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Holidays

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Latest version : package file with modified date : 4/25/2018. Please make sure you have the latest version.

It is time for your sims to celebrate holidays. Have day off from school and work to celebrate with family (of course it does not consume your PTO or performance). Want to have a summer break for your sims when children and teens do not go to school ? Now you can !! (Summer break does not come as pre-made within this mod but you can see in "how to configure" below how to create a summer break). YES, You can customize your own holiday !! SimPE is required but it is very easy. It is up to you how you want to make the holidays for your sims.

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This mod adds new gameplay, hence is experimental. Feel free to give feedback in comments for unusual behaviour.
  • If you experience blank popup, notification, dialog box or message, try these steps here
  • If you want to localize/translate the text into your language or game region, you can follow these steps here (Though since this mod is text configurable, you should just put your translation in default region (english), except you experience blank popup/notification)
  • If you experience other unusual behaviours, you can try to follow these steps here
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First things first :
Compatibility :
This mod is not compatible with base-game-only. The resources I've overriden are taken from Apartment Life, but in the coding also contains functions and constants from Freetime and Seasons

What does this mod do ?
  • This mod gives you holidays for your sims. You can configure the package first before you use it using SimPE, or you can use this mod's pre-made holidays based on sims 3 seasons+new year with some adjustment (the ones that's shown in pic. 2). You can learn how to configure this mod in the section below.
  • This mod will give you at maximum 30 holidays at current configuration though you can add more as you wish. There are 5 holidays out of 30 that comes as pre-made in this mod. The pre-made holidays are made for standard seasons length : 5 days per seasons.
  • You will get notification if tomorrow is holiday (configurable) and will get notification on the day of holiday (configurable)
  • Your sims can get day off from school (configurable) or from work (configurable).
  • You also can configure whether it is unpaid day-off or paid-day off (configurable). NO PTO point is used, so you dont have to worry.
  • Each sub neighborhood can get its own holiday, different from each other (configurable). The default is affect all subneighborhood.
  • The holiday is set based on quadrant of seasons (I call it "Month"), not based on seasons. Each quadrant represents one month (this is only my term guys). So, you can have a neighborhood with eternal winter for example : winter - winter - winter - winter, and still considered as 4 different month. See pic. 3 for details.
  • This mod is compatible, and also rather recommended, with seasons length adjuster mod. I can include the configuration within my mod , but I think there have already been lot of other mods out there that serve the same purpose.
  • When you installed "Prom + After School Activity", if prom event happens on holiday where sims are not supposed to go to school, school bus will not come, but your prom sim still can go to school by select "drive to school" or "walk to school". Otherwise, prom event will occured the next day your sim goes to school.
  • During holiday, all other sims will follow your current holiday setting regardless the neighborhood, so your active sims can call their friends or invite them over in working hour or during school time, if work or school off is set.
  • Holiday is unique by month-day-neighborhood combination. Each neighborhood can have different holiday in same day and month.
  • Holiday does not affect college activities. Sims will still have to attend class on college, though college neighborhood will still be have holiday notifications.
  • The holidays that come as pre-made within this mod are:
    • New year's Eve : Month 4 Day 5. Sims still have to go to school and work on this day (this holiday and new year are considered as one holiday).
    • New Year Day: Month 1 Day 1. Sims have school and work off on this day. Working sims will get 80% of their current salary on this day off.
    • Love Day : Month 1 Day 3. Sims still have to go to school and work on this day.
    • Leisure Day : Month 2 Day 5. While child/teen sims still have to go to school on this day, working sims have a paid-day off.
    • Spooky Day : Month 3 Day 4. While working sims still have to go to work on this day, child/teen sims have a school off.
    • Starlight Day : Month 4 Day 3. Child/teen sims have a school off and working sims have a paid-day off on this day.
  • Plugin 02 is modified game's "Give Gift" interaction that comes with Seasons-EP, makes the gift recipient always accept the gift on Holiday. For alternative, if you preffered exchange gift interaction on Holiday, you can install "Exchange Gift" mod ("Give Gift" interaction is only one way interaction while "Exchange Gift" interaction is two way interaction plus some other features).
  • Plugin 00 is optional mod's feature that change season-based month length into fix month length. You can see the explanation in pic. 7. The default value that comes with the plugin is 5 days for all months, so without changing the value using SimPE, it has the same effect as EA-Maxis's default value of seasons length, thus has no effect in your game.

How To Configure Your Own Holidays (with examples) :



Conflicts :
I found no conflict with the mods in my game, and also this should be compatible with inTeen since there is no BHAV conflict. But technically, this mod will conflict with other mods that override these game resources :


Install :
  • Just put my mod in Downloads folder of your sims 2 data. If this mod does not work, try to change the load order, like rename my mod to "z_pqw_holidays.package".
  • For inTeen user, please make sure this mod and all of its plugin, if any, are loaded after inTeen, by checking if there is "zzzz_" in front of original filename, and adding "zzzz_" if they have not been renamed yet.
  • This mod should be load after "pqw_afterschoolactivity.package", "pqw_afterworkactivity.package" and their plugins if any. If you do not change the name of those packages and this package, then it should be just fine, as it complies the load order.
  • It is adviced for you to backup your nhood once in a while and before installing this mod just in case.

Additional Credits :
  • Creators of SimPE
  • EA-Maxis The Sims 3 for holiday wording
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