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This mod adds countless options that allow you to easily control and change just about anything about Sims in your town. Featuring a robust filter system to allow you to find the Sims you want to target and execute actions on.

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How do I use the Blacklisting feature?

For a complete tutorial on creating an Invalid Parts File for Blacklisting in CAS, click here: Blacklisting

What is MasterController?

The mod contains interactions for managing the entire population of your town.

However, unlike other mods in my suite, there is no automated component to this mod. All changes must be performed manually by selecting the appropriate interaction. This ensures that the mod does not interfere with any aspect of the game without your explicit direction.

It is also a character from the Disney movie "Tron", from which this mod derives its name.

How do I use the mod?

Interactions will appear in the object menus as "NRaas \ Master Controller". Certain interactions appear only on certain types of objects. "Demographics" for instance only appear when you click on the City Hall or Computer menu.

For sim related interactions, there are two distinct methods to use this mod:

From the City Hall or Computer menu. This approach will allow you to select any sim in town to run the interaction on.
- You will be prompted to specify a filter to narrow the number of sims listed. Such will be discussed later.
By clicking on the Sim itself. This approach automatically runs the interaction on that sim.
- Note that certain interactions are only available under certain circumstances. For instance "Baby Gender" is only available if the sim is pregnant.

Settings for the mod are listed under "NRaas \ Master Controller \ Settings". Further information regarding them is available here: MasterController Interactions.

How do I filter the list of sims returned by the mod?

Note: If you want to avoid the filtering entirely and see a full list of all the live sims in your town, simply click the "X" (Cancel) on the filter window.

You are allowed to select multiple filters to narrow the selection of sims returned.

For instance, if you want a list of all the teenaged females in town, use a filter of "Age" and "Gender: Female" together. After you press the Accept button, you will be prompted to choose the age group to use.

Note: If you want a list containing the buried dead sims in your town, you must include "Type of Sim" - "Dead" in your filter selection.

I would like to have certain interactions appear under the "NRaas" menu directly, how do I do that?

MasterController has a deep menu, with many interactions requiring several levels of clicking to reach them.

To simplify access to interactions that you may use on a regular basis, there is a "Hot Keys" setting available.

To set up this functionality:

"NRaas \ Master Controller \ Settings \ Hot Keys"
You will be prompted with a list of all the interactions available in the mod.
- The entries with a "True" next to them are already set as hot keys
Click on the interactions you wish and press the Accept to toggle their hotkey status
- Note you can travel into the deeper menus by selecting the entry and pressing the Accept. The listing window will switch to displaying that level of interactions instead.

After this, any interactions you selected will appear directly under the "NRaas" menu.

The choices you make are specific to the town-file you are currently playing. However "Export Settings" and "import Settings" will retain any hotkeys you specify.

I want to change the family tree relationship between two sims, how do I do that?

You will want to use MasterController Cheats' "NRaas \ Master Controller \ Advanced \ Family" series of interactions.

In that menu, you will find interactions for adding or removing parents, children, and siblings.
Note: You cannot explicitly define extended relationships, such as grandparent or aunt/uncle. You will need to create a sim between the two relations in order to link them together.

There are multiple interactions available:

"Add Parent" and "Remove Parent"
- When used on a sim, you can alter the natural parent for the sim
"Add Child" and "Remove Child"
- Similar to altering the natural parents, except the sim you initially click on is the parent itself, and you choose the child.
"Add Sibling" and "Remove Sibling"
- Connects two sims as siblings, if there is no parent sim available to use as a mutual parent
- Note: If one of the sims has a parent, the sibling will automatically be attached to the parent
- If both sims have different parents, it may not be possible to attach them using this interaction

What determines whether an opportunity appears in the listing provided by the Opportunity interaction?

Each opportunity in the game has a specific set of requirements for which a sim must satisfy.

This ensures that you cannot choose higher opportunities until you have achieved the lower ones first.
Skill opportunities, for instance, require that your sim has a certain level in that skill before they can spawn.

This mod will only list opportunities whose requirements are satisfied by your sim.

This may result in the list of opportunities being different sizes based on the sim you have selected.

Note that some opportunities also require that certain prerequisites be available in the town you are currently playing.

Some opportunities will only spawn in World Adventure vacation worlds.
Some opportunities, such as Late Night band gigs are only available if you have certain lot venues in your town.

Be aware that the EA "Opportunity" interactions provided through DebugEnabler will display all opportunities.

However, those interactions will attempt to force your sim to match the requirements of the opportunity.
This may lead to your sim inadvertently receiving unwanted skills

What does the "Type" column mean in the "Opportunity" interaction?

The following choices are available when viewing a list of opportunities:

True
- This means you have already successfully completed the opportunity once.
- Note that if you do choose to redo the opportunity, the completion status is cleared. This means that you must successfully complete the opportunity or you will not be able to perform the next opportunity in the chain.
Repeatable
- These opportunities can be performed multiple times.
- You have not yet completed the opportunity for the family you have chosen.

Opportunity History is stored for the household, not the individual sim. Meaning normally you can only ever complete any particular non-repeatable opportunity once per family.

If you wish to redo opportunities without the use of mods, you can do so by splitting your family into two households and then play the new household instead.
Note that this approach only works if you have more than one sim in the family, since moving the entire family simply transfers the opportunity history as well.

How do I get rid of all the Vampires in my town?

To remove the "Vampire" occult status from all sims in town, follow these steps:

Install MasterController Cheats
Click on the City Hall rabbithole (you can do so from Map View by clicking on the map tag)
Navigate the menu: "NRaas \ Master Controller \ Sim \ Intermediate \ Occult"
Choose whatever criteria you wish to use for filtering the sims in town (pressing the Cancel will choose everyone in town)
Select "None" from the listing of occult choices
When prompted to apply the change to all sims, press Accept

Note that if you are using EA Story Progression, that process will add new vampires to your town. You must either:

Disable that system
Use a tuning mod that disables EA Story Progression vampire immigration. Modders that host such mods can be located via the External Links
Install StoryProgression. Its handling of vampires can be reviewed here: StoryProgression FAQ Vampires

What do the numbers in Gender Preference mean?

The "NRaas \ Master Controller \ Sim \ Intermediate \ Gender Preference" option in MasterController Cheats gives you the ability to directly manipulate the raw values used for determining autonomous gender preference for a sim.

A Positive number means that the sim is able to autonomously engage in romantic standing social interactions with a member of that gender.
A Negative number means the sim is disallowed from autonomously engaging in romantic standing social interactions with that gender.

You can enter a positive value into both gender preferences, and make the sim autonomous towards both genders.
You can also enter a negative value into both preferences, making the sim averse to romantic interactions altogether.

Whenever a sim engages in a user-directed romantic interaction, their preference is altered accordingly:

The preference towards the target sim's gender is increased by "2"
The preference towards the opposite gender is decreased by "1"

The size of the number itself is irrelevant in calculations:

For instance: Having a value of "-1" is the same as "-1000" when determining autonomous action.
Entering a large value into the preference simply ensures that any future user-directed interactions do not sway the sim's preference off of what you set manually.
- Note that large numbers are especially important when dealing with Bisexual sims. You should set both preferences to large five or six-figure positive numbers to ensure that both values remain positive for the life of the sim.
- Large negative numbers are equally as important when dealing with Asexual sims. You should set both preferences to large five or six-figure negative numbers to ensure that both values remain negative for the life of the sim.

By default, newly created sims do not have a gender preference. They are set to "0" for both entries.

StoryProgression will automatically alter the gender preference of any "undecided" sim, as per the "NRaas \ Story Progression \ General Options \ Options: Flirt \ Chance of Gay Sim" option.
Note that under EA Standard, gender preference is only set:
1. By the story progression system, when two undecided sims are chosen to be coupled
2. When the user performs a user-directed romantic interaction
- Because of this, sims can remain undecided for the entirety of their lifespan.

EA does not export the gender preference of sims when they travel or are saved to the Library.

Traveler will retain gender preferences of travelling sims during town transitions
You will need to manually set the preferences of sims imported from the Library.

What does "Export Genealogy" do?

"Export Genealogy" reads the family tree information contained within your town, and creates a GEDCOM formatted file that can be loaded into a third-party family tree application.

The operation does not change the family tree contained in your game.

The GEDCOM file will appear in your "My Documents \ EA \ The Sims 3" folder as a "ScriptError" file. Simply rename the extension of the file from "XML" to "GEDCOM" (or "ged"), and open the file using your favourite family tree program.

A free web-based GEDCOM reader is available here: http://www.familyecho.com/

Where is the interaction I am looking for?

MasterController is composed of multiple components. The base mod contains the modified CAS and various basic commands for filtering and viewing information on your sims, while the optional expansion modules provided more advanced functionality.

If you are looking for an "Intermediate" or "Advanced" interaction and are unable to locate it in the listing, most likely you do not have the Cheats module installed.

You will find a link to that download here: MasterController Cheats

I used one of the Export interactions, what did it do?

The "NRaas \ Master Controller \ Demographics: Export" and "NRaas \ Master Controller \ Sim \ Export" interactions create script log files in your "My Documents \ EA \ Sims 3" folder by the name of "ScriptError". This is the only means EA has provided to export data out of the game, so do not be overly concerned about the name of the file itself.

If you wish to view the contents, change the extension on the file from XML to TXT and load the file in NotePad, or an equivalent text file editing application.

Where did the option (Instant Baby / Add Trait / etc.) disappear to?

Starting with Phase Six, the MasterController has been split into the main mod and an extra Cheats module.

All interactions designated by the Module: Cheats notation in the base-mod MasterController Interactions now require you to have this module installed as well.

When using "Objects Stats" what do the various filters mean?

Family
- Objects in Family Inventory assigned to a Household
- This filter includes objects stored in the Shared Fridge inventory used by all fridges on a lot
Global
- Objects that are not actually in-game at the moment. These objects have no physical location on the map but are still being simulated by the system.
- This includes objects in inventory or objects that were removed from the game environment but not deleted properly
Inventory
- Objects in an inventory container
Not In Inventory
- Objects not in an inventory container
Local
- Objects that exist in the game environment somewhere.
- This includes objects in inventories assigned to containers that are in-game
Sim
- Objects assigned to sims, normally in their inventory
- This filter also includes the physical representation of the sim itself

I want to change a sim's Celebrity Level or remove their Celebrity status entirely. How do I do that?

You will need MasterController Cheats installed to access that interaction.

Once installed the setting can be accessed under "NRaas \ Master Controller \ Intermediate \ Celebrity Level" from the Sim Menu.

This can be set to "0" to remove celebrity status.

If you wish to remove the Celebrity Status from any number of sims simultaneously

Click on the City Hall and navigate the menu "NRaas \ Master Controller \ Sim \ Intermediate \ Celebrity Level"
Filter by the type of sims you wish to change (or press Cancel to select all live sims in town)
When prompted, enter "0" and then apply the change to all sims.

I want to reset a sim's Age to the beginning of their current Age-stage. How do I do that?

You will need MasterController Cheats installed to access that interaction.

Once installed the setting can be accessed under "NRaas \ Master Controller \ Intermediate \ Age" from the Sim Menu.

Set this to the number of days that passed since beginning the current age stage.

I want to change my sim's Lifetime Want, how do I do that?

Install MasterController Cheats and use the "Intermediate \ Lifetime Wish" interaction.

You can use this interaction even if your sim has already completed their current lifetime wish, allowing you to start a new one.

Changing the wish automatically resets the "I am completed" flag, so if you want to redo your current wish you can.
If your sim satisfies the requirements of the wish you select, they will automatically complete it and receive the points.

What does 'Reset Everything' on the Town menu do?

This command rebuilds all sims, objects, and lots from the ground up based on the information that the game has on them at the time. It is somewhat intrusive to gameplay and can take more than a few minutes to run, depending on how many sims and objects a world contains. This command is intended to clear recurring error conditions, help solve gameplay issues and can help prevent ongoing game save corruption if run every few sim weeks or so.

It does not start anything over or change anything about where sims are in their lives or their progression.

What does Total Annihilation do?

Total Annihilation does exactly what it sounds like: It is a permanent elimination of a sim and all the data associated with it. It does not kill them, thus leaving a dead sim behind, its intent is to arrange things so it's as if the sim never existed in the first place.

Note: Even though this method is much better than simply deleting a sim's urnstone, or sending them "clipboard diving" in Edit Town, "Total Annihilation" is not a perfect system.
You will require the use of ErrorTrap to ensure that all references to the annihilated sim have been purged from your save-file

There are two "Total Annihilation" interactions in MasterController

"Town \ Total Annihilation"
- This interaction prompts you to choose a "Type of Sim" filter and will eliminate all sims that match that criteria
- Note that members of the active family are never deleted by this process
"Sim \ Advanced \ Total Annihilation"
- This interaction works in the same way as other Sim interactions, allowing you to filter by any number of criteria

Both interactions actually perform the same process in the end:

The sim's genealogy is expunged and all relatives are detached.
All mini-sim (foreign sim) relationships are deleted.
If the sim is part of a service, they are removed from that system.
The sim is detached from the NPC Driver manager.
The sim is removed from their household.
Any memories for that sim are purged.
All regular sim long-term relationships are eliminated.
The sim is removed from any Service Pet pool they may be assigned to.
The sim's career is ended.
The sim's steady/married partner link is dropped.
If the sim is not yet dead, the sim is killed via the EA death process (which may produce a story notice) and an urnstone is created.
The sim's urnstone is deleted from the game.
The sim is expunged from the EA service cleanup system.
The sim itself is deleted, which compresses it into a mini-sim.
Finally, any remaining mini-sim is removed from the game.

This process should eliminate all traces of the sim from the game.

Don't use it if you want some part of the sim to be retained.
If you want to retain the sim in the family tree or have the possibility of returning them to the game at some point, use "Sim \ Advanced \ Force Kill" instead.

How do I change to another household without going to the Edit Town menu?

You can use MasterController to make another household active, by clicking anywhere on the household's home and using the "Make Active" or "Make Active (Dream Catcher)" interaction.

You can also directly switch to another Sim by clicking that Sim and using the "Make Active" or "Make Active (Dream Catcher)" interaction.

"Dream Catcher" appears depending on the global setting "Retain Dreams and Opportunities". If set to True, the dreams (wishes) and opportunities for the newly inactive households are not dropped when you switch.

More information regarding dream retention is available here: Dreamer FAQ
Other mods in the suite that allow fast switching are listed in the above link as well.

What does the "Autonomous Same Sex" entry mean in "Kinsey Scale"?

A little background first:

By default, EA Standard has all sims created as having no gender preference.
- This means that the game can choose to push them into either a straight or gay relationship.
By default, autonomous gay relationships are turned off in the EA Standard game.
This stops gay sims from randomly appearing around town without the user's knowledge.

Under EA Standard, to enable autonomous same-sex relationships, the user must manually push a certain number of gay romantic interactions using the active sim.

After doing so, the ability for inactive sims to autonomously engage in same-sex romantic interactions is unlocked.
Tuning default: "SimDescription" is set to "6"

The flag displays whether the autonomous ability has been enabled in your game.

Certain mods, such as StoryProgression, will automatically unlock that capability if you have the "Chance of Gay Sim" or "Chance of Bisexual Sim" set greater than "0"

This ensures that if the mod creates a gay sim, they are able to act on their gender preference.

What does "Open" and "Close" do ?

The "Open" interaction available via the Lot Menu allows you to view the interior contents of a lot. It does this by doing the following:

If the lot is a residence, the interaction sets your sim as "greeted" for that lot.
- This process is the same as if you had knocked on the front door and been invited in by one of the residents of the lot.
- Note that because your sim is now greeted on the lot, any "Visit Lot" interactions will now be disabled. GoHere can be used to redisplay the "Visit" interactions on open lots, or you can simply "Close" the lot manually.
If the lot is a commercial lot, the interaction uses an EA debugging command to display the interior
- To ensure that you turn off this debugging command once you are complete, the mod tethers the camera to the lot, so you cannot move off of it.
- You must use "Close" to untether the camera and allow you to continue playing.

The process of opening lots is the same process used by HomeOpener, so you can actually use the "Close" interaction in this mod to close households opened by HomeOpener. The effect is temporary though, as the mod will proceed to re-open the lots when you switch active sims.

What does "Selectability" do ?

The "Advanced \ Selectability" interaction available in MasterController Cheats gives you the ability to set sims in the active household as being selectable or not.

A "selectable" sim is one for which you can provide the plumbbob and then actively queue interactions.

Whereas "unselectable" sims operate under their own autonomy and queue up interactions as they see fit.
Note that if you have the "free will" turned down on your setup, or have motives set to "static", this may result in the unselectable sim not doing anything at all.

As an added bonus, StoryProgression is capable of progressing unselectable sims, just like it does for inactive households.

You can turn off this functionality using the "Sims \ Progress NPCs in Active Household" option.
Note that the mod can and will move sims out of the active household if they get married, or build a sufficiently negative relationship with other members of the family.
- You should turn off the "Sim Options \ Allow Move" option for that sim if you do not want this to occur.

What does "Advanced \ Skill Level" do?

When used, it is capable of increasing or decreasing the level for any skill.

If the sim does not have the skill, it will be added to them.

You can add any skill, regardless of age restrictions to any sim.

Note that species restrictions are still enforced by the mod.

The listing window displays all skills, including those marked as hidden by EA.

Hidden skills are denoted by an "H"

Note: If you enter "-1" the mod will delete the skill from your sim, including any skill challenge statistics.

Setting the skill to "0" simply resets the skill progression, but retains any stats for the skill.

Note: If you force the game to increase "Charisma" skill, EA Standard will automatically grant your sim sufficient friends to satisfy the level requirements.

The new "friends" are randomly chosen from the existing town population.
You may need to try setting the "Skill Level" multiple times as EA Standard may stop the process arbitrarily.

Why does Inherit Voices make some of my toddlers mute?

EA Standard provides the following number of voices:

Three voices for Teen and above: A, B and C
Two voices for Child: A and B
One voice for Toddler: A

When you use the "Inherit Voices" interaction:

If the sim has no parents, the mod will randomly choose between A, B and C voice choices.
If the sim has parents, the mod will randomly choose the voice used by one of the parents.

Since Toddlers only have audio for Voice A, if the sim inherits voice B or C, they will be mute.

The sim will eventually grow into their voice.
Toddlers that receive Voice B, for instance, will start talking when they age into children.
Children that receive Voice C will start talking once they age to Teenagers.

Note that only a mod that rerolls a sim's voice on age-up can correct this particular side-effect.

In this suite, Extra StoryProgression contains that functionality.

How do I change the outfit for an invisible sim?

Click on the ground of the lot where the invisible sim is currently standing.
Navigate the menu: "NRaas \ Master Controller \ Sim \ Basic \ Outfit"
You'll be presented with a list of Sims.
- Select the one you're pretty sure is the invisible one. (This may require a process of elimination.)
Select some reasonable outfit, such as "Everyday".

Why are the CAS interactions missing for my sim?

There are a number of conditions that disable the CAS interactions in the mod:

The sim does not have an Everyday outfit.
- This is usually the result of an error.
- Use "Advanced \ Reset Sim" to rebuild the outfit.
The sim has no household.
- These are normally buried dead sims who are currently not haunting.
The sim is a tourist/explorer.
- The mod does not allow changes to such, as the changes are not retained once the sim leaves town.
The sim cannot be instantiated because they are;
- a toddler currently in hibernation awaiting a guardian to return home.
- a child currently at boarding school.
- a parent currently on a "Free Vacation".
- a sim engaging in SimPort.
Having a Transformation moodlet.
- Note: To remove the moodlet from an inactive sim, simply reset the sim.
- Feeling Blue
- Feeling Bluish
- Feeling Green
- Feeling Pink
- Feeling Purple
- Feeling Red
- Feeling Yellow
- Glowy On the Inside
- Zombie
- Toad
- Tragic Clown
- Werewolf
- Flight of Felicity
- Inner Beauty

How can I remove the limit for party invites?

In Master Controller's Base mod, there is an interaction for throwing either a Home or Destination Party under the Basic menu. This interaction automatically lifts restrictions on whom and the number of guests you can invite.

Note that while you can invite sims who are total strangers to your parties this way, that doesn't mean they will choose to attend. To extend that interface to the phone interaction, you will need to have Master Controller's Integration module installed as well.

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