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Ever wanted something in the palette but were too shy to ask one of us directly? You can now request recolors on this blog instead of trying to decide who to ask. Just send it through the ask box.
We've also noticed that both parts of the palette are a little tough to find. Especially the pastels since we can't have multiple pinned posts. So here you'll find links to the main palette and pastels.
"free to download"
"public release mm/dd"
so which is it??
Rant: The early access model has kind of creatively bankrupted CC, actually.
Longer Rant: The early access model has sucked the heart & soul out of the CC scene by encouraging creators to crank out the blandest, safest, most low effort content possible as fast as possible, and it's caused CC as a whole to stagnate as the same three overused ideas and Maxis meshes get rehashed over and over and over again ad nauseum while creators continually push the boundaries of how little creativity/effort they can get away with expending while still making a buck. Creators are concerned about how much money they can make vs. if their content is actually good or if it even works in-game. And of course they are--this is just a job to them, not a creative endeavor or passion project. This isn't a community to them or even a fun game to play; it's just another market to capitalize on.
Tried to keep this all in the tags but it was getting a little ridiculous and I'm feeling long winded today so lets talk about it. First, I have some very dear friends that make EA CC as well as some very dear friends that make free CC. Either way you cut it, it's a ton of work to make original content, and I completely understand wanting to monetize the hours you spent on a set. It's a hobby that's a massive time sink.
Second, You're right. And I think everyone knows it. Besides the time commitment behind making CC, there's also a massive emotional and creative commitment. Having the creative spark or drive to make something that inspired you is fantastic, and can lead to a lot of very fun ideas. But strapping yourself to a monthly patreon model and forcing yourself to recreate that spark month after month is gonna wear on you. And when you know you have a guaranteed amount of money coming in each month, and you know you HAVE to produce, you get tired, you cut corners, you play it safe.
And the community eats it up, -oh but i never//oh i only reblog//- shh shh. You aren't who I'm talking about. The added price tag and two week exclusivity creates this facade of scarcity and luxury, (even if it's not that good!!) and it gets reblogged, it get saved, it gets stolen.
And this environment is especially oppressive for free creators. The people with that spark that maybe don't create as often but when they do release something they feel passionate and excited about they feel immediately passed over. Because the community downloads, tosses a like and moves on. - oh but i always//- shh shh, I'm not talking about you.
This game was released 10 years ago by a company that shot it in the knees and told it to run. The landscape of the community has changed over the years and there's no foreseeable end for TS4 in sight. A lot of older interesting creators have dropped off because of this, but there's still a lot of people out there making things that make them happy. @lumenniveus, @hamsterbellbelle, @nucrests, @laeska, @xldkx-cc, @myshunosun, @nolan-sims to name only a small number.
I know it sucks when you spend a lot of time on something you want to share with the community and you feel swept under the rug. But we can always tell when something is made with love. And conversely the community will always call out when something is made poorly with greed.
So if you sit there complaining about how all cc is boring and rehashed now, (not calling out anyone, just the general you) maybe open up S4S, make yourself a little recolor. Try a blender tutorial. Maybe you'll find yourself becoming the next interesting person making fun things for everyone to play with. (Just maybe don't monetize your learning process)
Enthusiasm is infectious. And as @symerr said in the tags, why not get a little silly with it?
This has been simmering for a while - pun not intended- and it wants out. Now.
There is this style that blends all of those creators together into one sludge. It's soft, woody and beige. You know what a beige mom is? Like that, but for CC. It sucks the life out of everything and suddenly you are in a ball of cotton that's the color of pale peach at best. Everyone suddenly needs it. Why? Nobody knows. Sometimes I have problems telling who made what because it all mashes into one lump of clay. Answering those WCIFs is a guessing game sometimes.
For a community that is always screaming for diversity, this part of the CC community is a homogenous bland puddle of goop. There. I said it. @surely-sims put it perfectly above already. There is no soul, no culture, no personality nor style in those pieces because if it is nothing then it is safe, and if it is safe it sells. Hell, look at what the TS3 store has to offer. EA is definitely slacking as well.
Not everyone is going to want retro-futuristic, fewer want trad goth, garage glam, post punk or historically accurate! -- but the few who are hunting it down appreciate its existence.
That out of my system I blame this all on influencers. Like, the real world influencers. This patreon stuff is eerily similar to their homes and clothes and I get the feeling people eat it up so much because they want to copy that. Influencers are fake famous, so why not be copycats chasing trends just like them in the Sims?
I don’t know who decided the Animal Crossing saves wouldn’t allow normal system transfers to move your save, but that island is probably a loss.
*This is just a friendly reminder to those who don't know I found information about this on the s4studio page here
Another Sims patch will go live later today, so if you don't want to install it immediately, here's your reminder to put your EA app offline and disable auto updates 👆
There is a version of S4CAS Tools on Nexus that claims to be updated but it's a singe link in a text file. What it leads to is spyware, avoid.
Page in question:
Reblog if you are okay with people giving you lots of boops!
Omg omg i just woke up and BOOP
nobody does it better than the stardew valley chicken
lets goooooo little dude you know exactly whats going on
Decided to try doing a sort of super sim vampire and got overwhelmed by the amount of possible skills to focus on and gave up.
PSA: If you're posting lookbooks/pictures/sims/CAS/whatever and you're not actually linking or posting CC, please for the love of loki quit using the TS4CC tag.
We know you're using CC, most people do. It's annoying and clogs up the tags. It's not getting you more likes/reblogs.
(small rant as I'm going through tags looking for cc to rb)
If you're someone who tags everyfuckingthing as TS4cc or some variation of that, people are actively blocking you. In your effort to boost your posts, you're actually hurting yourself.
Also for some folks in the back: a lookbook does not belong in the ts4cc tag unless you're actually linking the CC in the post.
Ya'll are also getting blocked by folks for still using CurseForge but that's a different discussion.
This version (3.2.1.6) will fix the slot editor, which was inadvertently broken in the last version.
Please note, no update is needed for Aurora, as this problem did not occur in the Mac version.
Download HERE.
PSA: If you're posting lookbooks/pictures/sims/CAS/whatever and you're not actually linking or posting CC, please for the love of loki quit using the TS4CC tag.
We know you're using CC, most people do. It's annoying and clogs up the tags. It's not getting you more likes/reblogs.
(small rant as I'm going through tags looking for cc to rb)
The latest game update and the new Crystal Creations stuff pack introduced some new nasty bugs to The Sims 4 and we can expect a patch as soon as the team has figured out how to fix the most game breaking ones.
Until the patch is released it's recommended to be really careful playing with the Crystal Creation pack since putting on and taking off crafted jewelry will deform your sims appearence and it's unclear if already deformed sims will be fixed when the patch arrives.
It might also be safest to stay away from your more precious save files altogether until the patch arrives since the moodlet issue possibly can cause longlasting issues in your save files. If you want to read more about this there's a thread here at the AHQ-forum.
*sigh* It's a never ending bug fest at this point isn't it?
Unrelated to anything but the whole “biblically accurate angels” thing got old really fast. I don’t hate the aesthetic but as a joke it’s really not that funny.
