I’m delighted to present Better Control, a mod designed to let you control any Sim in a stable, immersive and lore-friendly way, while remaining as close as possible to EA/Maxis systems.
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Key Features
✛ Make non-household Sims playable directly in Live Mode through the Actions menu.
✛ Designed to stay aligned with EA/Maxis’ native interaction systems, prioritising long-term stability over forced or invasive behaviour.
✛ Intelligent autonomy management:
- Non-household Sims made playable have their autonomy disabled during the session (not saved after reloading the game).
- Household Sims can be switched to an autonomous state whilst remaining fully controllable.
- Autonomous household status is preserved after reloading the game and after entering CAS.
✛ Non-household playable Sims can enter the household’s home can enter the household’s home seamlessly while under your control when you are controlling them.
✛ General optimisation and internal stability improvements.
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New features in version 1.1 Beta (the beta version will initially be available only to paying Patreon subscribers, and will be made available to everyone at a later date)
✛ Everything described under ‘Key Features’, plus the information below.
✛ Added an optional autonomous dance behaviour system for household Sims set as autonomous and for non-household Sims.
✛ Added adjustable dance intensity settings directly in-game: Weak, Normal, Strong or Extreme.
✛ Added a dedicated in-game configuration menu for dance behaviour inside the EA interaction menu system by clicking on a door or gate.
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Mod limitations
✛ Non-household Sims made playable cannot cook, craft, eat or drink.
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System requirements and compatibility
✛ A recent version of The Sims 4.
✛ Script mods must be enabled in the game settings.
✛ May conflict with mods that modify autonomy or Sim selection behaviour.
✛ Installation: place the .ts4script and .package files directly into your Mods folder (or within a single subfolder).
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Supported Languages
This mod currently supports:
Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
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Acknowledgements
✛ Thanks to the Simsonian Library team for their S4 Shell Tools compilation utilities.
✛ Thanks to Maxis for creating The Sims 4.
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Support and feedback
Have you encountered a bug?
Feel free to leave a comment or contact me. Your feedback is essential to improving this mod.
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Development
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