Basemental Drugs 7.13.160
Happy new year! This is something I have been working extensively on for weeks and weeks and well.. weeks.., and I'm sure it will bring some additional hours of gameplay value to your games. Please read the changelogs and installation instructions as it contains important information. <3
Changing World
Changed prices on a regional basis
New MDMA batches on the streets
Party Planner Aspiration
Build a team
Host Raves
Host Festivals
New Rave Location venue
Other
Fixed unsupported participant LE caused from tobacco feature
Changes to the Venue List - More about this in the "how it works" section
First things first, this new aspiration does require some stuff to run properly. First and foremost it utilizes the Get Together expansion pack as it would not make sense to host raves and festivals without DJ's. Secondly, you need to download the Venue List to make sure that you can set up Rave Location venues.
I think that is about it, so with no further ado...
Get Started
As with any other aspiration in game, select the Party Planner aspiration for your Sim either through CAS or the Select New Aspiration screen. You can find it under the Drugs category.
Objectives and Milestones
Level 1
Start by building your team. Head over to a nightclub and get friendly with the local DJ to get the option to ask them to join your team as a team DJ.
As for the Drug Dealers, befriend an NPC Dealer (if you haven't already), and ask them to join the team as a team dealer.
For promoters, you can ask any of your friends, but you need a substantial amount of friendship built with them for the option to appear.
Level 2
To prepare for your upcoming rave, click the Basemental Drugs tab on your phone, and navigate to the Party Planning sub menu.
This will bring you to a menu where you manage your upcoming events. Most of the stuff required for this level of the aspiration is handled here.
The admission fee cost and size of promo campaigns will factor in to how many Sims showing up to the Rave. Meaning, a low admission fee and large promo campaign will bring in a bunch of Sims, but the campaign will also take longer until it's completed, and since the admission fee per Sim is low it won't necessarily net you more cash when the total is tallied up. A large promotion campaign is also more expensive than a small one.
As for Security. Hiring security is not really a definite requirement to host raves, but if you get troublemakers that starts picking fights with the other ravers it's good to have security on lot to throw them off the premises.
Host Rave
When the promotion campaign has ended you can host the rave through the Basemental Drugs menu on your phone. Note that raves can only be hosted after 8 PM, and you need to set up one or more Rave Locations first.
To set up a Rave Location, edit any lot in game and assign it the Rave Location venue. Make sure you have the required items for the venue in order for it to work.
Now you should be all set to host the rave. When you click the "Host Rave" button, you will shortly get a call from your promoter, asking if you want to start the event. Click OK.
Rave
The rave event is a situation with various goals, the main one being to collect the cut from your team dealer. Whenever your dealer sells drugs to Sims on the premise you can get a cut from the sale, but you can only collect the cut from the dealer once during the event, meaning the longer you wait to collect the cut the bigger the cut you will get. But if you wait too long you might risk the event ending before you get your cut.
There is also a chance of cops showing up throwing your Sim in jail. This will cancel the event and giving the admission fees back to all the Ravers, meaning you will end up with only expenses and no actual income from the event. What this means is also: More ravers on lot = more dealer sales = higher probability of cops ruining the party.
When the event ends you will get the total expenses and income in a notification in the top right hand corner of your screen, and it will be deducted or added to your Sims funds.
Level 3
To book a celebrity for your upcoming Festival, head over to the Party Planning sub menu on your phone, now that you are at level 3 on the Aspiration you will get the option to do that from here. First, though you must specify that the event you will be hosting is a Festival and not a Rave, then you select one of the 3 celebrity DJ's from the list.
To add more Dealers and Promoters to your team, follow the steps outlined under Level 1 of the aspiration.
Level 4
These are pretty self explanatory, just follow the steps under level 2 of the Aspiration. However, note that the expenses and incomes will be substantially higher when hosting a festival. The main difference from hosting a rave is that you can only host a festival on weekends after 6 PM, and you won't need a specific venue for it.
The default venue for your festivals will be the Chalet Gardens in Windenburg.
Finally:
When the aspiration is completed, you can still keep hosting raves and festivals, just make sure to have the aspiration enabled to do so.
Hope you enjoy, and much love to all of you!
Venue List
To make sure this works you need to download the updated Basemental Drugs venue list provided in this post. If you have Basemental Gangs installed, please delete that venue list and install this one instead, I recommend installing this venue list in a separate folder directly in your Mods folder called: Basemental Venue List
The reason I don't recommend you having it in your Gangs folder is that I will keep the venue list separated from the Gangs mod from now on, as it doesn't make sense uploading a whole new version of Gangs just due to some minor changes to that Venue List.
Choose one of these 2 installation methods. Not both.
Basemental Drugs Installer (WINDOWS ONLY)
Delete all the old Basemental Drugs files from your Mods folder.
Download this Basemental Drugs.exe file.
Run the Basemental Drugs.exe file.
Choose which Optional Packages you want included.
Delete your localthumbcache.package
Basemental Drugs Zip
Delete all the old Basemental Drugs files from your Mods folder.
Download the Basemental Drugs zip file.
Unzip the 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