Sims 2 Mod Addons: Parenthood & Prom + After School Activity Tweaks & Patches
- BellaDovah
- Sep 8
- 5 min read
These are addons and patches for piqiwi's mods: Parenthood, Prom + After School Activity, and Prom Plugins: Limo + Bring Friend Home from Prom. I've grouped these together because the two main mods integrate with each other so there's a lot of overlap, but if you just use Parenthood without the After School Activities or vice versa, there'll still be something for you here.
After School Activities Tweaks:
I've revamped the after school activities. Every interest can now be built by at least one club, and each hobby can be built in one club. For this reason, some of the clubs have been swapped out - the drama club is now the music & drama club, the literature club is now the tinkering club, the home economic club is now the cooking club, the photography club is now the arts & crafts club, the toys club is now the gaming club, and the paranormal club is now the science club. I've reduced the amount that interests are changed by attending a club - interests really shape my sims and I base a lot of calculations and their character on them, so I did not want attending a club one time to be able to change a full interest point, so now it will be a half or a quarter of an interest point per club attendance. However, hobby enthusiasm will be increased by exactly one full point each time they attend one of the hobby-gaining clubs. I've also tweaked the motives; detention will now decrease fun, and I've removed many of the need buffs from the other clubs - now only social will be maxed, and fun will be increased by 50 points.
This requires the Prom + After School Activity mod, and this patch file must load after the main pqw_afterschoolactivity file, and also pqw_parenthood if you have it. It does not matter which version of the After School Activity mod you use, this will work with any of them. While this is specifically for the After School Activity mod, the Parenthood mod also contains the same resource so this patch must also load after Parenthood too if you do use that as well, hence the patch name, but it doesn't matter if you don't use Parenthood.
Download:
Alternate: SFS
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School Bus Bring Friend Dialog Patch:
This is a text compatibility patch for the School Bus Bring Friend Dialog mod. This includes my after school activity name changes above, but also includes all of the text in the Parenthood mod, and the '[sim] wants to bring [friend's name] home from school. Is that ok?' popup text, as well as the single 'a school bus will arrive in about an hour' generic text rather than one per sim. If you use the School Bus Bring Friend Dialog mod and EITHER Parenthood or After School Activity + my above tweak, then you should get this mod. It doesn't matter if you use both mods or only use Parenthood without After School Activity, or only use After School Activity without Parenthood, this patch will still work for you. It only wouldn't make much sense if you do use After School Activity but don't use my tweaks above.
This patch must load after any you have of the following: pqw_parenthood, pqw_afterschoolactivity, pqw_parenthood_afterschoolactivity_BellaDovah_Tweaks_Addon, SchoolBus_BringFriendDialog.
Note that there is still an unresolved conflict between SchoolBus_BringFriendDialog and pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_02_returnwith_limo. I tried to figure this one out but it was tricky and in the end I decided it wasn't worth it, just load pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_02_returnwith_limo after SchoolBus_BringFriendDialog and you will get the more significant changes of the Prom Plugin mod and only lose some minor routing optimization stuff from the School Bus mod.
Download:
Alternate: SFS
More Energy After Prom:
If you use the Prom Plugins: Limo + Bring Friend Home from Prom mod, when your sim returns from prom their energy will be incredibly low, so much so that they just want to go to bed, but its only 10pm and they might have brought their date home to spend a bit more time with! This addon simply slightly increases their energy motive when they return from prom from -65 to -50 (a quarter bar), so they will have slightly more energy to kiss their prom date goodbye and tell their parents about it! If you only use the 02 file and not the 03 file, then you need the addon for 02 and not the one for 03, but if you do use the 03 plugin which I recommend, then you don't really need the 02 addon, you just need the addon for 03.
Download:
Alternate: SFS
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Parenthood Tuning:
Slightly increased the chance of getting a parenthood prompt to 40% instead of 30%, and slightly reduced the chance of taking advice from 88% to 85%. (It would be cool if this took other factors into consideration like their relationship with their parents, and/or their personality and traits, maybe one day.) I've also disabled the personality changes, because I prefer to handle this manually once they get their character value trait and age up to YA or adult. My rules are as follows:
Good Manners | +1 Neat | +1 Nice |
Bad Manners | -1 Neat | -1 Nice |
Responsible | +1 Neat | -1 Playful |
Irresponsible | -1 Neat | +1 Playful |
Mediator | +1 Nice | +1 Outgoing |
Argumentative | -1 Nice | +1 Outgoing |
Compassionate | +2 Nice | |
Insensitive | -2 Nice | |
Emotional Control | +1 Nice | -1 Outgoing |
Uncontrolled Emotions | -1 Nice | +1 Outgoing |
Download:
Alternate: SFS
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Compatibility:
Each patch requires it's associated original file by piqiwi, and therefore it's EP requirements.
Conflicts:
Mod A | Mod B | Status | Solution | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
pqw_afterschoolactivity | pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_02_returnwith_limo | Intended | Load Mod B after Mod A | All intended features from both mods |
pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_02_returnwith_limo | pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_03_bring_partnerhome | Intended | Load Mod B after Mod A | All intended features from both mods |
pqw_afterschoolactivity | pqw_parenthood | Intended | Load Mod B after Mod A | All intended features from both mods |
pqw_afterschoolactivity | pqw_parenthood_afterschoolactivity_BellaDovah_Tweaks_Addon | Intended | Load Mod B after Mod A | All intended features from both mods |
pqw_parenthood | pqw_parenthood_afterschoolactivity_BellaDovah_Tweaks_Addon | Intended | Load Mod B after Mod A | All intended features from both mods |
SchoolBus_BringFriendDialog | pqw_parenthood and/or pqw_afterschoolactivity & pqw_parenthood_afterschoolactivity_BellaDovah_Tweaks_Addon | Resolved | Load pqw_parenthood_afterschoolactivity_BellaDovah_Tweaks_BringFriendDialog_Patch after all mods in Mod A and B | All intended features from all mods |
SchoolBus_BringFriendDialog | pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_02_returnwith_limo | Unresolved | Load Mod B after Mod A | All features from mod B, most features from Mod A except some minor routing optimizations |
pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_02_returnwith_limo | pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_02_returnwith_limo_BellaDovah_moreEnergyAfterProm_Addon | Intended | Load Mod B after Mod A, unless you also use plugin_03 in which case only the patch for that is necessary | All intended features from all mods |
pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_03_bring_partnerhome | pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_03_bring_partnerhome_BellaDovah_moreEnergyAfterProm_Addon | Intended | Load Mod B after Mod A | All intended features from all mods |
pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_03_bring_partnerhome | pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_02_returnwith_limo_BellaDovah_moreEnergyAfterProm_Addon | Incorrect File | You don't need to use mod B with mod A, instead use pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_03_bring_partnerhome_BellaDovah_moreEnergyAfterProm_Addon | You will miss features of mod A, unless pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_03_bring_partnerhome_BellaDovah_moreEnergyAfterProm_Addon loads after mod A & B |
wfsanity | pqw_afterschoolactivity_plugin_03_bring_partnerhome | Unresolved | Load Mod B after Mod A | All features from mod B, most features from Mod A except some minor condition tweaks around school-related wants |
CJ-MaternityPayFix | pqw_afterschoolactivity | Unresolved | Load Mod B after Mod A | All features from mod B, but unfortunately much logic lost from mod A |
pqw_parenthood | Resolved | Load WH_ATM_Parenthood after both Mod A and B | All intended features from both mods | |
dress-me-correctly-Mog-20090119 | pqw_parenthood | Unresolved | Load Mod B after Mod A | All features from mod B, most features from Mod A except sims will still change into their private school uniform on a snow day |
pqw_parenthood | Intended | Load Mod B after Mod A | All intended features from both mods | |
pqw_parenthood | Intended | Load Mod B after Mod A | Mod B fixes a part of mod A, applying a similar logic check as used in the Get Parents Fix mod |
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Credits:
piqiwi, TwoJeffs, SimPe