Ongoing testing for Part 2 of WooHoo Wellness (Patreon)
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Hello dear Patrons, thank you for being here!
As the title says, testing is ongoing for part 2 of the WooHoo Wellness mod. It's pretty much done, it just needs to be checked over thoroughly and there's a lot of possible configurations to look through! I'm testing with 3 other people and we're doing our best. Once testing is satisfactory the mod will be released, it's a very soon matter now.
The systems involved are somewhat complex, and this is the kind of mod where the bulk of the work will remain invisible to the player. That is why this release took a lot more time than I would have liked or believed. I had to change my system several times around.
For now, I thought I'd leave below some quick notes that you'll be able to refer to as 'instructions' for the mod. The images shared above are also some 'quick notes' and examples of what is in the mod. Ignore typos in there, they'll be fixed by release, I hadn't gone through grammar check yet.
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WooHoo Wellness Part 2: QUICK 'INSTRUCTION' NOTES
Each of the diseases ( UTIs, Herpes, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, AIDS, yeast, trichomoniasis) has a more Sim-fitting equivalent if you use the Simmlish version.
How do the WTDs work?
- WTDs are caught through Unprotected WooHoo. UTIs and yeast infections can happen anytime, but the rest will not happen unless the Sim WooHoo’d with has a disease that they can pass on.
- Transmission risk: for the Sim world, out of outbreak herpes is not contagious; yeast and UTI are not either. Everything else can be transmitted. Risk of diseases being symptomatic or not are based on real-life statistics per gender per disease.
- Diseases are either fully asymptomatic, or with gradual symptoms.
o If symptomatic, at first, a Sim will be asymptomatic, then symptoms start and increase.
For example, a UTI will get worse quickly. If untreated for a long time, not only does it get worse, but kidney failure may happen, which will send your Sim to the hospital and they may suffer permanent consequences. A yeast infection will get worse quickly then stabilize; it won’t go away until treated. Same with symptomatic cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia.
o If fully asymptomatic: the Sim will not be aware of anything but will be able to transmit the disease. Getting tested will reveal it also.
- Some of these diseases have extremely similar symptom, for that reason they may share symptoms and moodlets until diagnosed. Because the Sim can't know which it is! For example, Gonorrhea and Chlamydia share this way.
- Sims in the world will have a chance to get diseases randomly. So will your Sims the first time the mod is installed. All their years of unprotected WooHoo are catching up with them. If you don’t want them to be sick, use cheats to cure them of everything. They can be automatically given diseases only once, so no worries after the first installation of the mod.
How Sims can get diseases diagnosed and cured:
- “Go To the doctor” if experiencing symptoms.
- “Go Get Tested” otherwise.
- In both cases, if a disease is found, the Sim will get medication in their inventory.
- Notes:
o Medication is taken automatically unless you set it up to be manual for a specific Sim.
o Manual medication taking is activated by going to the ‘actions’ menu when clicking on your sim. Manual medication taking is done through clicking on the pills in the inventory, and for yeast, through clicking on the toilet.
o While sick, Sims will be much less inclined to WooHoo autonomously. Symptoms will also remain, albeit in check, until the diagnosed disease is cured.
o A Sim may have several diseases at once.
o Herpes and HIV / AIDS are permanent.
o You can cure your Sim through cheats. Have ‘testingcheats on’ in the cheats console, then shift+click on your sick Sim. You’ll find options to cure them, or give them more diseases.
Once diagnosed with a disease:
- Sims will have new interactions (most temporary, some permanent) and moodlets, sometimes traits, depending on the diagnosis.
o “Announce News Of HIV diagnosis” or “Announce news of herpes diagnosis” for permanent WTDs.
o “Announce News of Temporary WTD” if another disease.
§ Once that is done, the Sim who was told can “Accuse of Having Caught a WTD by Cheating”
o “Accuse of Having Given a WTD” is also a possibility.
o If medication side effects happen, Sims can complain about that.
o Sims with permanent WTDs will forever have the ability to let love interests know; other Sims may react well or not, and that will unlock more things.
If the treatment is properly followed, temporary WTDs will go away and Sims will be fine. If they fail treatment, they need to try again.
NOTE: For now there are no animations when taking meds manually except for yeast. I intend to have Sims drink wanter with pills eventually. With the automatic medication system though I will not be able to have Sims play out an interaction, so they don't do anything on screen and probably never will in automatic mode.
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Questions or comments welcome as always!
Best,
Lumpinou