That spends hours on CC websites downloading tons of CC more than playing the actual game? Yesterday I browsed TSR for 8 hours straight, I just started using CC in Sims 4 a week ago and now I can't quit, I don't know why I didn't do this sooner. The Modders and creators out there are SO amazing
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I usually just check two sections of lana's (male clothing and male hair) maybe once every other week until I'm caught up and that's that
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I do admit TSR has a lot of annoying ads, but after 8 hours you tend to get used to it lol!
I'm thinking I'll remove all the CC I don't use and just keep what I do use. Gonna be a lot of work. But I wanna give my game/laptop a break.
I do recommend that you stay organized from the beginning. You can put your content into subfolders and label them however you want, I.E. by creator, style, category, etc. It really helps to stay on top of things, especially when a patch comes and can potentially break mods/CC. It's much harder to sort through to find a broken piece of CC when everything is mixed up willy-nilly in the mods folder. I've learned this from experience, haha.
I’m pretty fussy when it comes to meshes and textures.
Do you have problems with it?
I use a ton of CC. Always have since sims 2. Every once in awhile when there is a new update select CC will malfunction but it's such a super easy fix. You just got to sims studio and do a batch fix. The only real problems that arise come from mods. Mods are different than CC as they manipulate game play so if a mod malfunctions it can cause gameplay issues and then you have to figure out which mod it is and either update it or delete it from your folder. I've never had any severe issues that would ever cause me to not use them though. I dont know how people play without CC or mods. Once you use them you wont go back to vanilla lol. You will love it.
Other problems to watch out for. Some hair and clothing CC have meshes that if not downloaded will cause weird glitches like a sim walking around with only a head. Make sure to look if it needs a mesh or not.
Thats me
Probably answered your question with how others play vanilla game.
Nothing wrong with playing vanilla game, but sometimes downloading CC and mods can sometimes not be worth all the problems it can cause in a game. Anyone remember that doll situation on the s3 exchange?
I can play vanilla S2 just fine as I found it to look great. I probably used more CC in S3 than anything and that had a lot of problems. Played S4 for a good long while without CC too as the game still looks nice on its own. Think I started with a subtle skintone for CC for S4 and MCC before I started downloading more.
I just can't do alpha CC anymore. Majority of creators don't even attempt to lower the poly count on them. 20k-60k hairs? No thank you.
Then there's the thing when sims start showering in their clothes due to CC between people not tagging them correctly. So, I can understand why some don't want to bother with CC.
I use the mod conflict detector it is really helpful and easy to use.
http://modthesims.info/d/561550/mod-conflict-detector-update-03-03-2018.html
My mods folder containing my installed CC is 5.68 GB. containing 4544 items. Is that alot? I have NO mods installed at the moment. I ripped all of them out at the last major mod breaking patch and I haven't gotten around replacing them with the updated ones.
But for me, my weakness is mainly furniture and objects related CC and I love maxis match and prefer that but I also have several things that is not but that matches well with MM.
I have very little CAS CC items and most of those are the ones bundled up with User Created Packs and I am loathed to seperate them. If I install User Created Packs I prefer to put everything in. I have all the packs except the newest one and I find myself content with the existing CAS items. I will probably add some little things into CAS in the nearest future, especially Goth related outfit. As of right now I now find myself having 2 teens,3 YAs and 1 elder liking the color black very much (two of whom are goths, one a vamp wannabe and one vamp) and the official game CAS content doesn't really have much good variety in that category.
Thanks for the info. Does it help to remove the folder containing cc out of the EA folder before patching? I tend to do that with my saves folder before patching.
Also, which is a safe site to get cc from?
For me I actually think it's fun troubleshooting the problems and fixing them. I'm weird. What's not fun are base game bugs that I cant fix myself. But like I said most problems are easily fixed once you learn your way around cc and mods. It becomes less of an issue but I totally understand those not wanting to mess with it. It's just once you do it's hard to go back.
That way instead of breaking the mod/cc after updates and always dealing with updating everything, we can actually play the game instead of having a 2nd job of continuously performing gaming maintenance.