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NEW IN V1.0 (Early Access 04/09/2024) (Public 04/30/2024)

Hello Everyone and Happy Spring!💜💜 It's time for another BetterSims update.

This time I've focused on fixing settings and other buffs and errors.

Feel free to leave any feedback you have in comments or contact me directly in Discord.

NEW IN V0.9.9 (Early Access 12/27/2023) (Public 01/12/2024)

Hello Everyone and Happy Holidays!💜💜 I hope all of you are having a great time with your family and close ones.

I'm excited to finally announce the new update for BetterSims. I know I've been gone for a while. My life has been chaotic and completely changed in the course of a few months. Travel, school , an injury, recovery and my an engagement have kept me busy to say the least but I haven't been completely off modding. All this time I've been working on fixing annoying and persistent bugs, finetuning but more important a new plan to finish the Beta of BetterSims ASAP.

Fixes and Additions:

I have to be honest about this one. I lost track of most of the bug fixes on this one because of the time and how much I've done. At this time there are no incompatibilities or last exceptions encountered.
I finally finished adding all activity preferences into the Life choices and auto preferences system (simple description but huge change)
Added Tomarang into the life choices and preferences systems.
Fixed internal references and simplified auto activity preferences so they run faster and better.
Reviewed and fixed Settings options to work as intended and include latest additions.

To everyone who enjoys this project. Thank you! I can't thank you enough for the kindness, motivation and support I've received all this time. This project means more to me than you can imagine, and being able to share it with you has truly changed my life. I know it is just a game and just a mod, but sometimes little things can make your outlook on life change for the better and even motivate you to do more than you ever thought you could.

From the Bottom of my heart. Thank you! 💜

Recommended / Required Mods

BetterGoals

My Mod

This mod Makes all aspirations feel more like long term goals than tutorials. This mod is made to be completely compatible and complementary to BetterSims.

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Custom traits in club filter

By Vicky Sims / Chingyu 1023

This awesome mod will let you use any of BetterSims traits as a filter for clubs.

Download

Metabolism Traits Mod

By Vicky Sims / Chingyu 1023

“This is a Mod to allow you to add A total of 25 Body/ Needs changing Traits to your Sim.” Description by Vicky Sims.

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Zodiac traits

By Radioophobe

“This mod aims to convert zodiac signs from the Sims 2 and make it as good as I can into the Sims 4 without it taking up Trait Slots”. Description By Radiophobe.

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Custom wants Mod

By MissyHissy

I wanted to be able to work more with custom wants and try and add some new direction to them in a series of manageable mods. So this is the Custom Wants Mod!

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Preferences Plus

By simhelaene

This mod provides new outfit and venue preferences, as well as over *20* general interests, for selection in CAS using the new likes/dislikes system.

Download

Personality Overhaul

In the game we only have 3 slots for sim adults to give them a personality and we have to use them wisely. But there are some traits that seem to be not as impactful and defining as others. That’s why I decided to add a new system and separate personality from Character traits.

Personality Traits

Emotional Traits

Traits that stay the same:

Active
Cheerful
Creative
Genius
Gloomy
Goofball
Hot Headed
Romantic
Self-Assured

Re-categorized Traits:

Erratic
Lazy

New Traits:

Uncreative

These sims rarely get inspired and struggle with all creative activities.

Unfunny

These sims have a hard time getting and landing jokes. They rarely feel playful.

Hobby Traits

Traits that stay the same:

Art Lover
Bookworm
Foodie
Geek
Music Lover
Perfectionist

Re-categorized Traits:

Loves Outdoors
Neat

Traits that stay the same:

Ambitious
Childish
Clumsy
Glutton
Kleptomaniac
Materialistic
Slob
Snob

Social Traits

Traits that stay the same

Bro
Evil
Family Oriented
Good
Hates Children
Jealous
Loner
Mean
Outgoing
Self-Absorbed

Lifestyle Traits

Traits that stay the same:

Ambitious
Childish
Clumsy
Glutton
Kleptomaniac
Materialistic
Slob
Snob

Re-categorized Traits:

Noncommittal

New Traits:

Occult Enthusiast

These sims love and believe in everything related to the Supernatural!

Free Spirited

These sims love to go with the flow and avoid following the heards.

Skill Learning

Skills in the Sims 4 are sometimes too easy to master. So I tried to balance them out to make things more interesting. In real life everyone learns skills at a different rate and this feature of the mod was created to balance skill learning in the sims 4. as soon as your game loads your sim will be given 1 of the 4 skill learning traits:

Regular

Slow learner

Fast Learner

Prodigy

These traits are here to make every sims' experience different. Some Sims will have a harder time learning stuff than others but things like having a good childhood or loving a particular activity will make it more enjoyable for your Sim. These traits are assigned following a percentage. 65% Regular, 10%Slow Learner, 10% Prodigy and 25% Fast Learner.

Auto Assign System

Preferences

BetterSims initially had a feature that added likes and dislikes to the game.

Now the og game has its own preferences system the way that system gives likes and dislikes to your sims through gameplay only focuses on emotions so, I added my original system and adapted it to the new preferences.

Now your sim will develop preferences on their own without asking and this is based on traits, personality and other features from my mod.

Skill level and CAS story feature also affect this system.

Location Preferences:

These new preferences can appear when your sim visits a new place and are assigned based on personality. You can also choose them in CAS like any other preference. The automatic system can be disabled and Enabled in the menu but if you want to remove the preferences you have to do it manually.

These preferences influence your sims’ moods and life choices.

Fashion Preferences:

This feature has also been included in the game and I'm working on adapting it to the mod.

Fashion Preferences right now are dependent on Highschool Years but my original preferences were intended for base game so I'll be working on compatibility and a solution for that.

Talents & Weaknesses

Life is more complex than just being a fast or slow learner so to add to that depth we have Hidden talent archetypes.

When the game loads your sim as a chance to get a new Talent or Weakness. When this happens you will get a notification about it.

You can check for it using BetterSims Menu by clicking on your sim.

These hidden traits come in pairs and will make it easier and more enjoyable or harder and less enjoyable to do cerain activities.

This feature is not yet set on stone if you have a talent archetype suggestion I would love to hear about it.

Artistic / Unartistic

Painting, Photography and Media Production.

Social Star / Asocial

Charisma, Mischief, Comedy, and Local Culture.

Poetic / Metrophobic

Comedy, Writing.

Musical / Tone Deaf

Instruments & singing.

Crafty / Uncoordinated

Cross Stitch, Flower Arranging and Knitting.

Athletic / Sluggish

Fitness, Equestrian , skating and rock climbing.

Scholar / Unaware

Archaeology, Research & Debate and logic.

Performer / Stage Fright

Charisma, acting, dancing and singing.

Competitive / Uncompetitive

Games, Videogames, Pingpong, and Juicepong

Outdoorsy / Homebody

Fishing, gardening, herbalism and dog training.

Great Cook / Tasteless

Bartending, Cooking, Gourmet cooking and Baking.

Spiritual / Disconnected

Medium and Wellness.

Spiritual / Disconnected

Medium and Wellness.

Pioneer / Unenterprising

Juice Fizzing, Entrepreneurial and Media Production.

Inventor / Technophobe

Programming, robotics, rocket science and fabrication.

Adrenaline Chaser / Scaredy Cat

Rock Climbing, skiing and snow boarding.

Rhythmic / Arrhythmic

Dancing and Dj mixing.

Devout / Unreliable

Parenting, veterinarian, equestrian and dog training.

Life Choices

At any point in life your sim will get a special moodlets indicating what direction they want to take in life, Things like leaving High School, changing their look, moving to their favorite neighborhood, Becoming a Bodybuilder(choosing aspirations), leaving their spouse or other life changing actions.

There are different types of chices your sim will make thoughout their life:

Choose a life aspirations.
Choose the place where they want to live.
Choose a job and the branch they want to follow.
Stay or leave school, Start University (needs work)
Start or end a relationship.
Chage their appearance.

Note: The last few game updates gave us a wants and feats system, which I really want to explore and using it to make life choices more meaningful and vice versa seema like the way to go. Thsi is still something I'm thinking about. I'll let you all know more about it when I get further with it.

Secondary Aspirations

After Your sim gets an aspiration related life choice the outcome is up to you, you can choose to change the aspiration and fix the aspiration bonus trait or you can use the secondary aspiration option in the BetterSims menu.

Aspiration life choices unlock special traits called Secondary aspirations that will affect whims and Autonomy. You can select one Secondary Aspiration at a time and access it through your Sim menu >BetterSims>Secondary Aspirations. If you don;t want to unlock them through gameplay you can also choose the one you want.

BetterSims Menu

I added options in your sims menu to help you manage your sims preferences and traits.

Note: if your sim has got only one aspiration choice you’ll only see the secondary aspiration option in the main bettersims menu like in the picture. This is how menus work in the game by default.

Change Aspiration Bonus

In the vanilla game, once your sim is created they get a bonus trait based on their picked aspiration. this cannot be changed even when switching aspirations, I added a fix for that in the BetterSims Menu.

Settings

This option lets you enable , disable and reset all systems separately for a single sim or all sims.

The reset option will remove assigned traits, and hidden traits. Your sim will forget all previous life choices, what activities they’ve tried (doesn’t affect skill level) and places they’ve visited.

You can select a specific system or all of them and it can’t be undone.

Choose Skill Learning Trait

This option lets you select the speed at which your sim learns all skills. If you open it and click X without selecting anything the skill learning trait will be removed and re assigned next time you load the game.

Select Secondary Aspirations

I originally intended secondary aspirations to be unlocked only through gameplay. But everyone plays in a different way so I added this cheat for anyone who wants to choose their own stories.

Remove Trait

This option lets you remove any trait from your sim. Sometimes your sim might get a preference, child phase or hidden trait that you don’t want. You can remove it with this option. I also use it to see all the traits my sim has.