DESCRIPTION: Improves the effectiveness of lightning rods and allows other items to act as lightning rods.

In the core game, there is a 50% of a lightning strike hitting a lightning rod. That chance is increased by 4% per additional rod up to 70% maximum.

In my version, the first rod gives 50%, the second +25%, the third +12% and so on with each one adding half the bonus of the one before. Maximum protection is 99% with 7 rods.

DESCRIPTION: All chance card choices have a flat 50% chance of being right. If a sim has the hunch benefit from FT either answer has an 80% chance of being right.

Under the standard system, each card has basically a "right" answer that has a high chance of giving a positive result. Once you know the right answers it substantially reduces the randomness of chance cards. This mod is intended to restore that randomness making sims' lives less predictable.

This mod also removes the 1% chance that BOTH answers will give negative results.

DESCRIPTION: Smooths out the wildly random customer populations that made it nearly impossible to run profitable businesses during the night.

LAST UPDATE: November 5, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: Open For Business

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from Open For Business through Apartment Life.

DESCRIPTION: Prevents sims from swinging on refrigerator doors

LAST UPDATE: December 6, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from the base game through Apartment Life.

DESCRIPTION: Allows the cell phone, handheld game, and MP3 player to be purchased in Buy Mode (Electronics/Misc). They can be placed in stores, 6 per shelf.

Updated to allow buying electronics on business lots.

Includes an optional second mod that allows electronics purchased in this manner to satisfy wants. I made it separate because this part is more likely to conflict with other mods. Both mods are in the zip file.

LAST UPDATE: October 16, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: University

DESCRIPTION: Teaching commands won't be wiped out by other commands in the queue. This affects both teaching on career objects and helping kids with their homework.

LAST UPDATE: November 2, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from the base game through Apartment Life.

DESCRIPTION: NPCs will no longer ask to hang out after work if they are your friends. It's not worth boffing the maid if she's going to be all clingy about it :)

LAST UPDATE: September 13, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from the base game through Apartment Life.

DESCRIPTION: Prevents sims from turning off the TV autonomously.

There is actually code that is supposed to prevent sims from turning off TVs if people are watching but it doesn't seem to work so I finally just killed the action entirely.

LAST UPDATE: October 12, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from the base game through Apartment Life.

DESCRIPTION: Fewer failures for autonomous social actions.

Covers only Dance Together as other socials have been removed in favor of Social Sanity Fixes at Simbology.

LAST UPDATE: October 22, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from the base game through Apartment Life.

DESCRIPTION: People no longer stomp their command queues to run over and wave goodbye to sims moving out. Should work for normal move outs, going to college, or graduating.

If you have my mod CJ-NoGraduateReaction, remove it in favor of this one. They don't conflict since this mod uses a different technique, but there is no reason to use the old one anymore.

LAST UPDATE: October 4, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from the base game through Apartment Life.