My Sims 2 Mod WIPs & Ideas

New Memories (that get applied automatically): Got Struck by Lightning, Made Friends with, Stopped being Enemies with, Got Sent Back to Public School / Kicked out of Private School, Gave Pet Up for Adoption, and perhaps a few more.

Different Icons for the memories about other sims so its easier to tell at a glance whether the memory is about themselves or a family member.

New Traits and effect mods for them: some of the Sims 3 Reward Traits, some Sims 4 traits not in Sims 3 (both CAS and Reward), and some brand new ones like Early Bird, Political, Health/Fitness Enthusiast, Fashionable/Fashionista, Vegan, etc.

Tweaks to the meal serving times since I find 10am far too early for lunch, it should still be breakfast.

Turning these vegetarian food replacers into standalone alternatives.

Restrict the Sell Pet Want so it can't roll as often, probably with traits support too.

Restrict the Pet Leaves Family Fear so it can't roll as often, such as requiring friendship and probably traits support too.

Restrict or block the Want to Become a Werewolf so it can't roll as often or at all.

Lower threshold for growing up badly, I think sims at the very bottom of positive aspiration should still grow up badly and not just those who are deep in the red.

Tweak & Fix Piqiwi's Holidays in more ways: 1) so that sims will still receive their pay even if they are off the lot (like with community time) at the time they'd usually get paid, 2) to restore the missing 'walk to work' action, 3) to fix work sometimes never starting again after a holiday without forcing off world errors (the carpool not coming, not getting pushed to drive to work, no penalty for missing work, etc.). I'll also share my holidays configuration.

Tweak the Classic Dance for Family Mod so that it is platonic for everybody, so friends could do it without triggering jealousy.

Add the ability to use the sell/give pet interaction on other lots like community lots or when you're playing as another household and have made the sim selectable. Not sure if this is possible yet.

Make all Hobbies Fun, for example, sims with the Cuisine OTH (and perhaps with the Natural Cook Trait) should have their fun motive increase when cooking, etc.

More Repeatable Memories e.g. Death & Resurrection.

Reduce the Energy Rating of Cribs.

Make Community Time work the same way on Vacations too.

Make it so you get some money for giving puppies & kittens up for adoption (?)

Prevent Parents from taking Children home during Parties.

Add notification or popup camera for when Sims in University return home from class (?)

Restrict the want to buy an MP3 to only be able roll for sims with the Music & Dance Hobby or Virtuoso Trait and the the buy handheld want for only Games Hobby Sims & Computer Whizzes.

Restrict the want to Perform Music for Tips to only be able roll for sims with the Music & Dance Hobby or Virtuoso Trait.

Prevent Visitors from leaving when sims are asleep or off-world. This behavior really screws up my use of 'Ask to Watch Kids Enabled'.

Make it so that college professors lose relationship points with students that get on Academic Probation.

Stop Santa constantly using the toilet.

More edits to the WantTrees such as the wants to go on vacations more common for elders and pleasure sims, more common encouragement want, more chance for marriage & baby wants for some aspirations like popularity, etc.

I'd also really like to change the conditions for the Retirement Want rolling because I find it far too rare that it only rolls after they get their first grandchild, but I'm not sure that's possible.

Another want edit idea is to change the restrictions on which majors can roll for which aspirations (and maybe careers?), but again I'm not sure if that's possible yet.

An Edit of Cyjon's New Servos mod so that newly activated Servos get the same badges as the activator instead of random ones or none and so they also get the activator's interests.

An Edit of BO's Food Dish Autonomy that implements a check to see if there is currently a party going on and stops sims autonomously putting away leftovers if there is.

Repo the cloned Maxis Easel in my Hobby-Gaining Edit of More Functional Easels to the original Maxis Easel so that any recolors will also work on the more functional version.

Revise the skills built in each career so they make more sense, such as removing the cooking skill from the Journalism Career.

Enable the 'Greet Everyone' interaction on Community Lots.

Add Traits conditions to many existing mods such as Toddlers Sleep Through Night

Make the 'Dismiss' Interaction with the Nanny instantaneous, so they don't have to queue an animation. May be complex to ensure they put the baby/toddler down first though!

Nerf the fun gain from viewing art for sims that don't have the arts & crafts OTH or the Avant Garde Trait.

Change which personalities increase the gain rate of which hobbies.

Allow more sims to be invited as vacation guests.

Edit the Actual Alcohol Mod so that it also applies to the make a drink and drink from bottle interaction, as well as drinking from the keg or nectar, but also add more restrictions to the drunken interactions so they only fight with people they aren't friends with, only initiate romantic interactions if they have high chemistry, etc. Perhaps also add new drunken interactions such as ask sim on date. Another idea is to change the chance of a drunken interaction occurring based on their energy, so sims are more likely to be drunk when they're getting tired.

Apply Fractured Moonlight's Recolorable Edits and Shasta's Recolors of the Agility Training Items converted from Pet Stories to Chris Hatch's Version.

Edit the Ice Carving Station converted from Pet Stories so that it builds Arts & Crafts Enthusiasm and the Mechanical Skill. It would also be really cool if different ice sculptures could be made depending on skill rather than only swans, but that's beyond me for the moment.

My own Turn On/Off Replacer.

Update my No Multiple Loves / Woohoos / Makeouts Wants for Hopeless Romantics so that it also blocks the 'woohoo with 5 different service sims' want.

Add a popup to the Community Time Project which asks you whether you want to start the delay timer when your sims return, or have them return immediately Maxis-style as this can be helpful for playing active careers.

Add Film & Literature Hobby Enthusiasm gain to the Thespian's Mark and Science Enthusiasm gain to Skeletal Endowment.

Integrate these 1t2 Careers with LTWs into my Job Salary Re-balance.

Rework the seating section of the catalog so that it is more balanced, consistent and logical, so there is a good distribution of low, mid, and high quality items in terms of need stats, and the price and stats shown properly reflects the real quality (comfort, energy, etc.)

Slightly reorganize the catalog in small ways such as moving the fish tanks into the pets section, and making the sculptures section exclusively for purposeful decorations and artistic pieces, and the misc deco section for clutter.