Seems to me that many of the paysites are really just trying to cover the cost of the bandwidth. Like it or not, bandwidth = money to a server. And donation drives only go so far. Forcing people to shell out a couple of bucks to download more interesting stuff is a way of supplying the people with content, while not going broke yourself trying to provide freebies.

Humph. *I* like Simslice's stuff. It's worth the fee to me. So there.

I subscribe to TSR -- I like the unlimited bandwidth of downloads for subscribers and the no-ads option. I like not having ads. I'll pay to not see ads, you know.

I also have a subscription at Simslice (has the best hacked objects!) and Simchic cuz I like the detail of the clothes there, and I stupidly shelled out $5 to Simskins before I realized that the only stuff I like are freebies. *headdesk*

I'd subscribe to JDsSIMulated but that server doesn't take Visa, and I only have one credit card -- a Visa. And you can't even get into the interior of the site to see what's available unless you subscribe. So, I'm sunk. Oh well. Shaklin's lovebed makes up for not getting to see what JDs has.

This looks awesome!

I was just wondering yesterday as I was playing the game (or rather, while I was idly waiting for the game to load an object onto a lot -- that arrow-into-an-hourglass thing gets really annoying after a while! ) if there was a way I'd be able to put, say, the hacked objects I've downloaded into a collection without going through EVERY SINGLE ONE IN THE GAME. Cuz sometimes I forget which one is which, and you have to actually CLICK on the thumbnail to get the description, to see if that's even what I'm looking for or not!

I shall test this out right away, but it looks like everyone's given it a thumbs up, so I don't anticipate any problems.

Thanks so much! This is teh awesomez!

I find that many of the meshes from XM sims don't looks so great on my sims. *sigh* Amazingly, the freakin' Maxis meshes seem to look best on my sims. I wonder if my computer just isn't quite up to snuff for this game or something, cuz my sims sure don't look cool like the ones in all the pictures! XD