The Great ReBuild 2010: Paring things down?

[strangetomato]

I'm struggling with this rebuild. At first I was going to package up all the sims that have been born in the those neighborhoods and share them and then do the same for my edited lots, but every time I load the game to do so, I lose steam fast. I've now settled on only packaging up characters and lots that I absolutely can't do without. So that means any story characters that have already been featured (and one that hasn't — Phi's mystery baby), and maybe some lots (the Summerdream place comes to mind), but everything else will be played through and made over again. That'll take some time, but it'll be far less tedious than piecing it together bit by bit.

I think I'm going to start by playing the fresh megahood to give myself a chance to see what I truly miss from my other game. I'm going to keep my cc (though I'm paring that down quite liberally), but I want to try to use the bare minimum of hacks and things like that. That brings me to my question of the day (and it's a classic one):

If you were going to start over with only a handful of hacks, which ones would you consider essential?

Comments

[will-o-whisper.livejournal.com]

The only ones I consider absolutely essential are the ones that help keep your game from imploding. I'd want all the game fixes, anti-redundancy hacks, no-respawns, and what-not from Pescado's director's cut. Like everyone else has said. :P While it doesn't keep your game from breaking, I do consider the same-sex marriage hack pretty important; the "joining" thing kinda pisses me off enough to want it fixed.

For non-essential fun stuff: ACR, InSim, lotfullofsims, trips and quads, and that hack that removes the red pause lines. I also really love Twojeff's pregnancy for all genders. And...

I'm not helping. :(

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Speaking of same-sex marriage hack, does anyone know of a hack to make this work for the Celebrations wedding arch as well? :(

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It doesn't work with it? That's news to me. (Beau Broke will not stand for this! XD)

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Hm, it doesn't for me, I only get the "get joined" option... Maybe I have something that conflicts. Wouldn't surprise me. :P