Could you add me to the list aswell please. I always have been and always will be CC free, but as with some others on this list I too won't have my game till next week.
Can you add me to the list please, I never use CC just store bought stuff.
(Though I don't get the game until Friday and won't be able to install it until Sunday)
I am CC free so please add me. I do own the whole EA store and have the free Dr. Pepper and T-Mobile items. I would like to Simport my level ten 5-star singer Katy Perry.
Hi plz add me, I am also CC free and only ever use store items. I wont receive my game until tomorrow (Friday) NZ time. But I am really keen on having a go of simport but I definitely do not want any cc in my game. It has got me a bit worried now.
If you don't consider Exchange downloads as CC then you may find that you are not CC free (that is free of CC from 3rd parties). I have often found lots that promise no CC to have it - since some CC is marked wrongly as store items (have a shopping bag and not the CC red *). It is very possible that Showtime has nothing to do with you having picked up CC in your game, but in paying closer attention to things you have while looking for Showtime items you have finally noticed items that have come to you via the Exchange.
This is not to say that people who list lots and say no CC are lying to you - as often they think they are using a store item because of the marking it carries and that there game is free of CC.
You cannot even trust an unfurnished lot with a house be CC free as windows, doors, wall coverings, etc are very often from 3rd parties. And this holds true of even just plain patterns - as they are not always accurately marked in game as CC so are used as original game patterns - and can be part of clothing, objects, etc.
The only way to make sure you produce CC free games is to have a duplicate of your game installed and never allow anything other then store items near it (although store items really fall into the CC category but that's another discussion). Even adding store items can actually hide third party CC in you game because much of it ends up marked as tore items and you would have to check each item you use marked with a store shopping bag to make sure it really is something you purchased from the store against your purchase history - otherwise you could be passing on third party CC and using it.
You can want to be, pledge to be and need to be CC free but very few of you are. And, unfortunately removing your exchange downloads from the launcher does not remove the installed content and sometimes its not even removed when you uninstall from installed content, and often CC installed with other objects, items, lots etc won't show up as separate items in uninstall, although the handling of installed content via the launcher is improving with each new release it seems.
The only sure way to know you are CC is to have a clean install of your game, EPs and SPs and never click a simpack or download anything to your launcher except store items. Once you download from the Exchange you expose your game to third party CC, even accidentally and through others honest mistakes, and can't claim that you upload CC free items to the Exchange, although you may really, truly believe that the upload is CC free.
I have actually installed TS3 and all the EPs and SPs on a computer that never has run TS3 before, just recently and then installed 10 lots and 20 objects from the Exchange. I did not install any store items so I could find CC that was incorrectly marked as store items. After the Exchanged downloads were installed I had 73 pieced of third part CC installed - 62 of which had store shopping bags and not the * that designates third party CC. Since I had not installed anything I owned from the store I knew that these items were CC and did locate them on the sites they came from. This is not the fault of the Exchange or EA but it is confusing and means you cannot visually spot any third party CC easily. Sadly TS3 does not make it so you can delete objects and items from in the game as TS2 allowed so you have to go on a very big hunt for this installed CC masquerading as store items, as well as those things marked as third party CC.
I really don't think that anyone should claim that anything they upload is CC free unless they have never installed anything but TS3, the SPs and EPs and store items since once you touch the exchange you can have third party stuff and mistakenly and unsuspectingly use it.
This is often why some people have problems with new releases and don't try the steps people suggest to make sure they are CC free when installing or won't go back and do clean installs saying that they never have installed CC. The never have but they still do have CC and if it is used in the game and is not compatible with a new release then the new installation breaks. They then keep going round and round looking for an answer even when the symptoms are telling others that CC is the issue because they really think that they have never exposed their game to CC.
I am not trying to start a war with the Exchanges (its not the Exchanges fault) or with people who claim their uploads are CC free - they honestly believe that - but just trying to warn people that honest mistakes like this are made everyday and so 'CC free' is a very hard claim to make.
Hi stormwench. Thank you for expanding on the definition of what a CC free lot or sim really is. I tried to explain my intentions in the first post, but I may have missed a few points.
I have a totally vanilla game. I do not use any third party content or mods of any kind. I have the entire store. I use custard on everything I create and/or download to make sure I'm not getting something I don't want. I can't check it with custard when I'm simporting, hence this list. Every sim I exchange will be truly and completely CC free, created by me and not downloaded from the Exchange.
This list is intended more as a list of folks with truly and reliably CC free sims that they are willing to simport; lots don't affect this list.
I would really appreciate it if anyone who is participating with a simport that they found on this list that resulted in CC to please let me know immediately so I can remove that simmer from the list.
For now I have to take the word of the people that they understand what CC is and know what they are doing and won't be putting my game at risk.
I don't want to start a war either, and appreciate the warning. I hope to keep this as a safe place to find 'healthy' sims. Thank you!!
I don't have the game yet, (It hasn't been released here), but the only piece of CC I have is a pair of glasses, and I won't be using them while simporting. Sooo, you can put me on the list!!
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Can you add me to the list please, I never use CC just store bought stuff.
(Though I don't get the game until Friday and won't be able to install it until Sunday)
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I'm still waiting for Showtime to be released where I live, but when I get it, I want to host CC free sims in my game
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I am totally CC free, so would love an add to this awesome list please.
Thanks
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This is not to say that people who list lots and say no CC are lying to you - as often they think they are using a store item because of the marking it carries and that there game is free of CC.
You cannot even trust an unfurnished lot with a house be CC free as windows, doors, wall coverings, etc are very often from 3rd parties. And this holds true of even just plain patterns - as they are not always accurately marked in game as CC so are used as original game patterns - and can be part of clothing, objects, etc.
The only way to make sure you produce CC free games is to have a duplicate of your game installed and never allow anything other then store items near it (although store items really fall into the CC category but that's another discussion). Even adding store items can actually hide third party CC in you game because much of it ends up marked as tore items and you would have to check each item you use marked with a store shopping bag to make sure it really is something you purchased from the store against your purchase history - otherwise you could be passing on third party CC and using it.
You can want to be, pledge to be and need to be CC free but very few of you are. And, unfortunately removing your exchange downloads from the launcher does not remove the installed content and sometimes its not even removed when you uninstall from installed content, and often CC installed with other objects, items, lots etc won't show up as separate items in uninstall, although the handling of installed content via the launcher is improving with each new release it seems.
The only sure way to know you are CC is to have a clean install of your game, EPs and SPs and never click a simpack or download anything to your launcher except store items. Once you download from the Exchange you expose your game to third party CC, even accidentally and through others honest mistakes, and can't claim that you upload CC free items to the Exchange, although you may really, truly believe that the upload is CC free.
I have actually installed TS3 and all the EPs and SPs on a computer that never has run TS3 before, just recently and then installed 10 lots and 20 objects from the Exchange. I did not install any store items so I could find CC that was incorrectly marked as store items. After the Exchanged downloads were installed I had 73 pieced of third part CC installed - 62 of which had store shopping bags and not the * that designates third party CC. Since I had not installed anything I owned from the store I knew that these items were CC and did locate them on the sites they came from. This is not the fault of the Exchange or EA but it is confusing and means you cannot visually spot any third party CC easily. Sadly TS3 does not make it so you can delete objects and items from in the game as TS2 allowed so you have to go on a very big hunt for this installed CC masquerading as store items, as well as those things marked as third party CC.
I really don't think that anyone should claim that anything they upload is CC free unless they have never installed anything but TS3, the SPs and EPs and store items since once you touch the exchange you can have third party stuff and mistakenly and unsuspectingly use it.
This is often why some people have problems with new releases and don't try the steps people suggest to make sure they are CC free when installing or won't go back and do clean installs saying that they never have installed CC. The never have but they still do have CC and if it is used in the game and is not compatible with a new release then the new installation breaks. They then keep going round and round looking for an answer even when the symptoms are telling others that CC is the issue because they really think that they have never exposed their game to CC.
I am not trying to start a war with the Exchanges (its not the Exchanges fault) or with people who claim their uploads are CC free - they honestly believe that - but just trying to warn people that honest mistakes like this are made everyday and so 'CC free' is a very hard claim to make.
--Wibble
I have a totally vanilla game. I do not use any third party content or mods of any kind. I have the entire store. I use custard on everything I create and/or download to make sure I'm not getting something I don't want. I can't check it with custard when I'm simporting, hence this list. Every sim I exchange will be truly and completely CC free, created by me and not downloaded from the Exchange.
This list is intended more as a list of folks with truly and reliably CC free sims that they are willing to simport; lots don't affect this list.
I would really appreciate it if anyone who is participating with a simport that they found on this list that resulted in CC to please let me know immediately so I can remove that simmer from the list.
For now I have to take the word of the people that they understand what CC is and know what they are doing and won't be putting my game at risk.
I don't want to start a war either, and appreciate the warning. I hope to keep this as a safe place to find 'healthy' sims. Thank you!!