More Reasonable Restorable Car Motives
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Free Time restorable car is one aspect from the EP that I like. Whether it'll be for sale, instantly sold, or household usage, I am willing to find a free space to put one there and have my Sims work on it...in their free time!
The only issue was I never remembered to adjust its motive drains for years before making and releasing this mod!
This modification revamps the motive drain onto a much more reasonable one. Working on a restorable car now always drains Comfort, drains slightly less Hygiene, and most importantly, a lot less taxing on Energy!

Fun gain is lessened, and made to scale with the serious personality. Lastly, since I'm a believer of practice over reading books, restorable cars also build the Mechanical skill at an accelerated rate (300%; original's 100%).
The other change is the addition of progress percentages for body and engine. The interaction menu will always show up, even while the car is being worked on (just greyed out), until the corresponding part is successfully repaired to full.

None known. Please report any bugs in the comment section.

This mod modifies the One Man's Junk Car by Mechanically Minded group (0x7F56417D) of the following instances:
BCONs:
0x00001007 (also adding labels)
0x00001006 (just adding labels)
BHAVs:
0x00001016
0x00001005
0x00001007
STR: 0x0000012E
Filename | Type | Size |
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zBW-ReasonableResCarMotives.zip | zip | |
zBW-ReasonableResCarMotives.package | package | 1975 |
zBW-ReasonableResCarMotives.zip
| File covers both the motive drain changes and showing progress on interaction menu
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Uploaded: 10th May 2025, 1.6 KB.
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1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file.
3. Place in Downloads Folder: Cut and paste the .package file(s) into your Downloads folder:
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Uploaded: 10th May 2025 at 5:26 PM
Updated: 9th Jun 2025 at 3:30 PM
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About Me
I prefer to modify and expand upon other people's contents, since I'm no artist. I will ask content creators still active first, but I'd love if they actually ask me to help out.
I also like mods and objects that add more to gameplay (and modify them to add even more!) since everybody else has been making fixes.