#thebigtradeoff

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Whispers has finshed trading and there’s a whole thread full of goodies!

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ZeroDark opened a trade! There are two spots open.

What I Can Make: Hair re-textures with Pooklet or Twists (I can do MM, but it is not a strength), Walls, Floors, Lots, Sims, Most object recolors, paintings, some clothing re-colors My General Style: Semi-Realistic

Read the rest at GoS!

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Some dead downloads got resurrected, such as Nabila’s winged liners, Nympy’s curly hairs and Yuxi’s carpet! For the full rundown, check the Archive discussion thread. :)

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Many great things have been shared during the Palette event!

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Welcome to the first small event of TBTO at GoS! Previously, TBTO events were either CAS-related or Christmas Stocking Stuffer themed. I've brainstormed a bit with some other people and gotten feedback. With the new, sporadic events we want to go in a slightly different direction.  In the questionnaire I've sent out a few months ago I asked for feedback and improvement and one of the key elements that kept popping up was resources and tutorials. We have the resources and tutorials covered up by moving to GoS and point towards the tutorial section, but there is more you can do with it! Hence that the events will now (hopefully!) encourage you to try out making new custom content. Perhaps you're a beginner and don't know where to start at all, or perhaps you already know quite a bit and want to learn about more challenging aspects of creating custom content. These newly acquired skills can then be used in the big events GoS hosts, such as Christmas in July, Secret Santa or Blind Date. This event, the Palette Event, will be focused on Build and Buy Mode. Building houses are also okay.

Read more about this event at GoS!

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The Big Trade-Off reopens! We have found a new host, which is none other than Garden of Shadows. We’re very glad that GoS is willing to have us!

Check the new rules and guidelines

Look through the Archive of past completed trades

And to give the good example, I opened the first trade at GoS.

We hope to see new and familiar faces trading soon!

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Psssssst. I am completely done with the move of TBTO. Hopefully it can reopen to the public tonight!

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I thought I’d tell you what resulted from the little TBTO survey I sent around a few weeks back. The concept isn’t going to change much, but there are a few things that are going to change; and these changes (or non-changes!) are the ones I can tell you for certain.

TBTO is going to move hosts, and it’s not going to be Tumblr, despite quite some people having voted for it. Reason because I included it in the poll was just because it’s one of the most popular blogging platforms for simmers and I had a feeling a lot of people would fill it in with the ‘other, specify’ option. However, with the way TBTO works, I can’t see it working on Tumblr. It’s already confusing to navigate through TBTO now, and I can’t imagine how much of a mess it will be if it’ll be hosted on Tumblr. So that’s out of the question. I have an option I’m leaning forward to, and I think it might be one of the best option TBTO has.

People cannot be guests on the TBTO, wherever it will move to, so you’ll have to have an account. It can be a bit of a hassle to register, I know, but it’s even more of a hassle when someone signs up for a trade and then disappears without a trace. With accounts, we won’t have that. Of course, for downloading only you won’t have to register. Just when you want to participate.

I will probably set up an archive (using the original downloadlinks) for all the past downloads on the TBTO, in one neat place. There are so many things on there so many people have never seen, again because of navigation problems.

TBTO will stay for the Sims 2 only. This because there is almost no overlap in simmers who create for the games. There are, of course, a couple people who create for more than one sims game, but there aren’t many. I encourage people to set up a TBTO like community for their game, such as TS3 or TS4, but TBTO itself will stay TS2 only.

The two weeks creation time will extend to three weeks - and, if both parties agree to it, they can specify their own creation time. Three weeks will just be the standard deadline, but is not set in stone. Of course, things can happen in real life, or to your files, or whatever, and it’s never a problem if you go past your deadline. As long as you communicate with your partner about it.