Just a little post (Patreon)

Hello everyone! :)

Just wanted to let you know how things are going and what's what. 

Let's talk about the thing that has been taking me a LOT of time:

Here conceptually there are serious difficulty because of how things work in the game. That didn't bother me because I had a plan to make this work. But plan or not, sadly it was not quick or easy to make. And halfway started I just could not give up on it when I knew I could do it because the plan was sound, if I just put in the time and the headache. I hope you won't mind that I went with it haha.

If you are wondering why it's difficult to do this type of thing well in this game: It's the rotational play aspect that makes it so! So, if you play the non custody parent, something on them needs to tell the game that a visit should happen. If you play the child, it also should. And if you play the custody parent, same deal. But the game is bad at keeping track of several sims for the same thing, and / or keeping track of and impacting off lot sims (by 'bad', I mean... it really doesn't do it at all, for the most part, period.) So unless one foresees every possible situation and has a back up, the visit chain and sync can simply not exist, not be processed, or break and fall apart at the slightest hitch (like a sim deciding to sleep at the wrong moment even!)

So one has to imagine all possible situations re. who is played when and coming up with systems to make sure that processes will keep trying to happen until they go through but all the same not having them run wildly, and always at all times keeping all sims involved synchronized even though they can't keep track of each other. That forms a Big Headache which one must be careful in detangling. I'd have been curious to see how another would have approached this but, all I can say is I did my very best, with the limits that may entail...

So, that is know out of the way. Yay! Is it truly worth the despair it caused me, I don't know, but now the feature exists and works decently, so, I have to take that as a victory. Hopefully it will have a place in your gameplay... Note that initially I will enable it only for one child at a time, and once I'm sure it's been working well as intended, I will add support for siblings (which is no trouble to do).

Now I can finish up everything else. Tomorrow and the day after I will likely be making some moodlets and social interactions, if I can, also the event phone calls.... So once those smaller things are done I will have more to show... The child support thingie should be quite easy to finish and hopefully so will be everything left on the list. :D

Hoping to have more to show as preview soon.
I won't release anything before Christmas as that would likely be way too much stress and considering things ARE tricky with this module, I can't take chances to mess up or rush it through testing. Sometime before New Year, I will post what is left of this module to be posted... That gives me enough days to wrap things up and test them properly.

If I don't post until then, I wish to those of you who celebrate a merry Christmas!

Thank you for your patience and everything else,

Much love,
- Lumpinou