Yea so I created a Natasha Una sim to live in Willow Creek across from her cousin Victor, learned about the Grilled Cheese aspiration and completed the steps (eating 3 plates in a row) and successfully unlocked the aspiration. Now when I went to upload her to the gallery I was greeted with a big blue wrench icon in the upper corner and the "modded" box being permanently ticked. Now you're probably thinking, remove mods and cc, well I don't use cc and the only mods I use are MCCC and NPCC and a doorbell notification mod that don't/shouldn't affect a sim's appearance. I tested this out for myself and when I deleted Natasha from the household, the flagged icon was gone. When I changed her aspiration to the artistic aspiration and lo-and-behold the flagged icon was gone. So how come something created by Maxis themselves is flagging my sim/household as being modded/cc?

I'm not sure why this happens, but I am also seeing this with EA harvestables, and a few buy items created by EA. I do use mods, but not CC because I don't feel like dealing with every time a patch is released. There are several things that show up as modded even though they are not. Now to your issue, but test this out first to see if this is correct. Save Natasha to your library with any other aspiration, but not the Grilled Cheese Aspiration. Then start up a new game save, and with your first sim bring up Natasha to CAS, and put her down in the new game save. Since she already has unlocked this aspiration, it should be an option she will still have. You don't have to keep this game save if you don't want to, it was just for testing purposes. If you find the Natasha still has the Grilled Cheese Aspiration, you can just make a note to let others know what is going on. That is if you are wanting to upload her to the gallery.

Thanks for sharing this information. I admit it is a bit weird. I'd never noticed this, but it's good information to have nonetheless.

"MaggieMarley;c-17403478" wrote:"AedanStarfang;c-17403375" wrote:Yea I might need to temporarily disable MCCC and see if that fixes it.If you've used MCCC on her at all she will show up as having CC so it could be that.Thank you for pointing that out. I will keep it in mind when I upload sims from now on.

I don't see what the problem is. If one uploads a sim/household that does have stuff from other packs that one does not have, or CC, that is just gone or subsstituted. (Weird fact, I got a toilet from a pack I don't have, a medieval toilet or something, downloading a building for a lot. Only for that lot, I couldn't replicate it, obviously) I have shared one Sim and apparently there was no problem. The only way to find him, even though everything was base game clothing, hair, etc, was to have CC enabled in the gallery. Most likely because I have a mod that makes skin textures look more realistic than plastic.

"LaBlue0314;c-17402472" wrote:I'm not sure why this happens, but I am also seeing this with EA harvestables, and a few buy items created by EA. I do use mods, but not CC because I don't feel like dealing with every time a patch is released. There are several things that show up as modded even though they are not. Now to your issue, but test this out first to see if this is correct. Save Natasha to your library with any other aspiration, but not the Grilled Cheese Aspiration. Then start up a new game save, and with your first sim bring up Natasha to CAS, and put her down in the new game save. Since she already has unlocked this aspiration, it should be an option she will still have. You don't have to keep this game save if you don't want to, it was just for testing purposes. If you find the Natasha still has the Grilled Cheese Aspiration, you can just make a note to let others know what is going on. That is if you are wanting to upload her to the gallery.Well actually I kind of already did test this and the Nat with the Grilled Cheese asp. was flagged, the one without wasn't - I have them both uploaded to the gallery under my name 'AedanStarfang', along with a citation explaining the mod/cc flag status.

So apparently the Grilled Cheese aspiration flags the sim/household as modded

12 Replies

LaBlue0314
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I'm not sure why this happens, but I am also seeing this with EA harvestables, and a few buy items created by EA. I do use mods, but not CC because I don't feel like dealing with every time a patch is released. There are several things that show up as modded even though they are not.

Now to your issue, but test this out first to see if this is correct. Save Natasha to your library with any other aspiration, but not the Grilled Cheese Aspiration. Then start up a new game save, and with your first sim bring up Natasha to CAS, and put her down in the new game save. Since she already has unlocked this aspiration, it should be an option she will still have. You don't have to keep this game save if you don't want to, it was just for testing purposes. If you find the Natasha still has the Grilled Cheese Aspiration, you can just make a note to let others know what is going on. That is if you are wanting to upload her to the gallery.
AedanStarfang
Seasoned Veteran
6 years ago
"LaBlue0314;c-17402472" wrote:
I'm not sure why this happens, but I am also seeing this with EA harvestables, and a few buy items created by EA. I do use mods, but not CC because I don't feel like dealing with every time a patch is released. There are several things that show up as modded even though they are not.

Now to your issue, but test this out first to see if this is correct. Save Natasha to your library with any other aspiration, but not the Grilled Cheese Aspiration. Then start up a new game save, and with your first sim bring up Natasha to CAS, and put her down in the new game save. Since she already has unlocked this aspiration, it should be an option she will still have. You don't have to keep this game save if you don't want to, it was just for testing purposes. If you find the Natasha still has the Grilled Cheese Aspiration, you can just make a note to let others know what is going on. That is if you are wanting to upload her to the gallery.

Well actually I kind of already did test this and the Nat with the Grilled Cheese asp. was flagged, the one without wasn't - I have them both uploaded to the gallery under my name 'AedanStarfang', along with a citation explaining the mod/cc flag status.
GreatBritney99
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Thanks for sharing this information. I admit it is a bit weird. I'd never noticed this, but it's good information to have nonetheless.
Scobren
Legend
6 years ago
That is kind of funny. Maybe we should let @SimGuruModSquad know about it flagging as CC.
SimAlexandria
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
If I have any mods in my game my creations get flagged as modded whether it effects them or not.. To save stuff to gallery I turn mods off.
AedanStarfang
Seasoned Veteran
6 years ago
Yea I might need to temporarily disable MCCC and see if that fixes it.
atreya33
Legend
6 years ago
"MaggieMarley;c-17403478" wrote:
"AedanStarfang;c-17403375" wrote:
Yea I might need to temporarily disable MCCC and see if that fixes it.

If you've used MCCC on her at all she will show up as having CC so it could be that.

Thank you for pointing that out. I will keep it in mind when I upload sims from now on.
Admiral8Q
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I don't see what the problem is. If one uploads a sim/household that does have stuff from other packs that one does not have, or CC, that is just gone or subsstituted. (Weird fact, I got a toilet from a pack I don't have, a medieval toilet or something, downloading a building for a lot. Only for that lot, I couldn't replicate it, obviously)
I have shared one Sim and apparently there was no problem. The only way to find him, even though everything was base game clothing, hair, etc, was to have CC enabled in the gallery. Most likely because I have a mod that makes skin textures look more realistic than plastic.
LadyGray01
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Strange. I didn't even know there was a grilled cheese aspiration, so thanks for having this problem I guess. Lol. I loved that one in Sims 2.
I did notice that if I hung paintings by my Sims on the wall and uploaded the house, it got flagged as modded.
I don't use any CC either, and the only mod I have is no mosaic, so that aggravated me.
SimAlexandria
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"Admiral8Q;c-17403669" wrote:
I don't see what the problem is. If one uploads a sim/household that does have stuff from other packs that one does not have, or CC, that is just gone or subsstituted. (Weird fact, I got a toilet from a pack I don't have, a medieval toilet or something, downloading a building for a lot. Only for that lot, I couldn't replicate it, obviously)
I have shared one Sim and apparently there was no problem. The only way to find him, even though everything was base game clothing, hair, etc, was to have CC enabled in the gallery. Most likely because I have a mod that makes skin textures look more realistic than plastic.

The issue is probably that others won't find it if they search for lots or sims without CC only.