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Mc Command Center Settings at start of challenge:

MCCC Settings:

• Auto save is completely up to you.
• Gameplay Settings:
  • Adopt neglected child – enabled
  • Adopt no caregiver – enabled
  • Character Values Difficulty – Default
  • Fame Difficulty – Default
  • Game Time Speed – default
  • Max household size is at YOUR discretion – but remember, if you go over 8 sims, ONLY access CAS through MCCC or you WILL lose sims!!
  • Rename length – up to you
  • Motive Decays – leave at default
  • Pause on zone – up to you
  • Sims are immortal – disabled
  • Sims die on lot – disabled
  • Skill Settings – default
  • Teleport Sim Overlap – your choice
  • Use random aging – disabled
• Money Settings:
  • Allow Child pay Bills: disabled
  • Apartment Bill Percent – default
  • Auto-pay bills – disabled
  • Change bills percent – default
  • Child Support Percent – 15%
  • Inheritance Sim Type – all
  • Inheritance Spouse First – enabled
  • Pay child support – all
• Notifications will probably help to be set on “related to the active household”, but you could also use notifications set to “all” if you want to see everything that’s happening.
  • Only setting to change here: console settings –> menu settings: phone texts – no texts.

MC CAS settings:

• Leave all default except for:
  • Exclude Traits: Child of the Islands, Child of the Ocean, Freegan, Geek, Green Fiend, Recycle Disciple, High Maintenance (see disallowed traits)
  • Offspring:
    • Use parent Physical attributes – enabled
    • Parent values variance percent – 50
    • Use parent skintones – enabled
    • Use parent skin details – enabled
    • Bypass blue babies – enabled

MC Career Settings:

• Leave all default except for:
  • Bypass played households – this is up to you, if you want to decide what careers everyone gets, go ahead.
  • Neighborhood stories settings:
    • Alter Neighborhood Stories – enabled
  • Teens quit school – enabled

MC Cleaner Settings:

• Detail and item cleaners – your choice
• Neighborhood Cleaner –
  • Bypass family ghosts – enabled
  • Clean culled sims – your choice
  • Sync Household names – I suggest enabled
• Relationship Cleaner:
  • Households to clean – include NPC households
  • Pet relationships to clean – acquaintances
  • Relationships to leave – this is up to you. If you have a lot of sims that are set as played in your save, you may want to set this high. It will likely affect performance, though, so use with care. I suggest either leaving at default, or saying between 20 and 40 if your computer can handle it.
  • Relationships to Clean – zero level relationships
  • Sim cleaner – synch married name – enabled

Clubs and Dresser settings:

• At your discretion!

MC Occult Settings:

• Aliens:
  • Alien Abduction frequency: No alien contact
  • All abduction pregnancy percents – 0
  • Force Alien Disguise – force no disguise (that way you can see them and stay away)
  • Maximum Aliens – 1
  • Other pregnancy – use custom pregnancy – disabled
• Mermaids:
  • Default except for Maximum Mermaids – 1
• Spellcasters:
  • Default except for for Maximum Spellcasters – 1
• Vampires: (default except for)
  • Aging Maximum – elder
  • Force darkform – enabled (so you can find them)
  • Maximum Vampires – 1
  • Risky vampirism –
    • Only with creation – disabled
    • Feeding percentages – all 0
    • Vampire creation notification – enabled
• Werewolves: (all default except for)
  • Maximum Werewolves – 1

MC Population Settings:

• Default except for:
  • Moving Settings:
    • Move teens as dependents – this CAN be set to disabled, but I suggest enabled.
    • Open houses: 10 (this is a suggested number, you can customize)
    • Maximum Homeless – set this at what you think is a reasonable number. I usually suggest between 10 and 30
    • Enforce Vampire Homes: enabled
  • Populating Settings:
    • Percent adult: 25
    • Percent Elder: 10
    • Butler Age: Young adult, Adult, Elder
  • Disable all but Guys Night at the Bar
  • Neighborhood Stories Settings – Alter Neighborhood Stories – enabled
  • Other settings:
    • Bypass sim culling – this one is entirely up to you and what your computer can handle. for most, I would say disabled – unless you have a great PC.
    • Bypass Clown Walkby: enabled
    • No Reaper Stalking: enabled
    • Randomize Visiting sims – enabled
    • Disable immortal sims: ENABLE ALL
    • Maximum Sims in zone – again, this is based on what your computer can handle. The default should be good for most people.
    • Adjust sims on lot: set all of the lots to checked (green) on each of these lists.

MC Pregnancy Settings:

• Adoption Settings: all default (unless you want to name the babies)
• Marriage Sim Selection: default except for:
  • Allow homeless marriage – enabled
  • Days to run checks – this is up to you. If you want marriages to only happen on weekends, feel free. or whatever you feel is appropriate. (you can choose on naming them, though)
  • Marriage Percentage:
    • Teen – 10
    • Young Adult – 20
    • Adult – 30
    • Elder – 10
  • Valid Marriage ages – teen, young adult, adult, elder
• Neighborhood Stories Settings:
  • Alter Neighborhood Stories – enabled
• Offspring: default except for:
  • Maximum Household Children – 6
  • Rename non-active offspring: your choice. if you want to have appropriate names, this might be a good idea.
  • Sync child surname – enabled
• Other Marriage – default except for –
  • Renaming – your choice (usually rename to the male’s last name)
  • Remove service limit – your choice
  • I would highly suggest using something like the Home Regions mod by Kuttoe for the immersiveness, and only have sims in your neighborhood that match your decade. Consequently, if you’re using this mod, turn the “same neighborhood” setting to either “always limit by neighborhood” or “prefer partners in same neighborhood”.
  • You can decide whether to use traits for marriage or not.
• Other Pregnancy – default except for –
  • Allow pregnancy aging – enabled (this is important!)
  • Auto-marry percentage – 100
  • Pause on playable labor – if you want to be there for each baby – choose enabled. It will then prompt you to switch households when a baby is about to be born. If not, choose disabled. I tend to use Enabled.
  • Pregnancy Duration – 5 (also important)
  • Random Moods and Traits – your choice.
• Partner Sim Selection – default except for –
  • Allow affairs – 10
  • Limit by relationship – married only
  • Same occult only – enabled
  • Same-sex percentage – 0
  • Valid partner ages – teen, young adult, adult, elder
• Pet Pregnancy settings – default except for –
  • Allow homeless pregnancy – enabled
  • Partner age – adult, elder
  • Elder pregnancy percentage – 0
  • Show pregnancy notifications – your choice
• Pregnant sim selection: default except for –
  • Allow homeless pregnancy – enabled
  • Days until Max age – 5
  • Days to run checks – your choice, default should work fine though.
  • Pregnancy percentage –
    • Teen – 5
    • Young Adult – 25
    • Adult – 20
    • Elder – 0
  • Valid target ages – teen, young adult, adult
• Spouse Sim selection: default except for –
  • Same occult only – enabled
  • Same-sex percentage – 0
  • Spouse Gender – male, female
  • Valid spouse ages – teen, young adult, adult, elder

MC Tuner Settings:

• Default except for –
  • Change Interaction Behavior –
    • Allow Monster under bed – if this is going to bother the heck out of you without having monster lights, turn it off for the 1890s
    • Allow Multiple BFFs – your choice, my suggestion, enabled.
    • Allow Teen Move-in: enabled
    • Friendly ask if single – I suggest enabled, but your choice.
    • Stop random flirting – I suggest enabled
  • Change interaction autonomy –
    • Autonomous Proposals: enabled
    • Autonomous Marriage: enabled
    • Autonomous repairs – enabled
    • Autonomous cleaning – enabled
    • Autonomous gardening – enabled

MC Woohoo settings:

• Default except for –
  • Woohoo actions –
    • Allow teens: enabled
  • Woohoo pregnancy –
    • Risky Woohoo percent: 50
    • Use fertility in risky: enabled
  • Sim Nudity –
    • Stay nude after woohoo – disabled
  • Other settings –
    • Autonomous Try for Baby – enabled
    • Allow Birth control – disabled
    • Birth control duration – 1

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