May 23, 2022 EA Patch: Updates for Some English Strings

From what I can tell, my mods are fine with the latest EA patch, with a few exceptions based around English strings and the Pronouns Update that EA rolled out on May 23.

If you use my mods in another language, you don't need to do anything because so far, the Pronouns Update only impacts game clients set to English.

The mods that are impacted for English-based players are as follows and you can download the updated versions from the links below:

Become a Sorcerer 

Child Traits 

Thinking Skill 

Exceptions and Expectations

This feature is a work in progress according to EA and from what I understand, there may be some instances in the game where things read awkward still because of the difficulties of handling grammar.

For example, with the way the pronouns are implemented currently, I encountered a string in one of my mods where "he is/they are" would be awkward one way or the other if I kept "is" or switched it to "are." Same with a "he/she doesn't" vs. "they don't."

For those two situations, I rewrote part of the strings to keep the intended meaning, while removing the part that the current pronouns implementation is unable to handle.

So the following:

{0.SimName} is tingling with magical energy. {M0.He}{F0.She} is too young to be a full-fledged Sorcerer, but {M0.he}{F0.she} can teleport with the help of an older Sorcerer and may spontaneously combust while Angry!

Became:

{0.SimName} is tingling with magical energy. Although too young to be a full-fledged Sorcerer, {0.SimPronounSubjective} can still teleport with the help of an older Sorcerer and may spontaneously combust while Angry!

And:

{0.SimFirstName} is already Playful. {M0.He}{F0.She} doesn't need to force laughter!

Became:

{0.SimFirstName} is already in a Playful mood. No need to force laughter!

Credits

Special thanks to frankk for a tool he shared that made it a lot easier to replace string tokens as needed for this update.