This is a set of overrides with a simple goal - to liberate young adults and college neighborhoods from restrictions on pets.
Features
This mod allows young adults and university residents to:
Adopt cats and dogs from pet shelter
Give them up for adoption
Sell and give pets to playable young adults
Buy pets in shops from pet displays
Hire obedience trainer
Have wants and fears about pets
Students living in main 'hood and non-students living on campus will be able to do all these things as well.
At the moment, teens can't take their pets with them by taxi when they're moving to college, but I plan on releasing the mod that allows that.
By the way, small pets, like birds, caged dogs and guinea pigs are allowed in college by default.
Plan of attack
Make sure you have Pets and University expansion packs.
Decide which version of this mod you want and download only one of them.
Choose and download related mods.
Optionally, run HCDU for conflicts.
Additional mods
You'd want to get additional mods that take care of aging, moving out and jobs at university. They are not absolutely necessary, but very much recommended.
If you already have a similar mod (e.g. other custom aging controller), you might not need my equivalent. Test for yourself to see if that other mod works for pets at university.
Requirements The Sims 2 Pets and University.
I only tested on Ultimate Collection, but I did work on compatibility, so the mod should be good for other configs as well. No confirmation, though.
Versions
pets-at-university - regular version with all the above features.
pets-at-university+noautopetbuy - the difference from the regular version is that uncontrolled playables won't autonomously buy pets from pet displays. (Personal note: You get asked before a pet is added to buyer's family, so I personally don't use this version. I can always say no, but sometimes I want to say yes to random pets.)
Choose only one version of the mod!
Conflicts
HCDU may show possible conflicts with the following mods, but they are resolved.
MogHughson's Apartments and Shopping - you can use our mods together and have all the benefits, if my mod loads after Mog's. Both versions of my mod are compatible with Mog's.
Pescado's No Autonomous Pet Buying - it's included in the noautopetbuy version of my mod (there's no other way). This means you can remove Pescado's mod, or let my mod load after Pescado's.
No Pet Obsession by twojeffs - can probably be resolved, see post #16
This mod may conflict with other mods that override the same resources.
0x42484156 0x7FF216AD 0x00001009 | Service - Obedience Trainer - TEST
0x42484156 0x7FD521D2 0x0000101E | Service - Pet - Give Up For Adoption - TEST
0x42484156 0x7FA083E3 0x0000200F | EP3 - Interaction - Buy - TEST
0x42484156 0x7FA083E3 0x00002022 | Interaction - Buy TEST
0x42484156 0x7F4DE67B 0x0000101E | Service - Pet - Adoption - TEST
0x42484156 0x7F4DE67B 0x0000100B | CT - Phone Call Available?
0x42484156 0x7F01EC29 0x00002414 | Social - Pet - Sell TEST
0x42484156 0x7F01EC29 0x00002401 | Social - Give Pet To TEST
0x42484156 0x7F739728 0x00001247 | CT - Test - Obtain Pet
0x42484156 0x7F739728 0x00001248 | CT - Test - Obtain Pet - Exclusive
0x42484156 0x7F739728 0x00001268 | CT - Test - Pet Leaves Family
0x42484156 0x7F739728 0x00001267 | CT - Test - Offer Pet For Adoption
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That's it. If you catch a bug or have a suggestion, please post in the comments. Thank you!
Additional Credits:
EA/Maxis, SimPE, Compressorizer, Photoshop.
My thanks to LilSister and gummilutt for testing.
The picture is composed of original Sims 2 renders and some default Photoshop pattern.
Omigosh! Do you know what this means..? FRATERNITY MASCOTS!! I have been working on perfecting a new fraternity on my campus. Got all kinds of deco, colors, coat-of-arms, symbols, custom clothing... Now, I can add a MASCOT! ...and, the ability to swipe the other guy's mascot. >=)
Thanks, Lamare! You really do come up with the greatest stuff!
I actually once got a pet in university by accident - I was able to give a cat away to a YA. I kind of smacked myself when I loaded her lot and realized I'd gotten a cat into college. It was basically fine except that a) the cat did not age, and b) the only way to get the cat off campus after she graduated was to have one of her roommates invite her over and give it back. I'm glad there's now a hack to fix those problems, though! Thanks for making uni so much more interesting to play.
Great mod! Does it conflict with no pet obession by TJ?
Yes, you could say it conflicts a little, but it's a sort of conflict you can try to resolve by load order. As well as my mod, "No Pet Obsession" also alters sim's wish to obtain a pet. If TJ's mod wins the load order, it will still prevent young adults from having that want. If my mod wins, TJ's alterations to the wish (dependency on interest in animals, etc.) will be ignored by the game.
Note that I haven't tested the mods together, this is just my assessment made by quickly looking at the code.
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The Sims 2 Pets and University.
11th Jun 2018 at 10:45 PM
