Gift

Gift

I forgot to turn my porchlight off so this post is to say its OFF

However, I’ve made my gift publically available here Enjoy and thanks for a great simblreen!

These guys have always been super kind and answered all kinds of dumbass questions/pleas for support from me. Be kind and appreciate them damnit!

Sims 4, Mods/CC, & Our Support Efforts

I’m disappointed to have found out someone doing YT streams said they got “bad support” during a visit to MCCC’s Support Discord.  

For help with lastExceptions, which at least 95% of the time have nothing to do with MCCC, but are almost always either mod, cc, or even EA related, we consistently give players the same (50/50) advice as is outlined by Deaderpool here:    https://deaderpoolmc.tumblr.com/help/troubleshooting

I guess the Real issue is probably that the only way to turn off the orange error messages is to go through all your /Mods folder and either update, verify, or delete (now bad) mods and cc files.  

Or, you can choose not to install MC Command Center, or WickedWhims, which also has error catching.  You’ll still GET plenty of errors if you don’t weed out your stuff, you just won’t know it, unless your game locks up, until you actually look for those text files in /Sims 4.  

It amuses me that people have plenty of time to FIND mods and cc, but they don’t also TAKE time to read the directions/descriptions, or to check either file dates/versions or comments, before installing a possibly-already-broken file.  And that when they later have problems, and come to us for help, if we tell them, “go thru your files,” they say they don’t have time to 50/50 so many.  That is not OUR fault.  The “fix it” process is the same, whether you have 2 files in /Mods, or 20,000.

EA changes something every time they patch, and every patch is a new chance for them to destroy your favorite piece of cc or mod.  That’s just how it is.  

If you aren’t willing to do the ongoing upkeep on your mods and cc, and take the initiative to check for updates following any EA patch, you should not use them.  Although playing vanilla is also not guaranteed to be exception-free.  EA has broken several of their own things, recently.  

We on the Support Team are all volunteers, and the only scripting expert on the server I’m aware of is Deaderpool.  The rest of us are being nice enough to offer our time to help with various other not-MCCC errors in the #general_support channel.  https://discord.gg/BSmzBdQ

Sometimes we get lucky, and a mod or cc file is listed by name in an error message.  Sometimes we’ve seen the same error before, and just know what causes it.  Mostly, it’s a little more guesswork, trial and error, and requires the player to do some testing.  How is our not being able to wave a magic wand and instantly fix YOUR issues “bad support”??  

Don’t disrespect my Team.  Not on the server, and not anywhere else.  

We really don’t mind to help anybody who can be decent to us, it’s people who are disrespectful or downright hateful to us, or who trash us elsewhere, that I have a problem with.  If you’re willing to accept our advice and suggestions, stop by anytime.  If you aren’t… don’t.  It’s that simple.

I’d like to wish all players Good Luck with the pets patch.  I have a feeling we’ll ALL have a lot of broken things to deal with when that comes out.  If you don’t know how to maintain your files, I’d start Googling now for more info on that.  

Knowledge is power.

Hypocrisy in the Sims Community

I know basically only porn accounts follow me, but I have to write my frustration out somewhere. As any simblr knows, stealing and crediting creators is a hot button issue in the community. There’s long detailed posts about why stealing is bad, how it hurts creators, blah blah blah. But then there’s this huge glaring issue none of them seem too bothered about. Many creators steal artists work and don’t bother crediting them, and put it behind pay walls, which is illegal. I see so many artists work from society6 on here with no credit, or credit given to “society6″.

 Society6 is just a marketplace for individual artists to sell their work. The artist holds the copyright, not society6 or any other type of website. And if you’re putting their work behind adfly, or on patreon, that is illegal. It just blows my mind how many in the sims community can feel such righteous indignation when their work ends up somewhere else, and feel so blase using artists work in recolors, meshes, and edits. I guess my point to everyone is, before you throw stones, make sure you don’t live in a glass house.

My PORCHLIGHT IS ON! It’s the same gift as yesterday, so if you’ve already come by you’ll probably be disappointed. Message me a trick or treat and get a TS4 surprise!

Seems to have fixed itself, hopefully no one else is running into issues!

Tumblr Stumbles

Tumblr is being a huge butthole and won’t let me see messages, send messages, send asks, look at replies to my asks etc. so when it gets its crap together I’ll reply. I would kindly ask people to keep their porchlights on a little longer than they planned since tumblr’s a butt.

Might be going off soon, but remember you can still send me messages when its off and I’ll get back to you when the porchlight is on again!

Porchlight is on! DM me trick or treat for a fun halloween TS4 simprise!  The way I’ll be doing the porchlight is that when it’s on, it means I’m available and will be sending treats as quickly as possible.  However, if you see my porchlight is off, feel free to still send me messages. It just means I won’t reply till my light is back on. Sorry I missed yesterday, I was sick and couldn’t handle computer light haha. Happy Halloween!