Strategic Interactions (Big Brother/Survivor Mod)

This mod adds a bunch of simple interactions for use in creating your own version of reality competition shows like Big Brother or Survivor. Sims will be able to make deals, form alliances, and talk strategy with other sims, all on their own!

To access the interactions, click on your currently selected sim (the one with the plumbob above their head) and navigate to the "Strategic Interactions" menu. From there, you can set sims as a Castaway (Survivor), Houseguest (Big Brother), or Strategic Player (Other). You will have to do this for every sim that you want to be able to use the interactions.

Once you select an option, that sim will be able to use the interactions added in the mod, including autonomously! You can find the interactions in the new pie menu when interacting with another sim, as shown below. On the right, you can see the interactions available to a sim set as a houseguest.

If you click on a sim that is already a Castaway/Houseguest, you can give them show-specific statuses like Head of Household, Nominee, Idol Holder, etc. Doing so will unlock new interactions for the sims to use. As an example, I set the sim on the right to be a Veto Holder. Now when interacting with her, my sim can use the 'Propose Veto Deal' interaction.

Most interactions in the mod without a pie menu icon don't do anything special. But certain interactions, like deals and alliance proposals, have special functionality. Let's have these 2 make a deal now:

As you can see, if a deal is successful, a notification will pop up alerting you that a deal has been made (this also happens if a deal fails). Each sim will then get an 8-hour buff that prevents them from making more deals while it is active (this is so you can use this mod with No Idle Chat or other similar mods, you don't want to get spammed with these notifications).

In the case of alliances (and certain deals), the game will remember specific details between sims. When an alliance is made, the game will add a special condition between both sims preventing them from using the 'Propose Alliance' interaction with each other again and unlocking other interactions. There will be times where you'll want to add or remove these statuses manually, which you can do by shift+clicking on another sim and navigating to the Strategic Interactions menu. (NOTE: Testing cheats must be enabled to do this)

And that's basically it for the mod! It will still be up to you to determine what the deals mean, how they use them, who they vote for, etc., but it adds a TON of variety and depth to your shows. There are plenty of moves that simply would not happen without the use of a mod like this, and it's made my versions of the shows 100 times better.

This mod was made entirely with Zerbu's Mod Constructor. As this is my first mod for this game and I have little experience with modding this game, I am reliant on the mod constructor and may not be able to fix issues that arise with game updates.