Time to Ditch the Mods?

Personally, I have to have some particular mods in order to keep the storyline I have going in my save. I did split my mods between two separate files, though, so that not all of them are at play. For instance, the cc that pertains to the 18th century, certainly isn't necessary in a save set somewhere in the 23 century . . .

Both need MCCC, to be sure. But only one of them needs Road to Fame. I do have some smaller mods in play that enable my Rock Star to write songs faster, so there's no having to start from the top completely, when he doesn't get it done in the one sitting. Another small mod allows him to license more than one song within a week. In fact, he could spam if he wanted to. And, yes, I have two copies of my game that I keep separate by adding.Ancestral when I wish to play in the 23rd century. I would imagine having mods.ancestral in the same Sims4 folder would do just as well, but I am too chicken to find out. LOL

If having to update them with each patch is getting to you I would absolutely recommend only keeping those you hold most important. I have tons of mods and it does get tiring having to wait to patch until most are updated, but I personally don't like playing without most of them.

The try it without for a while is actually good, common sense advice. Of course I could add mods back in if I wanted. I’m about to restart my newest project (I am super happy with these Sims and their stories) because they started throwing errors not very far in. I will only add MCCC and go from there.

I played vanilla for years, up until about a year ago when I finally got MCCC. It’s my only mod and I actually only wanted it for one thing: to reduce the weekly household bills because my sims were fast running out of money and I thought they were being ridiculously over-charged! There’s so much in MCCC and I’ve never taken the time to go through and explore it all. I’ve used it so little that recently I’ve been toying with the idea of dropping it. I might do that - but then again I don’t know that there’s a need to drop it as it’s always updated really fast after an update. And I’d really miss those reduced household bills!

I think it must be a lot of hassle to keep track of a lot of mods and cc, with patches or updates coming every month. So I think it must make life easier to keep mods and cc to a minimum, but I don’t know that there’s a reason to get rid of absolutely everything unless you feel you don’t need them. And definitely keep anything you’d really miss in a way that would spoil your future enjoyment of the game.

I voted for the essential mods option because I know I'm in the minority who would do whatever it took to make a mod and cc heavy save work. Most simmers are more realistic and having a small core group of must have mods makes more sense. I feel like that is the best of both worlds. You don't have a vanilla game, but you don't have all the headaches of keeping track of add-ons every time there's an update. I have to go through periodic clean outs on my mods folder and fixing outfits and lots that end up missing items afterwards, but it's a commitment I'm willing to make in order to have a much larger variety of choices for outfits or decor. That's not for most simmers.

I only have one mod, so when an update breaks it, it's pretty easy to fix

I have quite a few more mods and cc than I really need and am currently going through them to take out anything I can live without. The last few updates have made maintaining them too much of a chore, something is throwing LE’s, and I’m too irritated to find out what. Thin them out, but keep the ones that “spark joy,” as Marie Kondo would say.

My game is lagging a lot. I think I need to clean up my mods/cc but it's a very daunting process of course. I don't think I'd ever play without MCCC though

"Lenny_Ogg;c-18300491" wrote:
@FreddyFox1234 if you just have the mod for the money, you maybe could book the 'overpaid' money back with the money cheat.

Yes, that’s what I used to do, but somehow it felt more like cheating than having the amount automatically adjusted. And I think I may now use MCCC for more things than I realise, just because it’s there.

Currently I only have essential mods, I lost all my mods and saves randomly so I'm trying to rebuild my mods folder. I think just essential mods (if you don't have too many 'essential' mods) are the way to go because it's easier to keep track of everything.