DESCRIPTION: Sims will autonomously use ladders to get into the pool so you don't always need to have a diving board.

LAST UPDATE: December 14, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

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

DESCRIPTION: Allows both female and male abductees to get pregnant from alien probing.

DESCRIPTION: Fixes the flashing blue fangs that adult and YA male vampires get.

Updated with a third version of the fix - this time for sure!

WHICH VERSION? There are three mods attached, each using a different approach to the problem. Install only one of these. I'd suggest starting with Version 3 but it doesn't really matter which one you try first.

Version 1 worked for me in my Seasons game with multiple vampires but didn't work in FreeTime.

DESCRIPTION: Teens can no longer run away from homes they don't actually live in.

Any selectable teen can run away from home if they have bad/no relationships with everyone in the house. This can be annoying if you have made a visiting teen selectable for some reason, causing them to run away even though they don't live there. With this mod only teens who belong to the current household can run away.

LAST UPDATE: December 16, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

DESCRIPTION: Allows sims to trim bushes even if they can't reach them.

Inspired by Water Inaccessible Flowers by dickhurt. Get both for full gardening goodness.

LAST UPDATE: December 16, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

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

DESCRIPTION: Sims will put books away only in the same room. Sloppy sims won't always use a table if a bookcase is closer.

I no longer use this mod, preferring to use Always Use Bookshelf. You can't use both so pick one based on your preferred sim behavior.

LAST UPDATE: November 23, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

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

DESCRIPTION: Cleans up the clutter on homework menus.

Updated to reduce clutter on teacher menu as well.

Only the owner's name will appear on the homework menu. So if you have two kids, Bart and Lisa, and you click on Bart's homework only "Help Bart with Homework" will appear, not "Help Lisa with Homework". Lisa has to click on her own homework to ask for help.

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.