Do you use the NRaas mods? Has the information on the NRaas website and forum ever been useful to you? If so, a moment of your time please!
I’d like to share the current situation with Simblr – which you can also read about directly from the site owner here:
https://www.nraas.net/community/topic15428
While it seemed like we were entering an era of old-internet revival and indie websites in the fight against the dead-internet, a significant road block has emerged. Prices have inflated drastically for server parts, memory, storage, and server-hosting itself. This puts all non-profit online communities in peril.
As a result, the site owner has opened a Patreon so that the community can help cover the costs of keeping us online.
Important clarification:
The NRaas mods are NEVER going to be paywalled.
The project will remain open-source and free for everyone. Donations are optional.
These mods are still in active development!
The site and mods have been maintained by Chain_Reaction since Twallan's retirement, providing countless updates and support. Lots of cool stuff over there if you haven't updated in a hot minute.
There is no pressure to donate if your situation does not allow for it. Thank you for the consideration!
Long post ahead with information on the situation and some incentives for reaching membership goals.
If you've had some trouble accessing the site over the past week or so:
The situation is directly caused by the greed and encroachment of something we’re all uncomfortably familiar with: AI companies and the companies investing in them (of simmer relevance, that includes EA and Krafton (InZoi)).
NRaas is not the first nor will it be the last to be affected. Website servers already suffer from bots trawling and scraping their content – including your content that you write and share just about anywhere. Now they’re being bought off entirely.
Archives and file-hosting are at high risk. Myrient is a recent example of an archive that went offline for this very reason.
It can feel a bit grim, but I want to assure you that the burden isn't yours to bear as an individual. As a community, it's actually quite easy to become hostile - and more important, unprofitable - to these invasive species as it were.
The past 26 years of modding and storytelling was OVERWHELMINGLY built upon free software, non-profit websites, and shared resources. A few unscrupulous paywallers and corporate greed isn't going to rewrite that history. Greed is the minority - but it does try to eat everything in its path.
That's all I ask - if you enjoy the fruits of The Sims community or enjoy being a part of it, make it just a little more inconvenient to swallow us.
Do not tolerate GenAI in our community spaces.
Do not support EA or Krafton. Let obscurity and irrelevancy devour them.
Do participate in the community wherever you think you'd find a little piece of purpose - make a blog for your stories, come chat with us in the Chatterbox forum at NRaas, make your first mod.
Lastly:
In a separate post, I'll be posting some CC incentives that will be released as milestones are reached. This content will not be paywalled - it will be posted for free as thanks to the community.
This is being offered on my own accord and is not the official reward for any particular tier. None of the proceeds are going to me!
Please look out for that over the weekend, I still need to take all of the preview screenshots which is perhaps the least exciting part of making CC.
And thank you, on behalf of the volunteers at NRaas.
hello! i love your DXVK guide, my game has never been so smooth. However, I was wondering if after I've installed this fix, can I still download the entire store content? This is what I'm referencing: THE SIMS 3 STORE PRE-INSTALLED by nausallien. I've tried installing this (rename sims 3 folder, replace with this new one, then move mods/saves back) however, no store content shows up. Do you know any fix to this, why it isn't working? Again, thank you for your hard work!
Hello, glad to hear you found the guide useful!
I'm not sure why that content doesn't show up. Maybe try to ask them directly, either as an ask or on the post? https://www.tumblr.com/nausallien/774521954145337344/download-the-entire-store-pre-installed
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOUR DONATIONS ON CHANGE.ORG DO NOT GO TO THE SUBJECT OF THE CAMPAIGN
That means that when you donate, it goes to change.org. Now, this isn't useless — it does mean that the petition gets boosted. However, you're pretty much doing the same thing by reblogging. I am concerned about people donating something like $40 dollars since I'm not sure if they realize it doesn't contribute to the legal fund or not.
If you want to donate to the internet archive's legal fund (and help with operation costs), then you can click here to go their donation page
Hey, first of all thank you for your dxvk tutorial <3. I followed it and noticed the biggest difference when it comes to stability, I found another tutorial similar to yours where they did dxvk stuff but instead they edited the EP11 default. ini file for compositercachesize and sim compositercachesize, do you think I could do both, or is it redundant or incopatible? Thank you <3
Hi, short answer: I don't know! Maybe someone reading this can give a more informed reply.
My guess is it only makes sense if you start your game with the EP11.exe/if you play Oasis Landing. I start my game with BG exe so I doubt a change like that would be read by the game.
But you can try and see for yourself if it makes a difference. Just make sure to back up any files you edit so that you can roll back easily!
A home for all those animals no one wants anymore and a family to take care of them.
Lot size: 40x40
Required Expansions: World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Showtime, Supernatural, Seasons, University, Island Paradise, Into The Future
A heartfelt thank you to all of you who share love and amazing content, be it CC, stories, comments, ideas, gameplay or whatever comes to your creative minds - and all for free!
A community thrives from sharing and interacting. You are the ones who turn this into a community and a wonderful place to browse, chat, help, and giggle. You are the reason I am still here and enjoying this special space.
Thank you for the tags for doing the 24 pictures for 2024 thingie - sadly I didn't post that often, so there is nothing to see here… I'll just add some screenshots from my hard drive. But this might be something of a resolution for 2025 which I also got tagged for: to post more? To play more? Definitely on my wishlist for the upcoming year.
And it's also more than high time to thank all those lovely people who put nice messages in my inbox in 2024, which each should receive a proper reply, but that's something I am notoriously bad at.
So this maybe is more of an appreciation post for all the kind simmers who thought of me in the past year. Thank you for that and for making my days brighter!
(in no particular order):
@nocturnalazure, @camisulsul, @simsync, @thesweetsimmer111,
@expirisims, @rachel-homeanddesign-sims, @cocodotgreen,
@eizthetics0226, @aisquaredchoco, @kevinvoncrastenburg,
@grimfolks, @cas-sims, @bioniczombie, @alaskansims,
@drawing-way-outside-the-lines
I won't tag anyone to do anything special as I am way too late to the party as usual. But share away if you feel like it!
hello i really liked the method about the DXVK because i wanna fix the lag and memory crash's and freeze in my game, but i have a question when u said about (-1) do i need to put -1 in both like should i write (-1) in first line and the seconed line ?
Hi! Before you try (-1) which means to not limit MemCacheBudget, have you tried (high) values? Like those for 1 or 2 GB? Maybe try those before experimenting.
Also, can't say if you should enter the (-1) in both lines. As far as I know the value in the first line should be higher or equal the value in the second line. I guess that's where the experimenting begins...
Maybe someone who reads this has a more informed reply?
The new day was warm, crisp and cloudless. After some more melon slices as breakfast, Captain Beaudard went off for a little exploring of his own. Fallonfuchs had run to the north the day before, he went west.
A cloudless day always held the promise to turn into a cloudless night. His stars might be revealed, and finally offer him a clue of where they had stranded.
He wished he had his looking glass, though. To search the horizon too. But it had to be done with the naked eye, squinting.
The island was beautiful. As was the empty horizon. One steady, calm line.
At camp, Lady Aerdenwald paced the beach. She felt uneasy with the Captain gone. Yet, from the corner of her eye, she could see him run in the distance, and halt, look about him, and run again. He would never leave her view. And somehow, she suspected he did that on purpose. For her. Just like he'd made sure she'd got some rest that night, on the logs, taking turns with the children. In between her naps she had seen some of the men sleep on the beach sand, but he had always sat near her on the cowhide, looking at the clouds high above. He kept watch.
It was as if Captain Beaudard remembered the promise he made to her father, all by himself.
Today I’m happy to release Praaven Reworked, a new version of Praaven by jje1000/potato-ballad-sims, edited by Simsmidgen and me. As usual this project took longer than expected. But with the help of our many fantastic testers all is well that ends well.
Simsmidgen and I tweaked some things more to our liking, replaced broken CC, reduced the overall amount of required CC, recoloured EA objects and/or replaced them, fixed major routing issues, reduced world file size, replaced/fixed all those bloody arches and stacked staircases, thinned spawners, improved terrain painting (at least we think so). We added the two festival lots by lowrisim and tweaked them a bit and also made sure that the tomb can be solved (yes, there is a tomb, go looking for it!). We tried to leave the world as original as possible though (apart from the things that didn’t work well). Public release is with permission of potato-ballad-sims.
Reblogging this because I noticed the DL link would give you the world file and nothing else. Not sure when or how that happened, as this has been out for more than 4 years now and no one complained. So I just hope for the best. Anyway.
Tldr: Download link has been updated to include the world as sims3pack, world file, CC and information!
