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Pre Release "Foster Home" Testing Phase One
Published: July 21st 2018, 5:06:12 pm
Become a part of the LMS Foster Home Network and take care of Toddler, Children, Teens or Pets who are in need of a Foster Home.
Foster Home Network Menu
Via the Phone - Household Menu you'll find the "LMS Foster Home Network" Menu.
There you have several Options:
- Register at Foster Home Network for Foster Kids
After Registering you'll get contacted if a Kid is in need of a Foster Home - Unregister from Foster Home Network for Foster Kids
After Unregistering you'll not get contacted anymore - Check the Foster Home Network for Foster Kids
You can manually check every day if a Kid is in need. The "Service" is available between 8 am and 7 pm. - Register at Foster Home Network for Foster Pets
After Registering you'll get contacted if a Pet is in need of a Foster Home (Only available if a Pet Bowl is on the Lot) - Unregister from Foster Home Network for Foster Pets
After Unregistering you'll not get contacted anymore - Check the Foster Home Network for Foster Pets
You can manually check every day if a Pet is in need. The "Service" is available between 8 am and 7 pm. (Only available if a Pet Bowl is on the Lot) - Check the Foster Home Network for potential applicants of an adoption
Check if a Family is in search of a Foster Kid/Pet to adopt (Only available if a Foster Kid/Pet is living in the Foster Home)
How this Mod works
If you are registered or if you are checking for a Foster Kid/Pet and a Kid/Pet is available you'll get a Notification from the Network. There you will get the Information about the Age of the Kid/Pet and the Species of the Pet. You can then decide if you want to go and get the Kid/Pet or if you don't want to. If you choose "Yes, i am coming over right away" your Sim will go into a Rabbithole for 1hrs to pick up the Kid/Pet.
A new Kid/Pet will be created by the Game at the End of the RH visit. They will be in a single Household in the Household Managment Menu. I recommend to Favorite them so they won't get culled by the Game.
You'll get a Notification when your Sim is back so keep an eye on that because after your Sim is back they need to "Welcome (them) into Foster Home". This Interaction is found on the Kid/Pet and is necessary to add all hidden Traits/Relationships and enables the Foster Family Situation those Kids/Pets need to be in to actually "live" with you.
They behave like Kids/Pets normally do. Also if you have Parenthood (which i highly recommend with this) you'll be able to use all Parenting Influence/Discipline Interactions on them (if your Parenting Skill is high enough)
For those who don't have the Parenthood DLC i added a few Interactions to Influence Kids (Bladder/Hygiene/Energy) via a Foster Family Pie Menu.
I also added a "Go to School" for Kids via the FF Pie Menu because they tend to not to go to school (could be a San Myshuno Problem where i tested this or a generall thing). This Option is available Mo-Fr from 8am till 11am.
Via Beds/Doors you'll also find a Foster Family Menu to assign Beds or open Doors for Foster Kids/Pets
Via Pet Bowl/Bed i added extra Interactions so you can call Pets to eat or to get on the Pet Bed.
Via Phone you'll find two new Options (if available):
Call Foster Family Home
If a Kid/Pet vanish from the Lot you can "call them back Home"
Call former Foster Family
If a Kid has been adopted you can call them to check on them if you want or just to keep in contact.
Adoption
Via the Foster Family Pie Menu you'll also have the Option to adopt the Kid/Pet yourself if you want. To prevent accidental Adoptions you'll have to confirm a Notification first.
If a Family is in search of a Foster Kid/Pet to adopt you'll get a Notification (you can manually check via Phone Menu too). You'll see a Pic of the Sim that is in search and want to come over. Decide then if they are allowed to come over or not. If yes, the Sim will spawn on your Lot. Talk to them and get to know them if you want. They'll also have the Foster Family Pie Menu where you'll find two Interactions "Ask about living situation" and "Complete Adoption for...".
"Ask about living situation" will show a Menu with the Sims the Sim lives with.
"Complete Adoption for..." will open a Simpicker Menu where you can choose the Pet/Kid the Sim will then adopt.
What you need to know for the Testing Phase:
The Adoption via NPCs is still in work. Like i told in the last Sneak Peek i was stuck because i can't add NPCs to other NPCs Households without Scripts. But i got contacted by NisaK (who helped me with the first Part of the Mod) that they will help me with this part too. So i am patiently waiting for them to find the time to help me.
This is again a bigger Mod with a lot of Files so there could be some bugs i have not seen yet. So be aware of this if you want to test this out. I recommend an extra Save or make a Backup of your Save.
Let me know if you find any Bugs or get LEs or so.
Questions/Feedback within this Post pls.
Thx for Testing
LittleMsSam