SweetCupitan

Legacy Family, Builds and Font Mods. Using k-hippie mods and Moriel's cloud replacements. ReShade: edited version of serenity by Fantayzia

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BLACK N GOLD TIDY CAS ORGANISER - DOWNLOAD

I've been using CAS organisers for a while now and I find them so useful. Since I like to customise a lot of the UI I thought why not make an organiser too?

This could have not been made without the amazing @yoruqueenofnightsims , all I did was edit the images! You can follow their tutorial to make your own!

DL in title

[cherisi]

Concert Set Animated Deco Sims

A set of animated deco Sims, perfect for creating realistic concerts venues in your game 🏙️✨

This set includes 32 animated deco Sims, with each Sim accounting for two variations — featuring different outfits. 🎭

Inside the set you’ll find:

16 concert sims

16 silhouette concert sims

deco sims animation pack

Each deco Sim comes with three colorway options, plus an additional low poly silhouette deco for extra flexibility. 🎨

Early Access: Sept 8. Sept 25. Sept 22 Public Access: Sept 29 Check out this set in action here!

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NOW PUBLIC

[wolfxdreamersims]

ayooooo, @kepkosim sent me his grass rug mesh a while back so i could tweak some things, and he's kindly allowed me to release it to all of you!

I made several swatches which should match most lots, i haven't done every world yet. i'll get around to it sometime lmao. i also went ahead and made dirt ones, and also a few different sized rugs cause i figured these could come in handy with the TOOL mod to hide things when creating a save file with blow torch and stuff!

Edit to add: these are made to match k-hippies terrain replacement mod. Not made for vanilla terrain 🤍

Here's how they're used for split level homes

As for the bigger rugs i made, play with the sizes! Size them up or down a few times til they look how you want! Enjoy! 🤍

Download (Patreon, freeee)

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With all the talk about save games getting corrupted and not having too many objects on a lot to help with lag, we have to come up with...creative solutions to make our lots and worlds feel more alive.

I personally love apartments, I love having them decorated but somtimes that is just too much for a game to handle. So I came up with a solution:

Let me introduce to you: Fake Apartments.

Sometimes you just want a lot for world building, to look pretty not neccesarily for sims to live in and clog up your game. I got around this by essentially the sim version of window dressing.

In any 6 apartment build I will have a maximum of 2 furnished apartments. The rest are fake.

I achieve this by putting furnishings against a window, say a sofa, a fridge, some cupboards, a few inches away so from the outside it LOOKS like there is a whole room inside but it is infact just a sliver. any other space is blocked off with a wall. Add a few lights and voila: you have the illusion of a furnished apartment. Neat, right?

[down-in-simsland]

The current state of the Sims 4

Hi everyone.

First, sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker so redacting a long post might include mistakes 🫣

I think the last statement from the Sims 4 community managers was the last straw for me.

I won't expand on save corruptions issues. I know that this one huge issue with multiples causes and ways to manifest, so that's not an easy thing to solve. Knowing that they are at least working on it is good, but they already talked about that in the past, and we have no visibility on the resources invested in that part.

In the meantime, they continue to release packs upon packs and pile up more and more stuff on this game. We don't have to buy them, but still, it means they have resources to invest on working on new features, and that the complexity added to have more and more packs, features and combinations of that, means that their ability to test, find bugs and solve them is stretched thinner and thinner as time goes by.

Talking about QA, they explicitly said here that they are now unable to test their packs correctly with all the existing combinations of packs and devices existing, and that they rely on feedback from players to correct those issues. Even if that doesn't come as a surprise for me as a regular user of the Bug Report forums, they explicitly said that they expect players who paid their packs full-price to be the ones testing and finding issues. Instead of investing the proper resources to do it on their side.

Getting half-baked functionalities and less and less original ideas in packs is one thing, and that's subjective (some recent packs were good in my opinion, even if a little bit disappointing when you see how things work in reality - hello Businesses and Hobbies !). But being expected to face issues and report them when you play a new expansion, it's an early access, smaller game studios with less resources make you pay less for that, and it's explicitly said.

Having worked on QA and managed teams doing QA in context where the time and the resources are too little, I know that's a recipe for disaster. You can have a product that work on the surface, but in the back, it's grasping at straws, and any new feature you add is an additional risk of things breaking. The issue is not only about QA, it's about strategic decisions in terms or resources EA invests in QA.

Of course, all this work behind the scenes is not profitable compared to releasing new content in the short term. But in the long run, it can lead to more and more anger from the customers, a loss of confidence in the product and more and more work to be done to ensure the product is viable at a surface level for casual players.

We can see how it already affects the game now : for each new patch, it's like 20 issues solved, and 30 new issues happening. And they are weirder and weirder. For exemple, at the moment, sims in situation outfits come with a random hat. Looking at the scripts and the tuning myself, I wasn't able to understand what cause that, and what was changed. It's more and more complex.

It's like your own body, where multiple organs are connected and most of them are needed to make you live, that's a system. The game is a system, with multiple interconnected stuff that makes it function. If you make the system more and more complex and it's not robust initially, you have more and more risks to make it fail at some point.

I reported multiple issues in the Bug Report forums. One of my pet peeve is that we have no visibility on the process, we don't know how what we post here is reported to people solving the issues, how it's prioritized, and what's the deadline. I mean, I always take time to investigate an issue, look at the tunings and the scripts, but even when you provide all the infos on a silver platter and identify the root cause, like this one, it's not solved. It's there since B&H release.

I would rather them take a time to aknowledge all of that, and take a step back. Focus the effort on solving the existing issues for a while and not release new content. I know that's not the same teams that work on solving issues or creating features or content, but for exemple in the meantime, teams in charge of CAS content of build content could focus on updating base game content to make it up to current standards, add items (like the Spa Day refresh - we need the simple bed versions of all those double beds from last packs and more content for younger Sims in CAS), update existing worlds of adding new free worlds to represent other parts of the planet, and so on.

There is plenty of stuff to do in every aspect to improve the experience, especially if they plan on keeping the Sims 4 alive. I don't need new duplicate features (I don't need my Sim to learn Herbalism, Apothecary, and Potion Making as a Spellcaster that basically do the same thing) or having 5 new crop tops like for each pack. I want a game that is stable, fun to play, and knowing that if I encounter an issue and report it, it will be taken into account. That doesn't seem too much to ask from a company like EA that has enough resources and money to do it.

I stopped buying packs a long time ago, and I would love to see more and more people boycotting new packs, at least for a while. I feel like that's the only way to express the disappointment and be heard (and I guess the reason of this statement as the uproar is rising and a new roadmap is supposed to be released).

I hope more and more people will talk about it, and make this message be heard.

In the meantime, I will only play this game to test and update my mods when needed. Thanks for reading my rambling 🫣

[cupisims]

Khala also aged up, a few days later. She is sporting a more casual taken on her teen appearance and also intends to go to university. She has applied for Foxbury, to study Environmental Science

(She is so tall CAS cant even fit her head in, hence no pics here)

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AGE UP! Nove and Khala are FINALLY young adults (i find other life stages kinda boring) Nove intends to head off to university with a brand new look and hair colour, mirroring her grandmother Natasha. She has applied to both Britechester and Foxbury and intends to study Communications. We wish her all the best!

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Grief is hard. Evangeline and Nove are both coping in their own ways; Nove finds comfort in Amante whilst out on a date.

After some thought, Evangeline realises she has not left the house in months. She calls up her sister Anette and her cousin Aiko and they all head downtown to watch a movie.

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Evangeline can feel time slipping away and she wants to complete her life time aspiration as well as leave something precious behind for her daughters. To that end she asks them to model for her and paints a beautiful life painting of them.

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Amante sends Nove a racy text whilst she is in the living room with her family and Nove thinks about their relationship thus far. She quickly snaps back an innocent selfie for him.

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It's nice to visit friends.

Reaching out in her state of grief, Evangeline takes Nove to see her closest friend, Chaya.

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Nove isn't the only one having success in the romance world: Khala has successfully gotten Sheldon to notive her and they have shared their first kiss!! How exciting!!!

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Girl i love you but you're not moving in hahaha

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Meet Amante Reeves, part of the wealthy Reeves family who just moved in. And Nove immediately noticed him. Their relationship has gone from a chance meeting to a series of coffee dates to Amante asking her to prom. Where will their budding relationship take them I wonder?

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Tired of there being zero teen boys for Nove to date sooooooo I decided to make a new family!

Meet: the Reeves family!

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Tragedy strikes!!!! Cannon Ito-Evans passes away in his bed shortly after Christmas. Evangeline awoke to find Grim collecting his soul and she was frozen in absolute shock.

Eva tries to hold it together but one day when her children are out with their friends, she breaks down and can no longer hold in her emotions. With the coming days many people text their condolences and their sympathies.

her sister Anette hears the news and immediately comes over to offer her sister comfort.

A funeral must be planned but Eva is too numb to do it. She enlists the help of her sister, cousin and friends. They plan to have in 3 days time at Highgate Cemetary, where her parents are buried.

The day comes. Nove and Khala give beautiful sad eulogies on their fathers life and everyone who ever mattered to him is in attendance.

Members in attendance share their thoughts with Eva and Khala and Nove share their grief with one another.

Now they must move on with their lives. It is a sad day for all.

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ADELAIDE NEWSAGENT - DOWNLOAD

WHEWWW IT'S BEEN A HOT MINUTE

I really had a great time converting Willow Creek in my save into a London suburb but I realised something was missing: ya local bossman at the corner shop!

You may have noticed there is a espresso machine and grinder there. This is because you cannot have a retail and a residential lot at the same time. So i used the amazing Multi Purpose Lots by @down-in-simsland to set the newsagent area as a cafe so at least sims will be coming and going and you can roleplay there's a costa machine in there or something.

Thank you to all the creators who allow their CC to be used in builds!

You need to download THESE CC:

Felixandre: X X X X X | Harrie: X | HYDRA: X | Kerrigan House Designs: X | littledica: X X | Peacemaker: X | Simspiration Builds: X | SIXAMCC: X |

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Now with businesses and hobbies you can make this a small business! Not a problem! Alternatively you can use @down-in-simsland's functional registers or @cherisi 's amazing grocery mod to add a cashier deco sim!