Who plays without mods?

"naomeh;c-16019716" wrote:

"So_Money;c-16019516" wrote:

"naomeh;c-16019455" wrote:
Downloaded a recolor, and I fell off the wagon. Now, I'm rapidly catching up to the amount of CC I had before (1000+). I'm trying to limit myself to "maxis match" items this time and make sure I disable (most) of them for random sims, at least. :lol:

This reminds me of the CC overhaul I'm currently in the middle of. I deleted everything and started over with a fresh batch of CC and some oldies. At first it seemed daunting but I'm actually enjoying the process.

That's what I'm doing, too! It definitely does feel nice to start from scratch and slowly add the necessities back or even make my own edits. I'm going in a different direction, and pulled some of the older CC to add it to my new game, too. Plus, I have the ability to quality control and leave out bad CC - only adding what I'm already certain works fine. It was much more difficult and overwhelming before because I had a tendency to mass download especially with some creators having bundle download options.

1000 is an exaggeration, thankfully. This is a much smaller amount at the moment, and it feels good. :)

Absolutely. I always had pretty strict Maxis-match standards, but this time around I'm being super selective. Basically I download one item at a time and then go into the game and stare at it for five minutes to make sure it's "perfect".

"3KNPen;c-16019732" wrote:

"So_Money;c-16019516" wrote:

"naomeh;c-16019455" wrote:
Downloaded a recolor, and I fell off the wagon. Now, I'm rapidly catching up to the amount of CC I had before (1000+). I'm trying to limit myself to "maxis match" items this time and make sure I disable (most) of them for random sims, at least. :lol:

This reminds me of the CC overhaul I'm currently in the middle of. I deleted everything and started over with a fresh batch of CC and some oldies. At first it seemed daunting but I'm actually enjoying the process.

It's interesting because each time I clear out my CC folder and start fresh I tend to focus on different things. This time my collecting is definitely focused more on Hair and Clothing while the last time I was more after Build/Buy stuff the time before that was more accessories and makeup. I only rarely re-add stuff from the previous time though there are a few hairs out there that I just love and pretty much make their way back into the pile every single time. Guess I just can't live without them lol.

Yeah, this time I'm loading up on accessories and build mode stuff, which I never did in the past. A lot of my hair I ended up keeping because I couldn't find it anymore.

No mods or cc for me. I always used them for sims 3, but my sims 4 is stable and fine without them.

TS1, a little.
TS2, I had a gargantuan folder full of mods and CC.
TS3, never played.
TS4, no mods, no CC. My laptop wouldn't be able to handle it. *le sigh*

I'm eagerly looking forward to the day I can get a new computer and go on a gleeful shopping trip! \o/ Not that I really need it, I'm having fun playing a vanilla game. But, I know I'd have more fun with it. I miss build mode CC the most, but I also had a lot of custom poses, CAS items and a few special mods.

Cc4lyfeeeee

Me!! :) I'm a true vanilla game warrior. :D

I played without mods up until.. about 3 days ago, I started using MCCC. I finally decided I just really wanted story progression. And I like having more control over my game now. All of the options were a little overwhelming at first, though. But still no CC, and I don't plan on using any.

"naomeh;c-16019850" wrote:

"3KNPen;c-16019732" wrote:

"So_Money;c-16019516" wrote:

"naomeh;c-16019455" wrote:
Downloaded a recolor, and I fell off the wagon. Now, I'm rapidly catching up to the amount of CC I had before (1000+). I'm trying to limit myself to "maxis match" items this time and make sure I disable (most) of them for random sims, at least. :lol:

This reminds me of the CC overhaul I'm currently in the middle of. I deleted everything and started over with a fresh batch of CC and some oldies. At first it seemed daunting but I'm actually enjoying the process.

I do this every few months or so. I really like going completely fresh with the CC. You find new stuff that way I generally don't take out any skin details like skins or freckles or my eyes but I clean out all the rest of the CAS & Build Buy and start completely fresh. The last time I even took out my tray file and save files and started from a fully complete slate. It really helped completely freshen up my head space where the game is concerned and could start fresh. I don't think I'd go that extreme again at least not anytime soon since I'm enjoying all my current saves. My current save relies on a LOT of CC (it's a Berry save) so I can't see myself clean slating anytime soon but maybe once that save is over I'll do it again because I really enjoy it.

It's interesting because each time I clear out my CC folder and start fresh I tend to focus on different things. This time my collecting is definitely focused more on Hair and Clothing while the last time I was more after Build/Buy stuff the time before that was more accessories and makeup. I only rarely re-add stuff from the previous time though there are a few hairs out there that I just love and pretty much make their way back into the pile every single time. Guess I just can't live without them lol.

That's what I do, too. I remove out the saves, too. Basically, each family I've played would have its own rather large CC folder .. I didn't really notice it coincided with a schedule until you mentioned it. It's about the same for me. Problem is, at least for me, it can be a bit daunting returning to the older saves considering I'd have to weed out CC and update/possibly remove script mods all over again to make the save playable.

It's funny you say that. By Berry you mean the unnatural skin colors, right? I just downloaded those skintones and was thinking about starting over again (even though I *JUST* did) by basically removing some of the items that didn't fit the theme and focusing on getting and making more pastel items.

Yeah that's what I mean. If you do decide to do a save I recommend either putting all the berry hair colors in one folder or making sure they're marked as disabled for random using S4S because I currently have brightly colored hair currently showing up on townies in my "normal" saves which is fine in small numbers but not at the level it's happening so I get to spend time either going through and reorganizing my CC folders in a way that doesn't fit my system or root out every piece of hair with unnatural colors and use S4S to change them. Unfortunately I've already added a lot so it's going to be "fun".

Though all of this is making me want to pull all my CC save the stuff used on my main family in my berry save and start fresh yet again. I have a bit of a problem I think lol.

"So_Money;c-16019851" wrote:

"3KNPen;c-16019732" wrote:

"So_Money;c-16019516" wrote:

"naomeh;c-16019455" wrote:
Downloaded a recolor, and I fell off the wagon. Now, I'm rapidly catching up to the amount of CC I had before (1000+). I'm trying to limit myself to "maxis match" items this time and make sure I disable (most) of them for random sims, at least. :lol:

This reminds me of the CC overhaul I'm currently in the middle of. I deleted everything and started over with a fresh batch of CC and some oldies. At first it seemed daunting but I'm actually enjoying the process.

It's interesting because each time I clear out my CC folder and start fresh I tend to focus on different things. This time my collecting is definitely focused more on Hair and Clothing while the last time I was more after Build/Buy stuff the time before that was more accessories and makeup. I only rarely re-add stuff from the previous time though there are a few hairs out there that I just love and pretty much make their way back into the pile every single time. Guess I just can't live without them lol.

Yeah, this time I'm loading up on accessories and build mode stuff, which I never did in the past. A lot of my hair I ended up keeping because I couldn't find it anymore.

I actually find the act of collecting and organizing my CC very relaxing and fun for some reason so a lot of the time so taking it out and redoing it also cuts down on the amount of CC I have in my game at any given time which is a nice side benefit. This time I'm being a lot more picky. Or I started out being but haven't been as picky. Might be time to start fresh again ;-)

I played without mods or cc longer than I play with, but I definitely enjoy all game play mods I have. I'm not going crazy with cc.

"LordOfTendons;c-16019766" wrote:
Hi, my name is Achilles, I have 6.10GB of package files stuffed in my mods folder... wait is this the right meeting??

That is an awesome name.

I used to play with out cc or mods, then I tried MC Command Center which was awesome. But I had problems and now play with no mods.

No longer using mods as they made my game very laggy