I think the people who will find this the most useful are the ones who are interested in getting one of the big mods, such as the Business Mod and Romance Standards, but feel overwhelmed when trying to read through the many update notes. Simler90 describes all the changes made in an update, which makes sense when coming back to the mod to update it, but could feel like too much noise when approaching the mod for the first time. An example are the following updates of the Business Mod:



In my take of the description, all of the "restocking of harvestable items" problem boils down to just one (of multiple) points that this mod addresses:



The vagueness of my descriptions somewhat resembles Pescadoesqueism, where the mod would be outlined in a number of bulletin points. I have however refrained from adding quirky remarks and the premium dictionary content to the mod descriptions (i.e. you won't be seeing words such as fambly and babby, or descriptions such as "stops scum from trying to dine with your Sims"). Sometimes though - only sometimes - I wish I had left some of it in.

Have fun exploring new mods!

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That author is a novelist in his descriptions. Lol.

I'm exactly the type of person this post was made for! Seriously though, thanks so much for this. It's super helpful.

Thank you!

Great idea and a lot of hard work put in here - appreciated.

I think this qualifies for a sticky post.

Thank you @topp ! This makes it so much easier, I was always reluctant to use these mods because I wondered whether the code was as messy as the documentation!

I've no idea whether the code is optimized. I just love reading a quick line of what the mod does, plop it into my game and watch my Sims behave differently!

Seeing how complex some mods' changelogs are, I got a firm impression that simler90 is excellent at reading code and arranging it to be as Maxis-matching or RL-matching as possible. It's just the non-optimization of production Maxis code is what has possibly made them use the mod descriptions as a vent diary (e g. Business Mod). Others I see to be a product of true passion, for example the TV Watch mod. I can easily see myself being too excited not to share that I've learned a better way of determining line-of-sight, or in case of some other mod, that Set To Next neighbor primitive is not an optimal tool to cycle through all Sims if you ever have a big neighborhood etc.

But there really should have (also) been a short "oh, you're 14 and bored/35 and busy/66 and tired, and also annoyed at some game behavior X? This mod just does Y."

Seconding a sticky request! (Also bookmarking this just in case.)

So it sounds like Romantic Standards replaces ACR?

I think, basically, it's either/or. ACR has a lot more options and is somewhat customizable, but it also pushes romantic interactions much harder and takes a lot more managing. (Also you will want to have the ACR Controller on all your Playable lots, and if you ever remove the mod, it's a nuisance to get rid of all the Controllers - they turn into inert stacks of phone books and have to be deleted with MoveObjects On.)

Romantic Standards just operates in the background, doesn't push as hard (though you will see more romantic actions than in a game with no mods), and is somewhat less predictable/controllable as to who will/won't do what with whom.

But no, you can't use them both together, so it's a question of which one is closer to your preferred playing style.

There is a stripped down version of ACR if you want to auto socials but want to use romantic standards or midge the tree's version of it

Stickied! Thanks for making this btw! It reads much neater, sort of like a patch note

Exactly what I was aiming for Thanks!

@topp just wanted to thank you again, this has gotten me to try out a few Simler mods that I was afraid to touch before.