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jordyn ~ 20 ~ she/they ~ ts4 ~ wcif friendly @simality-cc-finds

[my-simality]

How to make your game load faster: a tutorial

Before this method, my game took ~1 hour to load. After? It takes less than 5 minutes!

The short explanation is to turn off the show at startup feature for your mods and custom content. If you don’t know how to do that, though, here is a tutorial!

There are two methods to turn off this feature, number one being the most simple.

1) When your game first opens, the way to know if you have mods set to show at startup is if this window (below) pops up. One way to turn off this feature is unchecking the checkbox in the bottom left-hand corner. The next time you open your game, it should load much faster!

If you don’t want to wait for your game to open with the usual time, remove all your mods and custom content, excluding at least one file. That way your game will open quickly for you turn off the feature, and then you can reopen your game with all your mods!

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2) If your game is already open, here is how to turn off the show at startup feature from within the game.

First, you need to navigate to the menu. Click on the three dots in the upper right-hand corner of the game (shown below).

It will open the game menu, where you need to select “Game Options.”

Then, select “Other” from the sidebar on the left.

From this menu you need to select “View Custom Content.” 

This will open the mods list window, where you need to uncheck the checkbox in the bottom left-hand corner. This should make your game load faster!

I hope this tutorial helped you, and please let me know if you have any questions!

[ravasheencc]

My Response To EA’s Letter

This is not what I typically post about or get involved with… but the recent letter from the EA really infuriated me. Initially, I was a big defender the gurus because I know what it is like to work in a big corporation with deadlines/budgets and approval processes. However, my perspective changed after watching the livestream when the gurus were going over the Knifty Knitting pack it became clear to me that they do have quite a bit of flexibility in what they design.

Then came the letter from the gurus this past week and, well, I needed to get this off my chest so I can let go of the anger.

My response in red.

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Hi Simmers -

We want you to know we’ve been seeing all your feedback and we hear you. 

In one ear and right out the other.

As we always have been, we’re committed to growing The Sims as a game and as a community, so instead of trying to respond to a variety of tweets we wanted to consolidate some thoughts and updates in one place:

We are working on adding significantly more skin tones before the end of the year, and will share news on our progress soon. Beyond that, we’re committed to continuing to expand representation in The Sims 4. This is not one step, but a journey.

About time.

On upcoming content - when we consider something for addition to the game we consider what it will take to update it meaningfully.

What is there to consider? At this point you could literally add bunkbeds or improve babies in ANY way and simmers would be happy. Why does is take years to consider this?

This is just as true for babies as it would be for cars, bunk beds or any other number of feature requests. 

Yet you found time to consider and implement spaceships and murphy beds?

Sometimes there is foundational technology we need to work through and sometimes we need to dig into designs more deeply to make sure we understand your expectations. 

I have two responses to this. Your excuse that you need to work through some foundational technology is just invalid and completely false. Modders and CC creators have been able to implement many of the features you refuse to add with the existing technology and code.

What don’t you understand about our expectations? Well, apparently there is a lot you don’t understand but your team has had YEARS to better understand the simming community requests - they aren’t new. Again, you could literally implement any of the main requests in just about any form and you would make simmers happy. Luckily, you have set the bar so low any improvement would be considered drastic.

This work takes time, and we don’t update you on these projects until they become more real. Game development in general can feel like a long process and, like most of the world, we are adjusting to a continued state of working from home.

Many modders and CC creators have fulfilled the simming community’s needs and requests on our free time, with no budget, no team, and in much faster timeframes.

In just a matter of weeks we’ll be sharing more about our next Expansion Pack, which we’ve been working on since last year. I want to set expectations now, though, that cars, babies, farms and bunk beds are not part of this EP. We understand how important these features are to you but we want to be honest that they are not part of this upcoming pack.

Do you mention you have been working on it for the past year to give us the impression there was no way you could have incorporated the requests into this game pack? The major, main requests aren’t new and certainly came before you started this upcoming EP within the last year. This is just deflection and not taking responsibility.

And it is apparent that you DON’T understand how important these features are to the community. Or maybe you understand and just don’t really care.

As a team, we are going to make more of an effort to communicate what’s coming with more regularity and transparency so that you continue to feel in the loop about new features, experiences, packs, and general information.

This is a step in the right direction. I will believe it when I see it.

That’s it for now, and you’ll be hearing more from us soon. In the meantime, all we ask of you is to be kind, engage in constructive conversations with each other, and continue to celebrate what makes the Sims special to YOU.

We have been engaging in constructive conversations with ourselves. The community has been constructive not only in conversation but also taking action - ever heard of MCCC, Slice of Life, and the countless other mods and CC that fill in the voids you refuse to fix? The problem is YOU don’t engage in constructive conversations with US.

And I can assure you that we will continue to listen, continue to invest in The Sims 4 and continue to engage with you. 

Continue to listen? You haven’t listened. You need to start listening.

You don’t engage with us. You only engage with large youtubers that help you advertise the game. You don’t really even engage with the Game Changer community unless they are a huge influencer.

We could not do what we do without our players.

You wouldn’t have a job. So maybe show us some respect and start sincerely caring and acting on our requests.

SimGuru Lyndsay & the Sims Team

Sincerely, RAVASHEEN.

[renorasims]

@littledica has found a way of enhancing in-game textures that was capped with one of the recent updates. Head over to his post HERE on patreon to edit your GraphicsRules.sgr to let it go back to how it was before the update! NOTE this blurry texture also happens when you play on ultra!

ALL Credits (including pic above!) to @littledica if he decides to make a separate post abt it on tumblr i’d gladly reblog that one to safely store here on Tumblr for future reference! (and delete this one)

[my-simality]

realistic eyes look so nice on other people's sims; why do they look so weird on mine 😩

[faaeish]

I just feel like, EA could have done most of these updates years ago, but they just didn’t wanna. That’s it. Didn’t want to.

They’re only doing them now because we’re all very vocal about everything that TS4 lacks.

I’m excited for skin-tones and sliders. I’m excited for the new lifestyle system. I really, really am.

Why are modders forced to be the backbone of a billion dollar+ franchise? Why should we have to fix what they break? Why do we have to complain until we’re heard?

Why should we be grateful that they’re fixing the game that they made and sold, broken and lackluster, when compared to previous titles?

Who sells something broken, with the promise to fix it maybe someday? That’s not good business at all.

I can’t help but love the sims for what it is; A niche genre in the gaming industry. But, if it had competors on par with the quality of content EA is able to provide with all of their funding, would any of us stay loyal to a brand that gives us so little?

[nomorebadtownies]

So well put, I totally agree with this perspective.

[my-simality]

i really need to remember not to update my game right away 😬

[my-simality]

How to make your game load faster: a tutorial

Before this method, my game took ~1 hour to load. After? It takes less than 5 minutes!

The short explanation is to turn off the show at startup feature for your mods and custom content. If you don’t know how to do that, though, here is a tutorial!

Keep reading

[my-simality]

How to make your game load faster: a tutorial

Before this method, my game took ~1 hour to load. After? It takes less than 5 minutes!

The short explanation is to turn off the show at startup feature for your mods and custom content. If you don’t know how to do that, though, here is a tutorial!

Keep reading

[my-simality]

How to make your game load faster!!

if ur game takes forever to load, and you have cc & mods set to show at startup, turn that off!! my game used to take ~1 hour to open, now it takes <5 mins!!

[my-simality]

How to make your game load faster!!

if ur game takes forever to load, and you have cc & mods set to show at startup, turn that off!! my game used to take ~1 hour to open, now it takes <5 mins!!

[pixelddump]

Part 2, the train station. This suprsingly took less time to build than the rest of the outside but I had to do it three times cause it’d be a WIP and I’d scrap it the next time I loaded up my game cause I didn’t like how it looked but I’m happy with the way the finished product looks. 

[my-simality]

wowow

[storysims]

Noah and Nora are just unbearably cute. 🥰

[my-simality]

i can'ttt 😭😭

[simality-cc-finds]

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[emotrait-arc]

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[my-simality]

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[starshinesim]

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[ridgepoot-deactivated20200914]

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[my-simality]

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