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Social Variety

Adds autonomy to 300+ social interactions, adds cooldowns to annoying ones, and sensibility to non-sensical ones.

Description

This mod requires Lot 51 Core Library.
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This mod aims to bring more depth and personality to your Sims’ social interactions. It is inspired by Have Some Personality Please! by PolarBearSims, but is built from the ground up with new mechanics and interactions. It's also built to be patch-resistant.

It’s made up of five separate modules that can be installed independently of one another, so you can customize the experience to fit your playstyle:

  • Expanded Autonomy: Adds autonomy to over 300 hand-selected social interactions for Sims to use on their own.
  • Interaction Cooldowns: Prevents certain interactions from being autonomously repeated too often.
  • Sensible Interactions: Applies strict tests to certain interactions to prevent them from appearing when it doesn't make sense for them to.
  • Sensible Autonomy: Applies strict tests to certain interactions to prevent them from autonomously firing when it doesn't make sense for them to.
  • Modded Interaction Cooldowns: Prevents certain modded interactions from being repeated too often.

The combined result is more varied conversations that help your Sims feel unique and expressive.

⭐ Module 1: More Autonomous Socials

Click here to see the full list of 300+ social interactions ↗️

Note: This module can NOT and will NOT cause your Sims to perform any category of socials more often. It only expands the pool of available interactions they can select from when they DO choose to be mean/romantic/mischievous/etc.

Side note: This mod doesn't unlock the above interactions for every Sim. Sims will still need the proper traits/careers/skills/etc. to use them. You will also still need to own the appropriate packs, the mod does not add interactions.

For deeper considerations over when Sims choose to perform certain interactions, consider downloading my Deeper Social Autonomy mod in addition to this mod!

⭐ Module 2: Interaction Cooldowns

Click here to see the full list of interactions with added cooldowns ↗️

⭐ Module 3: Sensible Interactions

Click here to see the full list of interactions with added global tests ↗️

⭐ Module 4: Sensible Autonomy

Click here to see the full list of interactions with added autonomy tests ↗️

⭐ Module 5: Modded Interaction Cooldowns

By request, this module applies group cooldowns to custom interactions from other modders. Interactions are sorted into thematic groups, and when one interaction from a group fires, the rest of that group is locked out from autonomy for 30 in-game minutes.

Supports interactions from the following mods:

Compatibility

  • This mod does not directly overwrite any files so it won't conflict with any other mods. You can even use each module with Have Some Personality Please! if you so desire.
  • This mod works best when installed with a mod like my Deeper Social Autonomy mod 
  • If you'd like to expand autonomy to the announcement socials added in My Wedding Stories, I recommend also downloading Announce Engagement Overhaul by MissyHissy

This mod was made possible by Sims 4 Studio and Tuning Builder.