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SqueamishNerd
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

Digital Deluxe Content on Official Sims is a Problem

I don't own Digital Deluxe, and it has happened SEVERAL times that official sims come with clothes from Digital Deluxe. So when I play them or meet them in the neighbourhood they may be in only their undergarments. This is not a bug. The items are missing because I don't own Digital Deluxe. If I go into CAS I get a message about removed items.

These are some examples of affected sims:

- Vanessa Jeong (Get Famous), I think she's missing a bikini bottom (she has the standard salmon coloured panties, but a black and blue bikini top)

- Baby Ariel (Get Famous), her formal dress is missing

- Kayla Flemming (Get Famous), the same missing formal dress as Baby Ariel

- Mark Eggleston (StrangerVille), missing his party outfit

And I know there are more official sims out there with the same problem, though I don't remember who they are.

Because of this I have two suggestions for the Maxis team:

- To NEVER EVER use Digital Deluxe items on official sims. EVER. Though, then you need to add a tag on the Digital Deluxe items in CAS, and put Digital Deluxe as a stuff pack on the main screen.

- To make Digital Deluxe into a free update. Which seems like the more reasonable of my two suggestions, in my opinion, because some of the items are already in the base game or in other packs already, for example, I have the animal hats even though I don't have Digital Deluxe. It also seems reasonable because there are already official sims wearing Digital Deluxe clothes.

I mean, as it is today it would be as if an official sim from one pack came with clothes from another pack. We shouldn't need to buy Digital Deluxe just to use official sims without fixing them in CAS.

Btw, at first I didn't understand why Baby Ariel's, Kayla's and Mark's clothes didn't work/appear. I even was in contact with support because I thought items had gone missing in my game. Finally I got my answer in this forum.

Edit: Here are Baby Ariel's and Mark's clothes from Digital Deluxe. These are not my pictures (well, I don't have these clothes in my game, so there's no surprise there), I got the pictures from a thread in this forum a while back.

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  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @SqueamishNerd 

    This is usually caused by outdated CC. Or if it was something you downloaded from the gallery they may have used CC or things from packs that you do not have. Always check what packs are required and if CC was used. Sims created by the game will never try to use something that you do not have.

  • SqueamishNerd's avatar
    SqueamishNerd
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago
    @jpkarlsen I'm sorry, but did you read the whole post? This is not about CC.

    Digital Deluxe is an official pack that costs about 15 USD, but this pack doesn't have a tag in CAS and it doesn't show on the main screen where all the other packs are shown.

    I don't own Digital Deluxe, and there are official sims, like Baby Ariel (GF), Kayla Flemming (GF) and Mark Eggleston (SV), who wear content from Digital Deluxe. Therefore, if I take any of these sims into CAS it will tell me that items are missing. I know for sure that the items are from Digital Deluxe, because I have already been digging into this a while back, and people have been sending me pictures of the missing clothes (I can add them in my thread-start). Both Baby Ariel and Kayla have a formal dress from Digital Deluxe, and Mark have a party outfit from Digital Deluxe.
  • SqueamishNerd's avatar
    SqueamishNerd
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    @diopter77Yes, I’ve repaired my game, but since I don’t own Digital Deluxe that’s not what my problem is about.

    So, the problem is that the Maxis team make official sims who are wearing some clothes that aren’t from the base game and/or the pack that the official sim is included in (for example Get Famous, as with Baby Ariel and Kayla), they wear some clothes from Digital Deluxe.

    The point with my post is that I think it’s wrong of the Maxis team to give official sims clothes that aren’t from the base game or the pack the sim comes with. If they make Digital Deluxe a free update this wouldn’t be a problem. Now it’s a pack, but it isn’t really treated as a pack, since it’s not on the main screen nor as a tag in CAS.

    I’ve never used CC or mods.

  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @SqueamishNerd 

    Since you do not have digital deluxe Sims made in the game will not use items from that. The clothes that Sims that comes with a certain pack wears are included in the pack itself. Baby Ariel is special in two ways She does not age and she has no last name Baby Ariel is the first name Since you say you edited her in CAS you will have been prompted to enter a last name.

    By the way here is a picture of her in her formal dress. It is a base game dress.

  • SqueamishNerd's avatar
    SqueamishNerd
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    @jpkarlsenBaby Ariel’s dress is from Digital Deluxe. It is even shown (but in red) in one of the pictures in the link you sent.

    Edit: Here's a screenshot from the page you linked @jpkarlsen. It's the same dress as the one Baby Ariel is wearing, and Kayla Flemming too.

  • SqueamishNerd's avatar
    SqueamishNerd
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago
    @jpkarlsen How would that help? I don’t own Digital Deluxe. The dress is from Digital Deluxe. Baby Ariel and Kayla Flemming are officially wearing that dress. Since I don’t own Digital Deluxe they aren’t wearing any dress at all for formal wear in my game.

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