DESCRIPTION: Have you ever noticed that when you are running a business, some walkbys (usually maids and other NPCs) will enter your establishment, go to some obscure window deep in the building, try to walk through the wall, and then leave?

EA apparently considers this "window shopping". Presumably this is a half-implemented "feature" but as it stands it's just distracting.

This mod kills the behavior. Non-shopping walkbys will just...walk by!

LAST UPDATE: July 29, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: Open For Business

DESCRIPTION: Reduces wages to bring the inflated salaries for jobs in the expansion packs in line with the base game.

There are three packages, each applying to a different EP. Install as appropriate. If you have all the EPs you'd install all three packages.

University jobs have their salaries reduced by 40%. Seasons and Free Time jobs have salaries reduced by 20%.

LAST UPDATE: July 29, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: University and/or Seasons and/or Free Time.

DESCRIPTION: Moves all morning university classes later in the day so no class starts before noon.

This may seem pointless but is meant to complement my Semester Changes mod.

LAST UPDATE: July 27, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: University

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from University through Apartment Life.

DESCRIPTION: Prevents passing enemies from stealing your newspaper. Created for my Apocalypse game, since when some grouchy zombie steals the paper it may mean missing out on a critical job opportunity.

KNOWN ISSUE: Causes walkbys to sometimes run by without being greetable. This is because they try to steal the paper, are prevented, then run away with their imagined booty. A new version is in testing which will not cause this behavior.

LAST UPDATE: February 25, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: Nightlife or later

DESCRIPTION: Prevents the dorm cafeteria worker from making food after 11 pm since it will just be cleaned up the instant it is finished.

LAST UPDATE: July 12, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: University

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from University through Apartment Life.

DESCRIPTION: Since hand washing has a negligible effect on hygiene and really just wears out the plumbing, this prevents autonomous washing of hands.

Has no effect on twojeffs' "Always Wash Hands" mod since he pushes the command directly.

LAST UPDATE: February 16, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

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

DESCRIPTION: Halves the duration of coughing fits caused by pneumonia or other illnesses. Created when I had a pregnant sim nearly die of starvation because of two coughing fits in a row.

LAST UPDATE: February 16, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: None

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

DESCRIPTION: Allows downtownies to walk by lots in the main neighborhood.

People from the main neighborhood can walk by downtown lots so it makes no sense to me that downtownies don't have the same freedom.

Another mod that I created for my Apocalypse game. I put all my zombie townies downtown to keep them separated and I suddenly realized they weren't walking by my residential neighborhood.

LAST UPDATE: July 15, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: Nightlife

DESCRIPTION: Makes it more likely that a walkby will be a sim you know.

The default behavior for the game to allow only unknown sims to walk by your house unless fewer than 8 unknown sims are available. I increased that to 255 in order to force it to pick from the pool of all sims not just sims you haven't met yet.

DESCRIPTION: Prevents butterflies and fireflies from spawning. Originally I just wanted to dump the autonomous catching but the command kept getting pushed on sims from something else, so I finally just eliminated the pests completely. This mod doesn't eliminate the associated wants.

LAST UPDATE: July 6, 2008

REQUIRED EPs: Seasons

COMPATIBLE EPs: All configurations from Seasons through Apartment Life.