So, What Have You Done To Get Ready?

I'm going to update all my mods, clean up my cache files, repair my game, and back everything up. But I don't intend to patch for at least 1 week after the new pack releases. I'm fully prepared to play offline (or not play) for months if necessary :( . If I'm curious about the new pack before I can sort out the situation with mods/cc, I'll install it on a secondary computer.

Nothing. Just playing as usual. I won't install the patch and EP for a while as I still have some goals to complete in my current, and only, save. The only mod I have that will surely need updating is UI cheats so hopefully that's done by the time I'm ready to update.

putting some builds on gallery I have forgotten to share

trying to finish (or at least continue) some incomplete builds I've left hanging for way too long

(meanwhile just taking inventory of what I have really)

Scheming about which households shall have nooboos

scheming about which houses i am putting in nooboo items

scheming about stories involving the new pack

I also ended up maxing Vlads handiness skill on a whim since i needed handiness 10 sim to go to forgotten grotto to see if i have something there but apparently no

created Vampire club for Vladdy cause it seemed like fun idea although it really just has Vlad and Judith for now

created "School" club for my kiddos in komorebi since i have fake school there

aaand what else
just doing some little grindy stuff basically that I've been too lazy to get to

and yep backing up my save from time to time

I don't have to change anything about my in game plans because my households that have or are about to have infants are scheduled for the end of the rotation that I'm on, so they'll definitely be after the patch no matter how many hours I play before it comes.

I will do a full backup of my saves on Monday to be safe. I may play a lot this weekend so I want my backup to be up to date.

I probably will not play my main save until after MCCC gets updated. It's the only mod I have right now. I had a couple of others but the first time I had to update mods after a patch I decided that one was enough.

Just have to decide if I'm going to take a break from the game altogether for a little while or play an older save. Right now I'm leaning towards buying myself HSY for my birthday and playing with that in my old legacy save while I wait.

I have made 3, yes 3 copies of my most important saves and backed them up in 3 different places (3 is the charmed number it seems).

A week or two ago I created a new sim I was going to use for the baby pack, played with her in a vanilla game for a while, got frustrated and added my mods back in, decided I was enjoying playing her single gal lifestyle too much and didn't want her to have a baby yet after all and so created yet another new save with a young couple.

I decided it would be fun to start them out with the usual amount of money instead of motherlode-ing, so although I was able to have them buy the house I wanted them to have they could only afford it unfurnished. So currently they are slaving away at jobs, fishing, collecting, etc to furnish the house. I'm trying to save back at least a thousand simoleons for all the baby stuff LOL. I really haven't been this excited in a while. The previous RL week or two have been pretty poopy, so it's nice to have something positive to look forward to.

I will admit to being a little apprehensive about the modpocolypse I know is coming. I might not download the patch until I read some reviews from other simmers. I don't think I'll be able to hold out for long though.

Since I have made a copy (back-up) of my entire Sims 4 Folder, I will now make another copy of it and rename it .vanilla, after I remove the mods folder. I will rename the current folder .Modded. This way I will play the vanilla version to see what happens after the patch, and if my Sims can still be who they are. I'm thinking about having Erik do concerts with just the small karaoke machine (rather than the remodified version of it from RTF). I can always cheat him the money he makes from those. But, he won't have photoshoots. And no more albums. I suppose, since he gets these royalties once a day, I can cheat that money to him, too. He has already written his songs, without any mods, so that he can license them. The only problem is, he won't be able to submit his work once a week, because of the rotten cool-down system. (And it says you need to wait for seven days, which I have done and he still hasn't been able to license another song. Face/palm.) Currently, I have a small mod that removes the cool-down period. That I shall miss more than I thought. He just earned another Accolade for Best Song. But, I will get a taste of what it will be like if I have to return (after years) vanilla play. I'm feeling hopeful, though. I also have a small mod that removes all fears, so I can play the Wants as I did Wishes, without the penalties attached. Yikes, I really don't wish to go through that again. :open_mouth:

I reinstalled my whole game to move it from one drive to another - and to change the language back to english since EA app doesn't allow changing the language like origin did. Took a backup while doing that too. Then I haven't been able to play much since I'm very much anticipating to add Growing Together to my game along with the infants. I did give in and buy Highschool Years from the sale, so I've been making Thift Tea Shops and finding nice high schools. If I buy GrT at release it will be the first time ever I'll experience two new expansions simultaneusly in my game.

I have my legacy family save that I can't wait to play. Jocelyn Edmonds is my main sim and she married Travis Roth. They have a toddler son, Nathaniel. They also have newborn twin girls Lauren and Amelia and she just found she's expecting again (accident). So it's going to be a busy house. Jocelyn's little sister Sophia just got married to Connor and they just bought their first little house together. I can't wait for them to have their first kid and experience a baby shower. So im pretty excited! I also have my vanilla save where I have the pancakes set up to try infants with for the first time when the patch drops.

Nothing yet. Sims 4 in its current (modded) state is my favorite game, I'm averse to put it at risk, that's why it hasn't seen the internet ever since Werewolves. I'll do the infants update a couple of days before Growing Together goes on sale or becomes available for bundling (should go well together with the Wedding GP).

In case I can't wait that long to play with infants, I could probably re-install Sims 4 on my laptop, just basegame, Parenthood and two or three favorite packs.

Nothing, I don't really have high hope for this EP, I think they are selling on CUTE but with not much substance behind it.