Time to Ditch the Mods?

My mods list off the top of my head for the curious:

Meaningful Stories
MCCC
Fitness Controls
Longer University Terms
Career Overhaul
Townie Demographics
Polite Aliens
TOOL
Choose Leftovers
Working pet water bowls
SimRealist Experience: Private Practice, SNB, Mortem, Organic, Real Estate, Home and Land…

I cleaned out all of my Build/Buy and CAS CC a couple of weeks ago, along with several mods that I felt didn't really make much of an impact on my game. I can already tell my game runs smoother and it's less to keep track of. I still have my default skin, eyes, some make-up (very small amount) and some 3D lashes but those I can't live without.

I also can't live without MCCC, Wonderful Whims, and UI Cheats.

You could play a save without mods for a while, see how you like it. In my game sims usually choose leftovers if there are leftovers in the fridge, so maybe you don't need that mod anymore.

I play vanilla, so easy answer for me. I have tried a couple of mods, but only shortly, they never felt worth of the trouble to me. May try again once TS4 is finished and I don't have to worry about updates anymore.

I recently took out most mods and only left mccc and default eyes and skin. The game is still quite playable and fewer mods are much easier to maintain. Any major annoyances can be banned with mccc tuner, so no need for countless tuning mods.

With the regular updates, it is best to keep to a minimum. Try to consider which mods you really need and which mods are purely to add a bit of flavour. Personally I couldn't do without mccc and more cas columns. I tried UI cheats for a while but didn't like it. It made cheating too easy, to the point where I even accidentally cheated by clicking wrong. I can't play completely vanilla since I discovered mods in the sims 2 era. With the exception of mccc, I don't use any big mods that overhaul entire systems, just a few small ones that each address one specific issue.

"crocobaura;c-18300353" wrote:
You could play a save without mods for a while, see how you like it. In my game sims usually choose leftovers if there are leftovers in the fridge, so maybe you don't need that mod anymore.

That's actually a good idea. I sometimes do this out of necessity after a patch when I wait for mod updates. Some mods I miss right away like mccc and more cas columns. But the ones I barely notice won't be added back in. For example I had mods for extra meal options on cauldrons or more items to create on the woodworking table. These mods were great but I used them so little, it spent more time to update these mods than time actually spent using them in game.

I haven't regretted playing without mods all too much these past 5 years

it makes everything so much more simple

and I find playing without challenges me to come up with more creative solutions to things id use mods or cc for in past

that said I stopped using mods before tool and whatnot was even a thing really so I can see how it might be harder for people who actually use those mods to let them go

I know I have gigantic mods folder and some CAS cc, but can play with couple essentials to me only.

During last patch and ep i played almost vanilla quite a bit. Almost made me ditch rest of the mods, but only almost :D

Gladly my mods are either those what get updated really fast, or almost never break. That's decision made in purpose.

If you’re not interested in keeping the mods up to date, by all means, ditch them.

I wait a while (sometimes months) before installing a new patch to give time for the modders to put out updates, and then I patch my game and update my mods all at once. I actually enjoy doing it… I may be a bit of a geek, lol.

I personally can’t play vanilla anymore, as there are too many bugs and deficiencies in the game to make up for. I can’t imagine not being able to use MCCC to kick an NPC out of my sim’s house when “Send Home” is randomly unavailable, for example. And I missed so many NPCs knocking on the front door before I finally got a door-knock notification mod. I mean, that seems like a pretty basic feature, right? But it’s not in the vanilla game! So dumb. So, I feel I have to use certain mods just to make the game function as it should. And let’s face it, some mods just make the player experience better, like BBB or Meaningful Stories.

Just before Horse Ranch came out, I switched to Sims 3. Then Sims 3 Store and Exchange went down at the same time a family member gifted me Horse Ranch, so I went back to Sims 4 a couple days ago.

I used a lot of Mods in Sims 3 and thought maybe I wanted similar mods in Sims 4. I was wrong. I deleted my whole Sims 4 document folder this morning and started over. I am back to vanilla for Sims 4. They are different games with different strengths and weaknesses. Trying to make the games more like each other just breaks them both.

It is okay if I cannot do something I want to do in a game, especially if I can do it in the other. Sometimes I need to just tolerate my disappointment in a game instead of trying to fix it.