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#1 Old 27th Mar 2025 at 3:00 AM Last edited by RheaIvy : 27th Mar 2025 at 6:57 PM.
Default Making Sense of Monique's Controllers
Hi everyone! I wasn't sure which category this post would be best suited for, so I'm sorry for any mistakes!

I'm trying to understand how Monique's Hacked Computer works, and how each controller ties up to the functions. But my understanding of BHAVs is still very basic. So far, that's what I've figured out/found out by googling:

MQ_Computer_Global_Bank = handles the global banking functions (deposit, withdraw, check amount and transmit)
MQ_Computer_Global_Bank_Bills_Controller = handles the loan function (not sure if it's just the billing or if there are more)
MQ_Computer_Global_Bank_Bills_Controller_1 = handles the lottery function
MQ_Computer_Global_Bank_Bills_Controller_2 = handles the bills reminder notification on an hourly basis
MQ_Computer_Global_Bank_Bills_Controller_3 = handles the bills reminder notification on an daily basis (unsure on what exactly changes between bill controllers 2 and 3)
MQ_Computer_Global_Bank_Bills_Controller_4 = ???? no idea (EDIT: my new guess is that it's related to the "Write Article" functions)
MQ_Computer_Global_Bank_Controller = sets interest rates
MQ_Computer_Global_College_Controller = my guess is that it's supposed to control the college funds function? I'm not sure
MQ_Computer_Global_Fees_Controller = also a guess, but possibly controls the private school fees?
MQ_Computer_Global_Sims_Controller = according to other posts, it controls the sim's pie menu options for bills and work from home, but can cause a jump bug and it's not necessary for the computer to function
MQ_Computer_Plantsims_Controller = my guess is that it controls the custom plantsim potion?

If anyone can help with confirming any of these controller's functions, specially Bank_Bills_Controller_4, it'd be greatly appreciated!
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#2 Old 28th Mar 2025 at 12:34 AM Last edited by RheaIvy : 29th Mar 2025 at 3:30 AM. Reason: Typo
Making a little update on a separate comment regarding MQ_Computer_Global_Bank_Bills_Controller_4

My previous guess edited into the first post was made based on how the BHAVs inside it were named (WAC, WAR, and so on, where WA = "Write Article"). Searching again on older comments and versions of the computer, I found that Monique uploaded v. 9.0 on a comment here, and this version has all Bank Controllers, except for Controller 4.

Monique also uploaded her old descriptions, which were incredibly useful. On v. 12.0, the write articles function was also expanded to be able to assign employees AND to earn badges after maxing the correlated skills. V 12.0 isn't available to download as far as I know, but v. 13 is still on the main post, and it contains controller 4. I also guessed that B on the BHAVs names (BWAC, BWAR, etc) stands for "Business", but since they have a check for sims' skill levels, it could also relate to the "Badge" earning function.

Still, this is all my own speculation with a very shallow knowledge of a BHAV structure and analysing the change logs. I still don't know if I'm on the right track, and why would it be named as "Global_Bank_Bills_Controller_4" if it's not used for the banking system. Any input would be very appreciated.

Edited: Found another comment on the post here (for some reason my link kept redirecting it, but it's on comment #680) where someone uploaded V. 12.2 of the computer, and it has Controller 4 included. I don't know for sure if it was the first one to include it, but the change log makes me think so, since versions 10 and 11 didn't add more noticeable functionalities (v. 10 updated it for OFB, and v. 11 added the options to buy robots and removed an unused function).
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