Where do you get your custom content?
Motoki:
I guess I thought most of the Asian sites were obscure for most of us westerners but then again a lot of people go to Sunair and Peggy's place and I see loads of people with Louis' Sim Cribblings pretty boy skins. ;)
Anyway, I'll edit the post the take out the obscure part. :P
idtaminger:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 October 26, 02:16:41
Anyway, I'll edit the post the take out the obscure part. :P
It's no big deal really. I hope you don't think I meant anything by it. Just noting that some of those sites are pretty popular. Which on the one hand is to be expected if they have good stuff, but on the other hand is a huge drag b/c it takes 9 billion yrs to surf the site and d/l everything you want to.
But I guess its a good way to curb download-aholic-ism (yea, that's not a word. I know), b/c my d/ls folder is getting WAY too big. Just a few months ago, I had 2.5 gigs of d/ls. This month, I open up my d/l folder and check the numbers, and all of a sudden I find I've got 3.5 gigs of CC. Not a good growth rate...WAY too fast.
Motoki:
I used to have tons of crap probably more than you. I ended up uninstalling the game for a while and I didn't bother making a backup personally. I just wiped clean. It kinda hurt a bit, heh, but then when I reinstalled I did it with a clean slate and a totally different, custom neighborhood. Since then I have been FAR pickier about what I download. I'm still accumulating a fair bit, but nothing like I used to have and still well under a gig and this has been a couple of months now so it seems to have helped.
File management in this game is a total nightmare. When I had all those files I spent so much time trying to prune them out and I still had lots of extra junk I didn't need. I honestly feel like it's just easier to trash everything and start over being much more selective this time than it is to prune your downloads. Not unless you want to spend days and days doing it. :P
AllenABQ:
Quote from: idtaminger on 2005 October 26, 02:22:24
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 October 26, 02:16:41
Anyway, I'll edit the post the take out the obscure part. :P
It's no big deal really. I hope you don't think I meant anything by it. Just noting that some of those sites are pretty popular. Which on the one hand is to be expected if they have good stuff, but on the other hand is a huge drag b/c it takes 9 billion yrs to surf the site and d/l everything you want to.
But I guess its a good way to curb download-aholic-ism (yea, that's not a word. I know), b/c my d/ls folder is getting WAY too big. Just a few months ago, I had 2.5 gigs of d/ls. This month, I open up my d/l folder and check the numbers, and all of a sudden I find I've got 3.5 gigs of CC. Not a good growth rate...WAY too fast.
I think what this syndrome -- and I'm one who suffers from it too ;D -- is that Maxis DESPERATELY needs to create a better content organziation system in the game. I download a lot of stuff, but I rarely use it. It would nice, for instance, if:
Flexible ordering. Like just a panel that allows you to group stuff according to the order YOU want it to display in.
..the organizational folders allowed you to put together collections according to individual recolor. (Like if I downloaded that "Tropical Alaska" bathroom set, I could have the toilet, shower, counter, sink, and the ice-encrusted potted palm specific to that set put in one folder if I wanted to.) And consequently if I came back to it later and realized it wasn't worth hard drive space -- bang! -- I can delete everything in that folder.
How about keeping your "page" on the same one when you delete a skin, object, etc., instead of rolling all the way back to the beginning of the category? It's a huge waste of time to be constantly clicking forward to the place where you left off if you're eliminating stuff toward the end of a long list.
Regina:
Oh, shoot, I was a pure download junkie with TS1! That's why I'm not nearly as much now. I may take a day every month or two and go on a downloading spree and I've given myself a rule that when it comes to custom clothing, especially, if I get new stuff some of the old stuff has to go. I did some pruning this past weekend of custom clothing, skins, make-up, etc., then downloaded three new make-ups and made something like 7 shirts for the guys and that was on top of the boxers/swim trunks I made last weekend! ::) My Downloads folders and sub-folders is at 947 megabytes right now, and my SavedSims folder is 37 megs. So far I think I'm not doing too badly! LOL By the way, that SavedSims folder will end up full of things if you're not careful. That's where all the stuff a person makes in BodyShop hides out.
I found the easiest way to check out my custom object skins is to go into an empty lot, buy a piece of furniture, then use the Design tool and start going through the textures. When I get to one I don't want anymore I just hit the trashcan icon and it's gone. Of course everyone else probably figured this out long before I did. ;)
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