what are some of the best mods for the sims 2 besides the ones on here?

Well, that's pretty broad. What kinds of mod are you looking for? What do you already have? It also depends on how you play.

Personally, I always start with the Inteenimator and the Sim Manipulator. These two mods make storytelling a lot easier, and Inteen allows for things like teen pregnancy, adult-teen relationships, etcetera. Also recommend ACR for better autonomous romance (one-night-stands, friend-with-benefits, etcetera.)

These are generally the first three a lot of simmers would recommend, I believe.

those are the kind, i've had those before but never the acr for some reason

check the essential mods thread. Of course, not everything on there is essential, but some things are (eg, creaturefixes).

Oh goodness, as many and as varied as you have the imagination. I have about 2 1/2 thousand, I know someone with about 3 1/2 thousand, so it isn't something anybody can simply list.

It also really depends on your play style and what interests you. I have no interest in teen pregnancy, adult-teen relationships, one-night-stands or friend-with-benefits like the above poster so I don't use Inteen or ACR, but yes they are popular.

Why don't you tell us what would interest you?

http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=624082

^ Some people talking about their favourite mods.

Someones already posted the essential mod list. So my best advice is to just play the game, anything that annoys you - try to find a mod for. Usually behaviours I don't like I mod out, e.g. customers complaining when on a home-business lot, because my sim hasn't made their bed .

Then there's reading the "What happened in your game?" thread, where maybe you can get an idea of what mods you want in your game. Someone mentions that their sim had quads, ask them where they got that mod from! Check picture threads to find CC you might want and ask where they got it from. Check people's tumblrs and Dreamwidth links they put in their signature or mention in a thread. You can find all kinds of things. For example, I recently found a mod that allows sims to "inherit" supernatural abilities. I thought that was so cool, and wasn't something I'd go around searching for. I just happened to stumble across it and thought it seemed interesting.

There are also what I like to call "big mods" that do quite a lot of things, and allow for a lot of customisation. For example, as people have mentioned InTeen and ACR. I have both in my game, and while InTeen is primarily used by people who want to have teen pregnancies, the main reason I have it in my game is for the biological clock (which allows sims to give birth RIGHT NOW, get pregnant with whomever I want (including themselves) and the use of independent teens (teen sims no longer go to school after a certain amount of days, and can get full time jobs, get married, etc). Other mods can do these things too, but I just always preferred InTeen. Same with ACR, my sims very very rarely have "friends with benefits" or one night stands, I mostly just use it because it lowers the relationship level needed for woohoo (so my romance sims don't have to work so dang hard!), means sims make their own moral decisions on things like cheating, and that it means I can just throw all my single sims on one lot every few rotations and let them decide for themselves who they're going to marry. I think you can tweek ACR quite a bit, though I've never really tried, so you can always make certain interactions non-autonomous, or make sims exclusive to their partner, or "friendzone" certain individuals or no woohoo without marriage, or whatever.


Edit: Completely forgot to mention this thread: The "Look at This Awesome Thing I Found!" thread
I find all kinds of things I didn't know I wanted on there

i know inteen is for the nsfw but which one do i download because i have the ultimate collection

I would suggest starting with the essential mods.

Make sure you know what a mod does before you download it (not everyone has or likes InTeen).

You have to download mods that will work with Apartment Life if you use the UC.

thanks a bunch

Since you have UC, the version of Inteen you should download and use is InTeenimater_Final19_ApartmentLife_UC.zip and its associated FlavorPaks InTeenimater_Final19_ApartmentLife_UC_FlavorPak.zip.