I've been reading up on the Autonomous Casual Romance mod by twojeffs and I noticed a lot of people swear by it, but it seems confusing as hell and I don't want my sims to get completely out of control just because I didn't set something right :/ BUT at the same time there are some features i'd really like in my game. Any ACR users who want to weigh in?

I don't use it, but from what I've heard, its sort of like Story Progression from Sims 3, but to a lesser degree, in that it only affects relationships, not aging and time.

Also, you can set its 'strength', as in, to what extent can it actually force a romantic interaction between your sims. Something like that, there experts on this subject, just wait for them.

I think it's bloody brilliant! It has totally revitalised my gameplay. Admittedly, it can be a bit daunting at first, but it really is a lot easier to set up than it looks. You don't have to worry about your Sims getting out of control, because every aspect of the mod can be set so your Sims can be as wild (or not) as you want them to be - you can have settings that affect each Sim individually, or that only affect a certain lot, or settings that affect the whole hood. It just gives an element of randomness to the game, and I really enjoy seeing who my Sims will put the moves on when left to their own devices.

Is it just as easy to uninstall if I need to? That's something else I require with my downloads :p

Since I use ACR I don't need to mircomanaging relationships anymore. Once you have configured a lot, you only need to set the overall autonomy to a higher or lower setting, if the interactions annoying you / aren't enough for you. Granted, it could become a clickfest, if you want to configure each sim individually, but you haven't to pay close attention anymore, how your sim should act with others to avoid negative reactions. My sims pick always the appropriate action. And if you aren't happy with your settings at all, you can easily reset and reconfigure ACR.
Since I play usually with large households - 28 sims was the highest number so far - it saves me a lot of time. And with ACR I can turn off the free will of an indiviual sim if he annoy me to much (I usually use it to turn my servos into mindless drones and sweat shop worker, muhaha!).


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Since the controller aren't implemented in a neighborhood.package, sure. The only thing that ACR does permanently is the gender preferences setting of all available sims. But, it doesn't harm the game, in my opinion. You could talk one sim straight/bi/gay, if you want to invest the time. Or just don't let ACR randomize the gender prefs in the first place.
You only need to remove all ACR files from your download folder and should delete every adjuster on every lot before doing it and reset the settings to normal. This shouldn't be too much clicks. If you count the clicks that ACR is saving you... this shouldn't be too bad.

Does that go for version 2.0 as well?

I don't use ACR as it's a large mod and from what I can see I'd only use a small part of it, so not worth it for me. I do have fun watching other people post about how their sims run rampant though, but I don't want that. About the only thing I'd want from it that my other mods don't offer is a little bit more of a seeking for a partner. I have to push my sims a little more then I would like.

Doesn't ACR add tokens to all sims though? What happens if you pull your download folder to do a 50/50 or for some other reason?

If you want to remove ACR, you have to go in game, spawn the adjuster and choose to remove all tokens or something like that. I haven't done it yet, but before deleting the files from your download folders, you should let ACR remove the tokens it has given to your neighborhood(s).

I don't know. For some reason i haven't even realized, there was a v2.0. From what I could understood is that it doesn't use any different saving behavior. twojeffs stated in the readme file you don't even need to uninstall the old version. Just swap the files.

So I guess the uninstalling method stayed the same.

I tried to play without ACR once, lasted one sim hour, left the game to install ACR back ... It's one of those mods, once I tried it, I can't play without it, especially after I discovered it had version 2.0, it added so much more options and settings I found useful. And I love the relationships' drama in my 'hoods, the unexpected romance, cheating, two-three-four timing, if Sims are lucky to hide it :D

You can set the setting to have full control or not it is the players choice. V2 is very easy to install and un-install, just put it in or take it out is all you need to do.(The first time you run your hood it will auto set it up with normal settings, and the first time you run your hood after un-install all the tokens get removed.)
Every thing in ACR can be adjusted by the player. You can make your Sims totally faithful or not your choice. You can set your lot to be Brothel or Normal, Brothel makes sims woohoo a lot more and normal will have your sims do woohoo maybe 1-3 times a day, both will have your sims flirt and kiss a lot all day long.

The read me was never made for V2 before Twojeffs left, and the org. read me is and can be use to get most of the info that is needed.
If any one needs more info just go to Simbology and ask we are very happy to help any one out over there.

I was hesitant to install ACR because it sounded so complicated, but it's not as difficult to use as I thought it would be.

I was like you a few months ago, skeptical on whether or not I should get this mod. I ended up reading all documentation provided for it to understand all it could do and then decided to try it out. You can just test it, there is a way to uninstall, but that's in the documentation. Don't just rip it out of your download folder.

It made my game far more interesting. Autonomous romantic actions can lead to some very fun or disastrous instances. I have a semi-annual underwear party for a fraternity at Sim state, and with ACR that thing is a free-for-all. One I had three instances of autonomous woo-hooing in the hot tub. And it seems rather appropriate and believable for that situation. As opposed to the time a sim father of two's wife died and at the wake, with no direction from me, his mother-in-law of his now deceased wife seduced him into bed and I was doing a few 'WTF''s in the background and then chalked it up to severe grieving.

The other big thing I like about the ACR is that it is casual. In a vanilla game you have Sim A with a crush on Sim B. Sim B gets flirted with Sim C and suddenly Sim A flips their shiz and slaps everyone with -100 relationships. Now that's understandable if they were married but kind of ridiculous with crushes. With ACR you can select to casually flirt, casually woo-hoo, casually kiss, casually hug with a little more than friendship in mind and none of these sims has to have over 50 Daily or Lifetime scores with the other. Also you can adjust their jealousy so a romance sim might be pretty chill when someone they've had a one night stand with starts dating someone else. A lot less hate all around from the sims.

I suggest to try it for a week and then uninstall it if you don't like the results (remember to read the documentation that comes in the zip)

Yes though I think it has an auto option.


It will only affect your sims if you load the hood. When you're doing 50/50, I assume you don't do that but test with a disposable test hood.

I use it with autonomous woohoo off. With auto woohoo on, my Sims were woohooing and pretty much nothing else. Honestly all the auto stuff is okay, but I could do without it. The only reason I still have it in my game is to enable all flirts for people in long-term relationships.

If you don't want the autonomous stuff, don't care about the flirts, but want your Sims to act like halfway sane persons regarding jealousy, Pescado's romancemod will do the trick.

I actually want the mod for the ability to make my sims faithful to their significant other. I don't know why, but I just take that stuff seriously, like if they're engaged/married I don't even want them attracted to another sim (at least that's how I want the two that i'm currently playing) and I guess i'd like them to woohoo on their own, occasionally. Just to keep the spice in the relationship. ^_^

Version 2.0 is far better than the first version, because it adds a few 'extras' like birth control (and it really works!) and settings for lots that are not family oriented.

It's worth the time to install, because it gives the game a more realistic flavor.

Ok. After reading some more of the documentation and the comments here, I decided to install. We'll see how this goes *fingers crossed*

I'm about to load my game, I'll update after I adjust the settings!

Glad you installed it!

I personally love ACR...and couldn't play without it (version 2). It really adds so much life to the game.

It's something quite nice about seeing Sims that I wouldn't have even thought of attempting to pair up, get to that point...on their own. And seeing some truly faithful Sims that are in committed relationships, decline advances towards them. Much more realistic.

I also use Pescado's 'Romance' and Cyjon's 'Apology Fury Fix' and 'Soothing Apology' mods as well. These all seem to work quite well at keeping those added perks....and sometimes "Uh-oh!" moments, that Sims get themselves into (thanks to ACR)...a bit more balanced out.

Ok say for instance i'm in the "Global Switches" menu for the neighborhood settings and it says "Cheating is enabled" does that mean that it's currently set to enabled or if I click it, it WILL be enabled...? If that makes any sense.

**Edit** Nevermind, I figured it out I think.

Aw man, I can't even get the version 2

As someone who is programming illiterate I was quite discouraged when I first read the readme file that came with acr but I absolutely love it & have a damn hard time playing without it. I wanted it because I wanted the sims to have more control over their lives in some way (I mircomanage them in every other way lol) & I wanted them to be able to choose their own mates (to some exetent). Plus I really love the surprise baby factor of acr. I find it adds a bit more realism when an "oopps" happens that I had nothing to do with

If it says Cheating is enabled, if you click it it will change to Cheating is Disabled. The pie menus show what is currently set.

At least it is that way with 2.0 (Free time and up).

So far, so good I like how lovey-dovey my sims are

Probably too late now you've installed it XD, but I went through the same should I shouldn't I a while back and ended up just getting the Casual Romance mod without the A. It gives you all the extra interactions and teen/adult interactions, but without your sims daring to seduce a partner that you didn't have planned for them. XD I like to recreate my anime OTPs and it's not good if they pick someone different lol.

It also doesn't have the mandatory token dispensing to all sims, which also turned me off ACR. I would have liked to choose sims to give tokens to and only have those sims with tokens.

If you want autonomous woohoo then check out sexy sims. They have special beds etc. where you can set the autonomy of use (and also set whether the sims using it need to be in love or not, otherwise they will do it with anyone lol).