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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SimmerMars
4 years ago
When I used to play on a laptop I definitely had way too much cc, that I can feel the difference on those rare occasions that I started a save with my mods folder pulled out. I purchased a gaming rig almost a year ago and I hardly have any cc now lol. Which makes no sense as my computer can handle a lot more than the laptop. As far as mods go I never used them until recently and I only have one. I would like to add in mcc but downloading it just confuses me lol.
netney52
New Spectator
4 years ago
"Tantalus;c-17736220" wrote:
> @netney52 said:
> I have played with mods previously but really didn’t like them and they messed up my game

Not everybody can use mods. People need to understand, mods need to be updated, and you CANT download everything you see. You need to be selective. Some people either are new to the modding world, or they just dont have enough vision to understand this. Ive used tons of mods and none of them messed up my game cuz i know what im using. Now, if you use tons of mods, without even knowing if they are compatible, or broken, or whatever... well, yup, that is definitely going to mess up your game.

I am aware of that and I found your post very patronising. I have only ever used 4 mods ever in my game and 3 of them added nothing to my game, messed it up or nearly broke it. They were the latest updates and were mccc, splice of life and one I can’t mention. All created exception reports and I did plenty of research on how to safely download mods. The only mod that ever worked for me was a one that stopped other sims becoming spellcasters.
Admiral8Q
New Spectator
4 years ago
"Missmagoo2;c-17736241" wrote:
So far, I haven't had any issues with the amount... The only issue is what type of mods I'm using. Usually CAS CC works just fine in-game, it's the game-play CC that bogs my game down.

Actually that's true. Good point. Not just CC could slow down the game. Every pack has new NCC (Non-Custom Content), or PC (Pack Content) which depending on the packs and how many packs you have, will slow things down the more packs you have.

I just checked. My CC is about 3.3 or 3.4GB. So the mods I have are less than half a Gig. (Just a quick estimate)

The thing with a mod is it tells the game what to do in a certain instance. If have 2 mods that tell the game to do something in that exact same instance, then you will have a conflict. (And mods overide base game stuff, but several modify the same thing, more than likely will conflict. Which Iis why I have only the basic of MCCC since other mods modify the same things. And I like how the other mod(s) modify things better than MCC in that situation ;) )

For example if you have one mod that sets the drinking time to a half of base game, but another that sets the drinking time to a third, then you'll probably have a conflict. ;)
Missmagoo2
4 years ago
So far, I haven't had any issues with the amount... The only issue is what type of mods I'm using. Usually CAS CC works just fine in-game, it's the game-play CC that bogs my game down.
ticluao
4 years ago
> @netney52 said:
> I have played with mods previously but really didn’t like them and they messed up my game

Not everybody can use mods. People need to understand, mods need to be updated, and you CANT download everything you see. You need to be selective. Some people either are new to the modding world, or they just dont have enough vision to understand this. Ive used tons of mods and none of them messed up my game cuz i know what im using. Now, if you use tons of mods, without even knowing if they are compatible, or broken, or whatever... well, yup, that is definitely going to mess up your game.
Admiral8Q
New Spectator
4 years ago
"Have you ever overloaded your game with too much CC and mods?"

No. I'm careful about mods. I had a bad mod once that warped sims movement. Got rid of it after figuring out what was the problem. So I keep each mod in it's own folder labelled clearly. Keep in mind it wasn't a deliberate "bad" mod, just not updated after the big graphics mod patch by EA. (Last winter I think?) Ironically I just wanted the clothing items, not whatever scripts were in there. Though now I know the difference.

As for CC? I can't really see that overloading the game. If you have thousands and thousands of CC clothing for instance, it just takes longer to load. I try to get rid of any CC I don't like or is broken. Otherwise it's just clutter. There is a relatively simple way to find what's broken or what you don't want, then delete it. Several ways actually.

(If you went back to some of my first posts in this forum, you would see I had issues with that at first for mods and CC.) ;)

Since others have posted it, I just checked. I have about 3.5GB in my mods folder.
Some of the CC apparently was meant for Sims 3 without me realizing it. When I get around to it, I'll go in and delete that. It doesn't affect the game at all, just sitting there in storage files like cassette tapes without having a cassette player. ;)
imahulazombie
4 years ago
the most i had on the mods folder were 30gb. i liked to give makeovers to every single premade on the game so i was always downloading cc that looked close to their in-game clothes but with better quality. so anyways townies looked ridiculous on their conflicting cc and also the game took close to an hour to load.
so i decided to take one day to rearrange the mods folder, delete those items i didn't see necessary, and think about this: i don't even like half the premades on the game, why am i giving them makeovers?? so i started deleting them and just saving the cc of those sims i wanted to keep on the game, alongside other pretty cc. also i discovered npcc control and i could finally get rid of random generated townies.

so anyways now i have 15gb on the mods folder and i'm trying to clean it even more, the thing is there isn't many items on there it's just i download lots of high quality cc or alpha (a bit of maxis match too) so these tend to be heavy.
i have installed and uninstalled ts4 on the course of this year & last year but i always keep a backup of my mods folder just in case if i uninstall the game and want to play it again, i don't have to look for all the cc again, especially cuz i have some which now have broken download links.
netney52
New Spectator
4 years ago
No I don’t play with mods and only recently had some cc beds in my game which I took out with the new patch and hot fix patch so now have a vanilla game. I have played with mods previously but really didn’t like them and they messed up my game
RouenSims
Seasoned Traveler
4 years ago
"lzbthnndgls;c-17735474" wrote:
Nope, but thanks for trying! I'm not really sure what's going on. I've downloaded stuff from other sites recently and it was no issue.

Darn, sorry! They do have a Patreon account, but most of the stuff on there requires payment.
CelesteBabyy
4 years ago
I have 20 gb of maxis match and alpha CC and mods and I never take them out. It's arduously slow to update but definitely worth it. I never have these kind of antics though. ? And my game isn't slow either.