Advise to keep my game healthy
I'm playing sims 2 for the first time (I've bought the base game back in it's days but couldn't find the time to play then...). I'm enjoying it a lot! I'm playing all the households in Pleasantville, ...
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I HEAVILY urge the essential anti-corruption mods. Pleasant Sims has a list that has all the essential anti-corruption mods that are honestly... Vital for this game. https://pleasantsims.com/sims-2-mods/
There's also a lot of other semi-vital mods listed on More Awesome Than You/MATY.
If you don't mind starting your neighbourhood again. You can download the clean subhoods, stealthhoods and mainhoods. Sadly Maxis' default neighbourhoods have some baked in issues. (*Knut Futa* the man-baby being the best example) They should have the guide to install listed which will help you out a ton.
https://meetme2theriver.livejournal.com/63030.html
Here's a few bits of advice that I remember.
Never delete graves. Especially without No Unlink on Death. Don't let Sims die with graves in their inventories either. And if possible keep your enemies away from smashing dead Sims urns!
Download and use Mootilda's Hoodchecker, it can clean out some potential instances of corruption. Should keep your neighbourhood clean in the long run.
With the Batbox clean gossip every so often as Gossip can sometimes be a fast-track for corruption as Sims often share and spread it. It won't negatively impact your gameplay to clean it as Sims lives aren't impacted by gossip specifically.
Don't move houses or businesses that have ever been lived in into the family bin either, that causes corruption.
Download creature fixes, ESPECIALLY if you want to turn a Sim into a vampire, otherwise the grand vampire in downtown can go on a biting spree... If he bites Crumblebottom you're going to need to reinstall the entire game.
To be on the safe-side with object NPCs like the Reaper and Crumblebottom you can edit the Objects.Packages to be read only. Follow this and swap the main Sims 2 folder for all your other expansion/stuff packs as needed until they're all read only!
The Sims 2\TSData\Res\Objects - Objects.Package
Don't fear corruption. If you play safe and avoid doing anything blatant, you can run the game pretty much risk free. It might happen one day, but even when corruption occurs it can still take a VERY long time to make your neighbourhood unplayable... Othertimes you might be a little less lucky like when I lacked clean neighbourhoods.
There's also a lot of other semi-vital mods listed on More Awesome Than You/MATY.
If you don't mind starting your neighbourhood again. You can download the clean subhoods, stealthhoods and mainhoods. Sadly Maxis' default neighbourhoods have some baked in issues. (*Knut Futa* the man-baby being the best example) They should have the guide to install listed which will help you out a ton.
https://meetme2theriver.livejournal.com/63030.html
Here's a few bits of advice that I remember.
Never delete graves. Especially without No Unlink on Death. Don't let Sims die with graves in their inventories either. And if possible keep your enemies away from smashing dead Sims urns!
Download and use Mootilda's Hoodchecker, it can clean out some potential instances of corruption. Should keep your neighbourhood clean in the long run.
With the Batbox clean gossip every so often as Gossip can sometimes be a fast-track for corruption as Sims often share and spread it. It won't negatively impact your gameplay to clean it as Sims lives aren't impacted by gossip specifically.
Don't move houses or businesses that have ever been lived in into the family bin either, that causes corruption.
Download creature fixes, ESPECIALLY if you want to turn a Sim into a vampire, otherwise the grand vampire in downtown can go on a biting spree... If he bites Crumblebottom you're going to need to reinstall the entire game.
To be on the safe-side with object NPCs like the Reaper and Crumblebottom you can edit the Objects.Packages to be read only. Follow this and swap the main Sims 2 folder for all your other expansion/stuff packs as needed until they're all read only!
The Sims 2\TSData\Res\Objects - Objects.Package
Don't fear corruption. If you play safe and avoid doing anything blatant, you can run the game pretty much risk free. It might happen one day, but even when corruption occurs it can still take a VERY long time to make your neighbourhood unplayable... Othertimes you might be a little less lucky like when I lacked clean neighbourhoods.
