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Hello everyone and happy October!   

COMPATIBILITY INVESTIGATION: Per a few users' reports, it would SEEM that the latest update of Turbodriver's mod Wonderful Whims possibly may bring some breaks in compatibility between itself and the Risk & Protection module of WooHoo/Relationship Wellness & Pregnancy Overhaul. I would like to hear from you if you have noticed any weirdness-es popping up re. pregnancy risk and / or notifications of birth control (weirdness-es that weren't there before last month) so thatTurbo & I can look at things.
And if you are using Turbo's mods with mine and are noticing some oddities you can remove my risk & protection module for now if you want.

INFO ON MODULE 10: 

Since I'm here I figured I'd drop a few notes about module 10's upcoming stuff regarding PERMANENT SEPARATION PROCEDURES. The point being to give you an idea of it and room for feedback.

- Note: One of the Sims needs to move out before they can start the procedures. 
- If Sims separated amicably, they can decide who gets custody of whom (so the player decides on a child by child basis). 
- Sims can get a lawyer: either go with free representation or go for one of 3 levels of price ranges to get better representation.
- If Sims separate permanently in a non-amicable way, one of them can demand custody if they want - if the other parent has a bad relationship with the children or other reasons, they might accept - but most often, court will decide. Once again the goal is to have it on a child by child basis. This makes things a bit more complicated / long to make but I think it is worth it. It is possible that all the children be assigned to one parent but it is possible it not be the case, as the scoring can change once one child gets assigned to a parent. By the end of the court appointment, Sims will know what child goes with whom. The household change should happen automatically as well.
Scoring is based on lawyer, relationship with the child, job and money, household, traits that indicate a good proclivity towards parenthood or lack thereof, etc. 
- For the matter of money - court can adjust funds between divorced Sims, and this will be in a way similar to how the 'look for biological parents' thing works in the adoption module.
- Visiting rights and visiting other parent: for this, I am  doing household changes - and NO you won't see any household management screen at all of course, it's automatic - this means the child will leave the household to join that of the other parent, then rejoin the original household when the visit is over. I don't love using household change but it will be so at least at first, as it has undeniable advantages such as, if you play the other parent you'll get to interact with the visiting child etc.
So if you send a child to stay a week-end with their other parent, they'll go and not appear in your household for the duration of the visit, and be in the other parent's household instead. You can choose to send them for one, two or three days. Want more options?
- I am also making it so pets can be send or requested to visit because all pet owners here will agree I imagine that pets matter too and losing your best buddy dog or cat to a divorce is a sad thing.
- In terms of child support, it is entirely based on my own system and not on the family tree or any such, so it doesn't ask for money for surrogate kids etc. Child support applies only if a Sim has custody of all the children of the couple at the moment, because if they each have one of the children, then I'm not sure it's fair to ask for money. But I may make it depend on pay etc, not sure yet how absurdly complicated or realistic or not this should be. Your feedback very welcome. 
- I have not yet started code for the 'co parenting' random happenings in which parents need to agree about something or suddenly out of the blue watch their kid because their ex has to unexpectedly work etc - but these things have been written out a good while ago and aren't as tricky to make as the rest so they will likely be made last.


That's it for the random notes. Once things are in place I'll do a screenshot / video post - and then a post for requests for our higher tier patrons who have been very patient waiting for it for this module, thank you!

Can't wait to be done with Module 10 and move forward with other parts of the mod as well as working on global improvements for v3 - but:

OTHER NOTE: If you are wondering - yes I am still working slowly, after 2 months of wearing a cast and it not really helping with pain levels or seeming to heal anything, now I'm waiting for another doctor appointment and trying to spare my hands all the while progressing. Not super easy or great but it is what it is. I must still ask for your patience because these conditions aren't ideal. Thanks for sticking around. 

My sincere thanks to all of you for your support and encouragements.

Stay safe,

- Lumpinou

Comments

SapsSims

I hope you recover soon

SapsSims

I noticed recently having both mods in that when my sims woohoo’d ( having only Turbos condoms in my sims inventory ) I would get a notification saying they used protection but then I would get a notification from your mod saying they didn’t and my sims would always end up pregnant from unprotected woohoo..

Kimikosoma

Wahow, exciting news for this module ! Take care of yourself though ❤️

SapsSims

It’s never happened before so I just ended up taking out turbos mod and keeping yours

Anonymous

It´s fantastic what you are doing under this conditions. Take it slowly. Nothing is worth your health, especially the use of your hands. All the best.

Barbara Moore

This sounds so kewl - I don't use wonderful whims, but do use Wicked Whims. Hey, hang in there. Had a broken wrist that required two surgeries. Not real pretty, but functions better than the other one. Be careful, got addicted to oxycodone... I actually use a turmeric + Boswelia extract - Turmeric all natural and reduces inflammation and pain. amazing stuff. Take care of yourself. Be safe and happy <3

Mendy

I sincerely hope you feel better soon! Thanks for the update and loving all the ideas! 😊

Anonymous

Wow... this is going to be awesome gameplay...

Anonymous

Get rested and fix were here when your your well enough to come back, health is more important! 😊

True AI

First, I hope you feel better soon but if you don't, please don't feel like you have to rush back to modding. I consider my patronage support of the art of modding, not as a direct payment for anything. Now since that is out of the way, if you want to investigate this issue to keep your mind active please do but don't stress yourself out. As for my input, I use WickedWhims and your mod but I haven't seen any weirdness with pregnancy. I do, although, use Simdulgence's condoms, not Turbo's. So there may be an issue with his condoms and since I don't use them, I'm not seeing the problem occur. Just something to think about.

lumpinou

Thanks. I appreciate that point of view. The issue would have to do with having both wonderful whims and my mod in together. Separated, they each work as expected. Put together however, it would seem that since his latest update they once again refuse to play nice haha. But users of wicked whims as yourself seem to say that indeed it's only with Wonderful, which is good info to have! (As for modding I'm doing it but just slowly - compared to before!) Thanks for your nice words

Anonymous

I use wonderful, not wicked..I never use condoms. I had also been having the birth control and getting pregnant. I use your mod., turbos, and mccc....I was getting. Ready to go back and reset all to default!!! The family trees in my world right now are crazy!

Anonymous

Love your mods! One thing I noticed was that two of my sims decided to take a break/separate but both remained in the same household. One of them died and a few days later the other sim still got the negative moodlet about their uncertain future or something like that.

Latesha Coleman

I have a question. Is it just babies, tots and kids that go through the court system? Reasons I asked is because I know some places teens get to choose which parent they want to live with due to them being older and understanding more. But I'm loving the new module. Can't wait til its done.

lumpinou

I was going to include teens as well, but some special stuff may be add-able for these cases... I'll think about it.

Anonymous

You are one of the hardest working (and kind!) modders out there, and I love you! Take care of yourself.

Nicolette Hogue

So excited for it. I’ve taken a break from sims waiting for it. Kept my support for you! Lol. I guess I might just start my whole game over with all the updates and everything 😂

Anonymous

Thanks for all your hard work!

Sam D.

May I request that you consider an opt out option for the Court's decisions on custody ? I often have my own story line that I am pursuing , and although I want some of the features of this module that is a big one I would want control over. Also wondering how the child support might interface with Sims Realist's mod (SNB) which also sets up Child support, and MCC which does the same ( I do believe I can turn this off easily with MCC), but what about SNB, which handles overall financials in the game? Than k you for your continued work!

lumpinou

You don't have to use it, there's always cheats / alternative options so you can decide yourself. The sale way that I have cheats for starting poly relationships etc to bypass the request in case a certain storyline warrants it etc, I generally have chests or way to force certain outcomes so no worries :) I'm not super familiar with these aspects of these mods but very simply I'm going to do my own thing and if you want it (that aspect) off you'll leave that little bit out and that's it so no worries there either

Dana Anna

Thank you for asking this Sam. My same question. I love my SNB Bills and I know their have their own child support system built in.

Anonymous

I love your mods, would you consider adding some game play options for when a baby is born but both parents aren't in the same household?

Anonymous

Thank you! You are incredibly talented. I am praying for relief from your pain and quick healing!

Anonymous

I hope you are doing well and love the work your doing for module 10 bc it really helps w varying storytelling, amazing. the only note or question really is for the weekend away, what if its automatically the window from after school/activities on friday to sunday night and if you want them to come home early maybe call them and depending on the relationship the other parent respond upset that their quality time was cut short, or something like that. just a thought, have a great day!!

Sam D.

I appreciate these shortcuts! Thanks for explaining about them.

Anonymous

Can you please explain to me how install it, I've read your instructions and I'm still confused

Anonymous

The module 10 partial release

lumpinou

Download Woohoo Wellness. Remove the script file from it. Download module 10 partial. Put that in with the rest. BUT if you have acces to my latest release of November 30 - forget all that, and instead just grab the files there and that's it

Anonymous

So do I put the files that I’ve extracted inside the woohoo wellness mod

Anonymous

Thank you for all your help! Sorry for disturbing you. BTW I love your mods, I really appreciate your work. You make the sims 4 fun