Cool ! Because that tea set is really cute.
Hope, all ATS CC tea/coffee alternate set could have their own appropriate "mug" too.

I tried that mod out. It's such an amazing one. Cars did sometimes spawn in one another, though. One issue I had is that I would have preferred If it came with an object that is reasonable object like a car or just as that bush, which after purchasing became reasonable with a price of 0§. Nevertheless, I love it.

about sims eating outside; one way to protect them from weather might be to construct an awning over the eating area.

Had to take it out again. The carpool kept glitching for my pets with jobs. The car would show up for one second and then disappear and leave behind a grocery basket that somehow got stuck on the dog... Pretty funny! But my Fortune sim with a LTW to have 6 pets at the top of their careers was NOT amused.

I really doubt it can since it doesn't seem to behave as a shelter for your sims (snow/rain still go through it).

I was actually considering enclosing the porch and turning it into a sunroom. Since I have the hack that makes grills not instantly go up in flames if they're indoors it shouldn't be too difficult.

Yes, that's right. Except they will have character files but you want that.

That might work for rain, but it wouldn't stop them from freezing to death in the winter.

@frogz2007, couldn't that be done by defaulting all the skins and eyetones to whatever colors you want? Then starting a fresh hood. (Ideally in a separate TS2 folder from your other hoods).

@SciBirg, thanks for those links. I'll have to see if they're compatible with the mods I have to make vehicles cost money to drive, but I was looking for something like this. I was playing in my Pleasantview-Riverblossom hood and wanted Kaylynn to have an affair (to test a theory), but her current BF (John Burb) quit his job to be a farmer. The regular Take A Spin isn't long enough for a date.

And this may be a little late, but for the heater/AC idea, wouldn't make more sense to have a controller with a footprint/radius that it "senses?" Then, if the controller senses that heater/AC unit/fireplace, it regulates sim temperature accordingly? If it doesn't detect anything, then the sim temperatures would slowly decrease/increase to match what the outside temperature should be. But this way, you could control temperatures anywhere, even places the game considers outside.

Pffff it's never late...
That's an ingenious idea...So, this controller would detect the small radiator(AL) in a room, and my sim would not freeze.
Given the radiator is placed within the controller's required footprint, but where could the sim be? Would the sim need to be in that footprint too?

Yes. The controller would regulate anyone in the room. So simmers can have cold sunrooms, but warm attics, or that one room in the house that's always freezing.

It might be a bit tedious to set up, cuz you'd need a couple of different sized controllers and one in every room, but that seems to offer the most customizability. Also, the controller should be free and then sims would pay for the heating unit/AC unit or whatever.

I wonder if there's a mod that allows me to untownify clothes without SimPE, preferably in batches. Maybe something like a Wardrobe Wrangler plug-in. Sometimes I find nice clothes, especially those that come in several colors, but untownifying all of them was a struggle.

If I made this mod, a player would have to place one controller object on lot and the code would take it from there. The code would think about heat distribution and all that.
Player would only have to place heaters, AC, fireplaces, etc.

Given Tunaisafish's Attraction Fix (http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=318327) has a version which replaces custom hair attraction with attraction to aliens I'm sure that there is a way for the game to detect that a sim is an alien.

But would they have to place more than one? My fear is that, with one controller, you would only have to place one heater for the whole lot, which I wouldn't like so much. Unless the controller had functions for different room settings? Or are you saying the controller could be configured to regulate a set area around whatever object it detects?

Also, if alienism could be detected by a mod, I'd personally want them to be smarter/learn faster than normal sims and live a little longer.

Sorry for the self-quote and if took me a while, but I did it Three Lakes as mainhood is available at my tumblr check it out!

I think it is the alien skintone that gets detected, and make that sim *special*...though just assuming, as I opened tunafish's package and..have NO clue.

Did it happen in other lots or jut this one? I'm going to check it right now, thanks for reporting it! And you're very welcome
If you notice any other issue PM me so we don't spam in this topic

Uhm I'm quite sure I've sent my Sims to several Hotels and they seemed to be fine, but I will check all of them to see how it goes! Thank you so much for the fix too :D

EDIT: in my game everything was fine, I've checked the campground and I went home with no issue :/ might it be some community-lot related mod?
Also, I find out you can actually stay at the hotels! I thought it was no possible since that's what written in the tutorial... Anyway, although I was allowed to check in, sleep/use the rooms and the hotel facilities and check out I noticed that the game wouldn't let me save (probabily because you're not supposed to be able to in community lots) and the housekeeper would just stand by the check in desk, without cleaning or repairing anything (but I have to say, I'm not so sure about the way they should work since I rarely send my Sims on holidays).

Maybe Sophie-David's alien token could be used there?

A mod to rip a piece of paper from homework/assignment for an airplane.

Controller could do whatever we want. It's our obedient slave (unlike player ). Well, I should say, almost whatever we want, but still - a lot. I'd put it to work. I picture it as a thermostat maybe. It could have interactions, be breakable and all that.

Something so sims would automatically shoo a pet off a counter/bed they want to use instead of stomping, dropping the action, and having to be directed to shoo the pet before they can continue.

The thermostat object is a good idea, don't forget all the Medieval 'Hood type of simmers though...you'd need to ask their opinion as to what could it look like as I have no idea just now, and I do not play medieval style either.

Maybe fireplace deco?

I don't really know, but in the thread on the attraction fixes mod someone did some testing and found that sims needed the green skin AND the black eyes to be detected as 'alien' for attraction purposes.

I'd definitely download a mod that changed up aliens and gave them some abilities. It would be a fun little touch.