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Is there a mod for slower need decay?
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I need a mod for this, I forgot how fast their needs deplete after some time :eyeroll:
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Once you have it installed click on any computer or city hall>NRaas>Relativity>Motive Decay Factors. The default setting is 1. That means the game's default. Lower than 1 is slower. Higher than 1 is faster.
Most people use Relativity to slow down the game speed itself: computer or city hall>NRaas>Relativity>Set Speed. The game default is 37. A lower number means the flow of time is slower in the game (but animations are the same). Need and skill decay is adjusted by the mod. Try half speed (19) for awhile to see the difference, then adjust as to your liking. Don't set the value above 37. By setting Set Speed to a lower number essentially it takes less sim-minutes for sim to accomplish tasks.
You can also adjust skill gain rates, the rate of need gain (Motive Delta in the mod), adjust skill gain to the life span your are using, etc.
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There's also a cheat to make all Sims happy and then put their needs on static. However, that makes the game pretty boring as Sims who are always content in needs don't seem to know what to do with themselves on high free-will in my personal experience. There's two ways to cheat motives. Ctrl+Shift+C brings up the cheats.
1. Type in testingcheatsenabled true in the cheat console, press enter and then freely drag the need bar(s) to the desired position.
2. Type in testingcheatsenabled true (if not done already) press enter and then shift-click the mailbox to make all happy and then make needs static which maxes out all Sims needs and then freezes it until you unfreeze by making needs dynamic. Or even make all happy without putting needs on static.
There is also some content in EP's or The Store that helps fulfill some needs quickly like the book o' spells, casting spells as a witch, Sharper Sim's Super Sleeper, The Not So Routine Machine, alchemy, The MultiTab 6000 raises social really quickly and helps kids and teens do homework quickly as well. I'm sure there is a lot more of in-game shortcuts depending on what is owned.
Motive depletion in TS3 is nothing compared to TS2 or especially TS. Oh, those games can be quite the struggle yet still fun but seriously the struggle for me is to not focus so much time on needs.
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not really, i got the clock slowed down but at same time my sims were exhausted and needing sleep. now its feeling like their gonna sleep forever. need to figure out if i can increase their sleeping speed somehow.
On the Motive Decay/Delta settings, default is 1, slower decay/replenishment would be fractional values below 1 but above 0, faster decay/replenishment would be values above 1. Again, no negative values. Same with the optional skill gain deltas. (Edit: sorry, looks like I typed this part out backwards to begin with).
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btw what would you suggest for sleep delta at speed =23?
ok i suppose i should ask about the other deltas, my sims on the toilet and im starting to wonder what exactly im watching. lol
Of course not many players want their sims to wake up at 3 am all refreshed and/or start yawning all over the screen and dropping from exhaustion in the middle of the afternoon -- remember these settings affect all sims in town, not just the actively being played ones. Also note that if active play happens to be in Uni World, then all bets are off when it comes to the inactives as their autonomy and sleep cycles are so royally messed up (on purpose or otherwise).
Energy is a bit different from the others because unless they have a very high quality bed or the Meditative Trance LTR (or they are one of a few occult types), sims will want 8 sim hours of sleep per night in order to be totally refreshed and get the Well Rested moodlet. I would suggest keeping all the Deltas and Decays on 1 at first and see how things go. Then adjust one or the other slightly if needed, say by no more than 0.2 at a time, to see if that helps and by how much. When it comes to sleep cycles, it can take a sim day or two for any changes to be fully realized.
A motive like Hunger is easier to work with because there are fewer factors involved. If you want your sims to be hungry 3x/day then a faster Decay setting is required. If only 1x or 2x, then perhaps slower. The Delta won't matter as much in this case because that would only apply to the motives rising while sims are eating.
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If you push a motive decay up to 10 (this is an absurdly high number, it's 10x faster than standard), then those motives will deplete astronomically fast. This is not generally recommended and thought I've already said that, sorry but maybe I wasn't forceful enough. What you are describing is exactly what is supposed to happen, your sims will need to relieve themselves or eat a meal 10-20 times per sim day. If you wanted faster motive decay, then start with 1.25 or 1.5, something like that, in very extreme circumstances maybe 2 but not 10. Note that 1.5 is already a 50% faster decay than 1, so 2 is twice as fast, etc.
If what you wanted was slower motive decay rather than a faster one, then it would be numbers less than 1, meaning fractions between 0 and 1 like 0.75 or 0.5. Just as with faster decay, there are numbers less than 1 below which things will never work right such as 0.001 (or somewhere around there, the mod cannot handle extremely small close to 0 numbers and at that point your sims would need to go to the bathroom every 500-1,000 days which seems a bit extreme in the other direction). Note that 0.5 is already 50% of a decay rate than 1.
If what you wanted was faster motive replenishment so that it takes less time doing something to replenish one's motives (like sleeping, bathing, or having fun), then that's motive delta not motive decay.
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