How much is too much
Diala:
I don't know how many items I have right now, but I know I have 200-300 MBs worth, including hacks. I try to keep it organized, since my game loads slowly due to my computer. Hopefully, I'll be able to upgrade it soon.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: lindaetterlee on 2005 October 31, 08:57:54
Ok everyone how many downloads do you have file size wise? I am bordering on 5gb after my recent cleaning spree. I only cleaned because i started seeing a slight lag. My game takes roughly 6 1/2 minutes to load from start to playing a family. I have all settings on high. Here are a few of my numbers: hair recolors 1299; hair meshes 453; Clothing meshes 6867; Clothing 14324; Object recolors 6071; Object meshes 607; walls/floors 3886; groundcovers 202 ; Makeup 1432; and every hack known to man that is compatible with NL. lol So anyone else addicted. Also what method do you use to clean out your downloads.
what I do is right click once I enter the dowloads folder andclik arrang by name and type
jrd:
3,91 GB (4'203'947'060 bytes).
That is after pruning half my clothes, recolours, objects, and hairstyles.
laeshanin:
2.85GB... It's the damn plants I tell you! ::)
ari_:
Hmmm...
Bodyshop stuff: 9.600 objects, 4,81 GB
Objects and Recolors: 10.000 objects, 2,8 GB
And Hacks, Careers and Walls/Floors, but they take up nearly nothing in comparison.
Mind you, this is after reinstalling prior to NL, where I drastically weeded out objects.
Granted, the game lags when I start it up (~15 mins), and it takes ~4 mins when I load the first family, but all other families after that load quickly. And since I always have Firefox running the background, I just surf around a bit while the game loads. From what I've noticed, it seems it's the new meshed stuff that ups the load time: before new meshes came out, I had tons of Bodyshop objects and recolors, and hardly had any additional loadtime.
After reinstalling, nearly all of the objects I kept are new meshes, and I also have a lot of hairmeshes. I've thought about going back to mostly only recolors for objects, but I don't want to go back to the boring Maxis stuff. I mind the load-time less than I mind having all houses look alike.
I have mostly stopped downloading, tho. I have enough furniture for all the houses I play (and I am working on making my neighborhood smaller, so I'm unlikely to need more). I do still download some newly meshed stuffed, but it's mostly new decorative objects, just things to make the lots more lived-in and realistic. With Bodyshop, I only get new clothes if they're either ethnic stuff, Victorian/old-fashioned stuff, or new hair.
I could probably weed out the Bodyshop stuff, but it's so *tedious* and takes forever.
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