NC4T Pickpocketing Mod - Update & Changelog (Patreon)

Master Thief Update 

Okay, so, this is a BIG ONE, and honestly, some of it wasn't easy to implement to my satisfaction, especially the aspiration and making everything swipeable by trying to find a way around the senseless and haphazard way EA tends to tag their objects. I went back and scrapped what I had done about a thousand times, just to start over from a new angle, but I learned a lot from it. A big, heartfelt THANK YOU! <3 to all of my amazing friends, testers and patrons who helped me figure shit out and always support and believe in me! I love you guys!

Now, here's what I did:

Master Thief trait changes

I finally managed to flesh out the trait somewhat:

Master Thieves can now Teach Pickpocketing (at least 75% friendship required)

New Swipe interaction: a Master Thief is able to swipe small objects (only objects that can go into the Sim Inventory are eligible)

Added some whims

Added a Lesson: Master Thief

New Aspiration: King/Queen of Thieves

4-track Aspiration in the Deviance category

Reward trait: King/Queen of Thieves

Higher money loot

Gives the chance of receiving a random rare collectible from each pickpocketing interaction

Charming Con Artist CAS trait

Higher success chance

More XP gain

New social: Tell Charming Story (builds charisma and friendship)

New pickpocketing interaction: Distract with Charming StoryTell a Charming Story to your fellow Sim and pick their pockets while they are entranced...

New interaction if Distract with Charming Story fails: Make Up ExcusesThis was just a misunderstanding, right?

New buffs and whims to go with it

Lesson: Charming Con Artist

Would you dare pickpocketing the Grim Reaper?

Successfully pickpocketing the Grim Reaper will be rewarded: your Sim will receive a Death Flower and a random reward store potion as well as a +4 Confident Buff for the duration of 8 hours

But beware: if you fail, the Grim Reaper will not be happy about it and the consequences will be dire...

Other Changes

All pickpocketing interactions are now no longer found under the "Mischief" category - since I added a couple of interactions, I moved them all into their own "Pickpocketing" category

Fail/success chance is now slightly influenced by Moods and the number of Sims in a conversation (positive moods have a slightly larger success chance, negative moods increase the chance of failure; each mood has a different weight)

Slightly adjusted chances for success and failure

Changed default consequences settings to medium instead of hard (your current settings won't be affected unless you refresh the settings file) and slightly changed the "hard" percentages to be a little less

Updated the traits with some technical changes EA made with the DHD patch

Added a Lesson: Pickpocketing pop-up

Ghosts can no longer be pickpocketed... they don't have pockets after all! Thanks @ RavenDiaval for noticing this

Some Notes on swiping:

In general it should be possible to swipe (almost) all objects that can be put into the Sim Inventory (including CC objects), while Household Inventory objects like fridges and furniture should NOT be swipeable. If you notice any items that falsely can or cannot be swiped, please let me know, so I can correct this! Thanks!

I couldn't make swiping Island Living canoes work - whatever I tried, they always threw routing errors, so I disabled them on purpose, this is not a bug. Canoes should be the only not-swipeable Sim Inventory object though.

SPECIAL THANKS

to RavenDiaval for his awesome testing and the valuable and in-depth feedback - I probably wouldn't have been able to find and correct all bugs in the aspiration without this. Thank you! 

to LeRoiDeTout for his scripting voodoo, for simply being awesome, and for crying with me,

to Shay and Kuttoe for always offering feedback, advice and ideas, and helping me troubleshoot, and

to Nes and Moxie and my awesome friends at Sims After Dark for always being supportive and throwing funny ideas my way.

Discord Server

If you have any trouble with my mods, discover a bug, or simply wanna talk about them, please come join us on the Discord Server Sims After Dark, which is a joint modders support server for the mods of Shino Nox/Shay, LeRoiDeTout, Kuttoe and myself. I'd love to see you there!

Grab the updated version here on the main post!