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A mod to let Sims leave the playable lot for a few hours without vacation or visiting a different lot?
For example: I want to let the parent and sibling Sims leave the lot for a few hours or days, so I can let the Teen Sim throw a party while they're home alone.
Or would this be achievable by deleting the other Sims by moveobjects on and resurrecting them later on?
I think your best bet would be to use Chris Hatch's Wait on Community Return. Chris Hatch's mods are available here (after clicking on the .mht file, look for Wait on Community Return).
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Wait on Community Return
CJH_CommTime(Pets+).zip, is based on the work by CBoy. (Requires the Global Overrides) Since Wait on Community Return is incompatible with the Global Overrides they include support for it. This will add a line into the above Globe Sculpture which will then have an option to switch it off/on as required.
Wait on Community Return will cause sims to be held off world when returning home from an outing until the time they were away has passed. It is disabled at University and Holiday neighbourhoods and on leaving a hospital or another sim's home.
When enabled a 'time stamp' is taken, placed into a token when you choose to 'Go Home'. It makes no difference what vehicle your sim goes home in; taxi, own car, bus or walk home (which uses an invisible car), the time stamp is only taken when 'Go Home' is chosen. On arrival home the difference in time between the time stamp and the current time is how long your sims must wait.
The time held off world is capped to a maximum of two days (I think that'd be quite boring enough). Once per hour it checks the following conditions and returns your sims if true; Wait on Community Time is switched off, this enables a manual return. A wedding arch is in use. A pregnancy has had a threatened miscarriage, is within four hours of giving birth or a maternity hospital has been called. Any pregnant sims held off world will have her pregnancy automatically paused until return, all sims held off world have their motives held static.
But there is an old mod by I think Melcaramel that adds a few interactions to the car where sims leave the lot for a few hours. It definitely conflicts with something in my downloads folder, but you never know--try it and maybe it would work for you. I originally got it from this thread, but that link is down. Since I've no idea the original site and if it's uploaded elsewhere, I've reuploaded it here: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/2534802/
Car maintenance and new sims activities – global mod
With this mod on every car (maxis and custom cars) appear new options in a menu:
- Maintenance…
1. Wash (with cleaning skill level below three sim will bring car to a Car wash (costs §15) else you
may assign this job to a sim and cleaning skill points will be increased). In car menu
this option appears anytime.
2. Repair (with mechanic skill level below five sim will bring car to a repair centre (costs §250) else
you may assign this job to a sim and mechanic skill points will be increased). In car menu
this option appears if you travel by car over 15 times.
3. Gas up (in car menu this option appears if you travel by car over 11 times). It costs §70.
- Visit…
1. Motel (duration is six hours, to drive there you must have at least 200 simoleons, applies
wishes “go to vacation…”)
2. Park (duration is two sim hours)
3. Casino (duration is two hours; sim may win or lose simoleons!)
EPs you need: Night Life, Bon Voyage, Free Time, Apartment Life.
How to use: click on a car and find new options in main car-menu.
"Thinking of you, wherever you are. We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend." - Kingdom Hearts
@phantomknight: thanks! How did the mod conflict express in your game when you used Melcaramel's old mod?
Seems like I already have a mod that lets the Sim be away from home for an x amount of hours they spend on the community lot, so I can just send some Sims for few days or hours visiting a different lot, yet making sure their needs are filled (I yet have to test if this also works with the mod that allows Sims visiting residential lots).
I think I just got jump bugs and/or some of the interactions didn't work. Like I think the new take a spin interactions might have worked okay, but not the wash the car and repair actions. And I don't remember if it worked on custom cars at all.
Overall, nothing game breaking, but I ultimately decided it wasn't worth the install.
For keeping sims' needs up, you can try something like BoilingOil's Need Freak, but I'm not sure if it works on off world sims.
"Thinking of you, wherever you are. We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend." - Kingdom Hearts