Most worthwhile expansions and stuff packs?
floopyboo:
Quote from: mandapotpie on 2008 December 03, 04:24:53
Quote from: floopyboo on 2008 December 03, 04:22:58
My advice is either buy cheap or don't buy at all.
To be honest though the only reasons I buy them (at ridiculously cheap) are that I'm a collector by nature & I participate in the house of fail comps.
While nothing is as free as arr'ing, if you are uncomfortable with that, Amazon did just drop Apartment Life down to $14.99.
Not so much unable or unwilling as completely useless at installing arred proggies that aren't pretty much point & click. That & the p2p proggies give me the willies. Am willing to provide blanks/replacement costs to anyone willing to ship me anything I don't have, however, I am the queen of bargain hunting & have recently purchased most for less than the price you quoted me. Plus I enjoy haggling. The listed price is rarely the price I pay for anything.
*Edited to fix typos with brief interlude to beat the shit out of the lappy for being such a dick about this spelling & punctuation shit.
zherok:
I'm sure there's some versions of Bittorrent that don't require much work at all to get going. The sites you get the torrents from are usually the iffier parts. But on the whole it's not as creepy as KaZaa, etc., used to be.
I do enjoy having a physical copy of stuff. And companies are finally sticking with DVDs as a content medium, so no more of "swap to disc 5" crap. Between Baldur's Gate (first one's five discs, second's four), The Sims 2 (four if I recall, but I have the DVD version), and WoW (think it varies when you got it, but my copy is five, plus expansions...) I've had more than enough of that...
Zazazu:
uTorrent is pretty much plug-n-play. I get my crap from The Pirate Bay. Check comments for complaints of viruses. Make sure the seeder/leecher ratio is decent, then download. Use antivirus to scan the files when downloaded (never been hit since 2003, downloading Spin Spin Sugar with some defunct spyware accelerator). Unzip. Mount .iso with Daemon Tools. Install. Throw in crack. Profit.
jwaas:
At the moment I own all EPs and no SPs, but am running only certain ones on my laptop. When I get a new desktop in the relatively near future, I am thinking seriously of either being like Pirate Cat (a thing I never thought I'd do), or just running no EPs after SNS. Unless it's true what I've heard, that the new re-releases of the older EPs, and even some copies of SNS, also have SecuROM. In which case I have only one choice. (Meow!)
Once I have the game working well on a new desktop, I'll probably wipe the hard drive of my laptop and reinstall the system, something I should really have been doing as part of regular computer maintenance until now anyway. At least that'll get rid of SecuROM, if I have it (which I am not sure).
As for the original question, the bare minimum EP configuration I need is UNI + at least one EP after OFB. I played base+UNI+FT for a long time, and base+UNI+AL for a long time after that. I need UNI because I perform plastic surgery on almost every Maxis Sim, and the famous non-awesome mod which provides this, uses a UNI career reward.
Eventually I added NL back in, only because I missed certain items, hairstyles, and clothing. I do not run vampires at all, nor often play dates or outings. I put BV back in for the sauna and a few other items, and also so my Sims can dig in the backyard to find rocks and other things, and thus get a bit of extra cash if they're broke. (I sense a failcat coming for that confession.) Finally I added SNS back because I missed the greenhouses, the ambient light changes, and -- well, the seasons. Which brings me up to my current configuration of base+UNI+NL+SNS+BV+AL.
I liked the secondary aspiration idea of FT, and the fact that I could get cars without having NL installed, but other than that it grew old. I found Pets so buggy that I used it only briefly. And OFB had some neat stuff in it, but somehow I just don't miss it all that much.
Sometimes an EP will have even one item that is so full of win that I consider that EP almost essential. That would be true for me with AL's garbage chute. A bottomless garbage can that never needs emptying, what's not to like?
As for the SPs, I got two of them for almost nothing with Best Buy coupons once -- KBS and TSS I think. With TSS I got a bunch more slutty clothes for teen girls and adult women, as well as some ridiculous ones for their male counterparts, and a neat refrigerator and stove with KBS (both of which, as we all know, are broken by later EPs). Not enough to justify the extra load times. But then again, that's just my tastes on the matter.
EDIT:
Quote from: Lord Darcy on 2008 December 03, 18:26:40
K&B fridges should be all right provided that you applied FT patch or have AL/M&G. And K&B stove was never broken.
I stand corrected by the master of such fixes himself. :) But I'll still do without either SP, and as for fridges and stoves, I like the FT ones better anyway.
Lord Darcy:
Quote from: jwaas on 2008 December 03, 16:01:29
a neat refrigerator and stove with KBS (both of which, as we all know, are broken by later EPs).
K&B fridges should be all right provided that you applied FT patch or have AL/M&G. And K&B stove was never broken.
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