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dest01

Is the sims resource safe to have a membership on?! I currently have one and I'm seeing all of these comments on how it has viruses and things from the ads(with my membership I don't get ads ) so I'm wondering if I should just cancel my membership and use tumblr and sites that famous sims YouTubers like life simmer uses?

ChelleJo

I've had a membership with TSR for well over a year now. I couldn't handle the ads and the long-as-all-get-out-10-seconds-my-eye waiting. I've had no problems and no viruses and I download quite often from there.

MoonandStars83

None of the download items on TSR will give you a virus. It's all safe to use.

SimplyJen

It's the ads that are fishy and should not be clicked on. Any site with ads has this problem. I don't have a membership and have downloaded from there with an ad blocker.

GITTE2001

I don't have a membership either, but there's mostly very 🐸🐸🐸🐸 stuff and the things that aren't their creators mostly also have a tumblr or blog so.

dreamerz13

I don't have a membership but I download from TSR all the time. Never had an issue. I would be cautious of the ads, but since your membership gets rid of them it's fine. But I mean, I've encountered bad ads on other sites too, on sites I generally trust (which is why I no longer browse without adblock). It's not just TSR. I've very nearly gotten viruses off of tumblr downloads (not to mention a lot these days use adfly, which DID give me a trojan and never gave me my download). I don't think it's much if any more risky than anywhere else online.

Frankly TSR is pretty much the only place I download from now, which kind of sucks because their TS3 downloads seem to have slowed way way down. But adfly, so much adfly elsewhere, TSR is definitely safer than that mess.

InfraGreen

There's a script on TSR you can block to get rid of their anti-adblock nonsense, but I'd need to find what it is again.

Geez. You'd almost think that if they used less obtrusive, less dangerous ads, more people would whitelist them!

The TS4 content there is better than for other games (and TS4 creators are a lot more draconian about including meshes with recolors and retextures, so I have less of a choice), but I kind of wish I could stay away from TSR. It's both cringey and cute when I see a TS3 player who so, so clearly has just discovered CC and only through TSR. God bless them and their awful photoskinned clothing and distractingly-shiny Newsea hairs.

Halallover

I have never gotten a virus or anything bad from the sims resource. I've been using them ever since I started playing sims 3 and that was when Sims 3 had first came out. So I think it's pretty safe.

TadOlson

I've downloaded tons of CC from TSR and love most of the stuff I've got installed though I usually convert to package files to install or use CC Magic for kitchen sets.I don't have a membership though I use a script to avoid the ads.I've had far worse issues with malwre from letting Firefox update automatically using a background service than from TSR.

Pary

I would never take membership with TSR. Their business practices have been questionable, such as releasing the full real names and email addresses and some credit card information of subscribers publicly in the past. I wouldn't ever give them my personal details.
The ads can also be dodgy, I would recommend a good ad blocker.

In the past, I've found a lot of the content to be just photoskinned rubbish, and / or badly created. A lot of the content that caused monster babies and horse people among other things, has come from there. I rarely if ever download from there, and if I want something, I stick strictly to one or two creators.

Edited for clarification.

SimKeats

I haven't got anything bad from TSR in a long time. Once ages ago, I got something with bad CC. But one could compare that to the Exchange, now thats an easy place to pick up bad cc.
IMO they DO have shady business practices, and I use ublock origin, which is like adblock. I don't mind waiting if it means not having my browser load like 20 ads at a time per page.

Pary

Oh the exchange is dreadful. I never download Sims from there, and I always use an alternate link if one if offered, unless it's someone I trust, like @Rflong7 and her worlds.

SimplyJen

I can't stand photoskinned content. It's the reason I rarely download from TSR but there are a few talented creators there. When it comes to custom content hosting sites, I prefer modthesims. Sure the selection is slimmer but they have a much better screening system.

Karritz

Some of the items downloaded from TSR may not work. I've downloaded items that were broken. Wherever you download things you should check them with Custard and test things to make sure they are not breaking your game when you put them into it.

JoAnne65

Pary wrote: »

I would never take membership with TSR. Their business practices have been questionable, such as releasing the names and addresses and personal information of subscribers publicly in the past. I wouldn't ever give them my personal details.
The ads can also be dodgy, I would recommend a good ad blocker.

In the past, I've found a lot of the content to be just photoskinned rubbish, and / or badly created. A lot of the content that caused monster babies and horse people among other things, has come from there. I rarely if ever download from there, and if I want something, I stick strictly to one or two creators.

Wut...? Why did they do that? That's disgraceful beyond belief.

IreneSwift

I downloaded several hairs from TSR once. I have an ad blocker, so I didn't even see the ads, and definitely didn't click on anything except the links to the items I wanted and downloaded. But I seem to have gotten a virus attached to one of the items I downloaded. I noticed an immediate issue in my game and removed all the items I'd gotten from there, but a few days later, on Friday the 13th, the index file for my installed content seems to have been wiped clean. All of my store and CC items were still there, but the game couldn't read any of them. I had to let the game generate a new Sims 3 folder and reinstall all of my content, and revert to a save of my game from before in installed the hairs I got there. Custard didn't find anything wrong with any of the hairs either.

Pary

JoAnne65 wrote: »

Pary wrote: »

I would never take membership with TSR. Their business practices have been questionable, such as releasing the names and addresses and personal information of subscribers publicly in the past. I wouldn't ever give them my personal details.
The ads can also be dodgy, I would recommend a good ad blocker.

In the past, I've found a lot of the content to be just photoskinned rubbish, and / or badly created. A lot of the content that caused monster babies and horse people among other things, has come from there. I rarely if ever download from there, and if I want something, I stick strictly to one or two creators.

Wut...? Why did they do that? That's disgraceful beyond belief.

I believe at the time it was in retaliation to what they assumed to be people downloading their pay files from the b.o.o.t.y. TSR used to put trackers into their files according to the folks at PMBD, when they were a pay site. None of the 614 people who's information was leaked in a document was ever proved to be a pirate.
You used to be able to read about it all on tsr must be destroyed, but that's been closed down now that TSR are no longer a full paysite.

Edit - Also, I must edit part of my first statement. They didn't leak home addresses ( i used wayback machine to go back and check ) they released full real names, email addresses, and some credit card information.

I would just simply be very careful about ever paying them for a sub which might require personal info, that's all.

Karritz

IreneSwift wrote: »

I downloaded several hairs from TSR once. I have an ad blocker, so I didn't even see the ads, and definitely didn't click on anything except the links to the items I wanted and downloaded. But I seem to have gotten a virus attached to one of the items I downloaded. I noticed an immediate issue in my game and removed all the items I'd gotten from there, but a few days later, on Friday the 13th, the index file for my installed content seems to have been wiped clean. All of my store and CC items were still there, but the game couldn't read any of them. I had to let the game generate a new Sims 3 folder and reinstall all of my content, and revert to a save of my game from before in installed the hairs I got there. Custard didn't find anything wrong with any of the hairs either.

Custard doesn't find everything. It is just better than nothing. It is an old program that hasn't been kept up to date. It is helpful to see if anything obvious is attached and that's about it.

JoAnne65

Pary wrote: »

JoAnne65 wrote: »

Pary wrote: »

I would never take membership with TSR. Their business practices have been questionable, such as releasing the names and addresses and personal information of subscribers publicly in the past. I wouldn't ever give them my personal details.
The ads can also be dodgy, I would recommend a good ad blocker.

In the past, I've found a lot of the content to be just photoskinned rubbish, and / or badly created. A lot of the content that caused monster babies and horse people among other things, has come from there. I rarely if ever download from there, and if I want something, I stick strictly to one or two creators.

Wut...? Why did they do that? That's disgraceful beyond belief.

I believe at the time it was in retaliation to what they assumed to be people downloading their pay files from the b.o.o.t.y. TSR used to put trackers into their files according to the folks at PMBD, when they were a pay site. None of the 614 people who's information was leaked in a document was ever proved to be a pirate.
You used to be able to read about it all on tsr must be destroyed, but that's been closed down now that TSR are no longer a full paysite.

Edit - Also, I must edit part of my first statement. They didn't leak home addresses ( i used wayback machine to go back and check ) they released full real names, email addresses, and some credit card information.

I would just simply be very careful about ever paying them for a sub which might require personal info, that's all.

Something similar happened to my husband once. A webmaster got cross because of his opinion (it had something to do with conspiracy theories) and then decided to reveal his identity. And I in fact got mad at my husband after that for using his real name and recognizable e-mail adress behind the scenes. "I've got nothing to hide" was his defence, which is true but when this happened that really bothered him a lot. You never know what fools run a website. A warning to all you kids out there Anyway, that sounds really bad, even without the home adresses.

dest01

So should I cancel the paid membership? And are wix sites like homegrown good for sims 3 cc?

InfraGreen

@dest01: Wix sites will probably not harm your computer, but I personally hate the layouts of most of them. There's one in particular that probably degraded my vision and/or gave me the first stages of retinal neuropathy. I don't wanna name names but it was mostly TS4 content and quickly-made, garbage-tier afros and natural hair. Black sims deserve better.

SimplyJen

@dest01 If it were me I would save the cash and wait the extra 10 seconds with an ad blocker.

If you change tabs while the counter is still counting down, it will pause until the tab is opened again. My trick is to pull the tab out to the side making a separate browser window and continue to do w/e on the other browser window open. If you have Windows 10, you can clip windows to the side of the screen. Hope this makes sense.

Pary

dest01 wrote: »

So should I cancel the paid membership? And are wix sites like homegrown good for sims 3 cc?

I can't and wouldn't tell anyone what to do with their memberships or anything, but there are plenty of sites with quality CC.
MTS, Tumblr has an awesome array, Around the Sims, some older creators that still have downloads on Dreamwidth etc

If you're wanting to host your own content, then most people use Tumblr it seems. There is quite a collection.

Karritz

I've just wasted most of today tracking down a bad cc hair I downloaded from TSR>

I found the bad hair. I went through ALL of the hairs in my folder - about 70 of them. Then there were only 3 left and it was the last one of those 3 that I looked at. I think the chances of that happening are very small.

The answer is

NewSea-SIMS3-hair057-Cloud-p

I got it from TSR



When it is the ONLY CC hair in the game, and I put it on my sim toddler the game crashes as soon as I start to save. It does it EVERY time. It if fine in game though until I try to save.

I made a FRESH Sims 3 folder and the ONLY item I had in my mods folder was this hair.

When I put it on my toddler it crashes the game every time.

When I had it in my mods folder with lots of other CC it often saves OK and appears to be fine until you try to open the game and find the game crashes every time so that save becomes irretrievable corrupted.

Candyd

@Karritz Same problem with this hair here. But I didn't remember its name so until now, I didn't know which file I should get rid of. Thanks for posting its name !

Karritz

Candyd wrote: »

@Karritz Same problem with this hair here. But I didn't remember its name so until now, I didn't know which file I should get rid of. Thanks for posting its name !

I just spent about 6 hours finding which one it was - that's how I found it's name. I had to find which one it was - or else get rid of all of my CC hair.