New EP procedure - would love recommendations.
cassblonde:
As the release date for BV looms I feel deep uneasiness about my game mods and losing them, however temporarily, but I will get the EP(I've had it ordered and paid for for months).
I just wanted any recommendations on how I should phase my 200 or so game mods back into my downloads folder. I will of course back everything up before I install the EP and keep checking the creators of said mods(most of them are Pescado's)for updates or conflicts.
Mostly I'm just miserable because I'm going to miss my mods. I'm not looking forward to my Sims getting stupid again. :'(
Cass :)
J. M. Pescado:
There is no new expansion pack. You have been fooled and stupidly paid for nothing more than Lies and Propaganda.
akatonbo:
My procedure for mods is to redownload everything from scratch, so I always have the latest version of the mod even if it didn't need an EP-related update. (This is especially important for Pescado's mods.) I put the old mod folder somewhere else on my computer so I can refer back to it if I had anything that cannot be redownloaded, so I can look around for compatibility info or test it out myself.
Zazazu:
Back-up game first (your downloads, lot catalog, and 'hood folders, anyways, plus any modified files you may have like lighting and stairs...and userstartup.cheat, for goodness sakes!). Move the downloads folder out of My Documents/EA/Sims2. Apply EP. Put downloads folder back in. Observe if anything croaks.
I've rarely had any big issues, but then I don't have as many hacks as some...maybe 50 total, and that's counting multiple files for Monique's Comp and ACR. If things do go bad, you can do that fancy binary search or just use the half-in, half-out process of elimination.
If something borks badly, you have your backup. Reapply it without the hacks and watch for updates. And don't tease Pescado about the EP before it comes out; he's one of those people who have to see it to believe it.
I only update my mods if something borks, and then I check everything. Exceptions being with the lot debugger. I just love playing with that thing.
Kyna:
My procedure is
1. Do not install new EP until Pescado has acquired his copy and has started putting out updated mods
2. Drag existing downloads folder to desktop and create a new, empty downloads folder
3. Attempt to play without hacks
4. Run screaming from the room when my sims insist on behaving like the idiots Maxis programmed them to be
5. Have a caffeine fix and come to my senses
6. Put in updated hacks/mods - generally at this early stage only Pescado and one or two others have updated hacks. Delete the old versions of those hacks in the old downloads folder
7. Read the what works/what doesn't that the best modders provide - and move the working mods over from old downloads folder to new downloads folder
8. Keep checking back here several times a day for the first couple of weeks as mods are updated frequently just after an EP release
9. Check regularly at the sites I got my other downloads from to see if the modder has updated their stuff, or posted a list of what works - this is usually the longest step. Not everyone is awesomely fast about updating their hacks
10. Once everything I had in my old downloads folder has a current version in my new downloads folder or is no longer needed, then I delete the old downloads folder
Hmm, maybe next time I should just skip steps 3, 4 and 5.
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