Modular stair steps are separate things - it's why if you have a recolourable version, you have to colour each step, one at a time.

Yes each step is a separate mesh which is why when you recolour them you have to recolour one step at a time but means more sims can use them at once.

Raindrop's fake stairs are wonderful. It can be a real pain in the neck to recolor all of the modular steps invisible, but the end result is well worth it.

Yes, I often use those recolorable stairs, and it is a pain, but, as you said, worth it... if you pick the right color the first time. I often don't, and have to test it out, especially because it's hard to really differentiate between some of them in those small thumbnails.

As for the other posters about the stamping feet reaction: I saw this happen most recently with a set of custom spiral stairs (I can't remember exactly where they came from, and while I *could* search through my downloads to find information, I'm too lazy at the moment)**. Therefore, I'm not sure if/when I last saw it on regular or modular stairs. It could be item specific, but I have seen the reaction so often, that I have become accustomed to pausing the game so I can select and micro-manage my sims on the stairs. I will check out the suggested overlay hack, but I wish it was also for spiral stairs.

+Oh, and I want to add another "Like to see" item here:
Half-sized doors for half-walls to match the existing wood trim. Possibly slaved to the color option of the half-wall. I know I could use a gate, but it just looks weird. My inspiration is an attic bedroom, which has half-walls surrounding the landing up from a ladder. I'd like only the lower portion of a dutch door here or, maybe a "child-gate" type thing. Preferably lockable.

**UPDATE: I am using the Marvine Simple Spiral Stairs from MTS_Michelle. Don't know if I can linkback here, so I won't.

I wonder if it'd be possible to induce a chance card system the first time they go to work, and if they fail they get fired.

there are 4 shipped version careers that require college.
and job levels for all shipped version careers are determined partly by skill and partly by household's number of friends.

I recall one chance card where the sim could potentially get fired. the other choice I take would get the sim demoted.
that chance card is a scripted event for Mary-Sue.

There's a couple of chance cards where the Sim can get fired/demoted. They can be frustrating.

Wouldn't be so bad if the choice made was obviously bad not silly.

I could swear that a mod already existed which changed which careers that were college mandatory or not. However I couldn't find it, so maybe this mod by Cyjon will work instead?

Phaenoh's Uni Major Revamp- Realistic Major to Career Linking. Though with SimPE and its career editor, it's not too hard to figure out how to customize your careers.

Syberspunk wrote a similar mod to Phaenoh's, and it was strongly recommended to me in my University or Not? thread, I believe it has some advantages over Phaenoh's, but I can't remember what. I'll try to post a link in the morning. (It's past my bedtime!)

MSD (maybesomethingdunno) has a mod on his tumblr I believe that has this ivy where you can "call" a neighbor to come do things for you. I believe gardening is one of them.

The hack by Syberspunk I mentioned in my post last month is his Uni Careers Hack here in MATY. Simsfreq recommended it to me in post #108 in my University. . . or not University? Should I or shouldn't I? thread. She prefers it to Phaenoh's mod because it also offers the option to make certain careers require a *specific* degree. See her post #131 in that thread. (My post #112 is also relevant).

I would love to have a hacked/standalone tip jar, which a sim could place in their home or on a business lot without having to perform. Maybe a collection plate sort of thing? I can see its use in public bathrooms, churches, restaurants, etc. Even in a dorm kitchen to collect for food supplies, for example. Something of the kind could work for newly-moved-in sims, as well. Ooh! I can see another related use as child's piggy bank, where visitors and family could add to it. Wasn't there something similar in Sims 1, or is middle age beginning to cloud my brain? (Please... don't answer that.)

TSO/FreeSO has one, so I assume it probably did come with TS1 too.

Ah! Thanks for the reference. It's good to know it wasn't just my imagination.

Can the repairman be used for this ? As in counting the number of repartions already done, if the repairman has already repaired it twice, then it won't be repairable the third time it brokes. What do you think about it ? Maybe easier to track down ?




Perhaps cats could pee on it ? :D

You can compost it *composts everything*

Composting is only useful if you have a garden though.

My sims often read the newspaper autonomously, so I don't have a problem with it not being used.

I sometimes have Sims stuff the newspapers in their inventories and them give stacks of them to their gardener friends. BoilingOil also modified the composter so you can sell the compost so it's useful for non-gardeners.

I have a recycling incentive in Coral Bay, sims get free compost bins and $50 when they return them full. The mayor then gives them to the farmers.

Wonder if you could mark a compost bin for sale and run an OFB compost business.

I haven't seen any way to make the Sim remember a specific object that doesn't involve editing the object itself in some way, but perhaps there is some way to use tokens that I am not familiar with Plus I know a lot of people don't hire repairmen and make their Sims repair broken things themselves, and that approach would make the mod pointless for all those simmers, and anyone who does a mix of both. Did you have some approach in mind for how you make the repairman remember that specific object?

I'd love to see two, three, or even four-tile versions of the Christmas lights. It gets annoying putting them up tile by tile, and it's even worse taking them down that way.

I was thinking instead of coding every kind of objects, you could code only the interaction "repair" (either by the repairman or the sim itself) and it will add the object id of the object repaired to the controller that will count down the whole thing. I realize now that it suppose that all objects use the same "repair" global and I'm not so sure of that. It was just an hypothesis ...




I've found another way but it is more complex. I use Chris Hatch's A&N ways in order to create my own addon. Then I put all the defaults in this newly created program subfolder. As I create its own shortcut, it's much easier to play but it needs a very lot of modding beforehand (you mustn't use anything else than default or you'll have to create neutral version). It's not worth it if you're not a crasy modder like me (I'm not afraid of long and hard work, and reinstalling game).