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Autonomous Casual Romance

I just installed ACR.

That is all. ;)

Ophelia: Wanna make out?

Johnny: YES!!!

Random college student: Get a room!

Ripp: *is generally okay with this*

Many, MANY makeouts later... (easily more than 10)

Ripp: *is still generally cool with this*

Not a care in the world...

So, ummm.... jealousy? What jealousy?

(I didn't adjust a thing, by the way.)

Johnny isn't jealous either. He's a 2/4 on the jealousy scale, so he won't kick Ripp's ass unless Phi has a wedding ring on her finger. Phi is 3/4 on the jealousy scale (requires some form of commitment to get jealous, but that wouldn't really apply anyway), and Ripp is... you guessed it... 0/4. He really doesn't give a shit.

Nobody has made any move to woohoo anyone yet and I've played through about a day with them. I wonder when that kicks in?

Anyway, I'm liking this so far. You can adjust things to your liking, so it's pretty easy to control. I've finally jumped on the bandwagon. Go me!

Now, I'm off to play with Pleasantview a little... I'm working it up in the "background" for my story. ACR should be a fun time there.

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I see that now. *snicker* (And why would RIPP, of all people, let that stop him?)

Yeah... That sounds like a bad scene. :P Do you use that "lot full of sims" hack? I'd never be able to use that one. I find the playing too slow when I have to move between so many sims, and I hate missing things.

They do seem to want to make out and woohoo more than they want to eat, but well... that's not entirely unrealistic.

No, it seems I just needed to wait a little longer. ;)

Thanks. It's good to be here at last. :)

I love the way it gives the sims more of their own will like that. I'm really looking forward to those moments.

I totally agree about InSim. It makes storytelling so much more convenient. I can see myself getting attached to ACR too. :)

*channeling Nancy Reagan* "NO!"

Well, not yet at least. I have a new computer in the works (I saw it the other day and it's sweet). Perhaps once I get that beast going, I'll add in BV and ACR. Maybe.

Right now, I'm happy with just having the censor blur removed. Baby steps. . .baby steps.

*grin*

Yeah, if I set autonomy lower, I shouldn't have as many issues, but there'll still be a little bit of activity to stir things up. It should be great.

Yeah, but your asylum made me 0_o. I don't want my sims acting like THAT! *snicker*

I mean, good god, what if someone like Glam or Kitty all the sudden turned into a super slut. I couldn't handle it.

I'm not ready for it yet. Maybe later.

I can see how that would be true, even after playing with it for just a short time. I can be a control freak, but also bring more randomness. What's not to like about that? :D

*puts arm over dragancaor's shoulders and sticks tongue out at everyone else*

It's nice to know I'm not alone. (and your worries are mine, I have so much inappropriate heart farting and random bolts, I'll have to rename Peculiar The Sex Cauldron)

Oh, but it's fun... don't knock it 'til you try it...

I think you'll come around. The brothel setting would be awesome for your whore house. I used it on Don Lothario's lot and it was like a porno set.

I've been thinking about removing the censor blur too. I like it for comedy effect from time to time, but I like how you can get better (and dirtier) pics without it.

I'm pretty sure you can make adjustments to prevent that. You could turn the offending sim's autonomy to 0, or even set them to always reject advances that aren't their spouse. It's pretty flexible.

I agree. Romance sims should generally be less concerned about fidelity. It's so hypocritical. I approve of how this breaks the love-woohoo link from the original programming. That always bothered me a little.

You can make adjustments to prevent that sort of thing. I don't think it would become too much of a problem if you set it up the right way.

Now, I say that, but I need to do more playing around with it to be sure.

To get that reaction, I think you have to set it on an exaggerated setting, with really high autonomy. You can turn it off for specific sims too.

If a sim is married, they'll generally stick to their spouse anyway, unless they meet someone they're massively attracted to.

I love how it randomly assigns a sexual orientation to those that don't already have one. That's going to be nice to see.

*snicker* Porno. That might make The Club more interesting.

The lack of blur is nice for taking bathtime pics, too. It's like they use way too many pixels to blur out a damn toddler. (I did get it for "dirty" pics, though--can't have pixelated bewbies)

". . .unless they meet someone they're massively attracted to."

THAT is the problem. Someone like mild mannered Kitty Curious is actually burning with lust for. . .Loki Beaker. If it was any other neighborhood, I might do it just for shits and giggles, but no, it just can't happen.

I'm not joking about the porno thing. If the mod somehow allowed more than two sims to do it at the same time, Don would have been doing the maid and some random AL gearhead (that he barely knew) at the same time. They were lining up to get a piece.

Very amusing.

I agree. The blur is really annoying in some shots. It'll be much better to just cover the naughty bits (or lack thereof) with strategically placed objects and limbs.

Oh, but that would be so funny. *snicker* (I totally understand why you wouldn't want that, don't worry.)

Again, I think you can set it so that would never happen. Once sims are settled in a relationship, you can turn their autonomy off. It can be used selectively.

Loki Beaker. *snicker* What a scandal...

At least Kitty is past the oopsie baby stage. Now THAT would be a scandal.

I wonder how ACR would work if you tricked the game into having a three way marriage? Would it recognize it?

Yes, it sure would be. *snicker*

Maybe I'll test the three-way marriage thing with ACR. I have a test family for that already, when I was seeing if InSim would allow me to set it up.

*total hijack*

So setting it up with inSim you just give everyone the marriage "token" and that's that? Do they get wedding rings?

Don't worry about the hijack. This is relevant to the ACR discussion anyway.

Yeah, you set them as "married" via InSim and they have that token in their relationship profile. All three have wedding rings, but only the most recently married shows up in the family tree (if that makes sense) - can't have two spouses in the family tree, so only the last one counts.

Likewise, you only get the memory for marrying once, and if you do it in-game instead of with InSim. This could be useful for filling specific wants, or avoiding the bad memory for a romance sim. Marry the one that want to marry the most in the usual game way and then add the third with InSim.

Thank you. Sounds easy.

And good tips for getting the most out of it too (avoiding fears or getting the most wants). Albert's new LTW is "golden anniversary" so I'm kind of tempted to get him married to one or the other. But then again. . .they don't NEED to be married. Eh, it's nice to have as an option.

Yeah, when I first tested out I wanted to see what the worst case scenerio would be like so I put it on the very high autonomy setting. Besides, all the members of the asylum had the hots for eachother so it was a total slutfest.

I second the "welcome to the dark side!" comment. :) *evil grin*

It is so much fun when they start doing it all over the place! And it really is customizable, which is good. :) I think you'll like it. And it'll kick in soon, I was worried at first too but it does kick in. :)

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