Which are the essential mods for TS2?

"violaineT;c-16994055" wrote:
O I do agree . Coming back on corruption, it's more about what you should not do, or recovering what you did wrong, as avoiding with a mod. My first time I reach to play a really long time (weeks) with no problem, even I did what should not be done but I guess I was lucky. Playing the ultimate collection, I guess they are not that many bugs left, and there is enough to explore.

After these weeks, I wanted to make the game a bit more challenging , same time to make my Sims a bit more clever, to have more options.... It's a new game then but I don't regret the time spent without mods which can last long.

The thing is with Sims 2 the corruption is permanent. And the things that cause the corruption are still there even with the UC. They didn't fix any glitches so there are still plenty of bugs still around. Just made it easily installed on modern systems and came with the already existing patches already in place. EA also never came out and admitted that they had things in game that would cause neighborhood corruption either, yet it happens - this one is hard to QA due to the nature of how Sims 2 neighborhood corruption spreads.

And I like to think of the neighborhood corruption as a time bomb. Only there's no visible timer. So it could go off in 3 weeks or 30 years.

So yea, new players should install mods that can help prevent that corruption. Because it's incredibly hard to have to say goodbye to a neighborhood or have to spend several hours to days depending on how old the neighborhood is manually recreate the neighborhood in order to avoid corrupting the new neighborhood from the very beginning but not lose too much progress.