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Help understanding terminology
Bonasita
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I’m quite new to Sims, I’ve only been playing 3 months, and I don’t yet understand a lot of the terminology people use on the forums. I would appreciate if some of you could post what they mean (things like CC, MOO, etc). I’m sure I’m not the only confused noob, so perhaps this could help others who are new as well. Thanks so much in advance!
Daughter started playing Sims 4, I joined her, she quit, I'm addicted! Moms play games too.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood!
It's never too late to have a happy childhood!
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MOO = Move Objects On/Off (I think).
CC = Custom Content. It's the player-made addons like clothes, hairs, furniture, and knick-knacks that you can add to your game from non-EA sites
Simmer = a Sims player
mod = a player-made addon that is more than an object. Some are UI (user interface) changes, or gameplay changes, etc.
MOO = Move Objects On. That's a Maxis-made "cheat".
Guru or SimGuru = an EA-Maxis employee who has an additional role as a public face in the community. Sometimes people use the word to mean any Sims developer
MCCC = MC Command Center. It's a player-made suite of mods that's widely used to add story progression and tweak lots of aspects of gameplay.
SP = Story Progression. It's a mainly Sims 3 feature that has the nonplayed Sims getting married, moving, having babies, etc. In Sims 4 it's mostly just nonplayed Sims getting (or losing) career assignments, and aging depending on your own settings.
Thank you. I was wondering about “clipping” too but then I found a post about it, and it seems to be things interacting inside each other, like the many times I’ve watched my sims walk through walls or get stuck inside each other. I know there are other terms, I just can’t remember them now, so I’ll add as I come across them. Thanks again, @luthienrising and @SimQueenie9.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood!
It's never too late to have a happy childhood!
Correct.
Weird, I don't think I've ever seen it used like that...
Unless you’re me
It's never too late to have a happy childhood!
Ha! I'm totally you, then. I am the Goddess of My Own Story Progression.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood!
It's never too late to have a happy childhood!
Not really. XD I've been playing Legacies since Sims 2, to the point where I don't really know any other way of playing. (I don't follow every single rule, though, or keep score.)
No prob!
Townies generally refer to sims who populate the town but aren't living in the world. It's sometimes used interchangeably with NPC, but there can be a distinction.
Premades refers to sims made by Maxis who either came with the game or were used in trailers and put up on the gallery for download. Bella Goth and Bob Pancakes are examples of premades.
Rotational player - Player who plays with more than one household in the same save game by switching them from time to time.
Culling - Game deleting sims or relationships to make room for freshly generated sims/relationships.
The whole culling system is talked about in this forum post. (https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/905991/culling-relationship-culling-decay-current-status/p1)
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Plum: What the forum uses to replace/censor words that might violate the rules, like swearing.
Took me ages to work out what on Earth people were talking about. I thought I was outside of the loop of some weird inside joke.
Thanks for letting me in on that, I thought the same thing! One of my best friend’s name is Plum
It's never too late to have a happy childhood!
NRAAS
TSR
MTS
Can anyone explain those, please?
It's never too late to have a happy childhood!
Not sure about the other two..
EA ID: DinowCookie | No-CC Households & Rooms
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NRAAS is a modder I believe.
TSR - The Sims Resource as someone mentioned
MTS - modthesims website
NRaas, Industries is a web site that was initiated by Twallen for his mods. He made numerous mods for Sims3 that are fantastic. When he announced he was 'retiring' from the making of such mods, he turned over his website to those who are there, now. They have been given full rights to use his codes, et al, to continue creating mods (script mods) for Sims3.
TSR is a site that offers custom content
MTS stands for ModtheSims, which also offers custom content plus mods for Sims2-4. It's a great site!
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MM = Maxis Match = generally custom content that is made in the same style and/or looks as if it came with the game, for example. A hairstyle that is an edit of a hair that already exists in the game
Alpha = generally custom content that is high poly (HD) and does not fit the basic game aesthetic, for example, hair that does not have the "clay" look, where you can see the individual strands