Are you having fun playing Sims 4 without mods?

Playing vanilla, but tempted to add some mods to give soms more personality, they are so incredibly boring and similar.

But I fear once I start adding mods, I won't stop and it will just become one big mess that causes all kinds of issues.

i only use a few bits and pieces of cc for CAS, but i could easily live without them if i had to. no script mods. i hate those things

S4 gives us a lot of options that we needed mods to accomplish in the past. It's now very easy to move Sims in and out of households, for example, and you no longer need to make and keep dozens of friends to advance in careers. I don't have time to patch mods every time the game updates, so I've made a hard pass on a few that are tempting.

Musical chair alone prevented to me to play the game properly.

Perhaps it is just my age, as I grew up in a time when there wasn't much in the way of electronic entertainment and toys weren't so regimented. There weren't set good guys or bad guys, and toys didn't have lore or stories associated, so you gave them names and built your own world without it having to give you feedback. That's how I always have seen Sims games. and The Sims 4 is no different in that respect. In fact, I feel more free to play than with its predecessor. Story progression gets in my way, and I don't need the world to "progress". I am the world.

I play without mods. I essentially make my own story progression which I like doing. I actually was irritated by story progression in TS3 and as a result found that I could really only play one household per save. This meant I had many saves and would end up abandoning them.

Now, I have numerous sims that I've made or played with interacting with each other. I have about hit the 200 sim limit for playable sims so I'll probably need to make some choices about my top 200. I'd probably be fine with story progression if I could mark out the households that I'd want to exempt from it but in the way I'm playing, I like not having it.

At this time I do not play with other mods or CC. I'm hesitant because of the needs to constantly update those mods. Maybe whenever the game is finalized I'll consider it. Even then, I don't know. I don't have a need for CC. As for mods, I'd think about MCCC or those added gameplay mods but not while the game is still adding content. I really don't want to risk messing up the game.

Yeah, my game is mostly vanilla. :) I only use mods to fix something (premades turning into spellcasters, the horrible outfits at festivals, etc...) :)

For a long time I enjoyed the game just fine without any mods but then I got curious about some mods and now I can't imagine playing my game without them.

Currently I'm playing my game with Mccc, Npcc, Meaningful stories, Improved relationships and parts of the Slice of Life mod. I find these mods make the game so much more enjoyable. I also have some other mods that just fix bugs and bad design choices.

I don't use a lot of mods, and the majority are just "tuning" mods. Faster eating and drinking, faster showers and baths, all beds same energy and comfort etc. Then a few that just stop things I don't like, no welcome wagon, no school goals, no school projects etc.

It makes it so I can play without having to speed up the game.

I voted "other" because even though I use MCCC & UI Cheats Extension I feel I could easily play without them. Only use them for the convenience factor; too lazy sometimes lol.