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

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree more about the Same Sex Marriage hack. I don't think I'd even play without it. (And Traditional Marriage always gets the boot from the MATY Directors Cut in my game. Bleck!)

Ditto and ditto! But if you don't have it, Marhis' last name chooser is a must for me! Now if only it had an option to combine last names with a hyphen...

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I looked into that one. Didn't it also allow the sims to keep their own names? That's cool. I think I usually just head into SimPE and work my magic on the newlyweds to give them hyphenated names or whatever tickles my fancy that day (or suits the couple in question). It'd be great if there was a hack that allowed you to type in the new names.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it allows them to keep their names too. It seems like the only method for actually giving a sim a totally new surname with ingame hacks is to give them a new first name and then copy the first name to the last name, and put the original first name back, and that's far too much fiddling for my tastes. It's easier to just make hyphenated names and such in SimPE.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I believe I used it for that reason. The game gives you the option to select the name that the couple will change to by using that sim to initiate the action to get married, but there is nothing to allow them to keep their names.

I agree that the SimPE route is a lot easier. It also allows you to correct weirdness like a sim marrying Frances J. Worthington III and also having the surname Worthington III. Umm, no...

[kin-thalas.livejournal.com]

Iirc the SimBlender has an option to change a Sims' first or last name.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting about that option in the Sim Blender. I usually just add name changes to my list of small chores to do in SimPE, since it's pretty easy to do there.