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idk, EA could make a private gallery and put a limit like Google do in Drive, Photos, etc
i don't want/need some massive gallery, i just want a gallery that let me save at least 1 family, my principal creation, that would be enough fr
like i just want to create my avatar/family avatar, because in my case i only take the same sims that i create in the first time and just change de hair/clothes
and as ridiculous as that sounds, creating a private gallery, even a really small one, linked to my EA account would be just perfect
I had to stop using the shared Sims 4 gallery as it caused an error code for a while on my previous console so right now my privacy settings have it as not accessible. I can save my own creations to my library incase I lose them.
On more than one occasion my game has been wiped following big updates and after all that work it is pretty devastating. I lost 200 Sims and about 50 lots or more. It was an entire year of work, more than once. But my personal library (which is just like my private gallery/back up) had some of the lots and Sims saved there. All I had to do was link my Sims together again in CAS as they'd lost their relationships. I added a family that were no longer related, for example and I had to delete them and add them again from my library after editing the relationship panel to make them family again.
I'm about to add some of my creations to the public gallery to share for the first time after encouragement from other players who liked my designs. I actually didn't have the confidence to do that before so I'm going to be finally relaxing my tough privacy settings.
Other players obviously are impressed with your designs so that's one thing to take away from it. Your designs have been noticed for a reason, I know it's not what you intended but players have seen them and thought wow that's good. When I used to download creations I never read anything on notes, I literally just looked at the main shell of the house and downloaded it then edited it a lot.
- 4 years ago
Here's my idea. When uploading anything to the gallery, have an option to make it private except to certain people. For example you could lock it to friends only, or have some sort of password lock so that the only ones that can download are those you share the password with. This way if you were trying to share your creations with specific people, you wouldn't have to worry about putting your stuff out there for everyone to see.
Personally I see nothing wrong with what @arumiarch is asking. To me it sounds like they want to share their creations with one specific person, and without others potentially using or stealing their creations. I could be wrong about this, but to my knowledge unless that specific person plays using the same account then they will have to use the gallery to share their creations. They could also potentially take the files straight from their computers and share them that way, but that's only if they play on a computer. So what about people on consoles? As a console player the only way for me to share anything with anyone is to upload it publicly to the gallery, but what if I don't want everyone to see what I've uploaded? Admittedly in my case that won't apply because I have zero friends, but I know it will apply to a lot of people out there that may not want to share their stuff with everyone.
When it comes to wanting to share with specific people and not everyone, then currently I just don't see any options that allow that on the gallery. So I don't think EA needs any sort of separate private gallery, just options to make uploads private.
- 4 years ago
yes! that's it thank you for understanding me, i don't want nothing super elaborate, i just want to have more control with my creations
- 4 years ago
@arumiarch As I said I simply don't have friends or anyone to share things with privately, but I am very private about my stuff so I understand not wanting everyone to be able to see what you've done. I mean you're talking to the person that has all the sharing and public options on my Xbox disabled because I just like to be private with everything. Which is why I think having a simple restriction system in place for uploads would be useful for those that want to share their creations, though just not with everyone.
I mean all they have to do is add multiple upload options instead of just the one. One button could be called "Share Publicly", or they can just go with the current button to have things shared to everyone. There could be a button called "Share To Friends" which will only allow friends to see. For those that may just want to share to their followers, there could be a "Share To Followers" button. Maybe have one that combines friends and followers. Finally there could be one called "Password Locked", which when selected will prompt you to enter a password that people will need to download the upload. If you've already uploaded something to the gallery, these same options could be on that creation just in case you want to change things.
I'm not a smart person, but hey if I can come up with simple ideas like this then so can EA lol.
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