Family Secrets [Update: 2024/11/22]
Family Secrets expands your town’s capacity for drama and intrigue by offering player and NPC Sims greater control over the legitimacy of their offspring. Romantic affairs and unwed pregnancies will present players with the choice of revealing or hiding a child’s true parentage, or even attempting the “Cuckoo” action, which can convince a birth parent’s partner that a child born from an affair is actually theirs!
Family Secrets also expands The Sims 3 Adoption system, allowing Sims to choose between joint or sole adoption, as well as the ability to foster children.
This mod requires no expansion packs or supporting mods to operate. While it does not enable any non-default relationship options, it contains built-in support and decision-making considerations for same-sex, intergenerational, and interfamilial pregnancies. This mod also fixes a known base-game issue wherein certain non-standard pregnancies would cause the Family Tree menu to crash the game.
Enjoy this mod, and please comment on any issues you may have with its performance.
Settings:
The Settings Menu for the Family Secrets mod can be accessed in-game through City Hall, and allows players to fine-tune how they wish to play:
Cuckoo - Discovery: True[%]/False
Select whether Cuckoo attempts can be discovered by the birth parent’s partner, and if so, the base rate of discovery. When enabled, Sims’ ability to discover Cuckoo attempts are affected by their logic skill, relationship with the birth parent, as well as certain traits.
Cuckoo - Reveal Parent: True[%]/False
Select whether Cuckoo attempts, when discovered, can result in the true parent being identified, and if so, the base chance of the birth parent’s partner identifying the true parent. When the NPC Decisions setting (below) is enabled, Sims’ likelihood of publicly revealing the true parent is affected by their relationship with both the birth parent and true parent, as well as certain traits.
Public Reaction: True/False
Select whether Sims will react to decisions made by player and NPC sims. When enabled, partners and family members will react negatively when a Sim engages in affairs, denies their own children, is discovered to be attempting to Cuckoo other Sims, or other ill-mannered actions.
NPC Decisions: True/False
Select whether NPC Sims can make weighted decisions on matters of parentage, based on their skills, traits, and relationships. When disabled, NPC Sims will always attempt to Cuckoo their partner when engaged in affairs, will always elect to reveal the true parent when a Cuckoo attempt is discovered, and will never deny parentage of their own children.
Same-Sex Pregnancy: True/False
Select whether the Family Secrets mod should account for the possibility of same-sex pregnancies in its decision-making process. When enabled, the Cuckoo action will become available for a wider range of partner types. This option does not enable same-sex pregnancies, but will work with other mods that do.
LTR Cutoff: Undefined/Partner/Fiancee/Spouse
Select whether the Family Secrets mod should skip decision-making for faithful pregnancies at or above a particular Long-Term Relationship level. Example: when LTR Cutoff is set to “Fiancee”, a Sim with a long-term partner at either the “Fiancee” or “Spouse” level will not receive decision prompts when a child is born between themself and their committed partner.
Updates
2024/11/22
- Added French translations, courtesy of Symbolism.
- Added Russian translations, courtesy of Raddaable.
- Fixed conflict with several Nraas suite mods causing gameplay crashes.
- Added gender summary of newborns to childbirth decision prompt.
- Removed negative relationship modifier between newborns and birth-parent when admitting to an affair.
- Improved Settings interaction: will no longer disappear after removing/adding City Hall rabbit hole.
- Improved memory cleanup of stored mod-specific pregnancy data.
- Improved legibility of STBL files for translation and fixed missing strings. Added German translations, courtesy of LimeyYoshi.
- Fixed Cheater reputation being unintentionally applied to Sims in committed relationships when using "Reveal Parent" option.
Conflict and Compatibility:
The Family Secrets mod makes adjustments to Sims’ Genealogy fields in response to the NewBaby, HadBaby, and AdoptedChild EventTypes. Other mods which make adjustments in response to these EventTypes may experience unintentional operational conflicts.
Known Conflicting Mods:
Please report any suspected mod conflicts in the Comments, and I will endeavor to resolve them if possible.
Possible Future Updates:
- Multilingual STBL translations.
- Store "true" parental data for use with additional features post-birth.
- Genealogy Testing interaction.
- Post-birth "Reveal Parent" interaction.
- Increased complexity of NPC decision-making.
- Expanding Adoption to allow players to officially adopt NPC Sims, step-children, and foster children.
Additional Thanks:
Buzzler and PuddingFace, for approachable scripting tutorials.
CmarNYC, for the easy-to-use STBLManager.
LimeyYoshi, for providing German translations.
Raddaable, for providing Russian translations.
Symbolism, for providing French translations.
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FamilySecrets_1.13.zip | zip | |
FamilySecrets_SettingsGuide.txt | txt | 2393 |
DubbleDeez.FamilySecrets.package | package | 119663 |
FamilySecrets_1.13.zip
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