Overview 2: Wants&Reactions Activity Preferences + Buff the Dust
I really disliked the way Maxis only did wants for music preferences (the stupid listen to X music wants) but didn't do anything for activity preferences....the most important category that guides Sims during they daily lives into doing something they like. We do have some whimsets for skills but they only activate when you actually level up in a skill or do specific things like Sims wanting to buy a chef station just because they cooked grilled cheese one time??, or leveling up in gardening just because your Sim harvested something when he dislikes gardening???, or wanting to workout just because they leveled up the fitness skill but your Sim is Lazy and dislikes fitness??😑
Well those whimsets are no more. I converted those in Objectiveless ones and added those ONLY if your Sim actually LIKES the activity in question, so, only if a Sim likes cooking he will have wants related in doing cooking, same thing for all the other activity preferences.
So, you NEED to give preferences to your Sims in order for those wants to show up!
You can give as many activity preferences as you want (as long as you didn't pass the 50 preference limit of course) which means you'll get TONS of wants related to activities!
I have created and restored more than 100+ wants including preferences that didn't have any wants at all (research & debate, robotics, knitting, cross-stitching etc...) + fine tuned existing ones to make more sense.
And now, onto that bloody mess of a kit...
Neat, Squeamish, Lazy and Slob Sims all have added wants now, Lazy Sims will not want to clean/vacuum when the house is dusty or dirty, they will actually want to ask other Sims to clean for them, they also want to pay for a cleaning service. Slob Sims will want to live in dirty and filthy houses, will not want to vacuum, want to eat spoiled food, clean themselves in dirt, befriend dust bunnies etc... Neat and Squeamish Sims will of course want to keep their house as clean as possible and vacuum those stupid dust bunnies!
When the house becomes Dirty or Filthy, Sims will have a Reactionary want to vacuum the house (depending on those 4 traits mentioned above the want can show up late, never or ealier compared to other Sims).
Some of these wants (activity preferences and buff the dust ones) have been converted from their respective aspirations.
I started working on these addons before the poll, so since Parenthood won, I'll focus on that now!
WANTS&REACTIONS WIP MASTERPOST
These addons requires the following mods:
Comments (1)
Do you have any plans to release these publicly? I've actually been working on a similar mod myself and it seems silly to put the work into creating something that already exists, but only part of your mod is available publicly now. I know you expressed some disinterest with modding recently. If this is a project you no longer have the energy for, I'd be happy to adopt it.