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Cat Fishing Skill

by echoweaver Posted 16th May 2021 at 1:16 PM - Updated 15th Sep 2021 at 10:21 PM by echoweaver
 
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#26 Old 6th Sep 2021 at 5:05 AM
So the "drop here" mechanic works great! I've been using it a lot for my gameplay purposes. The big issue however is ironically with the fishing itself. I've been trying to have my cats fish and they can reach the water easily enough... But then as soon as they jump they glitch and I get a script error and they get reset back home. Sometimes after they reset they wind up with stuff in their inventory that you'd normally get from hunting, like a snake skin or even a goldfinch once. The weirdest part was when I tried to extend the "fish a while" to say until they gain a new skill level... but even after they glitched back home and started interacting with other cats and sleeping, they kept gaining more fishing skill.
I've tried with cats of different fishing skill, different locations, and it still happens. Its a shame, because I really love the concept of this mod! I love cat-based gameplay!
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#27 Old 7th Sep 2021 at 1:32 PM
This is fantastic! If at any stage you get the chance, making a "fighting skill" for cats would be incredible for me!
I mostly use the Sims 3 to play the Warrior Cats challenge, so the additional skills are a godsend.
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#28 Old 8th Sep 2021 at 11:09 PM
Squee! You're actually using my mod for Warrior Cats!

Quote: Originally posted by Fabrication
This is fantastic! If at any stage you get the chance, making a "fighting skill" for cats would be incredible for me!
I mostly use the Sims 3 to play the Warrior Cats challenge, so the additional skills are a godsend.


Funny you should say that!

I'm working on Fighting right now. It's more complicated than fishing -- it involves wounds and possible death (configurable). I got into a tangle with the weird Attack interaction from cats to humans for a while, but now I'm back at it.

I also have a larger project that is specifically for Warrior Cats involving two skills (Medicine Cat and Herb Lore ala Gardening). The Herb Lore is essentially done, but Medicine Cat has to hold on things like Fighting so that there is something to cure. I also plan for it to have a simple apprentice mechanic that allows an adult cat to pick a kitten to teach their skills to.

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#29 Old 8th Sep 2021 at 11:11 PM Last edited by echoweaver : 9th Sep 2021 at 12:36 AM.
Quote: Originally posted by SaltySweetRen
So the "drop here" mechanic works great! I've been using it a lot for my gameplay purposes. The big issue however is ironically with the fishing itself. I've been trying to have my cats fish and they can reach the water easily enough... But then as soon as they jump they glitch and I get a script error and they get reset back home.


You're the second person to report this. I had several testers, and the mod seemed to work fine. Is there any chance you have ErrorTrap installed and can see an error message that goes with that reset?

Also, is it happening with Fish a While, Catch a Fish, or both?

Thirdly, I did upload a fix on June 21 for an issue that would have caused problems in non-English games. Be sure you have that one.

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#30 Old 9th Sep 2021 at 2:46 AM
Quote: Originally posted by echoweaver
You're the second person to report this. I had several testers, and the mod seemed to work fine. Is there any chance you have ErrorTrap installed and can see an error message that goes with that reset?

Also, is it happening with Fish a While, Catch a Fish, or both?

Thirdly, I did upload a fix on June 21 for an issue that would have caused problems in non-English games. Be sure you have that one.


Yeah, I do get an ErrorTrap message when it happens. It seems to be happening with both, though "play in water" seems to be fine. Kittens just hate playing in the water in my game. I've been using the most recent version, and my game is english so I'm not sure what the issue is.
I have some video footage, if that helps. (I may have been recording my challenge... lol)
https://youtu.be/Grk4AKngEOs
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#31 Old 9th Sep 2021 at 2:03 PM Last edited by echoweaver : 10th Sep 2021 at 6:39 PM.
Quote: Originally posted by SaltySweetRen
Yeah, I do get an ErrorTrap message when it happens. It seems to be happening with both, though "play in water" seems to be fine. Kittens just hate playing in the water in my game. I've been using the most recent version, and my game is english so I'm not sure what the issue is.
I have some video footage, if that helps. (I may have been recording my challenge... lol)
https://youtu.be/Grk4AKngEOs


Thanks a lot.

Yeah, a tester reproduced this from the download here. The ErrorTrap error is in registering the caught fish, so I'm going to guess that it works while the cat is failing to catch anything?

I'm starting to wonder if I somehow uploaded the wrong version Obviously, it worked for me because I took screenshots for this thing with cats catching fish.

I'm sorry!! I'm going to see if I can get to the bottom of this as fast as possible.

ETA: OK, I believe I have a fix. Some friends are going to give it a test to be sure I didn't break something else. I'll hopefully update tomorrow.

ETA2: Fix is up for download! Thanks for your patience.

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#32 Old 11th Sep 2021 at 4:07 AM
Just installed the update and tried it out and it works beautifully! Thank you so much for creating it! This is easily a must-have mod for me now, especially for my Reedclan cats!
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#33 Old 15th Sep 2021 at 10:30 PM
Quote: Originally posted by SaltySweetRen
Just installed the update and tried it out and it works beautifully! Thank you so much for creating it! This is easily a must-have mod for me now, especially for my Reedclan cats!


Bet it didn't work so beautifully after you saved and reloaded .

That should be fixed now.

Hopefully all these lessons learned will make my next mod roll out more smoothly!

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A portrait in stubbornness - Playing the same legacy since 2009
Sample a Brave Legacy: http://sims3sample.illation.net
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#34 Old 11th Dec 2021 at 4:57 AM
I really like this mod as I'm a "trophy hunter" who completes all skills and skills challenges so this is a welcome addition. One problem I observed though is that my cat don't count the fishes he caught in the hunting skill section and I can't complete the skills challenge for fishing in the hunting skill
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#35 Old 13th Dec 2021 at 12:40 PM
Quote: Originally posted by PerfectSimChallenge
I really like this mod as I'm a "trophy hunter" who completes all skills and skills challenges so this is a welcome addition. One problem I observed though is that my cat don't count the fishes he caught in the hunting skill section and I can't complete the skills challenge for fishing in the hunting skill


That's intentional. Since this is a skill with its own challenges for fishing, I removed the fishing stuff from the hunting skill. The hunting skill now has no effect on fishing, so it doesn't make sense for there to be challenges about fishing. That hunting skill challenge shouldn't even appear on the skill journal. I'll check out that part.

I should review what the reward was for the hunting fish challenge to be sure that's included in the fishing skill challenges.

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#36 Old 15th Aug 2022 at 2:28 AM
For some reason my cats don't get their hunger filled at all when they eat the fish they caught with this mod. Any way to fix this?
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#37 Old 20th Aug 2022 at 6:12 AM
Quote: Originally posted by BuuberriKat
For some reason my cats don't get their hunger filled at all when they eat the fish they caught with this mod. Any way to fix this?


Vanilla EA fills very little hunger with hunted prey. This mod doesn't increase hunger from prey on its own, but it works best combined with a mod that does. I recommend this one: https://modthesims.info/d/526095/mo...s-and-dogs.html

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A portrait in stubbornness - Playing the same legacy since 2009
Sample a Brave Legacy: http://sims3sample.illation.net
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#38 Old 10th Oct 2022 at 5:21 PM
Quote: Originally posted by echoweaver
Vanilla EA fills very little hunger with hunted prey. This mod doesn't increase hunger from prey on its own, but it works best combined with a mod that does. I recommend this one: https://modthesims.info/d/526095/mo...s-and-dogs.html

I actually already have that mod installed already but I figured out it wasn't your mod messing up, it was my game. For some reason when the cats would eat a fish they'd get no hunger filled AT ALL. Not even a little. I guess the fish were just bugged, but I took care of it. Thank you for the awesome mod!
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