Scissors Clippers - Get Coupons from Newspapers

Updates!

• 2024-08-17: Updated the Hungarian translation - thanks, kaligi!

The shining blue Umbreon is back with another feature that he thinks should've long been done by someone...

I have been playing Sims 3 again recently and realised that it's actually quite cool that Sims are able to grab some scissors and cut out coupons for savings on groceries, books... you name it.
Then I saw that someone made this possible for Sims 4 too, and I thought... why should Sims 2 players miss out on the fun?

I have always wanted a reasonable alternative to obtain coupons that wasn't as a date or networking reward. And thus I got to work.

Features

• Your Sims can now Search for Coupons in the newspaper, both autonomously and user-driven, and will sometimes find one doing so.
• This coupon, should they find it, is immediately dropped into the Sim's inventory.
• As of now, you can find six different coupon types:
  1. the "Coupon for a Free Meal", which is normally a date reward;
  2. a "Furniture Coupon" that is the same as the Apartment Life "Cheap Catalogue" Networking event, except it's limited until 10 PM the same day;
  3. a "Groceries Voucher" that grants you 20% off any food purchase from a supermarket, both on community lots and owned business, valid until the next morning;
  4. a "Video Game Coupon" that grants you 50% off the next video game purchase from a game rack, both on community lots and owned businesses, valid until the next morning;
  5. a "Vending Machine Card" that enables you to get a free snack or drink from any vending machine, no matter where that machine may be, and no matter when as it never expires;
  6. a "Plumbflix Coupon" that can be detected by the Plumbflix Player and used to enjoy free movies for one Movie Night, if you use my Plumbflix Movie Player mod; otherwise these coupons will be useless. These are valid for the rest of the Sim week.
• The search can only be done once per day. If a Sim fails, they will need to wait for the next morning, when a new newspaper arrives (so long as there aren't too many old papers on the lot.)
• I have tried to incorporate some traits from the Traits Project into this mod. Lucky Sims have an increased chance to find a coupon, while Unlucky Sims have a decreased chance. Frugal Sims, stubborn as they are, will skim through the paper a second time, should they fail at first. They are also a lot more likely to pick up the newspaper to look for coupons themselves.
  The mod will still work just fine even without the traits installed in your game - it will simply default to the base chance.

Tuning
Inside the BCON "Tuning - Coupon" (0x1007), you can freely change the odds to find coupons, for Lucky, Unlucky, and all other Sims, as well as make some coupons more or less likely to find.

Line	Label	Default (base or TMOComp)	Default (Mac)
0x0	Coupon Chance - standard	25%	25%
0x1	Coupon Chance - Lucky Sims	50%	50%
0x2	Coupon Chance - Unlucky Sims	10%	10%
0x3	Chance of Free Meal Coupon	20%	30%
0x4	Chance of Furniture Coupon	5%	N/A
0x5	Chance of Groceries Coupon	20%	40%
0x6	Chance of Video Game Coupon	20%	30%
0x7	Chance of Plumbflix Coupon	15%	N/A
0x8	Chance of Free Snack Card	20%	N/A

Translations

Language	Available?	Creator
English (US/UK)		Me (Blueybre)
German		Me (Blueybre)
French		Nostural
Russian		Izenvy
Polish		Meduza
Hungarian		kaligi

If you know your way around SimPE and would like to translate into your own language, feel free to contribute! You shall be given due credit.

The needed translations are:
- [Pie Menu Strings], line 0x0019 (25);
- [Text Lists], all lines;
- both "Dialog prim string set" resources - line 4 in the first, and lines 0x001A through 0x001C (26~28) in the second.
- and the CTSS (Catalogue Description) of each coupon.

Requirements
Expansion Packs: Nightlife, Seasons+.
Nightlife is required no matter what because the Coupon for a Free Meal is not available in the game unless you have this EP installed.
Seasons or higher is required for compatibility with a mod that would otherwise conflict (see below).

If you have the Ultimate Collection which includes all EP's, or FreeTime and Apartment Life stand-alone, use the standard or TMOComp (see Conflicts) version of this mod. This would be the go-to version for most players.
If you play on the Super Collection on a Mac, or otherwise have a game setup that either only goes up to Seasons, Bon Voyage or FreeTime and does not have AL, you will need to download my Mac-compatible version instead. This is necessary because FT and AL introduced their own newspaper interactions (Read Section, Search for Roommates).

Also, keep in mind that, due to other limitations, the Mac version will only come with the Free Meal, Groceries and Video Game coupons. The other coupons require either FT or AL, so they are not included there. To account for that, the odds to find certain coupon types were tweaked (see the Tuning section for details).

Overrides

Resource name	Type	Group	Associated object or semiglobal	Instance
Newspaper	OBJD	0x7F08E23C	Newspaper	0x000041A7
Function - Init	BHAV	0x7F08E23C	Newspaper	0x00001005
attribute labels	STR#	0x7F08E23C	Newspaper	0x00000100
untitled tree table	TTAB	0x7F08E23C	Newspaper	0x00000081
Pie Menu Strings	TTAs	0x7F08E23C	Newspaper	0x00000081
Text Lists	STR#	0x7F08E23C	Newspaper	0x0000012D
Interaction - Buy	BHAV	0x7FDE81DC	CashRegisterGlobals	0x00002000
Dialog prim string set	STR#	0x7FDE81DC	CashRegisterGlobals	0x0000012D
EP3 - Purchase Object	BHAV	0x7FE10572	ShoppingRackGlobals	0x00002053
EP3 - Food - Display - Handle Purchase	BHAV	0x7FE10572	ShoppingRackGlobals	0x00002056
EP3 - Interaction - Buy - Vending Machine	BHAV	0x7FE10572	ShoppingRackGlobals	0x00002092
Interaction - Buy - Vending Machine	BHAV	0x7FE10572	ShoppingRackGlobals	0x00002094
Dialog prim string set	STR#	0x7FE10572	ShoppingRackGlobals	0x0000012D

New resources
The mod introduces a couple of new resources for the group 0x7F08E23C which is the resources associated with the Newspaper object.
Interaction - Clip Coupon is a BHAV with the instance 0x00001069.
Interaction - Clip Coupon - TEST is a BHAV with the instance 0x0000106A.
Read and Snip is a BHAV with the instance 0x0000106B.
Tuning - Coupon is a BCON with the instance 0x00001007.
In any configuration of the vanilla game up to M&G, these resources do not exist, thus don't override anything.
If any mod, however, contains a resource of the same group and instance, it will automatically conflict with my mod, so be careful!

There are also several new resources that carry textures etc. for all the coupons to work, and a bunch of resources for a Controller - Coupons under the group 0x7F8F1481 to make sure the coupons get deleted properly.
The GUID's used for the new objects are: 0xB7E41621 (Controller - Coupons), 0x00F1ED9A (Coupon - AL Furniture Discount), 0x00947A53 (Coupon - Groceries), 0x000F0A67 (Coupon - Video Games), 0x00C9CF7D (Coupon - Plumbflix), and 0x0047CF72 (Coupon - Vending Machine Card).

Conflicts
Anything that also modifies the above resources will conflict with my mods.

• Any resource of the following mods that would conflict with mine is included. As long as my mod loads after them, they can be used just fine alongside mine.
  - Extended Newspaper Autonomy by simNopke
  - Snowproof Accessories by guirnaldas
  - Buyable Newspaper by Pick'N'Mix
  - Job Summary by Pick'N'Mix
  - BusinessMod-UPDATE39 by simler90
  - Specific Clothing Racks by Pick'N'Mix
• The Teens Move Out Hack by Saricoya conflicts with the standard version of my mod. If you use this mod, please get my alternative, compatible version. Keep in mind that with this alternative version, teens can Search for Roommates and Find Own Place, which they normally can't. This compatible version has to load after Saricoya's mod.
• Do not use my mod with TheNinthWaveSims' More Options for Newspaper. Besides the fact that their mod is not updated for any expansion packs, the new options are all essentially just copies of 'Read". I will not make a compatibility patch for this mod.

Please let me know if there are any other conflicts with mods you use, and I will see if something can be done about them by load order or through plug-ins.

Credits
Maxis and EA for creating Sims 2 in the first place
The Creators of SimPE and especially the BHAV, BCON, TTAB and STR# plugins
My fiancée for the idea to this mod
Meduza for the Polish translation
Nostural for the French translation
Izenvy for the Russian translation
kaligi for the Hungarian translation

Have fun and happy Simming!
~ Blueybre