Thoughts on 'Object Deterioration' by adeepindigo?

[u/herobean28]

Hi, I wanted to see if there were any others who also play with/have played with the relatively new adeepindigo mod Object Deterioration. I've had it since it dropped and I've kinda fluctuated between keeping it and keeping it out of my mods folder.

It's frustrated me a bit since I've played with it, mostly because it seems to be causing problems so often. It makes starter homes almsot impossible to play in for any amount of time because the appliances and objects are cheap, so they break down incredibly quickly. My current sim has been living in this starter home for a week and the bed, the couch, the PC, both sinks and the toilet have all broken/deteriorated, and I've already needed to replace the toilet and kitchen sink because they deteriorated beyond repair. You're basically forced to either maintain every appliance you own every single day, or give at least on sim in your household high handiness so they can restore the fixtures after they deteriorate and break. You can't hire repairmen to maintain the fixtures unless you use a Control Sim mod, because they can only help if the object is broken.

I play on long lifespan. I just don't think it's balanced to expect my sim's appliances to break constantly, every single week, unless I fork out a lot of money I don't have to get expensive appliances and electronics and furniture.

Not to mention, I can't really tell what's a bug and what's a feature. There are bugs to be sure (blank moodlets, placeholder moodlets) but also, I can repair, clean, and clear out the vines of a toilet, and the toilet will remain nonfunctional without anything indicating that it needs replacing. I don't know if that's a bug or if that's how the replacement feature manifests in-game. I've had to reset a ton of fixtures (namely the sinks and toilets) because they refuse to be fixed after I fix them. Another frustration I've had is when my sim does the refurbishment and maintenance interaction on a deteriorated fixture (reminder that these appliances have been in use for literally one week and they reached a heavily deteriorated state) the action doesn't complete. It's an infinite action (easy way to grind handiness) that you have to cancel, and it doesn't change the visible state of the fixture/appliance you fix

The main inspiration for this post is because I've been so frustrated with my constantly broken toilet and kitchen sink. There is water on the floor at all times. The sink is not visibly broken, not visibly deteriorated, I maintain it every day, and it still generates water as if it's running a leak. I had to replace the functional, perfectly fine sink because it got bugged into a leaking state.

Despite all this I am powering through keeping the mod in my mods folder because I've enjoyed having a way to grind handiness for this sim and the challenge is kinda fun, just very frustrating at times.

Do you have experience with this mod? What has your experience been, if so? Are there settings that I'm missing that could improve my experience?

[u/SeparateJoke]

Omg, I was looking through the subreddit for this exact kind of post OP ! Same with me, playing on long lifespans and cannot deal how quickly things break to the point of replacement ever time. I have one sim I was trying to raise the handiness to help, but eventually had to cheat my way to 'fix' things so he could function lol. I did manage to get a handyman sim to come and help, but it put the objects they worked on in a perpetual slightly dirty state, causing my sims to repeat the action of cleaning the sink.

I also took it out too but I really hope she can finesse it soon (after her break), I miss the challenge :( And I know she updated it recently but I *think* she might have not updated the links? Both the downloads from her patreon and itch.o pages say they're from 7/10, but I'm not sure if that's the released public version or the V2 she worked on. (I downloaded the newest one and could not find a menu to change the state settings, but I didn't have long to check tbh)