Tea's Townie Aging Tool

What it does & How to use:

This mod adds configurable aging for all townies and safe NPCs in TS2. All Sim types enabled to age in your BCON will age 1 day at the designated hour, like your playable Sims do.

To activate the mod, get "Tea's Townie Manager" (Misc/Misc $0) and select "Aging…/Allow Townie Aging" on a lot of your choice. If playing rotationally, it is designed to be enabled on ONE lot in the rotation.

I also recommend using menu option "Aging…/Randomize Townie Ages", and "Aging…/Set Up & Randomize Dormies" (if you have Dormies) so all of your Dormies and Townies don't age up at the exact same time.

ALL townie / NPC sims can age with this mod (including babies). Daily aging is instant and off screen.

When a sim ages up to a new age stage, they are summoned to your control lot off-world (so will be invisible), which can cause some minor lag. The following age up logic has been implemented:

• Toddlers will receive toddler skills and memories (mystery sim)
• Children will be given a default grade of C (Maxis standard)
• Teens will be assigned random aspirations, turn ons and turn offs
• All age ups will be treated as "good" and the "aged up well" memory will be given.
• College students who graduate will be assigned a random major and a random GPA from D to A+
• College students who graduate will receive the minimum skills required for them to have passed
• College students who drop out or flunk out will have each skill randomized between 1 and 4, and receive the dropped out / flunked out memory. They will not receive any memories of completing college years.
• College students who successfully graduate will receive appropriate memories, extra want slots and an extra want lock, and their diploma.
• College students who graduate will have a set number of days subtracted from their adult life span (configurable). College students who fail / drop out will have a random number between 0 and your configured maximum subtracted.
• When any NPC ages up, they are moved to the "townies" family
• When an adoption pool sim ages up to a YA or adult they are moved to the "townies" family
• When a sim is set to perish, they will appear on the current lot and pass away. Your family will not react to this event unless they know the dying sim, in which case they may go watch and will receive a memory of the death.

Should work with all custom aging mods & custom College length mods (make sure to configure College students to your liking!)

Tuning - Main Mod

BCON 0x1010 Tuning - Aging On/Off:

• Set the townie aging process hour (in 24hr format) - default is 12pm midday.
• Toggle different types of Townies / NPCs on/off for aging. 1=On, 0=Off.

BCON 0x1012 Tuning - General Options:

• Toggle birthday prompts when a sim is due to age up to their next age stage, allowing you to delay a birthday if desired. If OFF, all sims will automatically age up when it is their birthday.
• Toggle text notifications on/off - receive a text notif when the mod ages someone. If you have a lot of sims, this can mean a LOT of notifications lol. You have been warned.
• Toggle College Choice prompts on/off - receive a prompt when a sim is about to age up from a teenager asking if you'd like to send them to college or not. NOTE: If this is turned OFF, all townies will have a 50/50 chance of going to college or not if you have a college attached to your hood. If there is no college attached to your hood, all Sims will just age into adults (unless you enable the option below).
• Toggle allow Dormies with no Uni hood on/off - for players who use Squinge's College Mega Pack. Will allow teens to age to YAs without a Uni hood attached to the main hood.
• College - Days to keep dormies in College - set how many days you'd like Dormies to remain as dormies (default 8)
• College - Days to subtract from adult agespan - once a Dormie graduates college and ages to an adult, mod will subtract x amount of days from their adult lifespan (default 4)
• College - Allow Drop Outs / Fails - Toggles whether or not dormies can randomly drop or flunk out of college
• College - Chance for Drop Out / Fail (out of 100) - should be self explanatory. Default 5% chance. If Drop Out / Fail is rolled, there will be a 50/50 coin flip between drop out & flunk.
• Townie Deaths - Grim Reaper on/off - toggles whether or not Grim will spawn for townie deaths. Default is off (sims will instantly turn into gravestones). This is irrelevant if you're using SimNopke's NoGrimReaper mod so this line has been removed in the compatible version of my mod (more below).
• Allow random adult deaths On/Off - if on, each day an adult will have a chance of randomly dying.
• Chance of random death out of 100 - if random deaths are on, this is the % chance of a sim dying. Default is 1%
• Death Choice Prompt On/Off - If on, any time a sim is set to die from either old age or a random roll, you'll have the chance to say "no" or to allow the death.

BCON 0x1011 Tuning - GUIDs - College Majors:

• Allows you to add custom majors that Dormies can be randomly assigned if desired. Increase the number in line 0 to your number of possible majors (default is the 11 Maxis Majors) and then add 2 lines containing the GUID of the college major object.
• GUID must be entered "the Maxis way", i.e. enter GUID 0x12345678 as 0x5678 in the first line and then 0x1234 in the second.

Optional Addons and Features:

Tea's Townie Manager can also take over management of your town's demographics. It can set Population targets for different aged groups of sims, and stop the game from spawning more townies than you want to have.

To do this I have edited "NoTownieRegen" from MATY. Instead of never generating any new townies, the game will now look for a global token with set properties before generating any new sims. It can now generate sims of any age, and will obey set targets. This is completely optional. You may continue to use the original version of "NoTownieRegen" if you like, and create all of your townies manually, or have none.

To set up this feature, select "Demographics…/Set Townie Population Target (Current: X)" and use the "fridge menu" to select a number target ($40 = An upper limit of 40 townies). By default, this will be set to 0. The mod will then use assigned BCON values (tuneable) to set a target number of elders, adults, teens, kids, and toddlers to generate into the townie pool.

You can also use "Demographics…/Auto Calculate Population Targets" to generate a target number of townies based on the amount of community and business lots in your hood. This is a selfish thing PURELY designed for me and my Build-A-City Challenge neighbourhoods, if it doesn't interest you, just ignore it ^_^

#Note 1: All townies spawned via this control method will be added to the TOWNIES household, not the (in my opinion) annoying and unnecessary Apartment Life Socialite Group families. To populate those families, you'll need to use something like the in-game NPC & Townie Maker.
#Note 2: If you play with apartments, your game will still generate new "apartment neighbours" (i.e. socialite group sims) unless you have one of the following mods:
Townies, Downtownies and Service NPCs as Apartment Residents by CrispsAndKerosene
Midge's Alternative Version of the above mod
No Townie Apartment Neighbor Spawning by xndrot

Demographics Tuning:
You can tune the demographics targets inside the "Tea's Townie Manager" file.

BCON 0x1000 "Tuning - Demographics"

• allows you to set a target gender split (50/50 by default)
• allows you to set target percentages for all different age groups.

BCON 0x1002 "Tuning - Teas Crazy BACC Calculations":

• allows you to do stupid stuff with community and business lots.

This all relates to my BACC rules. I allow myself a set number of townies per un-owned community lot, and business lot, and then I get extra for a level 10 business. Therefore, you can set up some "auto calculate" targets, which are pulled when you use the "auto calculate" option on the Townie Manager. Should be fairly self-explanatory.

Note: Maxis by default limits a hood to having 30 townies per hood

NoTownieRegen_TAtweaks further info:
I have slightly edited other parts of the original mod to include more control and tuneable options. Most notably, I have changed the handling of Vacation sims. Instead of completely disabling new tourists being spawned, I have added a BCON line to control how many families will get populated (Maxis: 12, default tuning: 6). I also re-did the BCON labels to be much clearer in terms of how many sims can be added to tourist families, and to the "Bon Voyage Locals" families. You can now tune these easily in BCON 0x1016 Tuning - EP6.

Note: Do not set line 0x10 Num Tourist Families to use above the maximum / default value of 12. It will break the game. You have been warned.

Optional: No templates for Townies
This optional file came about from discussions on my Discord during development of this mod, where I discovered that Downtownies in particular are set to follow certain "templates" when spawning - faces, skintones, genders, everything. I made a mod to completely disable that. It also allows any social group sims to dress however they like. This is not required for my aging mod, it was just developed at the same time

Known conflicts:

SimNopke's "Pets Age With Sims" mod: Get my comp patch, load itafter TA_TownieAging and delete SimNopke's original mod.

SimNopke's "No Grim Reaper" mod: if you use Nopke's mod, download TA_TownieAging_SimNopkeNoGrimCompat and use that instead of TA_TownieAging. ONLY USE ONE FILE!! Load after SimNopke's mod.

BoilingOil's GrimmyBeGone mod - remove it, get SimNopke's mod linked above and follow the above instructions (SimNopke's mod does the same thing but better).

Squinge's TeenToAdultNoCollege mod: Remove it and use the alternative version of TeenToAdultNoCollege that I have included in "comp patches". Reach out to me if you've got other mods that incorporate Squinge's mod as they are various in number and the conflict is easy to solve (for example, Midge's Child Teen Plantsims) - you'll need to change 1 node in the "Age Transition" BHAV.

MidgeTheTree's Hereditary Supernaturalism: Get my comp patch and load it after both mods.

Nysha's TownieBodyDiversity mod:
Conflicts with my edit of NoTownieRegen, get the comp patch and load last (after both mods)
Conflicts with my "NoTemplatesforTownieSpawns" mod, get the compatible version and load after Nysha's mod.

My Evil Sims Laugh At Death mod: get the compatibility patch (included) and load after both mods.

ZeroPointLibra's Pleasure Aspiration for Townies mod:
Conflicts with my edits to NoTownieRegen - get my comp patch and load last
Conflicts with my "NoTemplatesforTownieSpawns" optional addon - choose the version which includes their changes
Note : I did not make a version for only having "Pleasure Aspirations" without also having body diversity. If you'd like no body diversity, you'll need to open the package files and remove the BHAV for randomizing fitness along with the node inside the BHAVs. If I were you, I'd just use the all in one. After all, why not?

Other Compatibility:

• Built in compatibility for Lamare's Age Tooltips mod
• Patch included for MidgeTheTree's edit of BoilingOil's slow aging controller (if you want supernatural townies to age slower than the rest)
• If you use Lamare's Uni Aging Mod (enables sims of other ages to age up while living in a University hood), don't set the "control family" for townie aging to be a family living in a Uni Hood as it won't work.

Caution / Known Issues:

• If you enable processing of Dormies, it is possible you will run out of them unless you have enabled sims to age up and go to college.
• If you enable processing of Bon Voyage sims and you have the original "NoTownieRegen", you will eventually run out of tourists and be left with 1 Bon Voyage local per destination, which may be undesirable.
• If you have a lot of townies, NPCs, Bon Voyage Sims, etc etc, and you have enabled all to age, there will be significant game lag while the mod processes all of these sims. Recommend pausing the game when you see the "processing townie aging" notification pop up and wait until it is finished before un-pausing.
• Sims in your "control family" will have to send their graves to other lots (or you can delete them) manually. I will look into trying to automate the grave moving process.

Future Plans:
Pregnancies and relationships for townies... i.e. Story Progression Lite

Credits & Thanks:
Hypersaline for their townie aging control mod which inspired mine and from which I straight up borrowed some code
SimNopke for the "banning Grim Reaper" code
Lamare for her help integrating her Age Tooltips mod.
William (PickNMixSims) for his Log Watcher app, BHAV finder app & GUIDs spreadsheet
Various members of my stream and Discord community for their support and feedback throughout development

Recommended Other Mods:
If you'd like to set up your townies to naturally age up, go to college, graduate and eventually die, then be moved to a graveyard, I strongly recommend the following mods:

NoDormieRespawns by Pescado at MoreAwesomeThanYou. This will stop the game from auto-generating more dormies if it finds it doesn't have enough to fill the blank dorms.
NoNpcDormies by PickNMixSims. This can be an alternative approach to "No Dormie Respawn" and will stop NPC dormies from populating a lot if there is no ShinyTyme Cooktop on the lot.
NoSSrespawn by Pescado at MoreAwesomeThanYou. This will stop the game from generating new sims to fill the "Secret Society" member roles.
No Death Type Loss by SixAM. This will stop your gravestones from losing their "death type" when moved to a community lot (this mod should be in everyone's "essentials" list to be honest!)

Technical Notes for Modders:

To make this mod I have edited:

"Controller - Age" (GUID: 0x2C085A2B / Group: 0x7F07FBBC)

Overwritten Resources:
BHAV 0x1003 Process - Age
TTAB & TTAs (Instance 1)
STR# 0x0100 Attributes
STR# 0x012D Dialogue Strings
STR# 0x012F Call Named Tree prim string set

Added resources:
BCONs 0x1010 - 0x1013
BHAVs 0x1109 - 0x112F

"NPC - Unique - Grim Reaper" - ONLY if not using SimNopke version (GUID: 0x84EC24A8 / Group: 0x7F404283)

Overwritten Resources:
BHAV 0x1016 Reaper - Appear (Credit to SimNopke)
BHAV 0x1039 Reaper - Find Something To Do (credit to SimNopke)

Added Resources:
BHAV 0x11BB Reaper - Check if banned

Major Globals (Group: 0x7F17E3A4)

Added Resources:
BHAV 0x20BB CT - Get Semester Length

Please send all errors and unreported conflicts to me, I will do my best to fix and make compatible as always