Lost & Found: Moar Stings (Plus Other New Game, Edit Town Tweaks)
Personally, I rather enjoy hearing audio cues in my game, so I was delighted to find some unused and underused stings to polish up while digging around the game files.
What Is This Mod?
This is a scripting mod that enables some previously-unused stings for specific situations in-game, as well as fixing some tangentially sting-related annoyances.
The stings, as well as the situations in which they will play, are listed below. Certain stings can be disabled through tuning; see below for more info.
Sting | Situation |
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sting_new_game_start | Plays upon loading into Live mode after starting a new game |
sting_movein_scenario | Previously played upon moving into a lot with a special move-in scenario; now only plays upon moving an active Sim to another residential lot. Does not play when kicking sims out of the active household. |
sting_holo_disc_sprite | Plays upon purchasing a lot in the future |
sting_generic_france | Plays upon purchasing a vacation home in France |
sting_generic_china | Previously played upon opening the door to the Dragon Cave in China; now also plays upon purchasing a vacation home in China |
sting_generic_egypt | Previously played upon opening the door to the Pyramids, the Sphinx, and Abu Simbel in Egypt; now also plays upon purchasing a vacation home in Egypt |
sting_ownership | Previously played upon buying out a Rabbithole or purchasing a community lot; now also plays upon purchasing a residential lot outside of China, France, Egypt, or Oasis Landing |
In order to allow the new game sting to play without interruption, this mod also disables the incredibly annoying Social Group notification if University Life is installed, and delays spawning of the Weather Stone until 10:00 AM (or until either the game is saved and reloaded or Edit Town is entered and exited) if both Supernatural and Seasons are installed.

Edit Town Music
One thing that has bugged me for years is that Map View music added by expansions packs does not play in Edit Town mode. With the optional "EditTownMusicAdditions" file, that music can be added back into Edit Town, so you can modify your worlds the way they were meant to be modified! The package files are grouped by expansion pack, so you can easily remove them if you dislike the music from a particular expansion or don't have that expansion installed. See the Readme inside the download for more info. Note that you do NOT need the base mod installed to use these optional add-ons.
Tuning
The new game sting, residential lot purchase stings, and moving sting can be toggled separately by modifying the "Gamefreak130.StingTweaks" XML resource using S3PE or a similar package editing program.
Compatibility and Uninstallation
Built, tested, and (mostly) working on game version 1.69. It should work on earlier versions, but it has not been tested; do so at your own risk.
The base mod does not require any expansion packs to run, but the Edit Town music packages should only be run with their associated expansion packs installed.
The Edit Town music packages override the "music_mode_edit_town" AUDT resources (0xC0BE10D459F226EE) and will conflict with any mod that does the same. The base mod overrides the following AUDT resources:
sting_movein_scenario (0x1C740C94D324A04A)
sting_vacationhome_china (0xE9ECC2927F9D6B37)
sting_vacationhome_egypt (0x667C3F808B386567)
sting_vacationhome_france (0x1B486C6B7FA880BB)
Uninstallation should not create a huge problem -- simply remove the mod from the packages folder. However, to avoid potential game problems, it is good practice to ensure that, if applicable, the Weather Stone has spawned in all new games before removal. After removal or update of the mod, it is recommended that you delete the "ScriptCache.package" file from your Userdata folder.

None yet, surprisingly.
Additional Credits
Armiel for her Builder's Island that makes testing quick and simple
Various modders and their scripting tutorials scattered throughout the Interwebs
Tashiketh for keeping this site up and running
My many test sims for putting up with my nonsense
And you, for checking out this mod!
Gamefreak130_StingTweaks.rar
| The main mod containing sting additions and new game tweaks
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Uploaded: 18th Nov 2019, 5.5 KB.
2,465 downloads.
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Gamefreak130_EditTownMusicAdditions.rar
| Optional packages for moar Edit Town music; see Readme for more details
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Uploaded: 18th Nov 2019, 3.1 KB.
2,278 downloads.
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For a detailed look at individual files, see the Information tab. |
Install Instructions
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Updated: 2nd Dec 2019 at 9:11 PM
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