New EP procedure - would love recommendations.
suziblue:
Quote from: BastDawn on 2007 August 21, 16:45:40
You could do what I do, and wait a month or two before installing it. All of the hacks are updated by then, there's often a patch out, and the major game-breaking bugs are known so you can avoid them. You've lived without it this long, it's not like you can't wait a little longer. (I know that almost no one will find my advice palatable.)
This is pretty much what I do, too. I wait until my "can't play without" hacks/mods are updated and/or tested before I install. However, I've always bought them on the day they came out, mostly due to my teenage daughter who can't be patient and wait to install her copy. She just plays vanilla for a while, ugh. Guess she'll have to wait this time tho' since she got a Macbook Pro for her birthday! :D
Batelle:
I'm usually a little bored with the game by the time a new EP comes out, so I jump on the chance to have something new to do. I move my downloads and important neighborhoods out and play with a new, cc-less sim in a preset neighborhood until the hacks are updated. With the hacks I've been using in my main 'hood in, and provided I don't notice any bugs, I'll put my neighborhoods and downloads back in and go on my merry way. I have had far fewer issues with my game than most people and I have a high tolerance for Eaxis stupidity, so I don't stress over it too much.
rohina:
I had a horrible experience with something in my CC folder causing all sorts of havoc with Seasons, which I installed a couple weeks after it was released, so I am very wary about the new EP.
Definitely back everything up. Definitely take out your downloads, and add them back in slowly. I replaced all of my hacks two or three times with Seasons in the process of trying to figure out what made the game crash, so I would also advise doing this as well.
flowerchile:
Good grief. It's a game! Why is everything so fucking HARD!!!! Someone is just trying to do my head in - it's a conspiracy I tells ya!
I got things ass over tit, as per usual. Bought H&M after Seasons..no biggie. Until I went to install it. >:( Backed up my folders, I put the disc in, followed all the steps, registered the game, only to get to the end of installation and got an error message, saying that I had to un-install Seasons as the installation of H&M would not be complete without doing so. *headdesk*
So I tried it again. Same message, *double headdesk* so I uninstalled Seasons, installed H&M, reinstalled Seasons, and got **drumroll** a totally vanilla game :P Somehow in the process I lost everything.
Yes, a very flowerchile thing to do, and I'm half expecting it to happen again with BV, but this time - I'm prepared!!! No, not really, but it makes me feel better just thinking that. Stay tuned.......
J. M. Pescado:
* J. M. Pescado points and laughs.
Flowerchiles Suck.
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