Not all family are created equal, sad to say. These mods are related to mods that help deal with those family members.
1.) Step-Family Romance by Boiling Oil
Makes it possible so that Step family is no longer recognized as family and can have romantic relationships if you so should chose to. Family interactions between step-parents and step-children remain intact. This mod includes the In-laws fix as originally created by kestrellyn@MTS2
2.) Extended family treated as family by Kestrellyn
Do you ever hate how second cousins have no problems dating each other, or how great-grandparents can’t encourage and family-kiss their great-grandchildren? This hack causes the following relationships to be recognized as family for the purposes of social interactions:
– Second cousins (people whose parents are first cousins)
– First cousins once removed (your first cousin’s children, or your parents’ first cousins)
– Great-grandparents and great-grandchildren
– Great-aunts/uncles (your grandparents’ siblings) and grand-nieces/nephews (your siblings’ grandchildren)
3.) Found Family by Kestrellyn
Do you have sims who are raised by more than two parents, but annoyingly the game does not consider the non-biological parents to be family? Or “siblings” who were raised together but don’t technically share parents, so the game doesn’t mark them as family? Or just sims who are really close and ought to be able to use Family Kiss?
If you have ACR, it partially gives you the ability to fix this, through the Add to the Friend Zone functionality, but the Friend Zone can’t be applied to anyone younger than teen, doesn’t give sims family interactions with each other (like Family Kiss), and doesn’t affect Maxis romantic socials. This new interaction, which shows up as “Treat as Family” or “Remove from Family” depending on family status, will allow you to make the game treat any two sims as if they were family for the purposes of romantic and family socials, even if they’re not otherwise related. It doesn’t change family ties in any way (such as marking the selected sim as a sibling or a cousin), and isn’t commutative (so, adding Sim A to your family does not also add Sim A’s sister, or other sims that Sim A has marked as family, to your family). It can be used on sims of any age, including babies.
You can’t use the “Remove from Family” interaction to disown sims who are considered family by blood or marriage. You can only use it to remove sims who have been added through this hack. If you add a sim through this hack, and then become family with them by blood or marriage (because someone got married, or you changed their family ties with another hack) using “Remove from Family” won’t have any immediate effect until the blood/marriage family tie is removed. If you’re using my extended family hack, extended family is considered family by blood and can’t be removed.
4.) “Met New Great-Grandchild” memory by Kestrellyn
I guess EA never imagined sims would live to see their great-grandchildren (even though they gave us resurrection and vampires and elixir of life!). With this hack, sims will get a custom memory when they have great-grandchildren, similar to the one they get when they have grandchildren.
5.) Seduce In-law by Kestrellyn
A social interaction which is exactly the same as Charm for all intents and purposes, except that it is only available to use towards your in-laws or step family who you are not blood related to (and who aren’t found family) and who you don’t already have some romantic flag towards. If you have a high enough relationship, this should give you a crush flag towards that person, and that will unlock all of the game’s other romantic interactions. This interaction can’t be performed autonomously, so no one should be romancing their in-laws without your say-so.
6.) Step-Parents Baby Wants Satisfied
When a baby is born, their “step-parents” (spouses of their biological parents) will also get baby wants/fears fulfilled if they live with the baby, and their step-grandparents will have grandbaby wants fulfilled as well. Includes a version that incorporates TwoJeff’s baby wants fix that makes it so “adopt baby” and “have baby” wants are equivalent (i.e. both can get fulfilled if either happens).
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