One of my children is tormenting me with an extremely persistent picky eater phase. It doesn't go away with time, I can't talk her out of it, I've tried cheats (yes, all of them, because I know this phase has several... phases) and a mod that's supposed to make phases go away immediately after they come up, but nothing works.
Since this child is supposed to stay a child forever, just waiting for her to grow up isn't a solution. I could of course try to age her up and down again, but even if that worked, I'd have to redo her entire wardrobe, which includes several outfits per category. And who's to say she won't suffer a relapse the next day?
I don't use MCCC because it tends to do more damage than good to my game, but please, if anyone knows any other mod that can help with bugged childhood phases, or maybe a little change in a script file (where would that be?), I'll take it!
0
Comments
Let's make Liberty and Justice For All a reality.
Bear phase is hilarious especially when the parents start wearing sympathy bear suits 😂
Is the trait still visible in the trait list? Then maybe the trait names have been changed. You could try looking up the sim's traits and hidden traits with Show Sim Info.
Had the same problem until I started to only include modules that I needed. For example, if you dont want MCCC to move households or get your sims pregnant, remove mc_population.ts4script and mc_pregnancy.ts4script from your mod folder.
Picky Eater A traits.remove_trait ChildhoodPhase_PickyEater_A
Picky Eater B traits.remove_trait childhoodphase_PickyEater_B
Picky Eater C traits.remove_trait childhoodphase_PickyEater_C
Picky Eater D traits.remove_trait childhoodphase_PickyEater_D
Picky Eater E traits.remove_trait childhoodphase_PickyEater_DisgustedByFood
Picky Eater F traits.remove_trait childhoodphase_PickyEater_F
TwistedMexi states that you need their mod to re-enable the cheats, as they don't work in the vanilla game anymore. (They can actually make it worse - the trait disappears from the list of traits, but the phase never ends.)
Personally, 'picky eater' doesn't bother me. They still eat what I make them eat. And the bear phase is adorable. Have you tried talking through the phase? This normally shortens it, except in the case of 'loud and obnoxious'.
True, but not for the equip and remove trait cheat...That command still works, I do agree that you should be careful with using these cheats though and make multiple saves when you are using them.
I don't remember when exactly she got it, but she'd had it for weeks before her brother went to university, and now he's got his degree and she's still not over it.
It is visible in the traits list, yes. Thank you for the link to that mod, I'm going to check it out!
The thing I don't understand is: Why not just give us that mod without any presets and let us enable the things we want? I downloaded all the modules because that's how I expected them to work according to my logic, to have them in the game as options, but nope, MCCC just presumes from the getgo that my NPCs need babies. Lots and lots of babies! That's one thing I'm aware of, but who knows how many other unexpected traps this mod has in store...
That was the first thing I tried after previously curing another picky eater with these cheats. But I'm starting to think it's the girl herself that is somehow broken. It's not just the never-ending phase, her hair colour also kept changing until I took that hair and made a CC version with only the one colour she's supposed to have. Makes me think the game simply can't handle a sim being a kid for that long, and it's nudging me to finally let her grow up!
Yeah, no 🐸🐸🐸🐸! Still annoying, though, when your kid is perpetually sad. She's supposed to be an evil little harbinger of doom, imagine the damage to her reputation if it became known that she gets depressed by food! Then again... If I can't get rid of this, I might just accept it as a unique quirk that only this one sim has.
I know that's how it's supposed to work, but not in this case, unfortunately. All she wants to eat is quick meals - any quick meals - and cakes. Yes, cakes! She did eat her mother's honey cake the other day without making a face, so there might still be hope.
By the way, in case anyone is wondering who that kid is, you can see her in my signature.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
Doesn't work for the 'loud and obnoxious' phase - I've tried, and although the trait disappears from the in-game list of traits, the kid is still foul-mouthed. I don't like using mods (only because I don't want to update them when a patch breaks them - no time for that). The trait name hasn't changed, at least according to the cheat given on TwistedMexi's website. I'm using the right command, with testing cheats on. It simply doesn't work.
Ah, that's too bad. I guess one last thing you could try is to add the trait first with the traits.equip_trait and then remove it with the traits.remove_trait cheat. I think that's how I got rid of a trait that was bugged.
I guess there is no solution then. Never mind.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
I don't mind any of them too much, but the Bear one irritates me. I'm always annoyed when I go into a household and find a small "bear" in the Sim panel.
I use the Advanced Debug/Cheats Interactions Mod, and when shift-clicking a Sim it brings up a menu. Somewhere in the menu there's a section, "remove trait", and that brings up a menu with a list of all equipped traits. I remove the phases that way.
It's basically the same thing as typing in the cheat to remove traits, but typing it in doesn't always work for some reason. Having the menu unlocked with the mod has yet to fail me, though.
I also believe it's similar to the Sim Info mod, but I don't have any experience with that one.
I think I did have to add it back, so that it showed in the traits panel, and simply suffer through the phase. I don't understand why these cheats were disabled - maybe the execution of the cheat itself was buggy, and sometimes did result in a phase that wouldn't end.