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.

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[(Anonymous)]

no red pause,
perfect plants,
smart beds,
teleporter shrub

No Lecture Baby - http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/thread-2752.html
Caged Pet Fixes - http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=12.0
No Break Robots - http://www.sims2workshop.com/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=635
Eat Chinese food faster - http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?threadid=84980
AlreadyInCribFix - http://www.drealm.info/simlogical/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Childcare.htm
HomeworkSometimes - http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=32302
Attraction Traits Fix - http://www.modthesims.info/d/318327
no servo cooking by neder http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=22104.0 (in the last post)

More/better slots:
http://www.modthesims.info/d/295062
http://sims2artists.com/index.php?topic=3677.0
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=484917
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=144021
Shiftable photos - http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,12998.0.html
fixed rugs - http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=399650

Posing sims:
Posebox Catalog - http://www.lachesispbcatalog.blogspot.com/
Invisible magisplay tray - http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=181208
Chair OMSPs - http://www.modthesims.info/d/473731 - I very often use these instead of the magisplay tray

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thank you, super helpful anon! ^_^

I noticed that I needed the more/better slots mods when I last loaded up the game. That's one of those that makes playing so much better and easier. More space to put things! :)

I used to use the perfect plants mod, but I switched to using one that allows gardeners to access all plants, even those that were placed on slopes and out of reach (like nearly everything from the basegame lots). I like gardening with sims, but it was very restrictive without that mod.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

Can you shoot me a link to that gardening mod? The only lot I use semi-regularly that even has garden junk has a lot of plants on slopes and my Sims pitch a fit when I tell them to water the plants.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

There are two available that complement each other:

Water Inaccessible Flowers by dickhurt

Trim Inaccessible Bushes by Cyjon

Enjoy! :)

[timberwolfoz.livejournal.com]

Seconded on that gardening mod: I'm tearing my hair out (or Jill is) over the Smith's garden.

Also, another one that hasn't been mentioned yet: Monique's Hacked Computer. It's one of my could-not-play-the-game-without ones.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

The Smith's garden is a classic example of poor garden design in the basegame. Why create a premade lot that has inaccessible plants? It's so frustrating.

Here are the garden mods:

Water Inaccessible Flowers by dickhurt

Trim Inaccessible Bushes by Cyjon

I'm also a fan of Monique's Computer. It was the easiest way to purchase a lot of things, if I recall correctly. I'll have to add that one to my list. Thanks!

[timberwolfoz.livejournal.com]

Thank you for those!

Not only purchasing and bill paying, but also skilling; you can gain skills and earn money by writing articles. A good one for Fortune Sims and/or the poor and jobless.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THE OMSPs.

Those things are INCREDIBLY USEFUL for set design. I've got the shiftable Apartment Life set.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I remembered about those pretty quickly once I started playing the game and remembered how you can't place anything anywhere without them. XD