Compatibility Between Meaningful Stories mod and Slice of Life?

"GalacticGal;c-17417283" wrote:
@SimAlexandria I'm glad you find the Sims4 personalities, et al, strong enough for your taste. My reference to Sims2 was mostly that a Sim wouldn't react when another Sim told them of an indiscretion by their partner. They actually had to be on the very same lot when woohoo took place by their partner in order to react. It was a disappointment. I will go on to say, that while some enjoy various mods, it's mostly (as in my case) how I play my game. Obviously, this mod is causing interference with how you play your game. There is nothing wrong with rejecting ANY mod that doesn't suit you. There are a number of Simmers who don't use mods and/or cheats at all, preferring what's called a vanilla game. If I find a mod I like. I will share the 'news' with others, like I did in this thread.
Kudos to you for giving it a second look. And no worries if you uninstall it altogether. I had to do that with a mod I liked up front when it went wonky on me and destroyed the game save I had going. To the point where I had to restart a new game with that family. It's the one I have be sharing lately. For me it gives the random potential for disaster, that the other mod gave, only without the violence.

Vanilla games are fun for me, but mods def. add something for me and I prefer to use them. Just not for personality as I like them in this game haha. More for activities. I use things like little ms sams mods for day care and foster homes etc. And I just noticed that the person who makes slice of life has a new mod for house flipping! That sounds fun, I think i'll try it. Her mods are very well done, but SOL just don't work for my gameplay style in a lot of ways. I do play vanilla for some saves, like when I did 100 baby challenge, but I'm completed that now and playing diff saves haha.

I have had other mods I had to uninstall altogether, like meaningful stories. Maybe it'd work in another save, but I create my own stories from scratch and sometimes it got in the way, it's why I prefer the less strong personalities too. I didn't like it at all before but maybe with a diff family that's not in themiddle of a story I'll give it another chance at some point too haha.

@telmarina it does a lot more than change appearance, but that's one thing it does too.

"GalacticGal;d-971445" wrote:
I just learned there's a mod called Slice of Life. I already have installed Meaningful Stories. Has anyone attempted to play their game with these two mods installed at the same time? Do they enhance each other, or is MS unnecessary with SoL?

Please and thank you for any help/advice you can give.

~GalacticGal

Thanks for asking this as I had just come to this board to ask the very same thing.
I've had it with TS4. I have been holding off mods, intending to mod the game when it was complete.
But I can't take it anymore. :s

I do play creatively, but I find TS4 the most boring of all the Sims games.
I am ready to jump the gun and finally try some mods to try to bring more personality and interest to these sims.

I am currently working on a prep school for my teen sims, to prep them for University.
Once that is completed, I will give slice of life and Meaningful stories a trial run on a new save to try out different settings before trying it out on my main save.

"CK213;c-17423680" wrote:

"GalacticGal;d-971445" wrote:
I just learned there's a mod called Slice of Life. I already have installed Meaningful Stories. Has anyone attempted to play their game with these two mods installed at the same time? Do they enhance each other, or is MS unnecessary with SoL?

Please and thank you for any help/advice you can give.

~GalacticGal

Thanks for asking this as I had just come to this board to ask the very same thing.
I've had it with TS4. I have been holding off mods, intending to mod the game when it was complete.
But I can't take it anymore. :s

I do play creatively, but I find TS4 the most boring of all the Sims games.
I am ready to jump the gun and finally try some mods to try to bring more personality and interest to these sims.

I am currently working on a prep school for my teen sims, to prep them for University.
Once that is completed, I will give slice of life and Meaningful stories a trial run on a new save to try out different settings before trying it out on my main save.

Honestly, I couldn't play TS4 without mods now :# Hopefully you'll start enjoying your game a bit more now :) Slice of Life is quite customisable too - you can take out elements of it that you don't like/want in your game. Same with MCCC too. One thing I found with Meaningful Stories is that if you're playing on normal lifespan, certain moodlets/emotions (e.g. sad) can last for days and days, which can mean that your Sim is sad for a third of his/her life! It was a bit too intense for me so I ended up unistalling it and installing two different mods by the same creator (Roburky) which have a similar but less intense effect: True Happiness and No Happy Environment. They both play nicely with SoL.

"CK213;c-17423680" wrote:

"GalacticGal;d-971445" wrote:
I just learned there's a mod called Slice of Life. I already have installed Meaningful Stories. Has anyone attempted to play their game with these two mods installed at the same time? Do they enhance each other, or is MS unnecessary with SoL?

Please and thank you for any help/advice you can give.

~GalacticGal

Thanks for asking this as I had just come to this board to ask the very same thing.
I've had it with TS4. I have been holding off mods, intending to mod the game when it was complete.
But I can't take it anymore. :s

I do play creatively, but I find TS4 the most boring of all the Sims games.
I am ready to jump the gun and finally try some mods to try to bring more personality and interest to these sims.

I am currently working on a prep school for my teen sims, to prep them for University.
Once that is completed, I will give slice of life and Meaningful stories a trial run on a new save to try out different settings before trying it out on my main save.

I was already using SOL when five of my YAs went to uni together. Yes, I decided to have them in the same dorm and to have them graduate together. What fun. But, I have to say it was even more fun with SOL. My first uni go-around I was playing around with Life's Tragedies, and while I liked it on the one side, Tragedy struck and I lost my game save in the end. :open_mouth:

"telmarina;c-17417328" wrote:
I'm using very recently the meaningfull stories mod and i'm really enjoying it. I've seen a lot of talking about slice of life and thought, until now that it only changed the appearance of the sims...? I'll need to investigate it further.

It does far more than change appearances. And, just to let everybody know, it works just fine with Meaningful Stories, too. :)

For some odd reason I cant have both together because it just slows down my game :/

"Minai;c-17438650" wrote:
For some odd reason I cant have both together because it just slows down my game :/

Hm, I'm not having that issue. But then again, I am using them together in a brand new game save. That may make a difference, I don't know.