Boundaries are Fundamental to all Relationships!!!
But first, Nisa Rehabilitation Time!!!
I want to start out by saying I'm sorry things have been going slow! Sometimes it’s best to realize that what you are doing isn’t working. I have neat things I’ve made, projects planned out, suggestions archived, and I’ve been working on various projects. Part of the issue? With so many projects, I feel unable to give any particular one the attention it needs and when I start to develop a flow a game update or something else happens pulling me away. The longer I wait to release an update, the more massive I feel it needs to be which leads to feature creep, and the more scared I am to release anything. At the end, I feel paralyzed, isolated, and fading. So, I need rehabilitation! That’s right bitches and bitch sirs, nisa rehabilitation time!
That boulder, it’s the weight of my anxieties, and with it I shall bash my challenges lower than my self-esteem!!! My plan right now is to release rapid smaller updates. I plan to release an update or a patch to a previous update no later than every 2 weeks until I’m back into a flow. This will help me get through some of the content suggestions I’ve been letting pile up, but also help pull myself out of the hole I’m currently in.
Now, let's start with something I’ve wanted to release for a long time. Boundaries. A key part of relationships, especially sexual relationships, are setting and then maintaining boundaries. Before we had prostitutes set their ‘accepting’ packages and ‘putting out’ packages. That is, the sexual category requests they will accept from others, and solicit towards others, respectively. That’s still here (for now). However, I recoded by prostitution system so unlike before, where you could only set specific categories for your prostitute putting out and set accepted categories as ‘[Sex Category] & Below’ now you can set your prostitutes sexual boundaries for both offering and accepting, per category, per prostitute.
If that sounds a little confusing, then I agree. That’s why I also renamed the renamed the interactions to include helpful reminders of what you will be soliciting to a particular sim and what you can solicit from a sim.
For now, this will be changing in the near future, when a prostitute offers sex to another sim. They will still hire her for a particular category. However, when a client sim requests the services of a prostitute, they will be allowed to have sex in all the categories that the prostitute accepts from others.
Still, it’s a bit confusing to remember what categories are allowed and which aren’t. So, when on a prostitution job, I colored the WW sex category change interactions depending on the sexual boundaries of that job.
Normal color means the category is allowed, red means no one approves of that category, orange means some sims approve of the category while others don’t (an uncommon situation for the mod currently).
And that’s not all, I can do some really cool things with the way I re-coded prostitution. One, is allow for prostitutes to set their sexual boundaries towards specific clients! So, if you only want your prostitute to have vaginal sex with certain clients, now you can.
Please note, I have a Bloom & Gloom Finance update (overhaul for debt slaves) in the works, and I haven’t yet decided on how to deal with boundaries and indebted sims, so for now setting exclusive boundaries isn’t possible with these sims. Otherwise, there’s more coming for this system. It was originally developed to be a part of a larger change to prostitution where I’d introduce preferences too, that’ll come later if WW doesn’t introduce it first. For the near future, you can expect lot specific rules, prostitution signs, and a return for manual preferences coming shortly [Done].
Patches patches patches
A small note for Businesses & Hobbies Expansion. This expansion added a really neat custom tattoo system…. Which was never finished. Like literally, they forgot to code in support for occults. I focused on just this for, gosh, probably 2 weeks trying to finish the work that Maxis didn’t, and got really far. I recoded my entire cas system, and added support for multi layered tattoos to succubi…. However while I could apply the custom hand drawn tattoos to succubi (and other base game sim) occult forms, there was a pesky maxis cleanup function I couldn’t find which clears the saved texture for the custom tattoo on the occult form if it’s not also on a sim’s active form. Therefore, while I could apply different custom tattoos in occult forms in my dev build, when reloading, the none active form custom tattoo texture itself would be cleaned up. I submitted a complaint to Maxis, hopefully they fix this soon.
Patched the debt system to work for players who also use SNB, thank you for the help with this Godseye!
Fixed checking prostitution time on the clock only working for prostitute sims.
