More sensible "Can my friend come over, too?"
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Created by kestrellyn
Uploaded: 21st May 2020 at 12:50 PM
Updated: 2nd Feb 2021 at 4:16 AM
Updated: 2nd Feb 2021 at 4:16 AM
Update:
You know how when you invite sims to come over, they sometimes say "can my friend come, too?" and then if you say yes they show up with someone else? In theory, it's great when the person you invited brings one of their friends over, because then you can maybe introduce someone new to the rest of your family and maybe it's someone you want to build relationships with. But in practice it is terrible, because the invited sim always brings over really inappropriate people, like their mother, or their professor, or a teenage townie they haven't talked to in 30 sim years, or a dormie they used to date in college. And since the game doesn't tell you who they're inviting, you never know when you should be saying no.
I've decided to fix this so it's functional, to whit:
With this hack, there are some restrictions on who can be invited over in this manner.
In addition to these requirements, the dialog will now tell you the first name of the "friend", such as "Can my friend Joe come over, too?" That way, if they've still manage to choose someone unsuitable, or if they are trying to invite their spouse to their extramarital affair or something, you can be sure to say no.
For those of you who like the ability to tune things in SimPE, I've included a BCON resource called "Tuning - Invite" which has a number that you can change to change the percent chance that any given invited sim will offer to bring a friend - by default, this is 30%, which is what it is in the unmodded game.
Game compatibility
This should be compatible with all game versions.
Hack compatibility
This might conflict with hacks that change which friends can be invited over in this manner, and hacks that change or add dialogs to phone calls. It does not conflict with Cyjon's Nicer Phone Messages, however. It is compatible with phonehack, but must load after it. If you don't have phonehack, don't worry, you don't need it.
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You know how when you invite sims to come over, they sometimes say "can my friend come, too?" and then if you say yes they show up with someone else? In theory, it's great when the person you invited brings one of their friends over, because then you can maybe introduce someone new to the rest of your family and maybe it's someone you want to build relationships with. But in practice it is terrible, because the invited sim always brings over really inappropriate people, like their mother, or their professor, or a teenage townie they haven't talked to in 30 sim years, or a dormie they used to date in college. And since the game doesn't tell you who they're inviting, you never know when you should be saying no.
I've decided to fix this so it's functional, to whit:
With this hack, there are some restrictions on who can be invited over in this manner.
- The "friend" must be in the same age stage as the invited sim. For this purpose, young adults are not the same age stage as adults. No more bringing your professor with you to do bubble at the frat house! If you're still friends with your professor after you've graduated, you are free to invite them over to engage in normal adult socializing, as long as they aren't old enough to be your mother.
- Under no circumstances will sims invite their parents over, even if they are the same age stage.
- This includes the logic improvement from phonehack, wherein the friend is required to actually be friends with the invitee, and not just some rando who merely doesn't hate their guts.
In addition to these requirements, the dialog will now tell you the first name of the "friend", such as "Can my friend Joe come over, too?" That way, if they've still manage to choose someone unsuitable, or if they are trying to invite their spouse to their extramarital affair or something, you can be sure to say no.
For those of you who like the ability to tune things in SimPE, I've included a BCON resource called "Tuning - Invite" which has a number that you can change to change the percent chance that any given invited sim will offer to bring a friend - by default, this is 30%, which is what it is in the unmodded game.
Game compatibility
This should be compatible with all game versions.
Hack compatibility
This might conflict with hacks that change which friends can be invited over in this manner, and hacks that change or add dialogs to phone calls. It does not conflict with Cyjon's Nicer Phone Messages, however. It is compatible with phonehack, but must load after it. If you don't have phonehack, don't worry, you don't need it.
Filename | Size | Downloads | Date | |||||
canmyfriendcometoohack.zip
Size: 16.4 KB · Downloads: 7,382 · 2nd Feb 2021 |
16.4 KB | 7,382 | 2nd Feb 2021 | |||||
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- - File was updated after upload was posted
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Packs Needed
None, this is Sims 2 base game compatible!
Other Information
Type:
– Global Mods
: Mods that change the way the game works without requiring any user intervention.
Tags
#invite, #phone, #call, #phone call, #friends, #invite over
About Me
You can freely distribute and modify my files however and wherever you want, as long as you don't charge money for them and give credit to at least one of my usernames (rufio, kestrellyn, faiuwle). If you uploaded my hacks somewhere after they became unavailable on my Dropbox, you don't have to take them down.