Most Wanted Hacks

[strangetomato]

First of all, thank you to everyone who helped me to troubleshoot my game issues in the last post. As always, I appreciate your help immensely. In the end, it was a simple matter of placing the no-cd crack in the wrong folder. I feel a little better knowing that I'm not the only one who has made the same mistake.

My next hurdle to jump in the quest to get my game running properly again is to rebuild my downloads folder. You see, I may have lost my entire uberhood (with ALL of the households played to 14 sim days) and a good portion of my downloads folder to the hard drive failure of my old PC. *deep breath* I'm okay. There's very little I can't just shrug off these days. And let this be a lesson to you all. Go make backups, and not just half-assed ones where you sort of have copies, but not really, and you're just swapping in and out hoods without also keeping a copy in your external drive. Seriously, double check that you have a decent backup. Do it.

On the bright side, I do still have Elsewhere and the Tomato Legacy and all of my other hoods. I also, by some strange luck, still have my Bodyshop and Build Mode sub-folders of my Downloads folder. What I do not have: Hair, Buy Mode, Defaults, Hacks, and Storytelling (hacks and pose boxes) sub-folders. I'm going to take the first two as a blessing in disguise and a chance to scale back my cc a little. I'll gather up the hair and recolours of buy mode items as I realize what I truly need and want. Defaults, I'll figure out. Hacks, I need pronto. Storytelling stuff is also pretty key.

What hacks do you absolutely need for your game? I know I need the MATY Director's Cut and ACR 2.0, and some of the others are coming back to me as I look into it, but I don't remember everything I had. If you wouldn't mind tossing out some of your must haves for me to peruse (or share a link to your resources post), I'd really appreciate it.

Comments

[goldpandaah.livejournal.com]

Apart from the already mentioned hacks, Cyon has some essential fixes over here. I also can recommend "No Sim Loaded" from BoilingOil. You can find his stuff here.
Hope that helps a little bit.

[chazzhay.livejournal.com]

Yeah Cyjons mods I could not recommend enough, so many good ones.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I agree completely. I had a lot of his mods before I lost my game. His stuff is so creative and useful.

[purpleseas.livejournal.com]

Thirding Cyjon's mods, especially Townie Apartment Residents. I play in a fully custom neighborhood and just didn't want to bother making social group townies because I find them so useless.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Loving the Cyjon love here. <3

That sounds like a great one. Those social group townies really are kind of useless. It would have been nice if they had given the option to assign social groups to playable sims instead.

[purpleseas.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's totally worth it to make all your own townies, but it takes forever, so I skipped them the first time and ended up with the ones the game generated the first time I moved into an apartment, all wearing the same outfit, bad hair, etc. It's so much nicer to have your own townies move in, especially when you've put all that work into them and are sometimes vaguely sad that they have to live out in the ether forever.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I agree. It's great to be able to have your sims live next to those townies you spent so much time creating. Much more rewarding that way!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge fan of Cyjon's mods, though I was forgetting where they were located (and even his name, damn baby brain), so thank you for that link. I was hoping someone would mention him, and happy to see lots of love for him here. :)

Last time, I think I had just about as many of his hacks as I did Pescado's. He has some very useful stuff. For anyone that hasn't checked his stuff out, I also highly reccomend them.

[im-i.livejournal.com]

I think I really need to download more of Cyjon's mods. I have some of them but I should find the time to go through the whole lot and decided what would be good to use.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Cyjon's stuff is awesome. You'll definitely find a couple of hacks there that you'll have no idea how you lived without them. It's well worth a look.