This is so well done, the music, everything… I even cried at the end omg 😂 great work, I just discovered this and I’m binge watching your whole shakespeare series lol
This is so fantastic as I just discovered the Romantic Standards mod and want to check it out but Midge's might be more up my alley. I am curious which combination of these mods you use in your own game and why. Also I absolutely love your veronaville Shakespeare deepdive videos! The amount and time you put into researching these things for us is amazing!!
going through the game and mods mechanics is really fun and very interesting to watch! now, the part of crying because the game actually follows science and doesn't include 0,00000001% of people is kinda boring.
13:00 so devs made zodiac the default and virtually all premades don't match their signs but we don't have a choice with our sims 🥴 time for no zodiac mod 32:10 😂 I have to have relaxed object in game 33:20 why use many words when few words do trick 46:00 someone doesn't like your sim... 47:45 too real!
i still think the developers of this game where extremely bold to implement all this kind of interaction, for its time was pretty revolutionary how they try to imitate normal social interactions
Thank you so much for this video it is so detailed and helpful! I think I want to turn jealousy off at college/university, could I use the ACR neighbourhood override, or would that turn off jealousy for the whole hood rather than the sub hood?
i wish eaxis based those on visuals(as in rl according to science, which is, to my knowledge, kind of "similar attracts similar", roughly put)+(both of each sims')aspirations+personality points(with wider more consistent range of bonuses and penalties)+turnons/turnoffs, discarded the zodiac signs from the equation and made them irrelevant info (like lazy duchess did 💖🙈)+interests now that would actually mean smth imo
Once very interesting thing happened to me in Sims 2. My CAS sim, running a business, suddenly had a memory with a golden palette of paints (you can see this pallette showing up when sims talking about an attractive sim, it also vanishes quickly) - it was saying saying, 'This <townie's name> excites me deeply.' They also had three chemistry lightnings, which is kinda a normal thing in my game. Strangely, no other sim had such a memory. I realized the palette in bubbles might mean they're considering perfect matches. Has anyone else experienced this? Can't find any info online
Sounds like the game made a hiccup and pulled the wrong picture when you did a “Scope” action. The golden paint palette is for maxing out the Arts & Crafts hobby, and while I’ve never done the scope out action with someone with three bolts in the room, that’s the only context I know of for those sorts of pop ups
I'm from Mexico, there isn't a mod for Romantic Halves?... In other words, I'm bored playing with married people who are not soulmates married since the creation of their divine consequences. Or unless they already are but they don't behave like that, oh, it's boring. I wrote this in Google Translate. So sorry if there are spelling and writing errors.
That bisexual erasure ts2 does happened to me completely on accident once, I had a male sim go out with a girl, then changed his preference to bi so I can make drama by having him also flirt with his male best friend, and then it backfired because by the time I decided to find him a wife he had the audacity to tell me he was gay.
I feel like there may be some logic to how the social categories work, with the most severe interactions being those that require the highest relationship values and thus indicate that the cheating "runs deeper," so to speak. From a Sim's perspective, if their partner charms someone, that's bad but it's a low-level flirt that Sims can do successfully without even being friends. But if that same partner gooses or smooches someone, that's an interaction that's only unlocked when their relationship with the other Sim is very high, so it shows a degree of emotional infidelity that Charm really doesn't. The problem with this is that Caress, another very high relationship flirt, is categorized with Charm. I wonder if there are any mods that reshuffle severity based on the required relationship values to perform the interaction.
I never know what to do with Antonio and his family in TS2 so making him gay is a great idea, I never thought there would be a romantic context. The fact that hes never woohooed or fallen in love with his wife does add something to this theory ...
Wow the characters seem quite complex here qnd the playwriting is interesting, I can't wait to add some details inspired by this play in my Veronaville save.
I honestly don't know. I burned myself out pretty badly working so intensively on this series and on videos in general. I want to get back to it but energy levels and mental health are a struggle so no promises.
The repeated apologise gives the player the option of having the "offending" sim spend the entire night apologising, or have them make one half-hearted attempt and give up, or something in between. It's a fun interaction because of this.
Hi, could put into description the link from which you got the cat-fox? 1:09:23 Also loving this series, you give me so much joy from playing veronaville, that I can't even describe ^^
Hi, glad you like the serie! ^^ Sorry, I don't have a download link for the cat-fox, I just made it at the time and that neighbohood is gone by now so I can't even extract it anymore. But you should be able to roughly recreate it in CAS without any CC, I didn't use any.
The way this game is about to go 20 years old and we’re STILL amazed by its depth, complexity, and sheer scale. And couple it with April Black’s videos on demystifying corruption, we even find that the code actually is shockingly sophisticated and powerful. Its unreal how much love and genius went into making this game what it is and how outright brilliant it really is.
"look at the capp manor for instance" AND HOW IT TAKES 7 HOURS TO GET TO THE SCHOOL BUS AND NO SINGLE GARDENER CAN KEEP IT NEAT EVER was all i could think about :'')
i've been playing tybalt for quite a while now, he's the reason i watched both videos, i've played him all the way through university where he founded his own greek house and it reached level 6 quite easily (had both romeo and juliet living in it at some point), he's been perma-platinum for most of his adult life, he's about to become an elder soon and he drank the elixir of life quite a lot so that's something, when i first loaded the capp manor and he broke his parents(?) urns due to low aspiration levels i just got that feeling that i could fix him and he was so interesting, he's quickly become my favorite premade sim ever, i'm so surprised to learn about the "king of cats" thing because he's had quite a few in his household, i just felt it fit right for him to have cats, and yet even though he's even "ok" with romeo right now, has a great relationship with his sisters, countless friends, an outstanding reputation he still won't take shit from anyone, i have both ACR and Romantic Standards and when a random townie girl flirted with his husband oh boy... i knew she had it coming so bad, poor thing
midge's a life saver, to think that the feature they dropped from simler was actually the only thing that made me second guess getting romantic standards, i like to control if and when my sims get caught cheating, it's not up for them to refuse an interaction if i've planned it so carefully hahaha, also sims rejecting interactions when friends of their partner are around would be a no/no for my community lot cheating scheme and huge friends/family network :'') it has everything i want with none of the "downsides" for my gameplay style as far as i understood the mod
Really glad to see romancemod here. I'm way too much of a control freak to install ACR, so having a mod that just gives simple fixes for the big issues with Sims 2 romance (e.g. Sims getting mad at their partner when they reject another Sim's advances, Romance Sims being hypocrites, any Sim being willing to accept a flirt if the relationship value is high enough even if they're a married Family Sim with the wrong gender preference) is just great.
The attraction penalty for different personality scores is weird and complicated, but I can see where they were going with it. The more extreme a Sim's own personality trait is, the more they notice a lack of it, or its opposite, in their partners. As a couple of examples, let's take a strong introvert and moderate extravert (Outgoing 1 and Outgoing 7); and a neat freak and someone who's not sloppy, but not particularly organized either (Neat 9 and Neat 5). For the introvert and the extravert, their traits clash, but the strong introvert notices it more because they have less tolerance for unwanted social interaction than the moderate extravert has for going without social interaction, hence the greater part of the penalty coming from the introvert's side of the equation. For the neat freak and their not-neat-not-sloppy partner, the neat Sim gets annoyed by their patner not cleaning up to their standards, while the not-neat-not-sloppy Sim doesn't really appreciate or not appreciate their patner's organization skills because cleanliness or lack thereof isn't really a big deal to them, hence the penalty coming entirely from the neat Sim.
