Today's Sim's Delivery express?

"Paigeisin5;c-18039578" wrote:
Sorry for the odd questions I am about to ask but I haven't been keeping up with this particular 'new' way of updating the game. Now, are these considered to be updates and download if you're online and load the game? Do we have the option to ignore these? Is the new content optional and easily turned off? I have ignored every available update Maxis has released since August. Plus, I don't want to update my game unless a new pack I can't live without comes along. And why aren't the devs or gurus releasing any information about what we are getting? I've seen a few threads about this, but I am still very confused. Someone stated we would be able to choose what we want to download. Someone else said the opposite. And the gurus seem to be talking in circles about this. I have wanted to have a choice about ignoring certain updates for about three years, and if it's true the Express method will allow me to have more control over what is installed in my game, I am all for it. But before I do a happy dance over it, I would sure like to know what to expect.

In the game options menu under sims delivery you can chose how frequently you want your game to check for new deliveries. You can do this hourly, every 30 mins, only on startup or never. Additionally there is a check box which lets you chose whether you want to download the new delivery automatically or not. So you can basically opt out of deliveries by choosing the option to never check for deliveries and to not download automatically.