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FranH 21st Nov 2024 11:47 AM

Quote: Originally posted by CaliBrat
For those of ya'll who do play with or have played with Squinge college at home mod .. have ya ever had a teen autonomously turn into a YA w/o usin the birthday cake? That's not supposed to happen right? Cuz it just did it for me .. totally unprepared for it



It is automatic without the cake.

Teens in my game automatically transition into YA's unless I grow them up myself to adults.

CaliBrat 21st Nov 2024 11:56 AM

Quote: Originally posted by FranH
It is automatic without the cake.

Teens in my game automatically transition into YA's unless I grow them up myself to adults.

huh ... not sure I like that ... I thought it was agin to ya only if the cake was used .. I don't want all teens to go to collage and if I forget to age before 6pm .. it just makes it messy to fix :/

EDIT: So I went back to the mod page to read and see if I missed somethin .. this is what it says:
Quote: Originally posted by from Squinge
How To Play:

Basically, what you do to age teens to Young Adults is to go into Buy Mode and buy the cake. Place it on any counter or table. Direct your teen to the cake and select Age To Young Adult. The teen will then age into a Young Adult and get a new UI panel showing the Freshman first semester. The Sim's clock does not start. You need to use the Semester Tester to Start Class. Then the Young Adult's clock will run down from 72 hours to 0 hours as if he/she is on the dorm lot. Play your Young Adult through college and when you're ready to age your Sim after graduating from college, buy the cake again and use the Age To Adult option.

When you do return to your Young Adult's home lot, you will find that you have to Start Class again on the Semester Tester to continue counting down your Young Adult's college clock.


nothin 'bout it bein autonomous .. hmmm

topp 21st Nov 2024 4:22 PM

You could pause the semester for them and then play TS3-aging style, where being a young adult is a life stage on its own, instead of being reserved and used exclusively by enrolled college students. Once they get older (say, 15 Sim days), you can age them up to adult and move on. If you age them up, I believe they don't receive any college memories (graduated/dropped out) so unless they received the memory about having left for college, you can pretend they are what they are - simply adults that are young - with no mention of college at all.

Bulbizarre 21st Nov 2024 4:37 PM

Quote: Originally posted by simsample
There don't seem to be as many staff members actively moderating the forums as there used to be. I'm not sure which mods have modding privs on which forum now, there's only one mod with a listed forum to moderate. But anyway, mostly we click the report button when we see spam or rude posts, so the mods are alerted. And having too many pictures in a post isn't quite the problem it used to be (when the rule was set, a lot of people were still on dial-up or metered connections, whereas now even a phone will handle a page of images with ease). I remember on my old ISP back in ~2005 having to wait for a few minutes for images to load!


Large images also stretch out the page elements, hence why I spoiler big ones outside of the pics forum.

simsample 21st Nov 2024 4:54 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Bulbizarre
Large images also stretch out the page elements, hence why I spoiler big ones outside of the pics forum.

There is a picture size rule too, but not sure that's enforced now, either. I know Tashiketh has limits on image size built into the upload tool, or at least file size.
https://modthesims.info/showthread....976#post4303976

CaliBrat 21st Nov 2024 10:29 PM

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This is what I was askin 'bout .. as you can see in the pic there is no cake present .. it was all autonomously .. I didn't wanna post pic here till I did the update in *What's goin on in hood" thread .. Dustin had a want to go to college, but I hadn't planned on sendin him.. he was only a c student and in the criminal career but seems game had other ideas 1st with the robbery and then him growin to YA without the cake .. I just went with it and switched it current storyline .. but I still think it's odd that he aged to YA autonomously and w/o the cake when there was no mention of that bein a thing (that I saw)

joandsarah77 21st Nov 2024 10:59 PM

Quote: Originally posted by CaliBrat
This is what I was askin 'bout .. as you can see in the pic there is no cake present .. it was all autonomously .. I didn't wanna post pic here till I did the update in *What's goin on in hood" thread .. Dustin had a want to go to college, but I hadn't planned on sendin him.. he was only a c student and in the criminal career but seems game had other ideas 1st with the robbery and then him growin to YA without the cake .. I just went with it and switched it current storyline .. but I still think it's odd that he aged to YA autonomously and w/o the cake when there was no mention of that bein a thing (that I saw)


Yeah, that's why I mentioned Lamars mod on Discord. I thought they had one that did that.

inspiredzone 21st Nov 2024 11:10 PM

Quote: Originally posted by CaliBrat
huh ... not sure I like that ... I thought it was agin to ya only if the cake was used .. I don't want all teens to go to collage and if I forget to age before 6pm .. it just makes it messy to fix :/

EDIT: So I went back to the mod page to read and see if I missed somethin .. this is what it says:

nothin 'bout it bein autonomous .. hmmm

That's why I ultimately removed this mod. It was a pain to have to manually age up all the teens who don't go to university with the blender, and it sucks that the teens to adults don't get to have a normal party and grow-up. I used to use the mod more in the past, but in my current hood, no one was doing the college at home AND only about 1/3 of my sims go to uni, so it wasn't worth it anymore.

(If you do remove it, you will get a bunch of testingcheats errors about deleting majors when you load lots in your hood, but it's fine after that)

CaliBrat 21st Nov 2024 11:10 PM

Quote: Originally posted by joandsarah77
Yeah, that's why I mentioned Lamars mod on Discord. I thought they had one that did that.


I saw and responded .. I don't have Lamare's as it's said to not work with inteen .. I use Squinges mod

Quote: Originally posted by inspiredzone
That's why I ultimately removed this mod. It was a pain to have to manually age up all the teens who don't go to university with the blender, and it sucks that the teens to adults don't get to have a normal party and grow-up. I used to use the mod more in the past, but in my current hood, no one was doing the college at home AND only about 1/3 of my sims go to uni, so it wasn't worth it anymore.

(If you do remove it, you will get a bunch of testingcheats errors about deleting majors when you load lots in your hood, but it's fine after that)


You can use the cake to force them to age up to adult (or that it says) ... and there is a mod now by whoward that allows for a teen to Y/A party before agin
https://www.picknmixmods.com/Sims2/...rBdayParty.html

i think I'm gonna keep it as I do like it .. now that I know it'll happen I'll just need to age any teen to adult at 5pm and not wait and let them age at 6 .. or if it happens will need to force them to age to adult and remove the college memory ... it's a pain, but since I like the rest of it .. I'll accept the bad with the good

joandsarah77 22nd Nov 2024 1:54 AM

Quote: Originally posted by CaliBrat
I saw and responded .. I don't have Lamare's as it's said to not work with inteen .. I use Squinges mod



You can use the cake to force them to age up to adult (or that it says) ... and there is a mod now by whoward that allows for a teen to Y/A party before agin
https://www.picknmixmods.com/Sims2/...rBdayParty.html

i think I'm gonna keep it as I do like it .. now that I know it'll happen I'll just need to age any teen to adult at 5pm and not wait and let them age at 6 .. or if it happens will need to force them to age to adult and remove the college memory ... it's a pain, but since I like the rest of it .. I'll accept the bad with the good


It isn't the college pack, I have used that for years, unless it is clashing with something.
You can also use the simblender to age to YA.

grammapat 22nd Nov 2024 3:52 AM

What builds body faster? Having someone give lessons? What about yoga and ? I've never used them.

Phantomknight 22nd Nov 2024 5:15 AM

Quote: Originally posted by CaliBrat
For those of ya'll who do play with or have played with Squinge college at home mod .. have ya ever had a teen autonomously turn into a YA w/o usin the birthday cake? That's not supposed to happen right? Cuz it just did it for me .. totally unprepared for it


Yes, it's supposed to happen. There's actually a few separate mods in the pack. (I didn't realize this either.) Make sure you're only installing the ones you want. You use either Teen To Young Adult No College EP8 (if you have AL; I believe there's also a Seasons version) or YA Birthday Cake to age teens to young adult. You don't need both files. Teen To Young Adult No College EP8 will automatically age every teen to YA while YA Birthday Cake is a hacked cake that allows teens to age to YA and YAs to age to adult and graduate. So if you don't want all your teens to automatically become YAs if you don't send them to Uni, just install the cake. That way you can control who you want to be a YA in the main hood.


ETA: the absolute fastest way to build body is to learn the Physiology skill and then use the glitch to instantly learn body skills. Perfect for those sims I want/need to have Body skills but don't actually want them to work out or get fit. If you have a fix for the glitch or think it's too cheaty, though, not sure. Idk if different objects have different rates of skill gain, but in my experience the exercise bike is a decent way to skill up. Yoga I haven't done in a while, but that's probably cuz I feel it takes a while. I save it for sims that seem like they would actually do yoga, instead of sims who just need the points. Tai Chi is faster than yoga, iirc. Oh, the punchin bag and obstacle course career rewards are good too! Having someone train you on either of those is a fast way to earn points. (When I play Pleasantview I let Daniel train Angela on the punching bag for the scholarship and that can be done in a weekend.)

CaliBrat 22nd Nov 2024 5:51 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Phantomknight
Yes, it's supposed to happen. There's actually a few separate mods in the pack. (I didn't realize this either.) Make sure you're only installing the ones you want. You use either Teen To Young Adult No College EP8 (if you have AL; I believe there's also a Seasons version) or YA Birthday Cake to age teens to young adult. You don't need both files. Teen To Young Adult No College EP8 will automatically age every teen to YA while YA Birthday Cake is a hacked cake that allows teens to age to YA and YAs to age to adult and graduate. So if you don't want all your teens to automatically become YAs if you don't send them to Uni, just install the cake. That way you can control who you want to be a YA in the main hood.


ETA: the absolute fastest way to build body is to learn the Physiology skill and then use the glitch to instantly learn body skills. Perfect for those sims I want/need to have Body skills but don't actually want them to work out or get fit. If you have a fix for the glitch or think it's too cheaty, though, not sure. Idk if different objects have different rates of skill gain, but in my experience the exercise bike is a decent way to skill up. Yoga I haven't done in a while, but that's probably cuz I feel it takes a while. I save it for sims that seem like they would actually do yoga, instead of sims who just need the points. Tai Chi is faster than yoga, iirc. Oh, the punchin bag and obstacle course career rewards are good too! Having someone train you on either of those is a fast way to earn points. (When I play Pleasantview I let Daniel train Angela on the punching bag for the scholarship and that can be done in a weekend.)


Thanks for that explanation as it didn't say that for the download (or if it did I didn't understand stand it as such).

Charity 22nd Nov 2024 11:59 AM

Since I got the College at home hack I let all my teens age up to YA. Those that wouldn't go to University just do something else. That way they're not missing out on a whole lifestage because they aren't going to Uni.

CaliBrat 22nd Nov 2024 1:08 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Charity
Since I got the College at home hack I let all my teens age up to YA. Those that wouldn't go to University just do something else. That way they're not missing out on a whole lifestage because they aren't going to Uni.

I prefer to give them a few extra days to keep them all the same age ... don't want them to have the memory of goin to college if they didn't go

Charity 22nd Nov 2024 3:10 PM

Quote: Originally posted by CaliBrat
I prefer to give them a few extra days to keep them all the same age ... don't want them to have the memory of goin to college if they didn't go


I thought that they only got the memory if they graduated.

CaliBrat 22nd Nov 2024 3:13 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Charity
I thought that they only got the memory if they graduated.

not if they use the home college .. or at least mine got it upon agin to ya

lordtyger9 22nd Nov 2024 4:05 PM

Does anyone know if there are any problems using Two Jeff's Mod No-indoors Kicky Bag with Bon Voyage?

AndrewGloria 23rd Nov 2024 12:29 AM

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Have you heard the joke about the equation, the thermometer and the elephant? Neither had I until tonight, when I overheard Sofia Milligan telling it to Sammy Hope. I'm not sure if I really got the joke, but Sammy found it hilarious!


Bulbizarre 23rd Nov 2024 1:02 AM

Sometimes the dirty jokes are even more befuddling.

CaliBrat 23rd Nov 2024 1:14 AM

Quote: Originally posted by AndrewGloria
Have you heard the joke about the equation, the thermometer and the elephant? Neither had I until tonight, when I overheard Sofia Milligan telling it to Sammy Hope. I'm not sure if I really got the joke, but Sammy found it hilarious!



I tried googlin as I thought I'd seen a list before of what each icon meant .. but I can't seem to find it so maybe was on one of the sites that is now defunct *sadness*

anyways, I did find this .. while it doesn't show the thermometer (and prob missin others) .. it still is a nice cheat sheet of sorts
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Interest

simmer22 23rd Nov 2024 4:57 AM

Fairly sure there's a rocket (space?) and a thermometer (health?) and an elephant (animals) in the interest icons. I think they show up in the interest panel ingame (but don't quote me on that).

CaliBrat 23rd Nov 2024 7:05 AM

EDIT: Answer found .. thanks

question ... I can't recall, but we've learned much that what we used to think was bad isn't really so this might have changed too .. when it comes to beds and cribs .. is it ok to keep and pass it on from baby to baby? .. movin houses too as a person moves out and takes it with them?
(cross posting)

Quote: Originally posted by simmer22
Fairly sure there's a rocket (space?) and a thermometer (health?) and an elephant (animals) in the interest icons. I think they show up in the interest panel ingame (but don't quote me on that).


yeah, I've seen them in thought bubbles which is why I was almost positive I'd seen somethin that listed them all somewhere, but couldn't find it so shared what I could find

simsample 23rd Nov 2024 12:42 PM

Quote: Originally posted by lordtyger9
Does anyone know if there are any problems using Two Jeff's Mod No-indoors Kicky Bag with Bon Voyage?

He has PlaySanityFixes for BV which includes the no indoor kicky bag, so I think it shoud be okay.
https://simfileshare.net/folder/99004/

Matryoshkah 23rd Nov 2024 10:59 PM

Quote: Originally posted by joandsarah77
It's only hidden from you seeing it in catalogue. So its less cluttered, its not gone from the game.


Huh, I see. Does that also mean, then, that townies can still spawn with hidden clothes and hairs?


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