Pretty cool, and so needed. Thank you.

This sounds very useful I shall give it a try in my game!

You will come to me and eat this fruitcake

Yep! Combining this with the MCC NPC Control Mod is how I use it, too.

Thanks for this mod. I am trying to summon my alien baby's alien mom: Senior Pollination Technician #3. I've tried several times, using quotation marks around nothing for the first name and quotes around the entire name, vice- versa, and a variety of other ways, and I keep getting the message no first name or once, the instructions on how to enter command, firstname lastname. Any suggestions on what I should try?

Hello!

Thank you for your interest in the mod. As it turns out, the Senior Pollination Technician #3 is a special sim that has no first or last name in the typical sense. The name she has is given by the game in a special fashion. To help, I added a command to invite parents of sims. That should do the trick for you as long as you know your alien baby's name!

The update works a treat! Thanks SO much for modifying this mod to reckon with deadbeat parents.

this mod is superhandy but i was a tad disappointed that i syill cant get my baby who've been whisked away. I mean i get the message on the screen that you've forced blahblah to this lot but he never came ( thank you anyways

I'm sorry about that. Babies will be loaded and sent the "invited" command, but they are a special type of sim that cannot actually get into an "invited" state despite the command. I haven't tried this myself, but if you're okay with a child instead of a baby you could try to age up your baby by using my "Age Up or Down by Age Group or Name " mod then inviting the resulting child.

I'd first save the game before you try the aging/invitation, then use "age_up" command on your baby's name twice and invite them as a child. (You can try to use age_up just once and invite the resulting toddler, but I think the game might now prevent toddlers from being invited over; I'm not sure.)

I'm so happy that you created this mod, it's something that I realized I never knew I needed until now lol. But if I may just offer a suggestion, is it possible to update/modify this so it can recognize abbreviated commands? Like instead of force_invite_sim it can just be fis, or force_invite_parents_of to fipo. Again though, thanks for this mod!

Thank you for the suggestion! I have added those aliases.

I installed zipped, unziped and renamed. One of the three worked hahaha