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Hello all!
Here is what I am working on right now and will keep working on unless everyone unanimously tells me to drop it ;D 

- Some sort of 'WooHoo Overhaul' Mod.
For the more adult crowds out there - even though yes, I think I will keep this as in-universe, 'Maxis Match' or PG as possible considering the topic at hands. This would basically be centered around birth control, health, and protection. I am vaguely aware there is something of the sort in WW (condoms and birth control), however I want to do it a little differently, and of course, as a standalone. This occurred to me in the context of making the 'No Strings Attached' mod. I am not too sure of myself on this in terms of whether or not it's features any player would want, so I'd love to hear your thoughts here.
- No more "Try for Baby" option. Normal WooHoo leads to pregnancy.
- A female Sim will be able to go to a doctor to talk about options and start hormonal birth control if wanted. There will be side effects to this occasionally.  Prescriptions renew every month until stopped b the Sim. Every however long, the Sim will have to go see the doctor again to renew prescriptions for another year / half year / whatever I figure out.
- Any Sim will need to have protection (condoms or hormonal birth control) to not get pregnant or catch diseases (diseases will be potentially caught when using a 'random hookup' or 'online hookup' option (rabbit holes); additionally, some Sims in the world will have diseases; when dating a new Sim your Sim will be able to ask them to get tested / ask them about diseases; your Sim and them will go together. I'm thinking of making fake, Sim-style diseases - buf if you want the real ones that can be a thing as well). A Sim can purchase condoms on the computer or in person. If your Sim has nothing, but their partner has something, they are both protected. So your Sim will be able to ask the other if they have protection or birth control before starting to WooHoo... Sims will have little troubles with all this sometimes, and there will remain risks... Sims who want to get pregnant will have to first stop hormonal birth control or decide to stop using condoms. This is done through first discussing it with the Sim's partner.
- Sims can also get other little problems with WooHoo - we humans can get UTIs, yeast and other little horrors, I would like to make lighter, hopefully more humorous equivalents for our dear Sims.]

- A Moods mod: 
I intend to add a few more moods to the game, as mentioned before. I may substitute some game moodlets for an equivalent in a new mood when I deem reasonable. Some game interactions will trigger some new moodlets in new moods. I will otherwise put these moods 'out there' for myself and other modders to use. I will create some interactions that trigger those moods. The moods I have in mind are 'tired', 'distracted', 'surprised', '(feeling) lazy', 'disgusted'. Patrons, is there any other mood or feature coming to you? Tell me and I will try to make it a reality :)
I am hoping to have finished at least one of these two mods (the moods or the WooHoo thing) within two weeks, maybe earlier...
- I will also attempt a 'Skills can decay' mod: not sure how doable this will be but I am optimistic. 
- Still planning out a Teen Romance module to Road to Romance.
- All the while, per your requests (several of you Patrons asked), I am actively thinking about (ie trying to get ideas on how to do) some sort of attraction system.
I will not try to copy the existing systems because I do not feel that it is ethical to do so. In fact, I have never even played with them, except a little with thepancake1's Chemistry system, and know very little about them. I am trying to think up how I'd want it to be, and how I'd so it. I don't make promises, but this is definitely in my mind. 
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Thoughts, criticism, suggestions? Please do share! :)

Best,
Lumpinou

Comments

Sheila Lobert

I'd suggest taking a look at NeonOcean's cycle (birth control, fertility) and Slice of Life (mood name overrides) to avoid spending your energies on things that already exist or creating conflicts. I would love to see a fear emotion and, of course, the teen module and skill decay. That's my 2 cents. Lol

Sheila Lobert

I'd also love to see some sim-like WTDs.

lumpinou

Good point! I could simply add the disease thing and not the rest. I don't know exactly how this other mod works, but I could see how it sounds that it does similar things to what I was thinking about. Thanks for the heads up. For Slice of Life - it just renames the moods, and to be honest I have no interest in that, thats one of the features of slice of life that I do not use in my game 😂. I want distinct moods, that fit between the gaps of the game's moods. Like I did in the Road to Romance Mod with the affectionate mood. So it wouldn't conflict with or duplicate what slice of life does :) There is a fear emotion mod out there, I don't remember the name or who did it, but if you look it up you'll find it :) so I will not make it to not create a duplicate.

lumpinou

I will stick to that idea then; I haven't heard of a mod that does this in a sim like fashion so there may be room for this!

Kimikosoma

Oh yeah that looks promising ! I'm definetively gonna love the Wohoo-related mod (what I prefer in using WW is the realism with periods and birth controls, rather than animations...), and expanding the romance mod to teens is a great idea as well. Oh, and I had thought about "Skills can decay" too, a few months ago, so I'be so glad to see it in game ! I still find it weird that because you spend hours learning sth, you are a master in that even if you spend years without any practice...

Evangelina Silvercloud

Ok, *takes a deep breath* I can't find words to describe what I feel about your work. You are a god in creating mods! Thank you so much for all your work. Best regards and pls. stay safe and well P.S. After overthinking your ideas I found two suggestions: First of all you wrote that you plan to create more moods like tired and so on. Would it be possible to create something like "The FIRST time" for sims who never had sex before (like virgins) ? I love new moods and it's really a big experience for teenager and young adults. Secondly I would like to ask if you can add a sexual orientation like lesbians and gays? This could be a part of the "attraction system" for example. These are only my thoughts, I'm not a modder and I cant imagine if that is even possible ;) Regarding SOL: Yes I use Kawaiistacie's mod. But I use it without her menstrual system. For the menstrual system I'm using WW because in my opinion and for my style of gameplay it suits better. BUT if your mod , Lumpinou, will offer a well done period system I wouldn't need WW anymore because normally I prefer only ONE modder and ONE mod (all in one) to prevent conflicts.

Sheila Lobert

The fear mod is very, very broken and hasn't been updated in a couple of years. I get it if you don't want to copy someone's idea, but just thought I'd let you know that tidbit. ;)

lumpinou

I didn't know! That definitely means I can consider doing my own take on it

lumpinou

Thanks! In the game for first time woohoo there is a special music ans à special moodlet but it's not that noticeable, maybe indeed we could make that bigger! For the sexual orientation - incredibly, the game has a hidden gender preference system, which it uses to direct Sims' autonomously. So if you have directed your sim mostly toward men, the Sims autonomy will go that way. I don't know why they made this hidden and why the player can't control it directly through a choice!! But because this exists, I think it should well be possible for me to do something like you're hoping for. No promises since I haven't looked into it yet, but I'm optimistic! :) Thanks again for the message

Evangelina Silvercloud

Hello Lumpinou ;) Well, thanks for your answer. Of course I know EAs first time woohoo music and the moodlet. But I think EA didn't make it realistic enough. To have the first woohoo may cause in a little disaster as well and this is the reason I thought about more realism ;)

lumpinou

I understand you and rather agree! That's what I was trying to say by saying the original game stuff isn't maybe really 'enough'. It could get a chance of getting slightly more happy results for sure! I like your idea :) I love to hear your suggestions and so far always totally agree with you :)

Anonymous

I would absolutely love a woohoo related mod! I would really love a mod that overhauls the woohoo system without all the crazy animations and other things WW adds in. I want my gameplay to have some more realism to it, but WW is a little too much for my tastes. I would be very interested in a moods mod and a chemistry system would be amazing if you decide to go that route. I currently have SOL installed and use the renamed moods so I can't remember what's an EA mood and what's renamed, or if I'm just making things up in my head so bare with me for a second please, lol. Um, Excited, Nostalgic, Thoughtful, Loving, Irratated, Annoyed, Stressed... I'm just kind of word vomiting emotion ideas out there, so some of these are probably not considered emotions by some, and others might be kinda covered by the game anyways just called something different but I dunno, maybe my word vomit will give you or someone else an idea? lol.

lumpinou

That all sounds good, thanks for your feedback! 'relieved' is another mood I was thinking about ; 'loving' to me would be the same as 'affectionate' which I put in Road to Romance. I like your idea for 'nostalgic' and the rest too. The game does have pretty good mood coverage but certain situations still could use a different mood or word, even if overall it's good in the game to begin with :)

lumpinou

I do remember seeing that a little while ago! It looked pretty good.

Anonymous

You're right, loving and affectionate would be pretty much the same, I actually haven't gotten that mood from Road to Romance yet so I didn't realize it was there, but that's amazing and I'm excited to see it in action when I get there. I'm currently playing a save without a romance interest so it's taking me a minute, lol. Relieved would be really interesting, I don't know if it's possible, or if it is how hard it would be to implement, but if it could somehow be triggered only after being stressed or uncomfortable. Another suggestion, maybe Relaxed? I don't think we have that? Also what Sheila suggested, Grumpy and/or Mischievous, would be good ideas too I think. Again I'm not amazing at ideas myself but I know that sometimes small words or phrases can help others get ideas. And seriously thank you for making all of these amazing mods you have already made for us, you definitely make my game more interesting to play after having been away from the game for almost an entire year.

Sheila Lobert

Yeah, it's most recent update just went public. It gets better with every update for sure.

lumpinou

Just for the curious - I have been putting some preview images on the 'Patron's Corner' discord channel, regarding what I know call the "Woohoo Wellness and Pregnancy Overhaul" Mod, which will be my next one to come out :)

Shannon Gash

Would it be possible to have option to have other parent not have knowledge?...thinking that once child is born, can click crib and remove relationship from the other parent? Also, could maybe add option to have baby adopted via through the crib?

lumpinou

That's interesting! I like the idea! In the game, there is an automatic announcement of pregnancy to the dad, as you know I'm sure - for now I am sticking to the game and imitating that. But I do like this idea and will think of an idea to give the option to either go tell immediately or not :) As for getting the baby adopted - that should be possible, it happens with alien babies after all. If I can't make it now I'll try later :) can't promise but it should be doable.