Basemental Drugs 6.13.150
I am proud to present a newly added drug, namely Steroids. This was in fact something Kutto started working on that he graciously handed over, it's since been altered and added a whole lot more stuff to it. I still have a few things to implement to this feature, but I feel this is already in presentable development stage where you can start playing around with it.
Changing World
Changed prices on a regional Basis
New MDMA batches out
Doctors Appointment
Reworked functionality
Added Public Hospital
Added Private Hospital
Added Bloodwork
Bunch of new icons
Steroids
New drug
New objects
Autonomy settings
Various side effects
New Steroid dealing NPC included in gyms
PCT to prevent permanent damage
New custom deaths
Bunch of new buffs and buff icons
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Other
Blocked special NPC's from selling interactions
Sims will no longer react to hookahs in legalized regions
Disabled "All Districts" from Eco Footprints
Updated incorrect strings in Juiced Community NAP
Cleaned up scripts
Changing World
The prices for drugs bought by the NPC dealers have been changed around on a regional basis, and there is new batches of molly out on the streets.
Doctors Appointment
The Doctors Appointment has been cleaned up quite a bit. Instead of having multiple options on your Sims phone for regular appointments, chemotherapy, urgent appointment they have all been wrapped into one called "Doctors Appointment". You gain access to it by clicking on the Dealing tab on your Sims phone, and it will give you a menu looking like this (the Chemotherapy option will only appear if your Sim is currently undergoing Chemo).
The Public and Private Hospital is your regular Doctors Appointment, the place to go if you need Xanax, Adderall, or whichever drug you need prescribed by a doctor. The difference here is the price and opening hours.
The Public Hospital is closed on weekends, holidays and is only open between 9AM and 9PM on weekdays.
The Private Hospital, however, is open 24/7 but is way more expensive.
Chemotherapy is just that. Chemotherapy. If your Sim gets diagnosed with cancer you will get a notification every time you need to attend a chemotherapy session, just like before, the difference is that you will find it in this menu from now on.
Bloodwork is a newly added addition that ties in to the new drug that has been implemented in this version. Here you can check up on your Sims blood pressure. If it is too high due to excessive testosterone your Sim might get some Estrogen Blockers which should hopefully get your Sims hormones in check and avoid permanent damage to vital organs.
There are a couple of ways to get a hold of Steroids. There is always the Dark Web, which obviously has all the stuff you need, but an even easier way would be to hit up your local gym.
Hang around long enough and you'll notice a Shady Individual by the name of Roy D. Dillon
Befriend him and you'll get the option to buy Steroids from him through the Drugs menu.
There are two different kinds of Steroids available.
Testosterone Enanthate
This is the weaker, and safer option of the two. It will get your Sim jacked, albeit not as fast or effective. It will also reduce the risk of the worst of side effects if used somewhat responsibly.
Trenbolone
Trenbolone gives impressive muscle gains. Five times more potent than testosterone it is one of the most powerful anabolic steroids on the market.
Both of the steroids comes in bottles of 5 doses. To use them, place the objects outside your Sims inventory (on a counter for instance), click on the object, and select "Inject". Your Sim will then walk over to the bathroom, take their clothes off and inject the drug.
Note: the animation for this is a placeholder animation. Mike24 is working on a new one that will include a syringe.
Effects
Both the aforementioned steroids will give your Sim an energized buff after use, which also boosts your Sims ability to build their fitness skill, and muscle. This effect is increased if the dosage is upped and if it's used in succession over the course of several days / weeks.
You should pay attention however, as you don't want to overdo it, due to the severity of the side effects, particularly on high doses.
Side Effects
The side effects vary from mild to severe. Be prepared to experience everything under the sun from back acne, roid rage, nausea, dizziness, headaches, liver damage and in the worst cases death due to liver failure or cardiac arrest.
PCT (Post Cycle Treatment)
Whenever your Sim is doing a cycle of steroid injections, it is highly recommended you send them to the doctor to get a "Bloodwork" appointment (see "Doctors Appointment" above).
If the blood pressure is high enough the doctor will prescribe Estrogen Blockers for your Sim, which is what you want to start your Post Cycle Treatment.
If you want to you can start the treatment right away. You will not be able to inject more steroids while undergoing PCT.
The other option is to calm down on the steroid usage to make sure your blood pressure goes down, continuously check up on your Bloodwork to get an all clear from the doctor and inject more steroids, or wait until the effects and side effects are all gone before starting your PCT.
However: When you start PCT you need to keep on top of it and remember to take one pill each day until the treatment is all complete. If you skip a day or two the treatment might be unsuccessful and your Sim might end up with permanent damage to their liver.
Note: This will also (in the near future) be a cross functionality with Wicked Whims so permanent damage will include impotence in males and infertility in females.
Aliens and Vampires
Aliens will not respond to steroids the same way humans respond to steroids. I am not going to give this away, but if you have an alien Sim, give it a go.
Vampires will not get the most severe of side effects from steroid usage, and they can also drink the blood of steroid users, instead of injecting, to get the steroid effects.
Autonomy
To set a Sims autonomy level or decide if they are to take Steroids autonomously, access the Autonomous Drug Use tab from the Basemental Settings. It is there alongside all the other drugs.
Final Note
Apart from the aforementioned "to come" bits in the text above, the plan is also to implement some additional muscle gain that expand beyond the scope of what CAS is currently able to provide us with (without using sliders). It was tempting to wait with releasing this until I got that and the animation in place, but I feel like the feature is in a state of being good enough to start playing around with already.
Other Changes
The only thing I feel like touching in on here is the changes to "Eco Footprints" in the Basemental Settings. The latest patch did a number on how I altered the footprints for all districts, so until I have time to come up with a better way to handle this I have temporarily disabled this feature.
You can still alter the current region you are in and you can still lock, slow down or normalize the decay value, but for now the Greenify/Industrialize/Neutralize all districts option is removed.
Basemental Drugs
Delete all the old Basemental Drugs files from your Mods folder.
Download this Basemental Drugs zip file.
Unzip this Basemental Drugs zip file.
Place the files in a folder titled Basemental Drugs in your Mods folder.
Delete the Basemental Drugs zip file.
Delete your localthumbcache.package
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