I've been working on a mod that unlocks the Jock social group interaction "take self photo" for all, regardless of social group standing, but I have been having trouble pinpointing the value that needs to be changed. In Sim3GameplayObjects I found some code relating to the function under PhoneSmart, which lead me to the variable kSocialiteUnlockLevelToBecomeAvailable. Sounds like this would be my guy, but two problems: first, it's set to two. The take self photo interaction becomes available at jock level four; second, changing it to zero accomplishes nothing.

Any advice? For the record, this is my first attempt at modding. I have advanced knowledge of C languages, but this is my first time working with IL. I have intermediate knowledge of MASM, though so I understand all the concepts, just having trouble with syntax and tracking things down. Thanks in advance for any help.

The value you see in the code, being tunable, is overridden by that in the relative
_XML tuning resource (Phone+TakeSelfPhoto... in GameplayData.package).
With S3PE you can extract that resource, import it in a new .package, make
the changes you need and save the package in your Mods/Packages folder.

2 probably corresponds to the second star in the Jock hierarchy (for lack of a
better term), not to the level 2.

Even doing this you'll probably not be able to use the interaction without
having at least level 1 some contacts with the Jocks (to initialize
the variable or something like that, I'm just speculating, I haven't tested it).
But if you are doing a core mod, just remove all those checks in the Test method.

I've been trying to do it core. Trouble is I can't find where the checks are performed. I don't know what it looks like in IL. That makes sense about the stars, by the way. Thanks!

You said you replaced 2 with 0, the checks should be there. Try looking to both the IL code and the C# code (using ILSpy).

I've edited a bit my previous post. Try with just an XML override mod first. I'm glad if I helped you.