Forethought
Sims That Plan Ahead — Smarter Autonomy
Your Sims think several actions ahead. Today a Sim picks one action at a time, at random. That is why a starving Sim goes to bed. Forethought gives them a goal and the sequence of actions to reach it: go to the kitchen, cook, eat, do the dishes.
The game still validates and animates everything. Forethought only decides what to do next; on failure, back to the original behaviour.
The problem
You have seen the scene a hundred times: the hunger bar is red, and your Sim goes to bed. It doesn't choose badly — it doesn't choose at all: it draws an action at random among those within reach.
The solution
A goal, then a coherent sequence of actions to reach it, instead of one action drawn at random. The action model is not written by hand: it is read from the game's tuning files, where every interaction already describes what it requires and what it produces.
See the decision
You see why they do what they do: the current goal, the plan, and the alternatives set aside. That is what makes the mod credible, and what lets you overrule it.
Works alongside
The big autonomy mods decide what is attractive; this one decides what to do next. They coexist.
What the mod does not do
No new objects.
No furniture, no clothes, no places.
No animations.
Everything you see on screen comes from the game.
No generated dialogue.
Your Sims don't talk more than before, and nothing leaves your machine.
No memories panel.
There is nothing to read, only Sims who follow through.
It replaces nothing.
The game validates, routes and animates as before; on failure, it takes back control on its own.
No score retuning.
Other mods do that very well; this one is built to coexist with them.
Installing — and uninstalling
One single file
Download the mod file. There is only one.
Drop it into Mods
Straight into the game's Mods folder, not in a sub-sub-folder.
To remove it
Delete the file. Your game goes on as before: the mod writes nothing into the save.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work with my other mods?
The compatibility list will be published after the test phase. Until then, nothing is promised.
What about performance?
To be measured in game before any number is written. Nothing is promised before.
In which language?
The mod's interface is in English first. French follows.
Which game version?
Each mod version states the game patch it was tested with — in the version log below.
Version log
Version — game patch — what changes. No version exists yet. The first line will be written on release day.
What is not true yet
Written the day it is measured, never before.
The core of the mod is written and tested outside the game. Work inside the real game has not started.
No video, no capture, no figure on this page exists yet: the reserved spots await the demonstration phase.
No release date is announced.
Download
Not yet. When a version exists, it will be free, with no sign-up and no paid early access. Announcements come first on the Discord.
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