Mod Functionality

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Description & Information Guideline: Mod Functionality

Possible Assessments

Approvable	TS4	TS3	TS2	Title	Description
				Needs more work	It's not exactly clear from the description what your mod does or what it is. Even though it can be quite difficult writing what exactly your mod does, try to keep in mind to ask yourself these questions: What does my mod do? What is it for? Does it change anything in-game? Where am I suppose to see the changes or how? It is also important to mention whether your mod is a override mod, global mod, trait, object mod, script mod a tuning mod, etc. This way, downloaders know if your mod can conflict with other downloads they have. :)
				Pass	You have explained what your mod does, what kind of mod it is, and how it changes the game. Thanks!

General Guidelines

Mod Functionality is really important when you're sharing your new mod! Without this, people don't know exactly what they're downloading. That's why it's always good to set up a small question list for yourself:

What does my mod do?
What is it for?
Does it change anything in-game?
Where am I suppose to see the changes or how?

When sharing Tuning, overrides, object mods, Global mods, Config mods, also ask yourself these questions:

If it alters the time or amount of something, what is the default settings?
How many versions have I shared? Is that enough?
How long will my mod versions take till the interaction is completed?
What is it overwriting/overriding/changing?

From those questions it's much easier to have a good detailed description on what your mod does exactly :) Do take in account that you can easily mix the Mod Function with the Title and description guideline if you need a little bit more inspiration! See: Description

Another guideline that will really help you is the post presentation guideline: Post Presentation

It's also important to explain what type of mod you're sharing so downloaders exactly know what they're getting! :) For example, they might think your mod adds a whole new interaction, even though it's only a tuning mod.

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Examples

A little vague

Hi guys! I made a tuning mod that alters the shower time of your sims

Why is this incorrect

If we were to think of the set of questions we set up, we'd know that it alters the shower, but first few questions that a downloader might have is:

How long will a sim shower?
Is this for all showers or only one?
Is there only one tuning version or can I choose between a longer and shorter shower time?

A great description

Hi guys! I made a tuning mod that alters the shower time of your sims. I've added 2 versions. The original shower takes 75 in-game minutes for the sim to be done when completely dirty.

Version one makes the slower times a bit more realistic by it being 120 in-game minutes The second version makes the showering time only 10 minutes! So no more endless waiting! :)

It alters all the showers in-game, including all EP/SPs yet released. I will try to update it later when there's any more packs being released.

Why is this correct?

If we take a look at the set of questions, we know that:

It's a tuning mod.
There are 2 tuning versions.
The original takes 75 minutes for a sim to be done showering
Both versions are unique. One is 120 minutes to the original version, the other is 75 minutes! :)
It's for all showers made and might be made compatible for future showers
It's being counted from when the hygiene bar is completely red.

Non-overrides - incorrect

I've always wanted to have a sewing table in my game so I went out of my way and would like to present 'My first sewing table!'

It comes with 3 interactions and a whole new mesh. See the images for anything else! :)

Why is this incorrect?

Images can be great to visualize what you're explaining but if they're the key of what your download does, that could be a big issue and create confusion on what exactly it does. In this case the downloader would be wondering about:

What are the interactions?
Can it do more? Can I create things with it? How do I do that?
Does it come with any buffs or such?
How can my sim interact with it? Does it maybe need a chair?
Does it come with a new skill?
Does it have some sort of challenges or any popups?
What type of mod is it?

Non-overrides - correct

I've always wanted to have a sewing table in my game so I went out of my way and would like to present 'My first sewing table!' This is a script mod that I wrote! :)

It comes with 2 interactions and a whole new mesh! It doesn't have any buffs or challenges though nor does it come with a skill unfortunately. :/ The new interactions are:

Interaction one: Choose random sewing project
With this interaction your sim will make any random sewing project available

Interaction two: Choose sewing project
With this interaction you can choose between sewing: A teddy bear, pillow or curtains

To interact with the sewing table, you have to put an ordinary chair in front of it. It will automatically snap to the table! :) Without it they will do the ordinary stomping. It also comes with custom animations!

Why is this correct?

Because we pretty much covered all the questions we have about what it can do and what it does! :) And what is and isn't included. Awesome! :)

We know:

That it has 2 interactions and what they do
It comes with 3 sewing projects
It comes with a new mesh
It doesn't have any skills, buffs, challenges or anything that could be included
How to use the object and how we know when it's successfully assigned to the sewing table! :)
What kind of mod this is.

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