Meaningful Relationship Status and Decay

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Background
I used Simlogical's More Realistic Relationship Decay mod for a long time, and after seeing how quicker the relationships decayed regarding pets, I decided to expand upon Inge's mod, shifting the thresholds around and adding more conditions.

This mod helps with both maintaining relationship and segregating how well do Sims know and should treat each other. It makes the Best Friend status mean something, and also keeps the BFF status more special as it was supposed to be.


Features
General
  • Enhances the ability for Sims to remain on good terms with one another via dictating when the STR decay per day should stop
  • Sims have a set range of relationship values where their STR will cease decaying, allowing certain status to be kept for life! (Until they antagonize each other. )
  • These status are Best Friend, Love, BFF, Enemy and close relatives.
  • For example, the STR scores for any acquaintances remain static from -30 to 30. Therefore, any Sims can take advantage of that to build up their relationship to 30, and keep that value for the rest of their life.
  • As they can keep fairly good relationship scores for as long as they live, they may then take advantage of that and become Friends more easily.
  • The Best Friend status is for life, as their STR will not drop below 60. Useful for maintaining family friends and various social events. That's is, unless they run afoul of each other!
  • Changes to how BFF is earned and preventing it from supplementing Best Friend
  • Proper BFF loss on low LTR
  • STR decay changes cover both Sims and pets. Pets benefit even moreso.

Next up are specific detail. Long lists and a lot of numbers!
Sims


Pets


BFF Changes



Options
  • Either of the Core folder is required.
  • The difference is the slower LTR change per day on the 6LTR version.
  • BFF changes are within the Optional folder.


Issues
These are less of bugs within the mod itself, and more of outside issues I have not yet properly understood. 2 bugs are known:
  1. University students, at least for dormitory residents who are being played, suffer from magnified STR decay:
    • The decay is multiplied by the number of household members. If there are 6 playable members present, then their STRs that can decay will decay at -12 instead of -2. This affects everyone.
    • The current solution is to suppress STR decay for all university students.
    • To undo the suppression, use SimPE to find BCON: Rel.Decay - University (101D), and change the sole value inside to 0.
  2. STRs for pets decay unlike the expected amount, such as decaying at -4 per day instead of -2.

Please report any other bugs in the comment section.


Conflicts
This mod is built upon Simlogical's More Realistic Relationship Decay mod, and therefore intended to replace it. It adds and modifies the Controller - Relationship Decay group (0x7FF41B0C) with the following instances:


For the additional files regarding BFF adjustment, they modifies 3 following globals:



Credits:
Inge Jones for the original More Realistic Relationship Decay
cyjon for work on the Fragile BFF mod
Creator Recommendations:
kestrellyn has 2 mods that can go nicely with no STR decay for close relatives. So far, the Found Family mod is supported and recommended, as it allows choices when choosing which Sims to count as close relatives
The Extended Family mod may also work, but I have not looked into the code yet.
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