Help understanding terminology

TSR = The Sims Resource, a popular website where you can download custom content

Not sure about the other two..

This is a really good resource for new simmers. I found it very helpful when I started playing a couple of years ago. Welcome to the community! :)
carls-sims-4-guide.com

"Bonasita;c-16444215" wrote:
Here’s a few more that I don’t understand:
NRAAS
TSR
MTS
Can anyone explain those, please?

NRAAS is a modder I believe.
TSR - The Sims Resource as someone mentioned
MTS - modthesims website

"Bonasita;c-16444215" wrote:
Here’s a few more that I don’t understand:
NRAAS
TSR
MTS
Can anyone explain those, please?

NRaas, Industries is a web site that was initiated by Twallen for his mods. He made numerous mods for Sims3 that are fantastic. When he announced he was 'retiring' from the making of such mods, he turned over his website to those who are there, now. They have been given full rights to use his codes, et al, to continue creating mods (script mods) for Sims3.

TSR is a site that offers custom content

MTS stands for ModtheSims, which also offers custom content plus mods for Sims2-4. It's a great site!

Here are two confusing ones:

MM = Maxis Match = generally custom content that is made in the same style and/or looks as if it came with the game, for example. A hairstyle that is an edit of a hair that already exists in the game

Alpha = generally custom content that is high poly (HD) and does not fit the basic game aesthetic, for example, hair that does not have the "clay" look, where you can see the individual strands

"GalacticGal;c-16444285" wrote:

"Bonasita;c-16444215" wrote:
Here’s a few more that I don’t understand:
NRAAS
TSR
MTS
Can anyone explain those, please?

NRaas, Industries is a web site that was initiated by Twallen for his mods. He made numerous mods for Sims3 that are fantastic. When he announced he was 'retiring' from the making of such mods, he turned over his website to those who are there, now. They have been given full rights to use his codes, et al, to continue creating mods (script mods) for Sims3.

TSR is a site that offers custom content

MTS stands for ModtheSims, which also offers custom content plus mods for Sims2-4. It's a great site!

@GalacticGal: I was on the NRaas site about a month or so ago (also just checked to confirm what I remembered) & there's a notice that Wikispaces, where Nraas is hosted, will be shutting down in phases, so Nraas is working on plans for moving to a new host. They'll post more info as it gets closer to them having to move.

This is a pretty useful thread for our newer fellow simmers (welcome aboard, by the way!), I wonder if a guru would sticky it.

The site that @Pamtastic72 linked to (Carl's) is very good if you need to know all sorts of things about the game itself. And there is also a list there of a lot of the main cheats and how to use them - carls-sims-4-guide.com/cheats.php.

You may already know these terms, but here's a few just in case:

EP - expansion pack
GP - game pack
SP - stuff pack
CAS - create a sim
Plumbbob - that green diamondy thing that hovers over sims heads during play
Simlish - the language that sims speak
Vanilla - a game played without mods or cc

Edit, people also tend to call expansion packs etc by their initials rather than full names, eg. GTW = Get To Work, DO = Dine Out etc.

Thanks, everyone. This is all very helpful!

"Starfree;c-16444337" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-16444285" wrote:

"Bonasita;c-16444215" wrote:
Here’s a few more that I don’t understand:
NRAAS
TSR
MTS
Can anyone explain those, please?

NRaas, Industries is a web site that was initiated by Twallen for his mods. He made numerous mods for Sims3 that are fantastic. When he announced he was 'retiring' from the making of such mods, he turned over his website to those who are there, now. They have been given full rights to use his codes, et al, to continue creating mods (script mods) for Sims3.

TSR is a site that offers custom content

MTS stands for ModtheSims, which also offers custom content plus mods for Sims2-4. It's a great site!

@GalacticGal: I was on the NRaas site about a month or so ago (also just checked to confirm what I remembered) & there's a notice that Wikispaces, where Nraas is hosted, will be shutting down in phases, so Nraas is working on plans for moving to a new host. They'll post more info as it gets closer to them having to move.

Wow, thank you for the heads-up on that! I have kept my Sims3 installed, mods and game saves intact, thankfully.

This post is super helpful, thanks. And thanks for the link to Carl's Sims 4 Guide!