How to skive school (Without being taken away by the Social Worker?)

[PeterFoster111]

I plan to get myself to skive school since in real life I'm having school problems right now. However, if I skive, the social worker will come, right?


So that's why I plan to get rid of the social worker when she comes. But will this affect my game? I plan to do it by using boolprop to delete her, but will this corrupt/cause my family to malfunction?

[Bwinney43]

I don't think deleting her with boolprop will do much else except reset her next time. Pretty sure you can post in the WCIF (Where Can I Find?) section for a hack that stops her completely

[dieKristina]

You can always download the No social worker patch from here: http://drealm.info/simlogical/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Childcare.htm I have it in my game since I find the way the whole system works ridiculous. Noone is allowed to steal MY kids!

[Darby]

Just wait until your sim is a teen, if he/she is not already, to "drop out" of school. Teens don't get taken by social services for any reason.

[katya_stevens]

You can also download The School Changer (http://www.drealm.info/simlogical/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Schooltypes.htm) along with the Flexi School type. You can set the school type for all children and teens, or set it indivually. No matter how many days your sim is away from school, they won't trigger the social worker by bad grades -- they will stay at whatever grade level they had when they switched to the flexi school system.

[katalina522]

If you skip one day of school I think you're fine unless it will drop your sim's grade to an F. Then the social worker will come.

[Peni Griffin]

Yeah, I've had kids cut school before. It drops them a grade point, so just take care not to let it happen when the grade has a D in it.

[PeterFoster111]

Ok so I downloaded the School Changer object along with the Flexi School type (AL latest) but it dosen't show up when I click the school changer. It only shows Public School and Private School. I do have Apartment LIfe installed, but I also have another clue:

When I open this in Clean Instlaller, on the list it says that it's an Empty Package, meaning (to me) that there must be nothing inside the file. What to do?

And also does it matter if I change schools after you get the message in-game saying that the social worker will visit?

[Mootilda]

When I open this in Clean Instlaller, on the list it says that it's an Empty Package, meaning (to me) that there must be nothing inside the file. What to do?Try re-downloading it. The Clean Installer has no problems with a freshly downloaded mod.

[Sunbee]

Not sure how you'd open it in Clean Installer--should be a .zip or .rar or something that you simply unzip and drop in your downloads. On the same site you got the flexi-school from there's an object you can use to generate a homework. Have the sim do a homework and it will raise their grade. I use Pescado's anti-social-worker hack, so I don't know how the one you have works. I get the standard social worker pop-ups, but she doesn't generate unless the appropriate hacked conditions are met.

[Mootilda]

Not sure how you'd open it in Clean InstallerRun the Clean Installer. Browse to the folder that contains the mods.

[Sunbee]

Huh. Learn something new every day. I've only used Clean Installer for installing houses. Thanks!

[PeterFoster111]

Huh. Learn something new every day. I've only used Clean Installer for installing houses. Thanks!

Because the default installer won't install to the directory that is on my user account, it installs to the admins. So for Clean Installer, I look for the file I downloaded (as Mootilda said), browse for my downloads folder, and install it.


Going off topic, I run Windows Vista. Why does Clean Installer need an admin password?

[Sunbee]

I've never used the default installer. I just unzip, unrar, unwhatever, using winzip, directly into my downloads folder.
I've never used Vista, but I'd guess that the program needs access to something that requires an administrator. Maybe if your account were an admin account, that would fix it? Or maybe it's just Vista being Vista.

[Mootilda]

Because the default installer won't install to the directory that is on my user account, it installs to the admins.There's a fix for that. Edit your S2PCI.ini file and add the EA Games\The Sims 2 folder for your user account to the line which begins with "SaveGamePath=". For example, I often set my INI to install into my AnyGame:
SaveGamePath="C:\My Documents\AnyGameStarter\AnyGame1\EA Games\The Sims 2"

Going off topic, I run Windows Vista. Why does Clean Installer need an admin password?It's because of the way that the Clean Installer was originally written. It requires access to registry keys which are only available to an administrator.

It might be possible to rewrite the registry access to avoid this requirement, but I haven't looked into it yet. S2PCI currently uses HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. That should probably be changed to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. As well, I believe that it always expects write permission, although it probably only requires read access.

[Update:] No, I'm wrong. HKEY_CURRENT_USER does not contain the required registry keys. Looks like administrator access is required, unless you set the SaveGamePath as described above (in which case, registry access is not required).