A busy next 6 months for future DLC

"davina1221;c-16744619" wrote:

"icmnfrsh;c-16741777" wrote:
A return to the 2 EPs a year model would be good news to me. Sims 3 kind of went overboard with releasing EPs just a few weeks apart, and by the end the whole game was pretty unstable. Although Sims 4 has a lot of issues as well, but so far it doesn't crash as often.

I kind of liked all the content. I wish they would go back to three a year. Not sure about the unstability of S3. I think that had many factors including mods, cc, type of computers, and what was downloaded from the community that had bad stuff in the cc. Many players complaining had mods, cc, or had downloaded something from the S3gallery that had bad cc in it. I do remember some that played vanilla mention some things, but mostly it was those other issues that caused problems in the Sims3. I eliminated this when I went vanilla. I have an Asus gaming computer and I play all games and the whole store. There isn't any instability at all for me. I have only had my game mess up 3 times since Sims3 Supernatural came out. I laid down a lot of black tiles to make a driveway of sorts and I think it created some type of blue screen error. I was on the high end of the singing career living in a trailer and I had to get creative and change some things, but got it worked out. Third one, I can't remember. Of course there was routing issues in WA, but not enough to ruin it for me.

I would've loved to have had the cc/mods everyone else did, but thoughts/inability of updating and babies that looked like lines didn't make me happy. Thus the change to vanilla to take out bad stuff downloaded from the S3gallery. After vanilla, I never had a crash in S3 except the time I laid the black tiles and in S4, I've never had a crash. I really believe non-EA content and the computer used has the most to do with it. I also ran everything on my cheap HP laptop for content in S3 up to 2012, when I was pregnant on the couch for 8mnts. Not sure it could run it now, but it did then and was a lifesaver. Not an expert, just sharing my experience of a huge multitude of gameplaying in Vanilla mode on an Asus computer. Can't say on other computers.

Personally, I hope it is very busy. I'm not happy completely with S4, but things not seen before and the content released lately has improved and expanded gameplay. I feel University, Farming, infant release, cemeteries, and many other things could give us some options for gameplay. Certainly, if nothing else, we did have tons of options for S3 play and that makes it very fun to play. :)

If you look at GPs as being mini-EPs with a specific focus (and many players think that GPs are better for that focus) then we're getting plenty of new content each year.

I never used CC in Sims 3, and I only downloaded from builders I trusted to not use CC in their builds. I did use mods but most of them (like Twallan's suite from NRaas) were to prevent crashes and save corruption; I used Overwatch to control things like spawning cars in Late Night, and Master Controller to turn off the flawed memory system that contributed to save bloat.

If maintained properly, mods should not break the game, especially tuning mods which use the same code that the devs write, just changing a few values to make things easier (or harder). I use mods that make tasks like writing, programming and painting faster because my Sims ain't got time to waste. B) Script mods, like UI Cheats Extension and MCCC can be a bit trickier but again, if the mod developers stay on top of them and update every patch, there should be no hiccups. I can count the number of crashes I've had on one hand, and most of them are due to my own errors like trying to do too many actions too quickly, not because of outdated mods.