Hey, Gazelle, homeowors currently don't have to be done for the next day.
actually it works a bit different. it is like this: you can always leave one homework in the house and go to school, and your grade won't decrease.

if there are no homework in the house, when the sims goes to school, his grades will raise. if there is only one homework in the house when the sims goes to shcool, his grades will remain the same, and if theres two or more homeworks, his grades will go down.

So you can always leave one homework to do the next day.

yep. you can look in the kid's memorys and look for a memory of books. click on it and it will say that he/she learnt to study with someone.

Ok, thanks for that info. I seem a bit dim now. Playing all this time and that never twiged. :banghead: I suppose it's always better for homework to be done as soon as possible though

Jinyc! Thanks for stopping by! :jig:
I see you have been up to your ears in the PregTeenWoohoo Testing thread. Seeing that you are one of the best beta testers around, let me know if you notice anything odd and unusual happening when you try out the homework hack.

I only had time to test in one house. It is a dream come true. The kids enjoy their homework and one had me notified that she didn't have any so I didn't have to search for where she might have hidden it LOL.

I will test some more in other houses.

More testing and I have bad news. There is nothing wrong with your homework hack. I guess you will just have to resign yourself to making a new project for yourself. LOL

I remeber having read, that kids sometimes don't get homework (unhacked game) anyway. Can someone confirm this?

I would suggest that the ratio of possible no-homework in the hack should be kept fairly low. Otherwise I'm thrilled by your indept thoughts on a students life, Jenflower. Love it, thanks!

Yes sometimes kids don't get homework and I am so mistrusting of the little brats that I usually go on a homework hunt to see if they are slacking. They don't always place the homework near the PC. Jen's hack is great because it tells you that the character has no homework. I did have a few instances where ithe hack didn't and I went on a witch hunt but the kids were on the up an up!

This is a great hack, I always thought it should have been this way in the game from the get-go! Thank you so much! I have very few hacks in my game, but this one seems to straighten out the homework thing, so I couldn't resist.

Jenflower - you are amasing!! I love this hack (and I haven't even put it in the game yet).
Thankyou.

I totally agree. It makes the sims seem so stupid, more so than they already are. That'd be a great addition.

should I keep it like this or should I change it so that the increase only occurs for an A+ student?
Please, leave it for all students. Those who's grades are a bit lower need it even more.
Shez

sounds excellen! Looking forward to trying this one out. It sounds how maxis should have made it in the 1st place!!

This hack is working well for me... haven't noticed any problems with three families.

have been playing this for a few days now.
it has caused no problems in the game.
thanks so much for this hack, jenflower.
i have one teen who enjoys his homework and his fun levels rise too. i might risk letting him have a job too

Great idea! Thanks.

There is only one bug that i found with this hack and that is you cannot teach toddlers how to walk. The bar will show up and it will begin to fill up but it will decrease. Other than that excellent hack! Thanx

Thanks JenFlower

Shawty2102004, are you sure it's this hack? I've had that happen to me before, when I used the smart milk and the thinking cap at the same time. Also, I had it happen one other random time. Have you tried several times? With different families?

Hi, just posting back to let you know that after about a weeks play this hack is still going well and I have no conflicts issues to report. All works well as far as I can see and wouldn't dream of playing Sims2 without it now! Thanks so much for your hard work! Brilliant modification that should be standard in the game!

No, when I was a kid, I got A's or A minuses and I found homework slightly fun. By the way, this is awesome! :bow2:

hehe, just exactly what I was asking for, some ages ago. Now you did it! Thanks a million!

shawty2102004: I am pretty sure that is happening from something else. My hack doesn't even touch toddler learning and I just tested it with my game and the toddler bar fills as it normally should. MasterofSims might be correct in that this is just a random bug that occurs in the game...I do recall that there was an issue with the Smart Milk and the Thinking Cap...perhaps that is it?

I might be stating the obvious here, but in order to pinpoint whether a problem is caused by the hack or not, try doing the action with the hack in the downloads folder and then take out the hack and see if it still happens. Also test other houses if possible. This makes things a lot easier for the modders to know under what conditions these incidents occur.

In the meantime, if anyone else has had this happen to their toddlers and all evidence seems to indicate that my hack is doing this, please let me know. I'd be baffled :confused: but I'd do my darndest to try and fix it.
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Okay - it seems that everyone seems to be rather satisfied with the results so far...so , here are some questions:
- Is the speed too fast for anyone? Right now I have a +8 bonus for all A-, A and A+ students. Have any of you found that they complete their homework too quickly? I was thinking of maybe doing +2 for an A-, +4 for an A and a +6 or +8 for and A+. (Maybe the +6 and +8 could be based on their mood?) Just playing around with some ideas....

- Also, what should I do about the pop-up message that tells you when the child doesn't have homework? I personally like the message to appear when they don't have homework, but it sounded like some of you like to get the message when they do have it. I could make an alternate version that only gives the message if the child does have homework instead of when he/she doesn't.
Or, should I do both? Would that be too many pop-up messages if you have a house full of kids?

Okay - enough questions...I have to get back to work on my woohoo mod, but I'll check back to see what you think. Thanks all!

My son is 8 and he gets 3-4 pages of spelling homework and 2 pages of math a week, I make him finish it first thing when he gets home on Monday, because that leaves him with nothing left in the way of homework for the rest of the week and he can have fun. He is an A- average student, and it only takes him about 15 minutes to do all his work, 1/2 an hour if it is really challenging. I figure that if a real child can do it this fast, then a sim should be able to as well, unless they are all rather slow.

I like the +8 as it is...don't change a thing.

wow this is realistic..