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No More Lightning or Thunder - Safe and Normal Rain Weather
No More Lightning or Thunder - Safe and Normal Rain Weather
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Uploaded: 2nd Oct 2022 at 10:35 AM
Updated: 7th Feb 2023 at 6:08 AM
Updated: 7th Feb 2023 at 6:08 AM
The Sims 3: Seasons often has thunderstorms. A lot of thunderstorms. And they're a part of almost any form of rainy weather. It's far from unusual to have thunder 4 days a week, or to have thunderstorms last 2 days straight.
With this override mod to remove lightning, your Sims can go out in rainy weather with nothing to fear, so they can jump in puddles, test out umbrellas, and simply be able to be outdoors in general. The mod also aims to help soothe the fears of players out there who may have astraphobia, a fear of lightning.
Weather-related lightning strikes on world lots become impossible to occur ever again and will be a thing of the past, and even thunder in the faraway distance become a statistical anomaly that happen maybe once every 2 weeks or so.
———Files in GameplayData.package that has been changed———
• SeasonsManager+WeatherManager+RainEvent_0x787ee5a93d68aa6c
• WeatherStone_0x6986c5e92f516002
• GeyserRift+ExploreRift_0xd206af896b9317c4
• WeatherMachine_0xd6f75749838ffe43
• CloudRay_0xda837ar8b8b6aa29
———Values that have been changed (Default values → This mod's values), in SeasonsManager+WeatherManager+RainEvent unless otherwise noted———
• kMinTimeBetweenLightning (Value in in-game minutes): 15 → 800
• kMaxTimeBetweenLightning (Value in in-game minutes): 45 → 900
• kChanceForceLightningOnFocusLot (Percentage value): 15 → 0
• kMinimumPrecipitationIntensityForLightning: Moderate → Heavy
• (WeatherStone_0x6986c5e92f516002) kSummonWeatherFailureStruckByLightningChance: 10 → 0
• (GeyserRift+ExploreRift_0xd206af896b9317c4) kRiftBuffs: "NotSoHealthyGlow, Cloudy, LightningMagnet, Giddy, Singed" → "NotSoHealthyGlow, Cloudy, Giddy, Singed"
• (WeatherMachine_0xd6f75749838ffe43) kChanceToFail: 50 → 0
• (CloudRay_0xda837ar8b8b6aa29) kNumUsesForBackFire: 4 → 750000
———Notes———
• The mod does not prevent Sims from autonomously trying to run to an indoor area during heavy rain.
• As of February 2023, NRaas Overwatch has been known to permanently enable the Dystopian Future Defense Grid in Oasis Landing for that savefile, thus it disables meteor-related lightning there. As a significant percentage of Sims 3 mod users could be presumed to use that mod, it is unclear if there's any need for this mod too to disable that lightning type.
———Changelog———
• 7th of February 2023: v1.2 update. The Sims Wikia claimed that backfire lightning was a very common possibility from the Climatron Control Unit and Cloud-inator 9000, so I prevented those two items from being able to backfire.
• 5th of November 2022: Non-numbered major update (Retroactively titled v1.1). The mod now also removes the chance for weather stones to cast a lightning strike on the Sim, as well as makes it so that geyser rifts in Into the Future's dystopian future no longer has a chance of giving the "Lightning Magnet" moodlet.
With this override mod to remove lightning, your Sims can go out in rainy weather with nothing to fear, so they can jump in puddles, test out umbrellas, and simply be able to be outdoors in general. The mod also aims to help soothe the fears of players out there who may have astraphobia, a fear of lightning.
Weather-related lightning strikes on world lots become impossible to occur ever again and will be a thing of the past, and even thunder in the faraway distance become a statistical anomaly that happen maybe once every 2 weeks or so.
———Files in GameplayData.package that has been changed———
• SeasonsManager+WeatherManager+RainEvent_0x787ee5a93d68aa6c
• WeatherStone_0x6986c5e92f516002
• GeyserRift+ExploreRift_0xd206af896b9317c4
• WeatherMachine_0xd6f75749838ffe43
• CloudRay_0xda837ar8b8b6aa29
———Values that have been changed (Default values → This mod's values), in SeasonsManager+WeatherManager+RainEvent unless otherwise noted———
• kMinTimeBetweenLightning (Value in in-game minutes): 15 → 800
• kMaxTimeBetweenLightning (Value in in-game minutes): 45 → 900
• kChanceForceLightningOnFocusLot (Percentage value): 15 → 0
• kMinimumPrecipitationIntensityForLightning: Moderate → Heavy
• (WeatherStone_0x6986c5e92f516002) kSummonWeatherFailureStruckByLightningChance: 10 → 0
• (GeyserRift+ExploreRift_0xd206af896b9317c4) kRiftBuffs: "NotSoHealthyGlow, Cloudy, LightningMagnet, Giddy, Singed" → "NotSoHealthyGlow, Cloudy, Giddy, Singed"
• (WeatherMachine_0xd6f75749838ffe43) kChanceToFail: 50 → 0
• (CloudRay_0xda837ar8b8b6aa29) kNumUsesForBackFire: 4 → 750000
———Notes———
• The mod does not prevent Sims from autonomously trying to run to an indoor area during heavy rain.
• As of February 2023, NRaas Overwatch has been known to permanently enable the Dystopian Future Defense Grid in Oasis Landing for that savefile, thus it disables meteor-related lightning there. As a significant percentage of Sims 3 mod users could be presumed to use that mod, it is unclear if there's any need for this mod too to disable that lightning type.
———Changelog———
• 7th of February 2023: v1.2 update. The Sims Wikia claimed that backfire lightning was a very common possibility from the Climatron Control Unit and Cloud-inator 9000, so I prevented those two items from being able to backfire.
• 5th of November 2022: Non-numbered major update (Retroactively titled v1.1). The mod now also removes the chance for weather stones to cast a lightning strike on the Sim, as well as makes it so that geyser rifts in Into the Future's dystopian future no longer has a chance of giving the "Lightning Magnet" moodlet.
