BG - Ages Behaviour Tweak
Requires the XML Injector
MOD REWORKED, DELETE THE OLD FILES IF YOU HAVE THEM:
Zero_PH_MoreArguments
Zero_PH_AgesBehaviourTweaks
Zero_BG_AgesBehaviourTweaks - PersonalVersion
Zero_BG_AgesBehaviourTweaks
Zero_BG_Staff&Roommates_CleanUp
Have you noticed that kids, teens, young adults, and older Sims with autonomy turned on behave pretty much the same? This mod will allow you to diversify autonomous behavior for each age. For example, teenagers will not do the dishes or clean the room on their own. Elderly Sims will stop scrolling through the news feed on their phone all the time and go to read a book. Sims of all ages will choose to do less mindless things like looking at paintings or sculptures. Mermaids can argue about life on land, aliens about intergalactic travel, vampires about drinking blood, and witches about magic.
MAIN FILE
This is always required, it's only the injector snippet and does nothing alone. The following modules can be used independently from each other but you need at least one
Behaviour
This is the module that affects autonomy more, what it does:
Reduces some obsessive behaviour, but on age basis. Stuff like the use of computer, phone, chess, workout, dancing, playing videogames, trolling the forum, mischief, gardening, singing are tweaked to be globally less likely to happen but also, less likely to happen for the different ages.
For example, while the autonomy for mischief interactions, phone, computer, dancing is kept fairly high for teens and children, as the sim grow older the autonomy will be reduced, at the same time, the autonomy for other things will be increased. Some autonomy is completely blocked for some ages, like children shouldn't spend their time watching paintings.
This module also alters how strongly the different ages are affected by different moods. In maxis, only teen have increased strength on all emotions. That's kept as it is, but I added the same for other ages:
Children will be relatively happier, more playful, more inspired, more energised bt also... more bored
Teens are left at Maxis
Young Adults will feel the anger, confident, embarrassed, flirty and sad mood more than other ages
Adults have increased strength for the uncomfortable and stressed moods
Elders have increased strength for the uncomfortable, bored and sad moods
This adds no moods, it just means that when in that specific mood, there will be a bonus.
Cleaning
This aims to reduce the autonomous cleaning sims are obsessed with. It doesn't affect slob and neat sims.
This too is tuned on a age basis, so that children should not autonomously decide to clean, Adults will be the more likely to do it. The autonomy is not blocked for teens but they shouldn't be very likely to do it. Autonomy is globally reduced anyway.
Some arguments are restricted to some kind of occults:
Mermaids can argue about living on land
Aliens about intergalactic travel
Vampires about drinking blood
Witches about magic
Some are exclusive of some traits. Some are exclusive between husband and wife.
Romance
This globally reduces the autonomy for romantic interactions on age basis. Teens will be the more likely to flirt and mess around autonomously, the autonomy decreases slightly as the sim grows older. Doesn't affect romantic sims.