than the sleeping pod nap interaction

∆ Fixed Energy failure to now Increase Brain Power Motive - Much like when sims gain a little bit of energy after passing out, I made it so the same happens with aliens and their brain power

∆ NEW! Changed the Colour of the Brain Power Bar from Green to Blue - Probably my favourite slice of life change so far. I've taken it upon myself to add a little extra to the mod by my own doing. Now the Brain Power Bar will appear as a nice cyan as opposed to the basic green much like how with vampires its purple. Just a little extra flair to differentiate them and give them a proper standing as occults~

.:Known Bugs

∆ FIXED! Sometimes the napping/sleeping/restoring interactions have a delay when filling the brain power bar or stopping the delay (if you cancel the action early)

>Interactions should now raise and stop the bar as normal

∆ Partially Fixed? Upon starting my game a Last Exception does prompt about the now removed whims tracker...I've tried to update this but nothing works and adding it is what causes the new wants to disappear. It doesn't seem to break anything gamewise and after some research it seems to be an error on EA's part with tuning so this seems to be unfixable. Though between a slightly annoying notification you can click away and having no wants at all, I see this as the best outcome for now

>UPDATE: Apperently something within my game is causing this LE directly (Likely an EA bug since I downloaded HSY). It is possible this mod isn't the cause of this LE  but I wont label it as fixed just to be weary.

Conflicts

∆ TwelfthDoctor1's Occult Hybrid Unlocker and Stabilizer - Their mod and this one have 2 different alien menu tuning IDs and thus will show 2 alien pie menus (Nyx's pie menu holds their custom ones while TwelthDoctor1 holds EA's interactions) show themselves when self clicking. Should not cause gameplay issues

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.:How to Download

Drop the file into your mod folder as usual

NOTE: I have not changed the buff files at all so just install the original package from LowMotiveWarning's original mod page and drop it in alongside this one. You probably also need the xml injector for my file however

.:Other Notes

I literally found this mod yesterday and spent a few hours between then and today trying my best to get it in a more stable and working position so I apologize if things do go wrong or are not up to standard. It was not toughly tested so expect things to go wrong. INSTALL AT YOUR OWN RISK AND BACKUP YOUR SAVES! I'm not claiming responsibility for broken games for essentially a hotfix on a since dead mod. Maybe someone else can fix my file or fully restore this mod to its prior glory. I encourage anyone to use my files to try. Until then I hope this will suffice. Happy occult simming simmers~

TL;DR  I managed to somewhat revive a dead mod. Kind of works now. Here's the file, try it at your own risk.

.:Special Thanks

Once more I must thank the amazing modder Nyx for providing the original mod. Their tuning and imagination has allowed this mod to make it this far at least. LowMotiveWarning has also carried it a great deal to this point. Many of these interactions I could not have managed to do myself without a great deal of difficulty so a serious thanks to those who know what they're doing and choose to share such joys with the sims community as a whole ~

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