New Mod Fix - Royalty Tracker Issue
Added 2022-01-23 03:06:15 +0000 UTCAdded January 22nd, 2022
What Does This Fix?
This fixes an error that most notably can prevent certain Sims from getting royalty payments of any type. It manifests only for players who lack the Get Famous Expansion Pack.
More specifically, this error often is attributed to Sims in the Conservationist career who license Nature Documentaries.
It is also possible to happen with Sims downloaded from the gallery who had certain royalties.
How Does This Work?
Essentially, the game is looking for a buff that Sims get when they have trending videos to give them a bonus on their royalty payments for published videos, but that buff does not exist if the player does not have Get Famous. The game code however does not have guards in place to check if the buff exists, so it expects that it does and then causes an error when it does.
(Basically, publishing Nature Documentaries goes under the same "bucket" for royalties as publishing videos from the Video Station from Get Famous, and this causes issues for users who lack the pack.)
My mod alters the code as non-invasively as I could so that the logic of the current code works as it is written (since otherwise I would have to do a pretty big override and I don't feel comfortable overriding an entire function outright if I can avoid it) to prevent the error from happening without needing to be re-written.
Installation
The mod can be found on my general "Mod Fixes" post, under the name LeRoiDeTout_Royalty_Tracker_Fix.ts4script.
As with most of my mod fixes, this is a script mod. Because of this, normal rules for script mods apply here. Be sure to place the script file directly into your Mods folder, or into a folder you have reserved for my mod fixes, but no deeper than one subfolder.
