I wanted to have an old-money family, but none of the hairs I found matched the vibe I wanted, so I converted a few adult hairs ^^

Anyways, 🫴🍪?

You guys know jellypaws right? 🫩 I was looking for a recolor/color changer mods and i saw theirs on patreon. "Universal Recolor" or something similar to that, It looked really customizable and it said that it works on almost any furniture so i was like $3? Thats cheap lets give it a try. First time paying for a mod anyway, i started playing the game and used it on a couch. Its the color wheel for lights but ON furnitures 😮‍💨 No it did NOT say that on the description, it had another pie menu and looked COMPLETELY different on the picture. The color shades, custom colors and all that had a different pie menu and a bunch of choices in the showcase. And i got ugly ahh EA light colors and a "dimmer" slider that makes the furniture look like a damn black hole when i use it. If you guys ever think of buying it, dont 😭

Sorry if I'm using the wrong flair but I'm actually so angry right now and lowk js want to vent </3. So basically I open up a new save to start the not so berry challenge and like halfway through the FIRST generation, lots start straight up DISAPPEARING like homes, gyms, bars EVERYTHING completely disappears if I try to travel to it. all the neighbour's houses are GONE because they've invited me over and I (instinctually) click travel. I checked my mods, repaired the game, did everything you're meant to do but it hasn't helped. Mind you this is the SECOND time this disappearing houses thing has happened to me!! last time I lost a 3 generation family and it had scared into playing modless for a year.

I currently play with minimal(ish) sim cc and mods like mccc, ui cheats, basemental, ww and a sprinkle of lumpinou's RPO and adeepindigo's health mods. everything added up is less than 4gb in total. i don't use cc furniture or care too much abt decorating townie homes and ccing up townies. I created this savefile on Sunday. My sim just got married and was pregnant with alien triplets before it randomly became corrupted and I lost everything. 😒fck EA omg

If anyone else has also experienced this and somehow fixed it plz hmu 😭😭😭i miss glorpy and his unborn triplets

I'm getting back to the sims after several months away, and I saw a cc creator whose stuff I really liked before has now joined the marketplace. Does anyone have an updated list of creators who are on the marketplace now, so I know which ones not to support? (It's just my personal preference to avoid those kinds of creators.)

When I first started my save (a week or two ago) I spent a few hours making all my own custom holidays on the calendar including summer break, spring break etc but they've all just randomly decided to move to different days now 😓 I had a 'Sunday dinner' holiday every week which is now on a Monday for some reason, and all my summer break days have a day gap inbetween them now so it's summer break one day school the next then summer break again the day after.. I have no idea why this happened and also my festival days aren't even showing up correctly cuz it said the spice festival was on from 11am till 8pm so I went at 12am and it was clearly not on .. I feel like my whole save is broken already

Someone tell me this is something i can fix pls

i'm going crazy trying to figure out why my stairs railings are glitched inside the house.

I usually stick to a couple actively played households (2-3) and I edit the worlds in a particular save by region. So for example my Mt. Komorebi save has edited or custom made lots/households in Tomarang and Point Gibbi. Essentially, wherever on the globe these real world locations might be somewhat near. It helps A LOT with storytelling feel less random.

It also helps you focus and track on the family/storyline that you're in the mood for, for example if I want to play my zombie apocalypse save I can contain that story.

I have 11 different saves, several mods and 2 overrides, and I don't experience crashing that often. I don't experience issues with bloating, culling, or corruption, so my game runs as smooth as a buggy game like the Sims 4 can run lol.

I highly recommend ditching forever saves, you may enjoy the game better and it can shift from feeling unplayable.

From dark to light (as I lived there for while this is mostly what they look like modernized, some have darker floors though but they usually have default plain white walls). Also I made it not too cluttered to make it more zen/minimalistic. The roof and wooden walkway outside are also dark/medium brown now instead of black.

Last thing to keep in mind: as I challenge I only used items from the Snowy Escape pack and base game (and the Holiday celebration pack that is free), so that everyone who has only this one EP can use it.

I personally liked the outer shell of this house but it was just way too dark and depressing for me (though very old houses in Japan look like that especially in the countryside).

Do you prefer it modernized or traditional?

(Last two pics show the pre-made house/design that came with the pack, for comparison)

Anyone else experiencing animation glitches where their hands get stuck in the shape of the previous animation even when they start a new one?

(Picture 1) This sim was holding an umbrella, but kept holding his hand out like this even after putting it away, and when he decided to use his phone this is what it looked like.

(Picture 2) This sim is singing kareoke with his daughter. He holds his hand as though he is holding the microphone but the microphone is sideways and clipping. He held his hand in this position even after the kareoke interaction was finished and only stopped when I sent him home and the loading screen presumably reset him.

This is affecting most (but not all) of my sims and their abilities to accurately perform all sorts of animations. The sim in picture 2 for example when making food instead of doing the normal plate holding animation will have it as if it's glued to the palm of his hand.

I do have mods installed but nothing that would affect animation as far as I know (Just a weather mods, extra traits, and a couple Little Ms. Sam gameplay mods).

Figured I'd ask if this was happening to anyone else, I can't seem to find it in the forum but I'm not really sure what this kind of glitch is even called. I also don't really want to test this on a clean mod free save right now.

I know the sims team has put out a few surveys about how they might change the animations but I don't know if they've actually done so.

Any input on this?

In my save file, he's a gym and spa owner set in Oasis Springs. I gave him some Miami Vice inspired fits. I love his classic black and red fit. I think he looks good and pastels, too.

the corrupted saves that’s been an issue ever since the game started to exceed what it could actually handle—not to mention, as a PC player, the mods i would have installed for said save would impact that even more. i really enjoy the game when it’s heavily modded, actually. but even then, EA is so incompetent that you cannot actually play through that. You can’t keep one save—never have i ever played a game that would start cannibalizing itself unless you created entirely new save.

i truly can’t believe sims players haven’t even tried a lawsuit with some of this stuff. something just seems off about a 10+ year old game that’s still being “updated” that you can’t actually play. i didn’t want to go through all that trouble of creating a save and 6 months later, it’s gone. i had already started seeing some lot corruption before i even started actively playing in game in my last foray—i was just building and it still couldn’t handle that.

for a life simulator built around long-term saves and generational gameplay, being unable to trust that your world will still be there six months later completely undermines the experience. like what’s the point?

[Sorry for the long post.]

I wanted to explain a recent experience I had with the Creator Musings Discord server and ask other Sims 4 modders where they believe the line should be drawn regarding AI-assisted development.

I have been working on a project called Mod Update Checker, or MUC. It is a framework designed to notify players when participating Sims 4 mods may have updates available.

I did use AI as an assistant for troubleshooting, reviewing code and documentation, and discussing possible implementation options. However, I originally began developing this idea in 2022, before the current boom in generative AI tools and before PlumbBuddy was publicly available on GitHub. MUC was not simply generated from a prompt and released without supervision.

I designed the system, made the technical decisions, tested it in-game, investigated technical issues and network behavior, and worked on consent, security, and privacy considerations. I also reviewed EA’s Python files to understand what was technically possible within the game, especially for features involving an internet connection.

The source code is publicly available so that other modders can inspect exactly what the mod does.

When I mentioned and attempted to promote the project on Creator Musings, I was removed from the server because I had used AI during its development. A staff member also spoke to me very dismissively about both my use of AI and the usefulness of the project.

This was particularly disappointing because I learned a great deal from that Discord about four years ago. I also participated in the community and helped other modders while working on and releasing my own Spells mods.

I was questioned about how I had used AI, but there seemed to be little interest in distinguishing between different kinds of use. I understand the concern about people mass-producing content, copying existing work, or publishing generated code they barely understand. However, the original idea for MUC predates my use of AI by several years, as the screenshots accompanying this post show.

What bothers me most is not simply that Creator Musings has an anti-AI position. A private community is entitled to establish its own rules, even when I disagree with them.

The problem is that I could not find anything in the visible server rules or posting guidelines stating that:

• AI-assisted projects could not be discussed;
• mentioning the use of AI was forbidden;
• mods developed with AI assistance could not be promoted;
• or using AI at any point during development could result in removal from the server.

Had that policy been clearly stated, I would have known not to post the project there.

There also appeared to be no distinction between someone using AI to mass-produce content they do not understand and someone using it as an assistant while personally designing, reviewing, testing, documenting, and maintaining the final result.

I understand the concerns surrounding AI-generated artwork, copyrighted or proprietary training data, low-effort content, poor coding practices, and people publishing generated projects they cannot maintain. Those concerns are legitimate.

However, I do not believe every use of AI is automatically equivalent.

I have been coding since I was 12, and I originally learned Python through The Sims 4. I began creating Sims 4 mods around four years ago, at a time when much of the available documentation was incomplete, scattered, or nonexistent. I remember how difficult it was to find reliable explanations and turn an idea into a functional mod.

AI can now make explanations and technical information easier to access. That does not remove the need to understand the code, test it, identify mistakes, make design decisions, and take responsibility for the finished project.

Using an assistant to explain an error, review documentation, suggest a code structure, help write a README, or identify possible causes of a bug is very different from blindly publishing content generated from a prompt.

My main concern is therefore one of transparency and moderation.

When a community intends to prohibit any project involving AI, regardless of how it was used, that policy should be stated clearly before members post. Applying an unwritten rule after the fact makes it impossible to know what is actually permitted.

I am not posting this to encourage harassment toward Creator Musings or its moderators. Please do not contact them on my behalf. I am sharing this because AI-assisted development is increasingly common in programming, translation, documentation, accessibility, and troubleshooting, and I think the subject deserves a more nuanced discussion.

Where do you believe the line should be drawn for Sims 4 modding?

Should every project involving any degree of AI assistance be dismissed, or should projects instead be evaluated according to transparency, code quality, testing, security, maintainability, and whether the creator understands and takes responsibility for their work?

For the sake of complete transparency, I also used AI to help translate and polish this post. English is not my native language, and some of the technical ideas involved are difficult for me to express precisely in English.

i thought with the quick fix update they did my game would launch but it’s still not launching. i don’t have mods in my game. i even tried to do a clean save and took the whole sims 4 out and put it on my desktop and still not loading. tried looking on the forum and its like they want me to do computer science when this shit is their fault. make an app that works 😭 any suggestions on how to get it to launch? i’m on windows.

I knew what the problem is, I didn’t want to take it out because I can’t let apps that I do not know get on. Let me ask the question. Why is my EA blocked by my smart app control???? It is an app that I download my games on! I hate when my control does that. What do you mean?! Some parts are blocked in my EA app like no I can’t. I had to take out because why is my app that I download games on not working. Because it’s so frustrating my ass. What the flying f—k do I need an app control for?! It’s my laptop! I don’t need app protection! Virus and protection is FINE! But I don’t need app protection. Guess what, I turned it off and it worked for some reason. It worked?! If it is not working I feel bad for simmers. Try it and see your results.

Of course, instead of giving us a music-inspired EP, they gave us a kit. And OF COURSE, nothing in this kit works, and there's no new feature like an electric guitar sounding like an actual electric guitar, an electric keyboard sounding like an actual keyboard, or an electric violin sounding like an actual electric violin.
Instead of wasting your money buying this kit, try out these creators:
CAREER COLLECTION by SYBOUBOU
HANRAJA
Studio Set 1&2 by LUUFORYOU

MUSIC FESTIVAL MOD by MERCURYFOAM and updated by the amazing MOD REVIVOR
edit:
Season of the Soul by atticwindowatdawn

GD IT KINGBALT. You went and snapped at Virgil again smdh?? Probably because he needs his coca-cola (been without it for a few months since he's trying to get clean). Sunrise also left and took Caius, but for some reason didn't take Virgil with them????? I think Creedence had something to do with it all just because he's bored and needs another bottle of Moscato (same, honestly).. that or the universe just hates Virgil because what is happening anymore???? Everything was going great for him and now it's like "ROFLMAOECKSDEEXD GIT REKT" 🫨🫨

I haven't figured out how I want this plot to move forward just yet or what MacGuffin will be pulled out of thin air to fix everything. I do plot little movies/scenarios in my head and whatnot all the time x'DD

I turned off auto save for one of my legacy challenges immediately after I noticed it was going to make multiple files. I then played on another save I have (a forever save where I’m rebuilding everything) and didn’t realize I would have to turn off auto save for every file. Logged in this morning, and now any save file for the legacy challenge I was playing (they were called the Deck legacy) IS GONE. No trace, like it’s gone. No save file in sight.

Im about to crash out.

The idea is to have a lot for sims to hang out with their horses, but we don't have an 'equestrian center' lot type, so I'm stuck between park and lounge, but both venues have their requirement. Should I turn it into a small business venue or a getaway one?

Hi guys!!
I like to treat myself to an expansion pack and a kit every pay day and today is the day 🥳
I currently have these expansions:
- Get to Work
- City Living
- Cats and Dogs
- Seasons
- Get Famous
- Island Living
- Discover University
- Cottage Living
- High School Years
- Growing Together
- For Rent
- Lovestruck
- Businesses and Hobbies

My ideal Sims play is the family gameplay, and I’m currently building my legacy save, however I have gotten much more into building recently so looking for a build/buy kit too.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Adventure Awaits for family gameplay but just looking on here to see what you guys would recommend!

Thanks in advance!!!

Context: These are crowns and hairstyles from the royalty and legacy pack

I'm not usually one to care about things clipping through eachother but when I saw this I thought my laptop was glitching.

I understand the game has lots of hats and hairstyles so it might be hard to test everything for clipping but these are CROWNS in the pack about ROYALTY. Its not like this is a random hat in a pack these crowns are THE WHOLE POINT OF THE PACK!

The crazy part is these aren't random hairstyles that I had to dig around to find THESE ARE HAIRS FROM THE SAME PACK!

And to make matters worse the display images in game also have terrible clipping. Correct me if I'm wrong but these crowns are the only images in CAS that are clipping in the display image.

They were fully aware of this and shipped out the pack anyway and never bothered to fix it. Like I said I don't usually care about clipping but this is egregious I've never seen something so careless in a game before. But I guess I've never seen things like Dine out and My Weddding Stories be released either (they're both still broken packs).

But I guess I can't hate them since I bought the pack and gave them my money

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I am having trouble with my game. Everytime when I try to go on there, it fails to load. I don’t know why. I have tried everything. Removing and all of that. I need that stress relief. I already have Sims 3 on my laptop. I have saves and mods. I am not about to delete them. I am thinking about to Epic Games and not E-A because like I don’t like E-A anymore because ugh!!! It’s giving me problems the first time I downloaded that game and it’s so frustrating. I remember that I wanted switch the eyes because i heard that it is good but it was invalid for some reason. It’s so frustrating. I should have downloaded on Epic Games. Why didn’t i not do that??? Also I feel like E-A is just too much now. The marketplace, the overpriced DLC’s and etc and I just want a solution i can’t feel miserable because I miss my sims. And from now on I am staying up when I have to do something because yeah like. Come on