Carl's Try to Make Friends Smart Interaction v1.02 (Patreon)

One thing that always bothered me in Sims 4, was how stuffed up the socials menu is and just how many clicks it can take to queue up even 3-4 socials. Worse, sometimes you have done a lot of them and the game decides to dump your entire queue, or the NPC decides to walk away soon after you start.

Try to Make Friends is phase one of a larger project that I intend to expand. This mod addresses the problem of clicking, and allows you to put a Sim on autopilot in an attempt to make friends. It tries to do this intelligently.

Patch Notes v1.02

• Fixed the very glitchy looking issue when canceling or exiting out of Try to Make Friends "mode". It is a very nice, clean exit now with no Sims plopping back on the couch :)

Smarter Sim Choices

If Sims gaffe and apologize becomes available, it will be higher priority. If the other Sim is in a bad mood, it will try to cheer them up. On initial meeting, Sims will try the socials that a player in-the-know might use, such as brighten day, compliment outfit, and flatter in an attempt to give the other Sim a happy buff.

Try to Make Friends will never repeat the same interaction twice. It can get stuck in a back and forth if your Sim has few socials, but if you have plenty of options it will take advantage and choose from a curated list of decent socials.

A Lively Conversation

This is not a one-sided thing, as when you have your Sim talk to other Sims by queuing up lots of socials. I felt it would feel more REAL if the other Sim got to get a word in and use socials of their own. So the other Sim will also get to use a social here and there, creating a more lively conversation.

It will run for a few hours unless you stop it, but as a smart player might do, if the conversation is going very badly and your Sim is LOSING relationship (based on the highest they've achieved) then TTMF will stop and prevent putting you into a hole.

While this is automated, Sims can still fail like usual, it's just saving you clicking by selecting normal socials that don't have major functions (no move in, and not even ask to be best friends). I leave the major ones up to you to do on your own. 

Saving You a Thousand Clicks

I believe this will be a major boost to family players who might like to save some time and put a Sim in this mode without clicking dozens of times to make a single friend. It may in fact make playing a family a bit less tedious. 

Future Plans

This mod is the groundwork for a larger system. I plan to expand this to romance, but romance is a bit more complex, as any player who understands the systems can tell you. Interactions that are touching, like hug and kiss might become available very early but should not be used right away unless the moment is right. I'd like this to allow Sims to flirt, in a separate social.

For now, I'd like to gather lots of feedback on how this works before I dig into romance and make the mod more complicated. I've released this as a freebie, though the more advanced version will end up going to my Early Access Patrons first.

Instructions: Unzip the file and place the contents in your Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods folder. ENSURE SCRIPT MODS ARE ENABLED in Game Options > Other or the mod will not function.