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thefirsttemplar
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago

I'm considering giving mods a try and could use some specific recommendations.

I'd prefer to keep the number of mods limited, but it just seems Sims 4 can't be fun without it so I am looking for a few specific things:

-Traits actually doing something.
Might tie into with Sims actually doing other stuff than just basic socials and actually acting on their traits. Like a mean sim might actually be mean sometimes and evil Sims can actually do evil things. And self assured sims NOT acting like a sissy when someone yells boo at them. Each trait should do what you could reasonably expect from it.

-New traits.
Too few traits in the game too and they left out most of the interesting ones from Sims 3 so I could use some new traits that are meaningful and have impact on how the Sim acts, not just giving some mood buff now and then or making them learn a skill faster. Can be part of it, but I need more. I don't need more empty traits.

-Pants for men.
Regular full length pants, maybe just one nice package of regular clothes for men who don't look like a stereotypical gay supermodel.
More clothes are appreciated, but pants are the main thing they need. The more plain and regular the stuff is, the better. The more I could use it for many Sims. I'd prefer just one pack, or maybe a link to one creator doing a lot of this since I don't want to spend a lot of time hunting down individual bits.

-Just anything to make men look and act less like a Ken doll.
Seriously, I'm at times tempted to only have women in this game who are all Lesbians considering how much the developers seem to hate anything masculine.

-Proper mage clothes for mages.
EA really dropped the ball here, couldn't even add a single mage robe or hat, and even worse is that NPC's in the magic realm wear random clothing so can't be changed to wear anything remotely suitable either. So I'd like to see some kind of robe and hat, especially for men since they have zero options while women at least have some slightly passable options.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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  • Jyotai's avatar
    Jyotai
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    I'd suggest starting with MCCC and a perusal of littlemssims tumblr page. littlemssims has a few million small mods that each tweak something different and what you will want is going to differ from anyone else. But their page is a really good place to go for an introduction to ways to alter the game.

    Beyond this, if you want to make traits have more impact you start needing more intense mods. Things like Wonderful Whims that puts a whole romance system into the game. After that mention, most of the others have piles of NSFW changes that prevent them from being named here. The good ones have config settings that you turn off everything but what you want, or are modularly built so you can just install the desired pieces. But some of them are 'all or nothing' packages that mean you need to really think about it before installing them.

    Otherwise, there are a ton of 'new traits' mods out there but they just add more traits and not alter how those traits work. Most of these turn your already 'super happy' sims into superhumans capable of everything short of leaping buildings and catching bullets... so, downloader beware - you really need to 'test' trait mods and delete a lot of them... and that will leave half your random townies lacking traits, so you will then need to either edit those townies, delete them, or start a new game.

    And... the more popular the traits mod pack is, the more superhuman it is likely to make your sims...


    Also gotta be cautious with 'CC' mods that add more things for build mode. It's not uncommon for these to have buffs set to '10' stacked on them. Things like a bed that has all possible bed buffs set at 10, and costs 0... or computers that are fun 10. These things can become like drugs to your sims - they'd rather die that stop using that computer.

    And fashion CC, often has the 'flags' for color, outfit category, gender, and more set improperly or not at all.

    Build mode CC also usually lacks proper flagging for style and color.

    This will mess up your ability to enjoy things like the new 'likes/dislikes' system of Dream Home Designer. When you get that client that loves purple french decor so you build them a house that would make Prince proud, and they get a massive bad moodlet which you hover over and it says they are unhappy for being surrounded by grey modern furniture... which you don't see anywhere... until you open all that furniture in Sims 4 Studio and discover the maker never set the flags off default...

    Or when your two 'loves pink country fashion' sims that are dressed in pink cowboy outfits break up, and it turns out it was because they were deeply unattracted to people wearing black goth clothes... because all that CC that looked like cowboys and cowgirls in pink, was labeled as 'goth/rock' and flagged as 'black' in Sims 4 Studio by it's maker for who knows what reason... (because until you're running a romance mod, your sims couldn't even tell what the other sims were wearing anyway, so those flags only mattered for CAS filters, but now they're super important to your gameplay...

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  • I generally set Origin offline just before a patch and let the dust settle before attempting to update the game, but then I am not fussy about playing expansions/packs, etc on release.
  • Well I am not planning on ever getting that boring farm expansion but I guess there will still be an update for the game regardless of that.
  • "rhalius;c-17931104" wrote:
    Well I am not planning on ever getting that boring farm expansion but I guess there will still be an update for the game regardless of that.


    Yes, mods generally have to be updated with every patch, which usually happen at least once a month and sometimes more with pack releases. Sometimes hardly anything breaks, and sometimes everything does. I have a bunch of mods but they are pretty selectively limited to creators who upkeep them regularly. MCCC is, in my opinion, the most amazingly maintained mod of all and you can do so much with it that I think it's the best place to start. There's a whole discord server for support, and online guides on all the things you can do with it. MCCC was my first mod, and it is the one that I absolutely could not play the game without.
  • I always avoid custom traits for fear of them breaking and leaving my sims with missing traits.
  • I tend to play vanilla with as little Mods/CC as possible. MCCC is a definite. I only use the main portion of it as I don't want to change my game too much, just be able to fix family trees.
    Two simmers I know who constantly update their mods and create good mods/CC are:

  • LittleMsSam - she has a discord channel too and very responsive team
  • IceMunMun


    I also like Ebonix's CC hair.
  • Check out Bienchen (sims4me)
    Zero
    LittleMsSam
    MizoreYukii

    They all have a lot of mods that fix the game, start with checking those out
  • Luumia has a few nice pieces for males, it's a fairly small selection, but prime. https://luumiasims.com/
  • "GirafHuntr;c-17930913" wrote:
    "mikamakimon;c-17930910" wrote:
    I'm curious, if the mod has to be removed for any reason (updates, bugs), does this make the sim with modded traits unplayable until the mod can be reinstalled?


    The traits from the mod should just disappear if you took it out, and it would be as if the mod had never existed. That would mean if you continued playing without it, and at some point added it back in you would probably need to assign the traits all over again.


    "GalacticGal;c-17930927" wrote:
    "mikamakimon;c-17930910" wrote:
    I'm curious, if the mod has to be removed for any reason (updates, bugs), does this make the sim with modded traits unplayable until the mod can be reinstalled?


    Yes. (Body of 1 character too short.) :open_mouth:


    That's what I was afraid of, thank you both for confirming!

  • Hi, these might not be specific to your requests, but I'd like to share my FAVORITE CC sites.
    Luumia, which was also recommended by FatTribble.
    Synth
    ClumsyAlien
    Marso, some really nice hair for both feminine and masculine.
    Okruee
    Maxis Match CC World, it has a lot of everything.
    WistfulCastle, mostly male stuff.
    creamlattedream, very few things, but I really like their stuff.
    Golyhawhaw, again, mostly male stuff.
    grimcookies, clothes AND furniture.
    Might add more soon, let me know! I have a lot of CC, I'd be glad to share.

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