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#26 Old 15th Jun 2015 at 12:08 AM
Quote: Originally posted by FranH
If you look on Simbology, you will see some mods that are actually better than Pescado's and they're not quite so old.
Remember, he did his mods almost 10 years ago, and there have been a few more done he had never gotten around to doing: Simbology

You can pick and choose really what kind of mods you want to run, but you really should check out Paladin's place to download the HDCU, which (if you don't have it already) will help you figure out what mods do or don't play well with one another:
Paladin's Place

Did you have particular one's in mind?
I was looking at downloading ACR,but it makes me nervous lol
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#27 Old 15th Jun 2015 at 1:47 PM
"No Sim loaded" is my first choice from Simbology-it prevents and nukes all memories during the loading of a lot.

This is the BoilingOils' Mods/hacks page with BO's hacks/mods. Not all of them are in my game, but what there are, definitely belong there.

TwoJeffs' Page has an entire section of his hacks as well. These are definitely an improvement on the game!

Paladin did a few that are fun and useful, but the HCDU is essential for anyone who plays the game and has lots of mods/hacks in it.

As for ACR, it is a lot less complicated and fussy than the Inteenimator..by far. You don't have much to do to set it up, and it can just sit in the background..but it is useful for when you're starting a custom hood, and want to set everyone's sexual preferences-either deliberately or randomly.

There's nothing to be afraid of-ACR works with nearly every single mod/hack ever put out by competing modders/hackers.

Just a bit of trivia: TwoJeffs used to belong to MATY and was as featured modder there for many years until he decided to open his own site. He was friends with JMP, alias the "Dirty Old Man", "Pescado"..among the other names he's been called.

So you know where the talent comes from.

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Test Subject
#28 Old 2nd Jul 2015 at 9:47 AM
Default mods and links
Not sure whether this would be any use to anyone but its a log of mods I use in my game with links direct to the mods. Not all mods have links as some can not be found but the majority do.
Attached files:
File Type: rar  modlog.rar (27.3 KB, 219 downloads) - View custom content
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#29 Old 6th Oct 2015 at 8:17 PM Last edited by Jawusa : 12th Oct 2015 at 8:37 PM.
Cyjon's Fewer Tourists, NPC Maker Fix and Townie Apartment Residents mods are also essential for me.
Just like the There Can Only Be One Professor mod, it reduces the number of townies and NPCs in the neighborhood.

ETA: This mod fixes a game-crashing bug. Have you ever tried it? Mannequin sims can't give birth to babies because the game always crashes then but that mod fixes this issue. Therefore, I find it essential as well.
bloodredtoe's Mannequin babies can be born mod.

Catalogue of Custom Neighborhoods for TS2
All Hood Building Group neighborhoods are available here
Want to get rid of EA's sims in neighborhoods? Check out my Clean and Empty Steatlh Hoods and Clean and Empty Neighborhood Templates
My Simblr
Scholar
#30 Old 14th Oct 2015 at 4:01 PM
Default My special list
Mootilda (RIP, our lovely! :lovestruc )
Sims2Pack Clean Installer
Hoodchecker (Checks your neighbourhoods and can remove corruption)

Pescado
No Unlink On Delete
The Batbox
Creature Fixes (Mrs Crumplebottom is NOT healthy for your game, your sims or for her own self to become a vampire)
No Corrupt Death Memory

By other creators - Optional for your own use, but I recommend them
SuperDuperHug hider (Only the LBFRemovesocial file - stamps down the silly SuperDuperHug pie menu thingy)
Watch TV from all chairs (MogHughson - more Mog mods below)
Park inside the carpark! (Requires Nightlife - self explanatory)
Sit down with your drink (Self-explanatory)
Decorative parking spaces (Goes well with the park inside the carpark mod, generates random unusable cars)
Never lose homework again (Self-explanatory)
Phaenoh's Phone Book (The Yellow Pages of the Sims, basically. Get anyone's number, including townies)
treeag's Book of Talent (For the lazy who cannot be bothered to go on vacation to learn a dance and then go back home again)
Smonaff's Ghost Hack (Alive sims become deadlooking)
Change clothes in the pie menu (Smonaff again - this is really time-cutting by SIM HOURS and I seriously recommend this)
GunMod's camera mod Zoom in closer and see to the corners of your neighbourhood!
Inge Jones' teleportersBring stubborn townies to your lot!

The drop off has been made. You've been warned.
Test Subject
#31 Old 4th Dec 2015 at 2:25 PM Last edited by Simsterr : 4th Dec 2015 at 2:38 PM.
Quote: Originally posted by marka93
There is no thread that has "just" essential mods to help with corruption that can happen in every ones game, so I thought I would put up this list.

Feel free to add any that I missed and I will put them in this first post.

FFS Director's Cut: More Awesome Than You http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s.../topic,8.0.html
These are the essential mods but there are many more in each set, get the one for your last EP.
All these mods is included in the FFS Director's Cut download so you don't have to go search for each one for your EP setup.
nossrespawn Helps stop the bloat.
nounlinkondelete http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...hp?topic=2083.0
nodormieregen Helps stop the bloat.
notownieregen Helps stop the bloat.
ffsdebugger http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...topic,72.0.html
stuckobjremover http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...hp?topic=1609.0
nocorruptdeath http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...hp?topic=2368.0
crumplefix http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...pic=2688.0;wap2
antiredundancy http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...hp?topic=9607.0
nostrayrespawn http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...pic,6027.0.html
woohooltwfix http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...hp?topic=6698.0
tombstonemovefix http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...ge;topic=6952.0
creaturefixes http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...hp?topic=1482.0

Unofficial AL Patch - Assorted Fixes http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...p?topic=12892.0

BoilingOil's Mods. http://www.simbology.com/smf/index....i3;topic=7875.0 and many more great mods.
No Sim Loaded: Remove a lot of junk controllers, tokens, and other broken stuff, without the need for a Batbox.
No Trash Memories: PREVENT gossip and silly repetetive memories from being generated. (Helps with the severe bloating on slower computers.)

Cyjon's Sims 2 Mods 'n' Stuff http://cyjon.net/node/42
Smarter EP Check http://cyjon.net/node/323 must have for a lot of Cyjon's mods.
No Auto Urn Cleanup
Memory Fixes
There Can Be Only One (Professor)

Each group has at least 1 fix that will help on corruption. The none essential mods are under spoiler tags.
Twofeffs Bug Fixes. http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=16.0

•Pet Pregnancy Fix - AKA Too Many Pregnancy Controllers Fix


Misc Annoyance Fixing Mods http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=13.0

•Skunk Attraction Fix

Pet Related Mods/Fixes http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=12.0
•Caged Pet Fixes
•No Pet Unlock Code Spam



Even though this is not a "Essential Mods" I think it is an "Essential Program" for newer computers and graphics cards.
http://www.simsnetwork.com/simpedia...patibility-with

Here is another "Essential Program" the "Hack Conflict Detection Utility" http://www.paladins-place.org/main.htm

Mootilda's Hood Checker is a must have for all who play Sims 2. http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=456523

None Essential Mod but it may help save someones game. Auto Save game mod by Aaroneous http://simmanipulator.forumotion.com/t25-auto-save-game

Argon's archtype fix. http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...pic,9028.0.html (Thank Jawusa.)

Ok this is not an Essential mod or program but it is very good info need for new players.
Firstborn Syndrome http://modthesims.info/t/334945



Crumplebottom fix: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...pic,2688.0.html

Also, I should remind everybody that the Magnanimous J. M. Pescado has lowered the base price for VIP membership AGAIN! Get in while you can.
Supplies Drastically Limited. WHILE SUPPLIES LAST
Participation Optional and contingent on parties ability to pay. ALL OFFERS ACCEPTED.
NO REFUNDS NO RETURNS
Test Subject
#32 Old 12th Feb 2016 at 8:51 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Charity
Not all of these are essential mods. Some are just style of gameplay, like No Trash Memories (some of us actually want gossip) or the only one Professor. Also, the cheesecake fix is only useful if you don't want twins every time they eat cheesecake and the annoyance fixing mods are just annoyances, not corruption.

It would be more useful if only the essential to avoid corruption mods were included.


I'm sure someone included this or a similar list, but I found this article (http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Game_gui...ding_corruption) on avoiding corruption (with it's list of mods) very helpful. I keep those in a separate folder under Must Haves/ Anti-Corruption Mods. Some of the suggested mods in this MTS article DO change or "curb" the game in a way that I missed until I had to rebuild my Downloads folder and eliminated a lot of things I had previously.
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#33 Old 14th Sep 2016 at 3:17 PM
I have added a new mod to the list in the first post called "BO - No Met Self Memories: Stop the "Met Self" memories without the use of NTM or Pescado's Dramafix."

This is one of the most prevalent memory that shows up in may game using Mootilda's Hood Checker program and this mod takes care of them.

All my Beginning Hoods here at MTS. http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=7749491
All my Beginning Hoods as Shopping Districts plus Old Town. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=523417
MooVille, a tribute to Mootilda and her fabulous lots http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=534158
Lab Assistant
#34 Old 10th Nov 2016 at 7:01 PM
Clicking on the More Awesome Than You links doesn't go anywhere, it just says Internal Server error.
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#35 Old 10th Nov 2016 at 7:09 PM
That's normal so just type it in a browser and you should be able to go there.

All my Beginning Hoods here at MTS. http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=7749491
All my Beginning Hoods as Shopping Districts plus Old Town. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=523417
MooVille, a tribute to Mootilda and her fabulous lots http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=534158
Scholar
#36 Old 7th Jan 2017 at 12:55 AM
Clicking any of the links gives an internal server error, typing it into the browser gives "This page cannot be reached."
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#37 Old 7th Jan 2017 at 1:07 AM
MATY is down, it's an occupational hazard for that place. Just keep trying each day, it will be back up eventually.

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Mad Poster
#38 Old 25th May 2017 at 11:11 AM
I think I found another one while I was trying to work out why a new one was clashing.

Cyjon's Ghost Hack - Bug Fixes version http://www.cyjon.net/node/188

Bug Fixes - Contains a critical fix that prevents ghosts from haunting tombstones, potentially destroying them, shredding character data and corrupting your neighborhood. Contains smaller fixes that allow angry ghosts to visit the cowplant, and fixes reversed logic that causes Nice and Neat (rather than Grouchy and Sloppy) ghosts to create messes.
Test Subject
#39 Old 17th Sep 2017 at 5:19 AM
[Use Inaccessible Beds] from Simlogical has saved my life.
Mad Poster
#40 Old 17th Sep 2017 at 8:02 AM
It's hardly essential for everyone, though! "Essential" here is supposed to mean "not wise to sim without it, regardless of personal taste," not "this is my favorite thing."

Ugly is in the heart of the beholder.
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#41 Old 6th Dec 2018 at 12:05 AM
Quote: Originally posted by marka93
BoilingOil's Mods. http://www.simbology.com/smf/index....i3;topic=7875.0 and many more great mods.
No Sim Loaded: Remove a lot of junk controllers, tokens, and other broken stuff, without the need for a Batbox.
No Trash Memories: PREVENT gossip and silly repetetive memories from being generated. (Helps with the severe bloating on slower computers.)
No Met Self Memories: Stop the "Met Self" memories without the use of NTM or Pescado's Dramafix.


Sorry for my tardiness, but at this, the eleventh hour, I should point out that you've described the NTM a bit poorly: it does NOT prevent gossip from being generated, but ONLY from being recorded.

Saying "prevents it from being generated" CAN be interpreted as "sims do no longer gossip". And that just isn't true. With the NTM installed, sims will STILL gossip, but they will NOT store the things that they (hear) gossip about in their memories.

Hoping to have helped,
BO
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#42 Old 8th Dec 2019 at 2:41 AM
Quote: Originally posted by BoilingOil
Sorry for my tardiness, but at this, the eleventh hour, I should point out that you've described the NTM a bit poorly: it does NOT prevent gossip from being generated, but ONLY from being recorded.

Saying "prevents it from being generated" CAN be interpreted as "sims do no longer gossip". And that just isn't true. With the NTM installed, sims will STILL gossip, but they will NOT store the things that they (hear) gossip about in their memories.

Hoping to have helped,
BO


Wow how did I miss this over a year ago.

Sorry BO but I only copied and paste what you have typed at Simbology.
Screenshots

All my Beginning Hoods here at MTS. http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=7749491
All my Beginning Hoods as Shopping Districts plus Old Town. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=523417
MooVille, a tribute to Mootilda and her fabulous lots http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=534158
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#43 Old 10th Jan 2021 at 11:49 PM Last edited by trambling101 : 19th Jan 2021 at 7:51 PM.
Awesome thread, it was super helpful as I never knew about half of these mods before and have downloaded the Sims 2 Super Collection on my Mac. I also noticed that some of Pescado's mods (at MATY) were updated recently, just want to note that for some players reviewing this thread.

Apologies for replying after a year of inactivity, I figured I should post the Sim File Share link for Simbology as the site has shut its doors and I wouldn't have found the mods if not for this thread. There are read me files in the downloads which offer explanation to what they do.

Call me Seth!
Mad Poster
#44 Old 26th Apr 2021 at 1:28 AM
Quote: Originally posted by marka93
crumplefix http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...pic=2688.0;wap2

Considering fixing this (and possible check of other mods?) link, cause the interface it displays of the base doesn't properly load the forum and the mod can't be downloaded

P.S. Sorry for my bad english.
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#45 Old 29th Apr 2021 at 2:50 PM
Quote: Originally posted by SneakyWingPhoenix
Considering fixing this (and possible check of other mods?) link, cause the interface it displays of the base doesn't properly load the forum and the mod can't be downloaded


Some time ago everything was repackage and now all "Essential Mods" are in the download for your game set up and I posted that in the OP.

All these mods is included in the FFS Director's Cut download so you don't have to go search for each one for your EP setup.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s.../topic,8.0.html

All my Beginning Hoods here at MTS. http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=7749491
All my Beginning Hoods as Shopping Districts plus Old Town. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=523417
MooVille, a tribute to Mootilda and her fabulous lots http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=534158
Field Researcher
#46 Old 29th Apr 2021 at 5:07 PM
If you're still updating your main post I suggest you add some of MidgetheTree's fixes to the list. She has also updated No Sim Loaded to not have any issues with the Pregnancy Controller.

I'd also recommend adding these fixes for sure:
• Sell Great Novel Personal Wealth Fix
• Photo/Changing Booth Preg Fix
• Hobby Friend Fix (I don't have FT but this sounds important)
• Drama Prof Fix Add-On
• Party Memory Fixes (conflicts with Cyjon's Memory Fixes and his mod needs to be edited in SimPE for the two to work together)

Call me Seth!
Theorist
#47 Old 16th Jun 2021 at 1:20 PM Last edited by topp : 26th Jul 2021 at 8:44 PM.
Quote: Originally posted by Charity
Cyjon's Ghost Hack - Bug Fixes version http://www.cyjon.net/node/188

Child ghosts are a problem in a vanilla game.


You can use Cyjon's Spawn Tweaks (link in above quote), but that mod prevents child ghosts from spawning in the first place.

A better solution IMO are simler90 and BarterStu's mods. Choose either, but only one, as they both fix the same thing.

BarterStu's Child Ghost NPC Summon Fix:
https://modthesims.info/d/657223/

simler90's Visitor Child Collection Fix:
https://modthesims.info/d/623811/

Also, on an unrelated note, Cyjon's Reputation New Friend Fix says it prevents sims from becoming friends with the forbidden NPCs, so it may be useful as well:
http://cyjon.net/node/239

Another seemingly crucial mod is tunaisafish's Get Parents Fix. It fixes logical errors in the code when the game is attempting to find parents of a child. My favorite part of the mod's description is: "As the function sometimes returned garbage, then weird bugs would happen such as a child thinking that it is the offspring of a driveway or window."
https://web.archive.org/web/2020061...hp?topic=8588.0
Mad Poster
#48 Old 30th Sep 2021 at 3:37 PM
Hiya @Marka93 - I was just referring a friend to this list, and realized you don't have the NEW HCDU+ listed that William made.
It is much easier to use/read and a more thorough search. And, it is still supported

He also made a What Caused This utility that is very helpful too!

...and a few other things you may not have seen yet.

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#49 Old 1st Oct 2021 at 4:46 PM
Quote: Originally posted by CatherineTCJD
Hiya @Marka93 - I was just referring a friend to this list, and realized you don't have the NEW HCDU+ listed that William made.
It is much easier to use/read and a more thorough search. And, it is still supported

He also made a What Caused This utility that is very helpful too!

...and a few other things you may not have seen yet.


Thanks for the info but I no longer play Sims 2, I may or may not play again I really don't know.
(I have almost stop playing all Sims games.)
You can PM a mod and let them add links if you want to.

All my Beginning Hoods here at MTS. http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=7749491
All my Beginning Hoods as Shopping Districts plus Old Town. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=523417
MooVille, a tribute to Mootilda and her fabulous lots http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=534158
Theorist
#50 Old 1st Oct 2021 at 5:07 PM
Quote: Originally posted by marka93
Thanks for the info but I no longer play Sims 2, I may or may not play again I really don't know.
(I have almost stop playing all Sims games.)
You can PM a mod and let them add links if you want to.

Marka, they are literally asking you to edit your own post, not to try to get back to the Sims universe.
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