Uninstalling BonVoyage, keeping the collections
Tigerlilley:
Hi everyone,
I am one of those simmers that has had the same neighbourhood for 2 (or possibly 3) years now. This is the first time ever I've thought of making this decision about a EP.
I'm really sick of Bon Voyage so I'm wanting to uninstall it. I'm just not enjoying the Expansion as a whole, though I think one of the main annoyances is the gestures. Sloppyhousewife summed it up perfectly:
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It goes "Gesture.../Bow" - *X out* - "Gesture.../Pound Chest" - *X out* - "Sing Sea Chanty" - *X out* - "Gesture.../Hang Loose" - *X out*. Rinse, repeat. No, thanks.
I was just wondering, is it possible to uninstall the expansion, but keep all the new items/collections? I though I could just create a house, stick everything I want in it, upload it, then download it into a BV free game. However, that has "all too easy" written all over it.
Can someone please point me in the right direction of how to achieve this?
jsalemi:
Unfortunately, you can't have all the new stuff without the EP. If you do as you said, and just stick them in a house, they'll be gone if you manage to load it under an older version of the game.
And that's the real problem -- each new EP changes stuff in your game files, so just uninstalling may mean you can't even load your current hoods. You'd have to drop back to a pre-BV backup.
Tigerlilley:
I've got my pre-BV backup ready, I've only played one house since getting the expansion so it doesn't bother me.
Damn, I really thought there would be a easy way to some extract those objects, I know its been done for the Lifestories objects.
BastDawn:
You can get the items if you clone base game objects and use the meshes and textures of the new objects. That's the only way to handle it. Clothing is the easy one, it's just a simple extraction.
jolrei:
I generally like the added options in BV (walk-to, the stuff, grand piano, thatched roofs, etc.) much more than the holidays themselves. I rarely send sims on holiday now that I've tested the holiday hoods to see what's what there (and assure myself that the game and hacks are working properly). I find that I don't seem to have the load/lag problems reported by others, so I just leave it installed and don't play the vacations. That also avoids the spread of gestures (although I'm personally not concerned about that right now).
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