4 years ago

Have you ever overloaded your game with too much CC and mods?

TLDR: I had fun with mods and cc today and I'm curious about y'all's opinions. Scroll to the bottom for the questions.

So today I reallllly wanted to just download a boatload of cc. I started with Peacemaker and Illogical Sims and then just spiralled into the void. Four hours later, I was equipped with a toooonnn of Build/buy cc and then I started on the spiral of CAS cc... (shoutout to Nolan Sims for just like the most amazing maxis match stuff). When I was satisfied, I decided I needed more mods.

Now normally, I am a user who doesn't use cc at all (mostly because I find some of the clipping issues and non/snap issues and the flat colors a deal breaker (this is possibly why it took me so long to find cc I liked)) but I use a LOT of mods. I have a folder in my mods called "Essentials". It has MCCC, a dozen Little Ms Sam mods, a Keep Tablets in Inventory mod, and a run faster to class mod for University. Then I have another folder called "Little Ms Sam Extras"... which has about three dozen of her amazing mods. Then there is UI Cheats, TMex Tool, and a couple random University mods. I will pull these mods in and out of my mods folder depending on how much my game is acting up. However, today... I reallllly wanted more mods. I did NOT have enough (I think I counted about 60 different little mods and a few big ones). So I went mod shopping. Oh I found wonderful things. I installed Zerbu's Go To School mod, a cute little mystery party mod, a genie mod, a fairy mod, ninja poses, Kawaii Stacie's Slice of Life, and a whole bunch of other things.

Now did I break my game? Yes. Yes I did. Did I continue trying to play? Yes. Yes I did. (After removing Zerbu's mod it worked a lil better. I should have gotten rid of the genie mod too, but I wanted to play with it.) I pulled in all the kids from my favorite households in a save, aged them up with MCCC (bc birthday cakes were broken...), and then I tried to get them to go to University and allllll hell broke loose. None of my sims made it to University. The mermaid drowned. The two sims I had as genies ended up setting the house on fire and burning themselves all while their hair and clothes just floated in the air... And the other three sims died from various emotions after interacting with the aftermath of my mod explosion. One of them died of embarassment from acne...

It was glorious. My day with mods and full cc was amazing but my computer fans were overworked and my game was running a lot slower than usual. It was the greatest two hours of gameplay--pure chaos.

But anyways, sitting here thinking about this, I'm wondering about y'all's opinions and experiences. How many mods do you have in your game? Do you use alpha or maxis match cc? Do you always keep cc in your game? Why do you use cc? Are there mods you use temporarily and pull them out when you don't need them? What happens when mods cause chaos to descend upon your game?--Do you like the chaos? Do you try to stop it or do you encourage it? Does the chaos stress you out? Is having mods in your game worth having it run slow? Tell me everything. Stories about shenanigans are highly encouraged.

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bsozz
4 years ago
No, I’m very selective with the mods I use. But I can certainly understand the temptation to get carried away.
telemwill
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I definitely love mods, but I try to limit them. Every game update, mods break, and you can't play the game until they are updated or declared compatible or you decide to take them out entirely. That can be a hassle if you have too many. Still, mods are a wonderful part of this game.
Haneul33
Seasoned Adventurer
4 years ago
I have more than 10gb of mods and cc (almost 3,000 files) and all packs except Star Wars. My settings are on ultra/maxed out. I try to keep script mods to a minimum but I have several (mccc, littlemssam, wonderful whims, etc.).

My game loads quickly and doesn't lag, but I'm running on a really powerful computer with top of the line specs and I keep my mods/cc organized and updated. I don't use mods as a way to stress test my computer :D so even though I play on a cluttered 64x64 lot, I leave the maximum sims at 8 and troubleshoot if I notice any real issues (which I haven't yet).
Babykittyjade
New Observer
4 years ago
Confessions of a cc addict: I always say it's all about the pc. My old one couldn't handle it. It started to lag and get slow with long loading. I had to take our stuff I wasn't using.

Then I decided I wanted to play max graphics, hq mod reshade and not have to worry about cc.
I upgraded to msi gaming desktop and my sim life is glorious. My pc says I have 30 thousand peices of cc and about 20 mods with 0 issues.

I mean i get some last exceptions and general mod issues i have to figure out what's causing the mess lol but no issues from the game itself. I never have to remove cc I play with it all in there lol.
Alpha cc catse I'm addicted to the textures. I can't stand the smooth plastic look. If I download a rough wooden floor I want it to look like that.

And since I play a lot of apocalyptic storylines I need that rough texture lol. One of my biggest addictions is cc hair for some reason. I can't stop downloading send help ???.
I try to keep mods to a minimum and just keep essentials like mccomand, realistic kids by zulf for tons of stuff kids can do including bike riding, slice of life for the amazing invites that were nerfed.
A walkby mod to keep npcs in their own world and some others. I learned the hard way to keep ALL mods in organized folders and make sure each one is up to date with every patch.
I hate chaos that I didn't intend myself so I try to keep it basic with mods lol I just go crazy on cc because it doesn't normally break or cause major glitches like mods.

Plus sims conflict detector is a must as well as tmex better exceptions mod. Both of those has helped me weed out mad mods/cc and stray files that didn't belong.

Sorry no shenanigans stories ?? just a few corrupted saves from bad mods a while ago. But my pc does not run slow so it's worth all the headache and time I spend sorting things.

But anyways, sitting here thinking about this, I'm wondering about y'all's opinions and experiences. How many mods do you have in your game? Do you use alpha or maxis match cc? Do you always keep cc in your game? Why do you use cc? Are there mods you use temporarily and pull them out when you don't need them? What happens when mods cause chaos to descend upon your game?--Do you like the chaos? Do you try to stop it or do you encourage it? Does the chaos stress you out? Is having mods in your game worth having it run slow? Tell me everything. Stories about shenanigans are highly encouraged.
whubble1817
New Scout
4 years ago
OMG. That is a hilarious tale of game gone bezerk. I use a ton of both mods and CC but I have a save reserved for no cheats as well (I disable the mods and cc in settings before I log into that one). I have not had the chaos that you mentioned. I primarily get my cc from 1 or 2 places from artists I trust. Artists tend to specialize in a way. I have one that makes fantastic women's shoes, another that makes great men's clothing. They make original meshes which are kind of cool. I like recolors too though. I feel like I need to support those artists by using their stuff. EA doesn't support mods or cc but they seem to encourage it in a way. There is so many talented mod makers and cc creators out there. Its too good to pass up
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
4 years ago
Mods and cc certainly contributed to my old computer's end. I ran a cc-heavy and modded Sims 2 that made the night-day change every morning a gamble - would the game crash or not? Witches on community lots were another problem, they'd freeze the game regularly for several minutes, sometimes even to the point of crashing.
Now the interesting thing was that I was able to play a 25 sim household with no trouble when autonomy was off. With autonomy on the same household would crash after about half a real life hour of play. Apparently allowing the game to make decisions for my sims was much harder on my poor PC than adding a handful of fancy hairs. Since I normally play without autonomy, this allowed me to overload my computer with cc without suffering ill effects for several months. Good times! (To be fair, at that point I already knew I wanted to replace that PC, otherwise this would have been incredibly irresponsible, lol).

Nowadays I avoid most cc, especially alpha, and only take the objects in that I really need for my current saves. The rest waits in a folder I call "Seasonal cc" with subfolders by genre (Androids, Harry Potter, Oldwest etc.). My current mod count is 243 and I regularly check which of those potentially conflict with which others. If you curate your mods, look out for conflicts, keep them updated and learn which ones need to load in which order, I'd say mods are less damaging for your computer than high-poly cc.
Sharooonia
4 years ago
I have a few quality gameplay mods that I trust and have used for a long time. The rest are just small mods that either alter or fix bugs in the game. Things like no walk styles, no vampire growling etc. As for CC I only download it for CAS and I’m quite fussy and selective about what I keep in my game.
timurjr96
4 years ago
I have 5gb folder of mods and cc, and I'm a little bit extreme when it comes to mod, eventhough there is a new update I still deliberately play the game when the essential mods has been updated like MCC, even if I dont know whether the other mods I have are compatible with the new update, so far I've never had issue with corrupt saves.
Chocopug
New Spectator
4 years ago
I try to limit mods, but I've got about 50 (!) - a lot are little mods to deal with annoyances. The knowledge I have to check them all every time I download a new patch keeps me from going too crazy with them (I often don't patch straight away for that reason). I use a lot of LittleMsSam and Zero's mods. I just downloaded Slice of Life so I'll see how that goes... I also recently added Personality Please. And I just can't play without MCCC and Meaningful Stories! I get a few last exceptions every so often but nothing that really impacts my gameplay.

I'm getting far too into CC though. I just downloaded a whole bunch of new cute CAS stuff, mostly hairs. I only go for Maxis match CC, some Alpha stuff is impressive but I just feel like it wouldn't fit in my game. I try to only download stuff I know I'll use, but there's so much great content being made, it's really difficult at times to resist!
xRubyxAngelx
4 years ago
I have so many Mods and CC! What's worse is I don't even have them organised in folders, it's just one big folder of files :# as some work better not in folders, I got confused which ones I could put in folders so I just put all of them in as one.
But my laptop works fine! That could be because I have a 2018 MacBook Pro, I overload it but its very quiet and fast when I have tones of programs running etc. Mods/CC really add to the gameplay! plus I like building realistic places to visit with lots of detail.

What is the "cute little mystery party mod"?? I would like to add more to parties and I miss having the 'get together' random midnight dj parties that they removed from the game, I get no party invites now.