CC or no CC
ancienthighway:
Their comes a time when every gamer asks what can be done to make the game his or hers. Personalize it. Maybe even do something to make it unique from others.
Custom content is great for that. You want medieval, you've got medieval. You want Sci-Fi, you've got Sci-Fi. You want a Utopia Orgy Fest, you've got a Utopia Orgy Fest. You want a rugrat infested slum neighborhood, you've got it.
You want a 12-step program from Downloaders Anonymous? Sorry doesn't exist.
The question of whether to use CC or not to use CC is one every gamer has to make. Some do, some don't. The thing that bothers me about CC is how some users come across snobbish when tooting their horn about all the CC they have and refuse to use anything that's "just Maxis".
(Visions of the "In Crowd" of sim teenage girls pop into mind gossiping every time they see a townie walk by wearing plaid shorts and a cowboy shirt. OMG, did you see the size of that guy's lips. What a monkey face! Then later that night, alone in their rooms sleeping, that monkey faced townie that doesn't know about CC feels their dreams with fields of flowers and send the hormones racing.)
One person has CC. Lots of it. Then the game takes forever to load. Bodyshop has to be planned for use a day in advanced. New downloads crash the game every 30 minutes, but "that new outfit HAS to stay, what can I do?"
Another person has CC. Just the bare minimum to corrects some of the more blunderous choices a California geek made for makeup and hairstyles. Maybe even some recolors of the original clothing. The game loads in 5 minutes or less. No crashes because of a new mesh. No mobs of the Fashion Police harassing those poor townies that don't even have a mirror.
Hey, it's your game. Play it the way you want. Download all you want. Or don't want. Or don't download. Just lose the "better than" attitude you have because someone doesn't play the same as you.
Tip for Contest Entering Gamers and Storytellers: Download all the CC you can. No CC means 1st round elimination. No CC means no one likes your story or someone steals your plot and because of CC readers like it more.
ant:
I Think I get what you mean.
Yesterday I deleted All my custom content and only download the bare minimum i.e. a set of default replacement faces.
Why?, because I love to download all this lovely free CC but my PC is not that fast and I get the most annoying lagging when ever a sim comes on to the lot wearing the custom clothing I downloaded a few weeks back.
So I thought to delete it and give my pc a little rest and make my game get ready for EP6 and maybe after a few weeks when I get bored, I may download a bit to spice up the game.
Any way thanks for raising this thread.
AlbinoBambi:
I mostly agree.
But I won a contest without using cc. I have some posing hacks, bunk beds and reflective floors and walls, OMSP's, and that's it. And still, I won, winning from people who's games were filled with cc.
But I do agree that usually, the chances of winning are larger when you do use cc. Buut, it is possible without it. ^^
ancienthighway:
Ok,it is possible to win without CC, but for the generic beauty contests, it's a lot more difficult. :)
My point really is about the attitude that comes across from those that would never stoop so low as to use Maxis clothing/hair/furniture/whatever. Someone that likes and uses exclusively or mostly or even a lot of CC shouldn't act like those that don't use any or limit their use of it are social misfits.
It's nice to know that everything you can get in Stuff Packs could be found as CC from one of the many talented creators out there. I'm willing to pay a little bit of money to EA for the convenience of a Stuff Pack that may have fewer selections than I could find on the web and maybe a little twisted in their un-Fashion Policed sense. I'm not so willing to spend hours upon hours looking for that "perfect" outfit to fit the personality I want for my just turned teenager sim.
ant:
Quote from: ancienthighway;916259
My point really is about the attitude that comes across from those that would never stoop so low as to use Maxis clothing/hair/furniture/whatever. Someone that likes and uses exclusively or mostly or even a lot of CC shouldn't act like those that don't use any or limit their use of it are social misfits.
I in some way feel the sims 2 is not the sims 2 with custom clothing in fact, I love the objects and stuff that comes in the game and I feel the same way about people tending to brag about how much they have in there download folder...
Ok here's mine for instance 15.9 MB of 122 files and 4 folders. Tiny isn't it :) I have no crashes, things getting lost, replacement objects, no recolours, just a few files to make the game manageable.
The Size, amount of files, It's not something to brag about and not something to be recognised as a "social misfit".
The best thing to remember is:
Its YOUR game you do what you want!
Plus it's good to see you think the same way as me about download hunting :) I would never do that...
EDIT: I think people see a large, many filed download folder as a status quote...
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