I don't find myself drawn to the larger hacks like InSim InTeen, and Pescado's macro stuff.  I can't actually think of anything wrong about InSimenator, it just feels "large" lol.   Maybe I am worried they will clash with my own hacks or something.   I was more of a Squingey type of downloader

Tools|PJSE|BodyMeshTool.   You can find out more about it under Help|Topics|PJSE Body Mesh Tool.  Basically it chops about 30-60 mins off the time taken to assemble all the resources manually.   Well it did for me, anyway, maybe it gets quicker when you're used to it

Why don't you use the PJSE body mesh tool (if it's clothes, hair or accessories you are making)?  It saves all that opening files and looking for stuff.

I have had no problems either.  I took out all my hacks before installing and after that only replaced the ones that were listed as compatible by their authors.

And what benefit hassling EA to take responsibility for user-made content can bring I do not know.  If we succeeded in that, they'd simply ban user-made content!

Someone will now make the point that they would be silly to do that because the sales of the game will decrease.  Well we now know the sales would probably decrease by no more than 5% at the most, as EA have published some research showing that only 5% of their users ever download any of the patches.   They seem to think that this may mean only that many users actually use the internet to help them enjoy the game.  I think it may mean that too.

The terms of use of the EA site was revised on 6th August and now appears to lend more weight to the right of creators not to have their content uploaded to the exchange without permission.   It invites anyone who feels their intellectual property rights have been infringed to contact them and ask - presumably - for that content to be removed.

But people who are not familiar with the history might think that as they're on different sites, one might be a rival for the other (that too could have been an explanation of why they both begin with "in") so I can understand why people ask.

Yes, it's interesting.

Lol!!!   Yeah, while at some level it might be flattering that someone chooses to rip off your work, the least they could do is accord it its proper value

Well Kathy, it looks like you will be be able to take on maintenance of a large part of Squinge's mods if you can do autonomy hacks

My memory is a bit vague on this, but I seem to remember a maxoid mentioning once right near the beginning of Sims 2 that something like it was unusual for a commercial game to send out so much of the software in an open format and benefit the custom creators in such a way.  And I felt at the time there was this sort of veiled warning that it could change in the future.

I am very concerned that we shouldn't get in their hair so much they close things up for Sims 3.  It's so much fun being able to poke around in the files so freely.  I know they might make tools themselves but looking at bodyshop and homecrafter they are not likely to be as flexible as something like SimPE.

I think this says it all - written by Steve Bonham of TSR:

"On Friday 20th July 2007, I was once again invited back to Electronic Arts ..."

That was well after everyone started writing to them insisting they shut down paysites.  If EA don't want to do it, is it our place to do their legal work for them?

My gesture towards free content is to make and share as much of it as I can.  Why don't we concentrate on helping each other do that, and hope some of the recent ugliness is soon left behind?

Unfortunately without Squinge to ask, it's a case of reading through his section to see if you can find any information about it.  I seem to remember he has some posts listing which mods are updated or compatible with which EPs

I believe Seasons is EP5, so a mod labelled EP3 may not be compatible.  Usually it's your highest owned EP that your downloads need to match.

It's ok for it to have a ! by it, that just means the game is telling you it's a global mod.  Just make sure the allow custom content is ticked, and say OK

Are you sure you have the right version of the mod for seasons?  EP3 was before Seasons.