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Novel Royalty Fixes

SCREENSHOTS
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Uploaded: 10th Apr 2022 at 7:51 AM
Updated: 16th Feb 2024 at 7:26 PM
This mod fixes various problems with novel and restaurant guide (introduced in FreeTime) royalties:
  • When there's no landline phone on a lot or no one has picked up a phone call from a publishing house, a dialog appears as if someone has answered the phone, and the royalty is paid out. Originally, in such cases, no dialog appears and money is lost.
  • The real author of a novel correctly gets memories and fulfills their wants regarding writing novels or earning money, and increases their personal wealth.
    • In the base game, the one who has answered the phone gets considered an author. It has been fixed in expansion and stuff packs, however, receiving the Sold a Great Novel memory prevented money-related wants or memories and a personal wealth income from being handled.
  • In the delayed version, a publishing house will try to call at least 12 hours after a Sim has finished their novel/restaurant guide. Time counts only between 6:00 AM and 9:59 PM, and only on habitable lots.
    • E.g. when a Sim has finished their novel/restaurant guide at 7:30 AM, then the phone calls (or a dialog appears) up to an hour after 7:30 PM on the same day. But when they have finished at 7:30 PM, then it happens up to an hour after 5:30 PM next day.
    Tuning: You can change the delay and publishing house's work hours by editing the behavior constant from this file in SimPe.
Use only one version at a time.

Update (11 Feb 2024): Included restaurant guide fixes. Made some technical changes to address rare errors. Recreated the delayed version to make it work on different lots.
Known issues
  • If an author of a novel/restaurant guide moves out, leaves their vacation home, or dies while the publishing house calls, then it may happen that no one will get royalty and no dialog will appear. It also happens without mods. However, it's easier to achieve with the delayed version of this mod.
  • With the delayed version, if an author of a novel/restaurant guide dies before the publishing house calls, then the publishing house will only call after the Sim gets resurrected.
  • After you have uninstalled the delayed version, royalties which were supposed to be paid with a delay won't be paid until you install it back.

Conflicts
Conflicting modWay to resolveComment
Sell Great Novel Personal Wealth Fix by Midge the TreeDon't use these mods together.My mod is basically an extended version of Midge's mod.
50 New Lifetime Wants – Novels by LamareFollow instructions in the description of Lamare's mod.
50 New Lifetime Wants – Food Critic by LamareFollow instructions in the description of Lamare's mod.


Overridden resources
Resource nameType nameGroup/object nameTypeGroupInstanceInstance (high)
simNopke-novelRoyaltyFixes and simNopke-novelRoyaltyFixes-delayed
Attribute LabelsText ListsPhone - Incoming Call - Novel Victory0x535452230x7FFAA9360x000001000x00000000
CT - Handle CallBehaviour FunctionPhone - Incoming Call - Novel Victory0x424841560x7FFAA9360x000010020x00000000
Function - MainBehaviour FunctionPhone - Incoming Call - Novel Victory0x424841560x7FFAA9360x000010010x00000000
Attribute LabelsText ListsPhone - Incoming Call - Restaurant Guide Victory0x535452230x7F2183DF0x000001000x00000000
CT - Handle CallBehaviour FunctionPhone - Incoming Call - Restaurant Guide Victory0x424841560x7F2183DF0x000010020x00000000
Function - MainBehaviour FunctionPhone - Incoming Call - Restaurant Guide Victory0x424841560x7F2183DF0x000010010x00000000
New resources
SummaryGroup/object nameGroup
simNopke-novelRoyaltyFixes-delayed
many resources in the object's group
Nopke - Novel Royalty Delay Controller0x7FECDE0E
Credits
BellaDovah
Christophee
Ciastko
jfade (The Compressorizer!)
Midge the Tree (Sell Great Novel Personal Wealth Fix)
Creators of SimPe