BO - Skill while Tinkering
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If you have FreeTime installed, when sims are studying the Mechanical skill, they also gain Tinkering enthusiasm. Now that's all fine and dandy, but shouldn't it also work the other way around, so that while a sim is Tinkering, they gain more Mechanical skill?
Apparently NOT in the minds of the EAxians! But fortunately, AncientHighway came up with the solution: he wrote a mod - ah-tinkeringskillsmechanical - which added just that! However, when I put that mod in my game, any sim who had at least one point of Tinkering enthusiasm, would not be able to Tinker at all anymore: anytime when I ordered them to Tinker, they would just jump, and be reset!
So I opened up AH's mod, and investigated the issue. The search required me to investigate Skill- and Enthusiasm-gain in general as well, so I dove into the objects.package too. My search was successful: sims can now Tinker as much as they like, but they will not jump anymore!
Then I noticed something else: while this worked on kitchen appliances, bath tubs, showers, stereos and TVs, it did NOT do any good for sims tinkering with the Exerto 5000 Multipress Excercise Machine, any of the Hot Tubs, or the Modular Synth. They were simply never included in AH's mod. So I went on another mission, and included those into the mod as well.
So now I bring you BO - Skill while Tinkering. With this mod, whenever a sim is Tinkering, they will gain Mechanical skill.
NOTE: If you do NOT have FreeTime installed, there's no need for you to install this mod, because your sims won't be able to tinker anyway!
Happy Simming!
Apparently NOT in the minds of the EAxians! But fortunately, AncientHighway came up with the solution: he wrote a mod - ah-tinkeringskillsmechanical - which added just that! However, when I put that mod in my game, any sim who had at least one point of Tinkering enthusiasm, would not be able to Tinker at all anymore: anytime when I ordered them to Tinker, they would just jump, and be reset!
So I opened up AH's mod, and investigated the issue. The search required me to investigate Skill- and Enthusiasm-gain in general as well, so I dove into the objects.package too. My search was successful: sims can now Tinker as much as they like, but they will not jump anymore!
Then I noticed something else: while this worked on kitchen appliances, bath tubs, showers, stereos and TVs, it did NOT do any good for sims tinkering with the Exerto 5000 Multipress Excercise Machine, any of the Hot Tubs, or the Modular Synth. They were simply never included in AH's mod. So I went on another mission, and included those into the mod as well.
So now I bring you BO - Skill while Tinkering. With this mod, whenever a sim is Tinkering, they will gain Mechanical skill.
NOTE: If you do NOT have FreeTime installed, there's no need for you to install this mod, because your sims won't be able to tinker anyway!
Happy Simming!
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#29
26-11-2016
On M&G I ran into an odd issue - when tinkering on a stereo, it ends up increasing body skill rather than mechanical.
There weren't any conflicts detected with the HCDU, but I dumped it here if you want to look anyways: pastebin.com/bik2LcrW
There weren't any conflicts detected with the HCDU, but I dumped it here if you want to look anyways: pastebin.com/bik2LcrW
#30
26-11-2016
Ok, it's not a conflict thing. Which model stereo were they tinkering with? Was it a default maxis one, or some custom apparatus?
#31
26-11-2016
One of the default ones - I don't recall the name, but it was the one-tile one that sits on the floor.
#32
26-11-2016
I've checked the entire mod, and I can't find any reason why it should do this. I do know, however, that occasionally, if a sim has been working out earlier, the body skill gain is sometimes delayed.
I've had it so that a sim was working out. I hit the pause button, and then I set him up to get off the trainer, run to the bathroom, take a leak, take a shower, run to the kitchen, and get a meal. When I released the pause button, the sim did all these actions. Only after finishing his meal, he finally realized that he had grown a bit stronger, so the body gain symbol appeared over his head.
Maybe something like that happened in your game. However, if it happens again, please try a re-download and see if that fixes it.
I've had it so that a sim was working out. I hit the pause button, and then I set him up to get off the trainer, run to the bathroom, take a leak, take a shower, run to the kitchen, and get a meal. When I released the pause button, the sim did all these actions. Only after finishing his meal, he finally realized that he had grown a bit stronger, so the body gain symbol appeared over his head.
Maybe something like that happened in your game. However, if it happens again, please try a re-download and see if that fixes it.
