Feudal Dues

Adds a weekly expense for farming, peasant and historical households. Each Sunday at 9:00, Feudal Dues collects 10% of household cash above §500, plus §75 per Teen and §150 per Young Adult or Adult. Younger Sims and Elders are exempt. A notification explains the charge, payment and any remaining debt.

Dues are disabled by default. To enable them, open Lot Info in Build/Buy and add Feudal Dues under Lot Challenges on the household's home lot. Travelling keeps that home's setting; visiting another challenged lot does not enable dues for visitors. Moving to an unchallenged home pauses dues.

Removing the challenge pauses new dues and debt payments while preserving existing debt. Adding it again resumes with the first charge in the following Sim week, without catch-up charges for disabled weeks.

The first §500 is protected. Unpaid dues carry into the next played week, and nothing is confiscated. Normal bills remain unchanged. For example, §2,000 and two Adults plus one Teen produces §525 in dues, leaving §1,475.

Customize future dues from the cheat console (Ctrl+Shift+C): arkhejinn.feudal_dues.settings shows your values. Use arkhejinn.feudal_dues.set reserve 1000, arkhejinn.feudal_dues.set tithe_percent 5, arkhejinn.feudal_dues.set teen_levy 25 or arkhejinn.feudal_dues.set adult_levy 100 to change them. arkhejinn.feudal_dues.reset restores all defaults; add a setting name to reset just that value. testingcheats is not required. Settings apply to all saves and challenged households, and existing debt is preserved.

Preferences survive restarts and updates in Settings/arkhejinn_feudal_dues.cfg under your Sims 4 user folder. The file is created automatically with commented defaults; editing it is optional. File edits apply after travelling or running arkhejinn.feudal_dues.reload. Omitted values use the built-in defaults. Money values must be whole numbers from 0 to 99,999,999; the percentage accepts 0 to 100, including decimals. Invalid files retain the previous active settings, or defaults on a fresh session; repair or remove a damaged file before changing values in game.

The first charge is the Sim week after enrollment. If you return to a household later in the week, it receives that week's charge; weeks you never played do not accumulate extra charges. A local financial history is saved in your The Sims 4 user folder.

Removing the mod stops collection. Reinstalling it retains the household's saved debt; collection requires the home lot's Feudal Dues challenge.

Install: close the game, extract the ZIP, and place Arkhejinn_FeudalDues.ts4script and Arkhejinn_FeudalDues.package together in Mods/ZCustom. Enable Custom Content and Mods and Script Mods Allowed, then restart the game. Replace both files when updating; remove both to uninstall. When updating from 1.0.0, add the challenge to each home that should continue paying; saved debt is retained.

If you get an error, send lastException.txt from your The Sims 4 user folder.

Compatibility: If another tax mod is enabled, both charges can apply. Feudal Dues does not adjust Royalty or Royalty & Legacy tax settings.