BO - Step-Family Romance

Hi @kestrellyn,

I must have misunderstood the intention of your mod. Sorry about that. But you may also have missed something about mine. The "Alt" version of my mod DOES allow family interactions as well as romance between step-siblings. That's what I released that version for, because that was a known failing in the original.

I looked at the differences between our two mods, and I agree with your assessment that the Step-family romance effect could indeed be achieved by simply removing these four test blocks. Since I *am* officially retired, I think I should not make a lot of fuss about you removing those from your version mod and releasing that as a fixed version of Step-family Romance. If you do so with partial credits to me, and a link to this page, I will update my page to reflect that there is a better version -- YOURS.

On the other hand, I'm also perfectly willing (and would appreciate the gesture by returning credits and a link) if you allowed me to incorporate your fix into my mod. Either way is fine with me.

Well, from what you clearly state (and from what I can see that the mod does) the alt version does not allow family interactions between step-siblings - instead it allows family interactions between step-parents and -children, with no romantic options for those sims. As long as you are only modifying the step-family BHAV, you can either have one or the other, but not both.

I am fine with whatever you want regarding you incorporating the fix or me making the fixed version. I did not know you had officially retired!

I will concede that simply inverting the result on those four tests was the wrong way to go about it. And also that without altering other BHAVs, it must always be either family interactions, or romantic interactions, but never both. For my intentions, that was enough, though.

Of course, it doesn't allow family interactions between step-siblings, because that was the point in order to allow romantic interactions! Step-parents and step-children shouldn't be allowed to interact romantically, because that would stand in the way of the familial interactions -- such as encourage -- that would benefit the children's upbringing. Also, it seemed wrong to have (step-)parent/(step-)child romance.

Ok, I'll put the fix in, then. Because, retired or not, I like to pride myself on fixing my mistakes. I'll consider this one of those, and you're the one pointing it out, and showing me the correct path. Thank you!

Well, technically it was EAxis's mistake (and they had like five years to fix it, and never did...), you just didn't notice it. I probably wouldn't have noticed it either, if I hadn't already been writing family mods and carefully checking what interactions were available.

What I was saying earlier is, it actually *is* possible to have step-siblings have both family and romantic interactions for one another, if you wanted to do that. You just have to take the step-sibling check out of the step-family BHAV and move it to specifically only the BHAVs that get checked for the availability of family interactions. I used this to do an incest hack for someone back on MATY, but I never published it anywhere else.