ACR Induced Chaos

I play with the ACR mod installed, or Autonomous Casual Romance to give it its full title. It's fab and fun, lots of fun in fact as it allows sims to spontaniously interact in a romantic type way and even woohoo or try for baby. One of the handy overrides it comes with is to set lot jealousy to none and I will admit to playing with this option enabled for almost every lot in every hood. Without it, the slightest hint of romantic interplay between a loved one and another sim will bring out the green-eyed, jealousy monster. Along with the jealousy comes the predictable slapping, arguing, poking, shoving etc which I'm not a fan of... unless playing a Black Widow challenge of course. The current epic is my Alphabet Legacy Challenge where I have tossed a bunch of CAS sims bearing geneticised Enlaya skins together with a bunch of Maty self-sims, so the no jealousy override has been deployed in force. This was fine until the ACR adjuster got reset somehow on my legacy lot and chaos ensued thanks to my own self-sim. Sheesh!

The legacy heir, Chablis, decided that being a rock god was one of the best routes to meeting her LTW of earning 100,000 simoleans which means she works 5pm-11pm. Her new husband Beau Pescado (nee Tamar) must have edged into the negative on his ACR timer so wanted some woohoo action. Alas Chablis was at work so he decided to get jiggy with a friend from work, my self sim AKA Evi Felix. Don't you just love free will?

Fair enough I reason, let them get on with it as Chablis will probably be too tired to attempt for an heir tonight. She returns and is exhausted with majorly low bladder and hygiene needs to boot. Let Beau have his fun methinks, not a problem with ACR no jealousy, and direct her to the bathroom. A short time later there is the ominous BOING sound of a sim catching a loved one having an affair i.e. performing an romantic interaction. Sim telepathy in action again. I immediately pause the game to figure out what the hell has happened and find this:

Oh dear (insert swear words here) methinks, but I have the no jealousy override set... it was working earlier... oh crapola!!! It isn't set now. Chablis is even less impressed:

There is a round of mutual slapping as their relationship stats fall through the floor while their furious bits are set to a bright, glowing red. Hmmn thinks me, there's not a lot I can do to salvage this situation without cheating, and I can't do that as this is the legacy lot. Excuses, excuses. Poor Beau, perhaps having 3 bolts isn't enough to make you the one after all so Chablis does what any sensible girl would do at this point and gives Beau his marching orders. Awww.

He's shocked. Just when you think it can't get any worse for them, it does. Beau falls out of love and they become enemies. Meanwhile Evi has decided the hot tub is the safest place to be and she's probably right... no user-directed interaction then no getting out for anyone, not even an angry, legacy heir.

It's over and Beau is about to leave. He's not happy at the break-up but Chablis is. I've never seen that before. Maybe we can find her a nice MATY sim?

The no jealousy override has been carefully reset and I will be rechecking it in future. I realise now that an earlier error in the game probably borked it. Despite the very occasional hiccup, it is probably the best ever mod for the game.

ACR (Autonomous Casual Romance) can be found here:

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