Must-Have Mods

[Fluffy Puff]

What Sims 2 mods can you not live without? What mods does your game/expansions need just to work right? I'm looking to reinstall the Sims 2, and I want to make sure I don't miss an important mod that my game will need in order to avoid problems in the future.

[Darby]

My list of "must have" mods is so long, it's hard to know where to begin!

Pescado's LotDebugger, and anything of his with "fix" in the name, are some I consider to be the most important. His mods are a great place to start, in general.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7.0.html

My other favorite modders include TwoJeffs (Simbology.com)
http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?board=7.0

Cyjon
http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/42

Paladin
http://simwardrobe.com/

and Boiling Oil
http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/forum-52.html

[sushigal007]

ACR. Cannot play without it.

[pikku.titiuu]

Well, I'm a TS2 newbie (really!) so I don't have much say on this, but here's (http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=469211&c=1&ht=&page=1&pp=25#startcomment) a thread with 15 pages of essential mods/hacks. I got a lot of great information there.

I must say that although I've played only a few days, The Community Time hack is a must-have.

[DigitalSympathies]

I play with ACR, inTeen, inSim, a bunch of fixes and tweaks like BBQ inside and only eat when full, and stuff like harder bills/lower wages, custom npc careers, and the simlogical school hack for some variety in where my kids are sent.

[maxon]

<looks at hacks and mods folder> I'm not answering that question.

[joandsarah77]

A heap! There are mods I think everyone should use to keep their game working properly. Those have been listed by Darby. Anything with critical by Pescado.
I also have the bat box (Pescado's LotDebugger) The simblender (by twojeff's at simbiology) and the Stay all shrub (At Simlogical) at every house.

Next come annoyance fixers. What annoys one person doesn't bother someone else so I don't think any should just be installed without reason. A lot of people find the baby fix essential, while I don't have it. What I find essential is the hack that stops sims waking up to weather. That was driving me batty.

Lastly come mods to make the game play how you like to play. I'm more interested in mods that make certain forgotten area of game play more realistic. For me this includes being able to take toddlers to community lots, the Simlogical school mod, a mod that doubles sim ages with a mod to make gaining skills slower, with harder grades, but a summer holiday. LTW variety, the mod to make career's realistic with uni needed for things such as becoming a DR. I'm probably in the minority when I say ACR holds little interest for me as I don't care about autonomous relationships. My poor sims marry who I tell them too and only get woohoo to procreate/gain aspiration points. I love playing legacy style and play mostly to see genetics mix, but no unauthorized babeez-thank you! No 20 K handouts as I like poor sims they are more interesting. I've messed around with a hospital mod, but that had a jump bug and now I'm messing with uni in the main hood. I also have the simlogical prison mod and that comes with a token to keep sims from wandering community lots. yeah if you’re in prison you better stay there! It can also be used on sick sims to help stop things like the flu spreading. Oh and while not actually a mod I can't do without my baby items. I have a huge folder full of gender linked baby clothes and a large range of toddler toys for every skill.

[Mew1210]

I love the Sim Blender (http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=20.0) by TwoJeffs. I have one on nearly every lot. :) I'd say it's a must-have hack.

[FranH]

ACR 2.0

Triplets and Quads hack-you never know what you'll get when a baby is born-guaranteed.

Insiminator and Simblender-yes, I do use both. They're both essential, and while they might overlap, one has the features that the other doesn't.

Christianlov's "Visitor Manager"-which was available only at his site, (don't know if it's closed yet, though) It makes it so much easier to have people stop at the house and actually come inside.

TJ's "Visitor Controller"-absolutely, positively must have this! It keeps the NPC's, Townies, and anyone else you don't want on your lot from ever showing up.

Of course all the annoyance fixing hacks, most of which are from MATY's director cut.
The Batbox is on every lot.

BoilingOil's very useful and necessary "No Sim Loaded" and "No Trash Memories" which make the accumulation of memories a distant one. Keeps the game clean.

Those are the ones I never go without. Of course I have over 500 files in my 'hack' file, and it's taken quite a time to get it work properly.

But in case you do want to cut down the conflicts that can and will arise, get the HCDU by Paladin-which is the one way to make sure they do work together: http://www.simwardrobe.com/

[joandsarah77]

BoilingOil's very useful and necessary "No Sim Loaded" and "No Trash Memories" which make the accumulation of memories a distant one. Keeps the game clean.

I had 'No Sim Loaded' until someone told me it did something to their game so I took it out. have you had any problems with it?

I use the bat box to get rid of trash memories.

[Liv Lukas]

No Sim Loaded has not caused my game any problems, that I know of.

Must-haves? Hmm...so many...

* Insimenator
* Chris Hatch's Visit Other Sims
* Ja-Viera's No plumbobs
* Community Time!
* Pretty much everything by Christianlov, especially the All-in-one NPC
* Pecado's Business Runs You, Macrotastics, and Customer Selector. Oh and Autonomy Control made it so I could get rid of a lot of other no-autonomy mods.

My mods folder: 1,736 Files, 196 Folders

So yeah, I've got a LOT of mods. The best thing about being a TS2 simmer now is that the game is no longer being updated, so no need to update mods every six months.

[katya_stevens]

For me, I cannot play without ACR, InTeen, and Trips&Quads no matter how many unauthorised babies it tends to give me (although I do use the birth control option in ACR when I decide a family's had enough children or I need to space them out). Also the Sim Blender.

Cyjon's Townie Job Fix (http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/114) (enables random townies to get EP and custom careers) and Townie Apartment Residents (http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/220) (no -- to me -- needless AL sims bloating my character files).

Various mods and fixes by Pescado (batbox, stuck object remover).

Those are what I'd class as 'essential', but really, have a look at all the mods by Pescado/on MATY, Simbology, Cyjon, BoilingOil, Squinge/InSim, Simlogical, Simwardrobe, and also some mods available here on MTS. If I listed every mod I had, we'd be here for ages.

[FranH]

I've had no problems with "No Sim Loaded", at all.

I forgot all about Ja's "No Plumbobs" mod, along with Psychosim's additional mod of "No Plumbobs in neighborhood" mods.

Funny how you get so used to having so many "extra" features that you forget that you had to add them in to make it look better!

I've never been able to get the "visit other sims" mod to work properly in my game-probably my fault. It just confuses me to death. The Community Time Project doesn't seem to work well with a game that includes BV. Something in that EP broke the mod, I think.

As for file numbers, Liv has me beat-I've only got 549 files in my hacks/mods folder! :lol:

[sushigal007]

Oh, I forgot one I recently downloaded that I adore - it's a mod that allows you to click on other sims and age them up. If you're in a Uni subhood and call over a teen, they'll age into a YA, so you can have your teen pals at college without having to play them. You can also graduate/drop out/expel other students. I like to do that to a few sims each semester so that the same dormies aren't always hanging around. It also gives you the option to age up elders, making them die of old age. So now my townies can age up with my playables. :D

[Lerf1950]

There's an in-game cheat that does that anyway.

[sushigal007]

The same could be said for most of the options in Simblender and Insim. Much like those, I downloaded it for its ease of use. All I have to do is click on a sim and the option's there. No mucking around with the cheat panel!

[smorbie1]

Oh, I forgot one I recently downloaded that I adore - it's a mod that allows you to click on other sims and age them up. If you're in a Uni subhood and call over a teen, they'll age into a YA, so you can have your teen pals at college without having to play them. You can also graduate/drop out/expel other students. I like to do that to a few sims each semester so that the same dormies aren't always hanging around. It also gives you the option to age up elders, making them die of old age. So now my townies can age up with my playables. :D

Do you remember where you got that?

[gazania]

I've been eyeing the Sim Blender. I've read so much about it, but am reluctant to try it just because I do have a number of mods, and am a little concerned that it would clash with at least one of them. Does anyone know of any mods or modded objects (those can be the worst, because they can be harmless enough for years, and you might not think anything of them because they just sit in the background until BLAM ... crash time) that conflict with this? I have read of a couple, but fortunately, don't have those. I suppose someone can't scold me for not Googling enough and please point me to a list? Also, I read that you can actually have both Insim AND Sim Blender in the game. Back when I checked out this mod, it was missing a couple of features that Insim had, but that might have changed. It's been a couple of years.

It's just that like others, I have so many mods and hacks loaded (including a whole lot of modded objects), and after years of playing many of them, while I know they place nicely with InSim, I don't know if they will do the same with the Blender. Part of downloading so many of them, I suppose, though I don't have quite as many as some, I guess (about 225 or so).

Anyway, a sample of the ones I use:

Christianlov's clothing rack. Hey, I don't mind paying for the clothes. But I guess I get a bit lazy about running to the clothing store.
The Insim (at present), if only for the maxmotives feature. Not too fond of my Sims going into the red constantly.
No regens. Oh, yes, no regens. ALL of them. I can't pick just one.
Smonaff's jogging mod. Great for poor Sims who quickly want to build up their body, or to pass time .... since it's on this site, I'll post the URL ... http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=199203
Numenor's mods, particularly ... oh ... there are so many I use! I do like the one that allows you to place custom items on your store shelves ... http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=137561
Inge's Stay Things shrub. Why SHOULD the place be cleaned out after my Sims move? Let the new occupants have the previous occupants' sofas, tables, etc.!
No Teen Runaway. I just find the runaway bit annoying.
Pescado's money order mod. Great for wealthy benefactors to help out poor Sims, or for these benefactors to be wretched landlords who demand the rent, the rent ... NOW.

[M.M.A.A.]

For me, its:
InSim
InTeen
Some fixes from MATY
Simblender
EngagementMemoryFix
Gussy Up mod
Nounlinkondelete
marriage-postmortum
nocorruptdeath
etc...

[Yazoo]

Lizz Love: No Jealously At All

TwoJeffs Mods: Pregnancy for All Genders, Same Sex Marriage, Baby Wants Fix, Have Baby instead of Adopt

And that is about it actually. Reason for that is because most of my sims are lesbians AND I usually have some of them with the Romance, and I do not need to be slapped around a bagillion times -.-"

[maxon]

@ gazania
I don't think I've heard of the Blender clashing with anything. It's not one that really fiddles with the code and makes the game behave differently, more a changer of the settings. Well, you can do that sort of thing with SimPE (though you have to shut the game down, of course) - in fact, I've heard the Blender described as an in-game substitute for SimPE, at least in the sense of being able to alter sim statistics and states. I do believe it's one of the few ways Mac users can do that sort of editing given they can't use SimPE.

[gazania]

Well, I can probably uncheck a couple of mods in the Clean Installer that probably won't be needed if I try the Blender and give it a shot. I suppose I can always just whisk the blender out of my game if need be ... just don't save! And now that it appears that you can actually have both Insim AND the blender, that is a bit better for me. I can just phase out Insim once I know if the Blender works better for me.

Thanks, maxon!

[Darby]

People are far too afraid of mods. I've got well over 900 installed, at the moment, and it's not a problem. Even if you end up with a mod conflict, the worst that's likely to happen is that you have to figure out what's conflicting with what, and remove the culprit(s).

Generally, mods don't cause corruption or "break" the game! They just cause glitches, if they're not the right version for your game, or they conflict with other installed mods. The solution is usually as simple as removing the offender(s).

Of course, there are prudent precautions to be made. One definitely needs to read up enough to understand what they're getting. Most good modders will tell people if there are known conflicts with other mods. A rare few mods may have particular UNinstallation procedures beyond simply removing them from Downloads, and one needs to understand that. Also, backing the game up before adding a bunch of new stuff is basic, as is testing it to make sure it plays nice before making it a permanent part of a mod collection.

But again, mods aren't nearly as scary as people think, and if a mod is causing trouble in someone's game, that doesn't mean there's "corruption". Sometimes a glitch is just a glitch, and if it's due to a mod, it's going to be fixable in the vast majority of cases.

[dieKristina]

My absolute must-have mods:

Twojeffs: ACR, smart beds, pregnancy for all genders, age duration hack, cumputer fixes

Inge (Simlogical): No social worker patch, Crib sleep night, Sleep later patch

Pescado: All his critical fixes, the no-regan-mods + hugging hack, harder jobs, don´t wave at me, no route fail, no hobby-spam, no 20Khandouts, no adhd

Squinge (Insimenator): Community lots skilling, visiting children and teens stay later

[Liv Lukas]

I've had no problems with "No Sim Loaded", at all.

I forgot all about Ja's "No Plumbobs" mod, along with Psychosim's additional mod of "No Plumbobs in neighborhood" mods.

Funny how you get so used to having so many "extra" features that you forget that you had to add them in to make it look better!

I've never been able to get the "visit other sims" mod to work properly in my game-probably my fault. It just confuses me to death. The Community Time Project doesn't seem to work well with a game that includes BV. Something in that EP broke the mod, I think.

As for file numbers, Liv has me beat-I've only got 549 files in my hacks/mods folder! :lol:

I have BV and I've not had any problems with community time, although I've heard that it is better to take it out when you take sims on vacation. I've not yet taken a sim on vacation, so I've no personal experience to share.

Oh and my numbers include txt/doc files for some of the mods, so perhaps not so many as it seems. But yeah, a lot.

[sushigal007]

Do you remember where you got that?

Yup, Grow Up Townies, available here. (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=4842.0) :)

[smorbie1]

Yup, Grow Up Townies, available here. (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=4842.0) :)

UMWAHHHH *blows kisses*

Thank you so much!

[joandsarah77]

Oh I forgot all about the shop at home coat rack! Gosh I couldn't be without that. I wish it had an option for challenge families to buy clothes.
Also Squinges wear any maternity and breast feeding hacks.

I don't think the blender clashes with anything. I don't know about with insim as I don't have that, although I believe the blender has many of the same functions. Recently a plug in to limit skills was added to it.

I would really like to use the homework placment but that seems to clash with something else I have. I had giant spikes come from the house and the sims hands came off after I tried it. :blink:

[labellavienna]

Is there a mod that gets rid of the Freetime hobby reminder spam

Like when that box appears at the corner that says " Blah blah is losing interest in this hobby!!"

[lizz2034]

Is there a mod that gets rid of the Freetime hobby reminder spam

Like when that box appears at the corner that says " Blah blah is losing interest in this hobby!!"

There's a No Hobby Spam hack at MATY (moreawesomethanyou).

[Rulue]

Oooh. My gigantic hacks folder makes this oh-so-difficult for me!

But I think the most important ones for me are:

-ACR (http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=19.0) . The game is pretty boring without it since I prefer when my sims do all their lovey-dovey stuff autonomously based on chemistry and all and not just because I told them "go kiss so-and-so, he is hot." And it causes so much amusing drama...
-Dizzy's leftover hack and BO's Food Dish Autonomy. It is wonderful since they don't have to cook a meal when there are plenty of leftovers in the fridge, and can do it by themselves instead of me having to micromanage it.(Can you tell I am lazy?)
-Squinge’s Mega College Pack. Uni is way more fun if I can do it in the base hood, I think. This way some of the YA can live with the rest of their family while still attending uni.
- Christianlov's Gussy Up plugin and Pescado's Clothing Tool, which, together, allow me to change the appearance of any fashion victim townie that happens to walk by easily. Laziness, yay!
-The Insimenator, and the Sim Blender, even if they are a bit redundant. And a hack that adds the option to make a sim selectable by clicking on the pie menu.
- Crammyboy's Community Time, and a mod that allows sims to throw parties in community lots. Not sure who made it. But I love it, yes, I do~
- Chris Hatch's Visit Other Sims. I haven't using it very often lately, but I do enjoy having the feature.
- That one that enables the "watch kids" interaction for any lot, not only apartments. This way I create some sims who make a living by babysitting, with the help of Pescado's Money Order :)

And, last but not least, loads of fixes from MATY, Simbology, and many, many other sites, that I am not sure if they'd count since they are just fixes, and don't really add much new features or functionality. There are many other hacks that I love and adore and don't really like being without, but the ones I listed above are ab-so-lu-te-ly necessary for me :) I couldn't even think about playing the game without them, because they are very essential for my playstyle.

[labellavienna]

[QUOTE=Rulue]
- Crammyboy's Community Time, and a mod that allows sims to throw parties in community lots. Not sure who made it. But I love it, yes, I do~
- Chris Hatch's Visit Other Sims. I haven't using it very often lately, but I do enjoy having the feature.


OMG...I love your list, however I was wondering about the "throwing parties on community lots" mod...I can't seem to find it through google. =[

[Liv Lukas]

I think it is by Squinge: http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,9570.0.html

[labellavienna]

I think it is by Squinge: http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,9570.0.html

You are AMAZING. If I could hug you right now I would.

I've been looking all over for a way to throw a wedding at the local chapel. This will work in the meantime =]

Edit: BTW the above hack is not seasons/pets compatible...but there is one for FT and AL ep available here: http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,101151.0.html

[Rulue]

labellavienna, the link Liv posted isn't compatible with Pets or Seasons, and probably not AL, either. In your profile, I could see you have AL, so I uploaded the version updated for AL of this mod.

http://www.mediafire.com/?qcrr9u3ygh20ty5

Using a mod that wasn't updated would probably cause issues. I have all EPs up to MG, and haven't had any conflicts or problems with this version. Not sure where I got it from, though.

...and I really need to go to bed now.

[labellavienna]

Thank you Rulue! I was JUST posting that on my original post, I found the updated FT and AL on another thread but I am going to update it with yours just to be safe. Thank you!

[lazzybum]

Has anyone tried Ancient Highway's college mods? Like College Isn't Free? I'm reading up on Squinge's Mega College hack and thinking about trying Uni for base hood, and it mentions Highway's collection of college mods, but his site is dead and google isn't showing any details of his hacks. I'm curious to what they are and what they do, if anyone has tried them. I'm mainly curious on the College Isn't Free thing, or a hack similar for tuitions.

And can anymore explain in more detail how 'Visiting Other Sims' hack works? Like, when you visit another lot, is the family doing their own things, being at school/work during the times? Do they save their memories and relationships from the visit? Can you use everything in their house, like the fridge (like when you visit apartment neighbors)?

[labellavienna]

My only advice is just to be very very careful when downloading hacks...I am currently having conflict issues where I can't seem to "view" decorative objects and paintings...this really sucks seeing as how I've recently built a museum and my sims can't even use it.

Just make sure to test everything.

[JDacapo]

Right now I'm using inteen, not really for teen pregnancies, but mainly to allow college students to become pregnant by woohoo or alien abduction - I want to do some campus-family scenarios. Also I have the nobabyharassment and antibabylecture, among other things, and of course ACR. I want some of my sims, mainly romance sims, to not be jealous of others doing the things which they themselves had been doing. I think that, if you're gonna be messing around with everyone you know, then you shouldn't be pissed off by seeing them do the same thing. It's only logical.

[labellavienna]

But hypocrisy is a part of life, just as infidelity is as well =P

[maxon]

But hypocrisy is a part of life, just as infidelity is as well =P
So true - one of the funniest moments I had in my game was Mercer Vaughan throwing an absolute tantrum in the local clothes shop when he realised it was Pheoebe Vaughan in there diddling one of the (female) townies. I laughed for a good 10 minutes. Sauce for the gander.

[JDacapo]

But hypocrisy is a part of life, just as infidelity is as well =P

True, but I think there'd be quite a few people who wouldn't go bunny-boiler on their lovers, especially if they're out boffing everything that moves.

[maxon]

True, but I think there'd be quite a few people who wouldn't go bunny-boiler on their lovers, especially if they're out boffing everything that moves.
I my experience, this is pretty rare. Most people are 'that's mine and that's mine and so is that. MINE - not yours.'

[Liv Lukas]

Opps I am sorry about posting the wrong link! Glad you all got it sorted.

[JDacapo]

I my experience, this is pretty rare. Most people are 'that's mine and that's mine and so is that. MINE - not yours.'

Wow. I figured that ended when they stopped being toddlers. Dunno, but I was raised to have more sense and somewhat more responsibility than most people. And when my boyfriend started macking on this other girl who also had a boyfriend, I was even offering to have a polyamorous relationship. What really pissed me off was the neglect more than the affair. If he had simply wanted us to all share each other equally, it would've been jolly good.

ACR at the very least allows for polyamorous relationships... and no, before anyone asks, it ain't about being in love with parrots XD

[labellavienna]

(Not trying to go off topic here).

If your bf is messing around with another girl without your acknowledgement...that is just pure and utter disrespect.

From one female to another...run...run far and away!

[gazania]

Trying to go back on topic a little ... :)

I use the no-jealousy feature on the Insim most of the time. But sometimes, I turn it off if I want to be sadistic.

And sometimes, I like when Sims don't get mad at all ... they just get even (bwa-ha-ha). There are some hacks for that too, I believe. If not, you can always lure the errant Sim to the cowplant!

[frankokomando]

Crammyboy's Penis Hack.

[omglo]

A ton. I won't mention the ones that got a lot of repeats already. The romance mod from MATY. Cyjon's mod that kids stay home sick without losing a grade and the loan jar. Cristianlov's easy computer. A mod that stops townies from losing their memories when they become part of a family, The college clock to speed up or slow down a semester. A mod that lets you invite as many people as you want to a party, fight anyone anytime, have a baby/adopt wants fix, the phone book fix that lets Sims call service sims that they know, Cruise in the car as long as you want, a mod that lets kids get bottles from the fridge.

[joandsarah77]

That's the first I've heard of that mod. It always bugged me that sick kids had to go to school. Going to look for that now. :)

[labellavienna]

I've heard of the crammyboy's penis hack...but what is it exactly? It was a featured hack...but I didn't want to install it in case it was like porn or something...errm.

[iCad]

Figures. I'm away for a while, and I pop my head in to talk about pixel penises. ;)

The hack just adds (configurable! and animated!) dangly bits to male sims of child age and up. I have it simply because, frankly, Ken doll male anatomy freaks me right the hell out. Always has, way more than anatomical correctness. And since I play without the censor blur (which also bugs me, not because I have a driving need to see nakedness but simply because it's large and attention-getting and, to me, kind of distracting that way. Whereas, I tend not to even notice if a non-blurred naked Sim is taking a shower. :lol:) So, I want penises, dangit! ;) So, in that sense, the hack itself isn't "porn"...but it along with things like certain poseboxes could conceivably be used to make some, if you wanted to. ;)

ANYWAY! I have a zillion mods and tweaks and such and I probably wouldn't play without any of them, or at least I wouldn't play as happily. But the ones I REALLY won't play without are ACR, InTeen (So that teenagerhood is really only 7 days long; after that, they're just shorter adults, in my book), the Visitor Controller, and, most importantly of all, Community Time. If I didn't have the latter, my Sims would never, ever go to community lots, and they CERTAINLY wouldn't own businesses. Oh, and the bat box, although I mostly only use that to get rid of trash memories and to roll the pacifier so that I don't have to go into CAS to do the latter. Oh, and I seriously love lots of Cyjon's fixes and have a ton of them. Generally, they just make the Sims' behavior much more logical, and that's always appreciated. Oh, and the penises, of course. ;) 'Cuz without them, m'boys is freaky-lookin', in my book. ;)

[JDacapo]

(Not trying to go off topic here).

If your bf is messing around with another girl without your acknowledgement...that is just pure and utter disrespect.

From one female to another...run...run far and away!

Don't worry - I already did. Haven't even spoken to him in a few months. I knew he was attracted to her - he even admitted that she was absolutely amazing because she would get on Second Life with him and even drag him into playing online games and stuff. And yet she has more issues than I do, like she's even physically distant from her boyfriend. I just didn't want to have to compete with someone who was already taken by another man, so I distanced myself from my boyfriend and he and I agreed that we should break up. Wasn't too upset by it, and at the very least he would stop bugging me about moving to his state when I needed to go to college here and better myself so I can earn the money to get a house or at the very least an apartment.

And he pissed me off by saying that I was getting older and that if I didn't make with the baby-making soon I might start popping out kids with Down's Syndrome or other birth defects - as if those people aren't really 'people' like us. I want to have some money so I can at least AFFORD to have a kid, and neither he nor I have that. And he was complaining about me not always talking to him much when I was busy either doing homework, studying, playing a game or sleeping, because you know... I needed to fulfill some of my basic needs, right? Anyways, I was disappointed, but not as heartbroken as I thought I'd be. Now I can flirt with other guys again. Being single can sometimes totally rock.

[smorbie1]

A ton. I won't mention the ones that got a lot of repeats already. The romance mod from MATY. Cyjon's mod that kids stay home sick without losing a grade and the loan jar. Cristianlov's easy computer. A mod that stops townies from losing their memories when they become part of a family, The college clock to speed up or slow down a semester. A mod that lets you invite as many people as you want to a party, fight anyone anytime, have a baby/adopt wants fix, the phone book fix that lets Sims call service sims that they know, Cruise in the car as long as you want, a mod that lets kids get bottles from the fridge.

Grabbed sick days! Thanks, I was wanting that. Love Cyjon's page! :gjob:

[Saturnfly]

Well, I wouldn't want to play without the mod that makes sims wash their hands after using the toilet. :P
That's the only mod I have. I am deathly afraid of them. x.x

[Fivey]

I've heard of the crammyboy's penis hack...but what is it exactly? It was a featured hack...but I didn't want to install it in case it was like porn or something...errm.

It puts dicks on male sims. You can alter the dick to different skin tones, pubic hair, size, and circumcision options.

Also, if you have ACR and your sim prefers nekkidness, they often spring a boner when they're directed to casual woohoo.

That's about it.

Dicks.

Juuuuuust dicks. I don't think the mods would appreciate me posting pictures. Or anyone else. But it's dicks.

[bkg4277]

All I can say is be very careful what you download. I've had to re-install my game so many times because people list their creations as base-game only (which is all I have) and it will actually contain EP necessary content. Always fries my game function. Just a thought.

[sushigal007]

All I can say is be very careful what you download. I've had to re-install my game so many times because people list their creations as base-game only (which is all I have) and it will actually contain EP necessary content. Always fries my game function. Just a thought.

Thaaaaat shouldn't require a re-installation. Usually just removing the downloads is enough.

[maxon]

Well, I wouldn't want to play without the mod that makes sims wash their hands after using the toilet. :P
Oh, now if there were an essential mod for me, I think that would be it. Before I got it, them peeing and leaving the bathroom without washing used to make me squirm and not in a good way. Eeeuw! I think I am like this partly because my husband works in a hospital (where they are taught to wash their hands 'properly') and we're hyper aware of the transmission of germs though, according to him, you'd be amazed (appalled) at the number of doctors who behave like unmodded sims.

Classy, Fivey, classy.

[Fivey]

Classy, Fivey. Classy.

Hey, that's what it is, right? :P

[labellavienna]

As much as I appreciate the attention to detail, I think I prefer my Sims Barbie-ish down there.

Anyway, these are the mods currently in my game:

- Allowing skillups on community lot
- Desk locator mod
- Faster university education
- No more watch out!
- Christianlov clothes rack
- No staying in hot tub all day for apartments
- Grow up townies
- Sims cloner
- Stay things shrub
- Mod that allows for changing apartment doors.

[Alijah]

I play with a lot of mods. A LOT. If it's made by Squinge, Pescado, Inge or Cyjon, it's probably in my game. Some of my must haves include:

Inteen: I love all the options it gives, not just teen pregnancy
ACR: Must have, hands down. I too fiddle with my jealousy. I think it's ridiculous that a sim can make enemies and get furious at a sim just because they have a crush on them. The crush doesn't even have to be reciprocated! Following Maxis logic, Ryan Reynolds and I have been at odds for a very long time. Every time my fury wears, he starts dating someone else And as soon as I find out where his girlfriend lives, I'm kicking over her trashcan!
Pretty much every little fix by pescado, including macrotastics
A lot of mods to make the game harder. Less income, higher bills, cheaper fish, less money for junk car, harder jobs, harder schoolwork, etc.

[labellavienna]

Ryan Reynolds...mmmm only in a sim world could I be married to Ryan Reynolds...lmao.

I'd still pick Edward Norton though.

[bkg4277]

Thaaaaat shouldn't require a re-installation. Usually just removing the downloads is enough.

What happens is when you even hover your mouse over one of these lots in the game, it freezes the game completely. After that happens, every time you load the game it crashes just before it completely loads. At that point, you have to re-install the game. Don't know why, it's only certain creators, but there's no way around it.

[dameautour]

"most importantly of all, Community Time. If I didn't have the latter, my Sims would never, ever go to community lots, and they CERTAINLY wouldn't own businesses"

After thinking about it, the only mod I absolutely wouldn't play without is Community Lot Time. I think it would be a different game for me. When my Sims go to college I use the sethour cheat and since they don't age there anyway it doesn't hurt anything, but outside of college I have to have time pass as close to normally as possible. I love having ACR and inteen and Crammyboy's diddlybits but Community Lot Time is the one I'd keep if I could only have one.

The Community Time Project doesn't seem to work well with a game that includes BV. Something in that EP broke the mod, I think.

Edited to address this: I have all the EPs including Bon Voyage and it still works. But if someone is worried about it I guess just take the mod out when you send someone on vacation. I always leave it in and it makes it so when they go out the time still passes. No spending all day at the beach and then coming back to the hotel with the whole day ahead of you! That's no fair, if I can't do it then they can't do it.

[teoMihai1]

I don't have any mods, but still enjoy every moment of gameplay. Dunno, but in my opinion, you don't actually NEED any mods to play the game.

[ella_in_wonderland]

I play with the Sim Blender, Insim, Inteen. Those are the major ones, then I've got a few smaller ones that I can't live without.

[sushigal007]

What happens is when you even hover your mouse over one of these lots in the game, it freezes the game completely. After that happens, every time you load the game it crashes just before it completely loads. At that point, you have to re-install the game. Don't know why, it's only certain creators, but there's no way around it.

Are the lots in the lots bin or placed in a hood? If they're in the lots bin, they can be deleted from the LotCatalogue folder without you needing to open the game. If you are able to place them before discovering they're borked, you can either reset the neighbourhood if it's a premade one, or delete it if it's a custom one. And then delete it from the LotCatalogue folder. Sure, you lose all your work in that neighbourhood (which is why it's a good idea to back up often, and start testing lots in a new neighbourhood specifically made for testing lots), but you won't lose the rest. I apologise for banging on about it, but reinstalling should be a very last resort.

I don't have any mods, but still enjoy every moment of gameplay. Dunno, but in my opinion, you don't actually NEED any mods to play the game.

I would agree that you don't need mods to play the game, but I also believe there are several mods that are essential to keep the game playable, if that makes sense. I mean, I wouldn't dream of trying to play without the Batbox or Pescado's Apartment Hacks or Paladin's Bon Voyage NPC fixes simply because they fix so much essential stuff in the background.

[victory101]

I don't have any mods, but still enjoy every moment of gameplay. Dunno, but in my opinion, you don't actually NEED any mods to play the game.

No, you definitely don't need them to PLAY the game... but some of us need them to enjoy it :rofl: There are just too many little things about unmodded gameplay that drive me crazy, and not in the good way. Playing without my mods folder just leads to frustration, which kind of ruins the fun factor :P

With that in mind, I can't pick just a couple of mods. I need my whole folder! *clings to it* (Favorites, though, include ACR, anything by Cyjon or Twojeffs, and lots of annoyance fixes from all over.)

[joandsarah77]

I don't have any mods, but still enjoy every moment of game play. Dunno, but in my opinion, you don't actually NEED any mods to play the game.

If you mean the game runs and you enjoy playing it until something goes kaboom and you don't care about it going kaboom then sure I guess in that case you don't need any mods.

In case you don't know, some mods were made purely to fix things that EA never patched. Even with just the base game you should have nounlinkondelete http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=2083.0 If a teen smashes a dead sims urn you will have instant corruption. The more Ep’s you buy the more things need fixing.

[Mootilda]

What happens is when you even hover your mouse over one of these lots in the game, it freezes the game completely. After that happens, every time you load the game it crashes just before it completely loads. At that point, you have to re-install the game. Don't know why, it's only certain creators, but there's no way around it.If you use the Clean Installer, you can find out the game engine required before you install the lot.

[Fluffy Puff]

Grabbed sick days! Thanks, I was wanting that. Love Cyjon's page! :gjob:

OOOOO, can you give me a link? :D

[esmeiolanthe]

Edited to address this: I have all the EPs including Bon Voyage and it still works. But if someone is worried about it I guess just take the mod out when you send someone on vacation. I always leave it in and it makes it so when they go out the time still passes. No spending all day at the beach and then coming back to the hotel with the whole day ahead of you! That's no fair, if I can't do it then they can't do it.

Actually, even if you don't have that mod, time doesn't stand still at the hotel when your Sims are on vacation. I don't have it, and if my sims leave the hotel at 2 pm and spend three hours on a community lot, when they come back to the hotel, it's 5 pm.

[cree]

What should I get for my evil purposes? I want pregnant teens (including alien pregnancy) yet I don't want pedophilia (or whatever adults liking teens is called) on the side.

[Darby]

Oh lordy... It's not generally considered pedophilia if an adult finds a postpubescent teen sexually attractive. That term is usually reserved for people who find prepubescent children sexually attractive.

But anyway, I usually set ACR to disable teen/adult interactions, because although I don't consider it pedophilia, I do find it a bit squicky, and definitely don't like seeing it happening autonomously on community lots between sims I'm not controlling at the time.

ACR doesn't enable teen pregnancy, though. For that, you need Inteen. I don't have Inteen, but I'd be surprised if it didn't have a setting to prevent teen/adult romance like ACR does.

[Orilon]

Inteen is the mod generally used for teen pregnancy. I don't use it, so I don't know if there is a setting to stop teen/adult relations.

If we want to get technical with language pedophile is a person who is attracted to children who have not reached puberty. Hebephile is a term used for adults attracted to 11 to 14 year olds and ephebophiles are attracted to 15 and 16 year olds. (All depending on level of puberty.)

(I used to work in the counseling field and learned about the terms in what I heard about the discussions about what to add/ not add to the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)).

[mirjamsim2love]

For me it's definitely ACR. Added that to the game without hesitation, and before that I was very hesitant to add any mod to my game.
I read about nounlinkondelete and you had to have that. I didn't even know I did have it. (I checked.) Not sure anymore how I got that one. Can't remember adding it.
I also have the lotdebugger, simblender and noinstantlove.
I think that's about it.
These all work fine together (no conflicts) and I like to keep it that way.
Don't know how it would turn out if I would add more.
To my feeling I don't need more than this to have fun.

[JDacapo]

I have inteen but I don't use it for teen woohoo or pregnancy - I use it mainly to make woohoo and abductions risky for young adults. I like having young adults raise families while at college, whether from risky woohoo(I don't generally try for babies with students) or from getting abducted. Got lots of other mods too and I might get some want-changers from the simslice section of the booty site. That way, next time I play on a computer with an installation that has all the expansion packs, I can get rid of those creature fears(I don't like the hate these non-knowledge sims harbour).

[ttowntallyho]

First, where can I get the Community Time mod? I can't find it in google...

Aside from what others have said (Inteen, ACR, Blender), I absolutely MUST have the thirsty bath mat (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=310109). It basically soaks up puddles in the bathroom. I also like to play with supernaturals, so I have the sim transformer (http://modthesims.info/d/283201). I've only had one plantsim and one werewolf without it because they are nearly impossible to get!

Edit: Actually, I think I have this version (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=380779) of the bathmat mod. I can't remember now. :-/

[J_Fanning]

Where is the mod called "Chris Hatch's Visit Other Sims"? I went to Back Alley Sims to find it, but no luck. Is it still available? I would post this in the WCIF thread, but, LOL, I can't find it either!
HELP!

[Mootilda]

First, where can I get the Community Time mod?http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7462.0.html
I would post this in the WCIF thread, but, LOL, I can't find it either!
HELP!Try clicking on the autolink for the word WCIF in your own post.

[Charmful]

I found I could stand townies more when I got the 'gussy up mod' which is fun in it lets you give all the townies you choose new clothes and makeovers :)

[TotallySimsCrazy]

So many!

The Can-not live withouts

Inteen: It's Like part of the game to me now! Without it i wouldn't cope!

Insim: so useful for so many things! If i'm making a quick movie and i can't be bothered to get to a community lot, Spawn.../Wardrobe adjuster

Enable Furnished apartment out of debug mode: It's such a good mod! Saves so much time!

Pregnancy Wear Any Outfit: Really needed! It's so hard to play pregnancies without it!

ACR: So good to my game! More realistic!

[JDacapo]

I love Inteen. The only thing that sucks about it, is that it turns many of the residents of Strangetown and Veronaville into tendaults. It was quite funny hearing Vidcund Curious talking with a teen voice though. I also love the custom objects, like the ZX-Spectrum. It really helps give more opportunities for sims to make money while skilling!

[Dagi_is_a_punk]

I never really realized how many hacks and hacked objects I had before I had to re-install my S2. I'm actually in the process of re-installing all my EPs right now, so I'm sorting out all the hacks and defaults into a separate folder.
Quite some list I've got there! Here are some of the major ones:

-His majesty, ACR
-Anti redundancy
-No townie regen
- Inteen
- Stay things shrub
- Teleporter shrub plus
-Woohoo everywhere
-Censor blur remover
-Magivestigium no alignment change (because witches and warlocks are my favorite supernaturals and I can't stand them being crippled by the game in any way!)
- Neutral spells no alignment change

Hacked objects:
- Freezer clock (so amazingly useful for taking screenshots!)
- Hacked coat rack
-Pandorasims hot tub

I've also got defaults, and a lot of 'em at that: skin defaults, eye defaults, hair defaults, clothing defaults, plantsim defaults, vampire defaults, werewolf defaults, zombie defaults, witch defaults, alien defaults...Plus some anatomically correct female body default which I don't remember downloading at all...


Inteen: It's Like part of the game to me now! Without it i wouldn't cope!
Pregnancy Wear Any Outfit: Really needed! It's so hard to play pregnancies without it!


I wanted to get the 'Wear any outfit in pregnancies' hack ages ago, but never did because I was falsely believing that it conflicted with Inteen...

[kayleigh83]

Toddler sleep through the night... if they get put to bed after 8 pm they stay asleep til 6 am. SOOO handy so there's no screaming toddler losing energy in their crib from 3 am onwards while mom and dad have to be up by 6 to get ready for work. Not very realistic, I know, but it saves *my* sanity! :lol: I have no personal interest in ACR - I must pre-approve all relationships and babies! Control freak!

I also have one that makes uni shorter - each semester dropping down from 72 hours to 48 hours because it was unbearably, boringly long before! Hmm what else... stop eating when you're full, apartments and shopping on the same lot, same energy gain for all beds, watch TV from all chairs - SO GLAD I GOT THIS! Newer in my game but I wish I'd had it sooner! Reservable pet beds is another handy one for me.

I feel like there are many I must be forgetting, that I've had in my game so long I forget they're even modded at all.

[rockergrrl37203]

I like this thread! So many of you have already listed the mods that I think are must haves - Crammyboy's penis hack, InTeen, the Insimenator, the no censor blur, ACR, the shorter college semesters mod.

There are a few that I don't think have been mentioned, although someone may have mentioned them and I just missed it...but Gunmod's Radiance Light System is excellent and I consider it a definite must have. I will never ever play the Sims 2 without it. It always bugged me that in the Sim World it would go from pure daylight to complete night immediately at 7 PM. Of course now in TS3 we actually get a sunrise and sunset but this is the next best thing for Sims 2.

I also have a few great mods from the brilliant BoilingOil - I didn't know I needed some of these until I read his descriptions. I have his Phones for All mod, which just gives a cell phone to all townies except for children. So no more meeting some hot townie and getting all excited because you just know they have great genes and then getting your Sim to try to call and invite them over a few days later and getting that stupid message 'You can't call a Sim with no phone!". I also have his No Welcome Home Hugs mod, because I hate it when my child Sim drops what he/she is doing to run and hug mom or dad when they come home from work.

I love Monique's Auto Do Homework mod - it makes your teen and child Sims do their homework at 7 PM every night. So they have enough time to get their fun meter up and no more worrying about forgetting to make them do their homework before bed.

Those are all I can think of right now :)

[Peni Griffin]

I think there's a difference between "must have" and "greatly preferred." A must-have heads problems off at the pass and fixes things that have gone wrong. A greatly-preferred helps you tailor the game to your preferences.

My must-haves are the lot debugger, antiredundancy, nounlinkondelete, argon-arch (which fixes a couple of broken face templates), and a whole string of fixes (mostly by Cyjon) for stuff like the toy train set's tendency to burst into flame, the unquenchable burning breadfruit tree, etc.

My greatly-preferred are CEP (you can play the game without recolors, but why?), a breast-feeding mod from Boiling Oil, the teleporter cat, one that suppresses the reminder that I haven't attached all the possible kinds of neighborhoods before it lets me go into my neighborhood (look, game, if I wanted Strangetown to have a downtown and a shopping district, it'd have one already!), anti-watch-out, numerous slot enablers, kids-get-bottles, extended family, the same-sex marriage and adoption hacks, ijToddlerGetOutAll.

Many of the things that other people consider must-haves I would consider nuisances in their own right, or an undermining of my duties as player. I'm here to play the game - to figure out the strategies that will get my kids to do their homework (or not, if I have a reason to want a kid with low grades), my couples to keep the spark alive, my families to survive the hazards of random chance.

[Mootilda]

I really agree with this. My must-have mods are bug fixes. Most of the mods listed by other people as must-haves aren't even in my Downloads folder, they are must-not-haves for me.

[maxon]

My greatly-preferred are CEP (you can play the game without recolors, but why?)
I agree with your point but I feel I must say this about the CEP: YOU DO NOT NEED IT FOR ALL RECOLOURS - only recolours of Maxis items that don't have recolours in the first place. I do now use the CEP but only started using it last year in which time my Downloads folder has only grown about 1/2 GB in size (now at 5GB) - those 4 1/2 GB weren't all mods you know. I've never had trouble using ONE SINGLE recolour since 2004 that didn't meet the above condition.

[MattShizzle]

I'd say the one that prevents the random incoming calls from friends. Otherwise, if you have more than 3 or 4 the phone rings constantly and you can't call to invite anyone or anything.

[ttowntallyho]

I completely disagree. To me, a "must have" mod is any mod that a person will not play the game without, which is different from person to person. I will not play without Inteen, so it is a "must have" mod for me. Bug fixes aren't "must have" because I don't have a single one and I enjoy my game.

[joandsarah77]

A couple of the fixes can actually save your game installation, unless you don't mind reinstalling the whole thing. These are things that EA never fixed that have the potential to ruin your game installation to the point of the game not even being able to load. Creature fixes is only a must have if you ever play a vampire, but nounlinkondelete is a must have for everyone as sims can destroy tomb stones autonomously and other things can happen to urns and tombstones such as them vanishing.

[Orilon]

From TwoJeffs

ACR 2.0
College Adjuster
Engagement Memory Fix- there is a glitch with Freetime/Apartment Life where Sims sometimes get the wrong Engagement memory. This mod fixes that.

Find-a-mate Crystal Ball
No Friends Needed for Careers
No Whining at Missing Objects
Play Sanity Fixes
School Bus Dialog- Get a choice whether or not a child/teen can bring someone home from school. Some days I don't want an extra Sim hanging around.

SimBlender
Students Move Away from the Portal

Toddlers Play with Toilet Fix-Keeps toddlers out of the toilet unless they have a red aspiration. Since I make my parents take care of the toddlers, they are never in the red and never in the toilet.

From Boiling Oil

Less Toddler Annoyance-I do not find toddlers cute, I find them a huge pain in the rear. This mod at least cuts down on some of the annoyances.

No Lecture Baby
Multi-PT #8 mod
Curb All Read to- Stops parents from autonomously reading to children and stops children from autonomously asking to be read to

Vacation Actions Limited- Stops them from singing the Sea Chantey in the home neighborhood and limits the greetings to the Vacation hood they came from i.e. they can only hang loose in Twikki Island.

Pescado
nounlinkondelete- I don't make a habit of deleting tombstones, but accidents happen i.e. Sims in red aspiration taking their frustration out on tombstones

nocorruptdeath

marriagepostmortem

Lot Debugger aka The Bat Box

Want Fear Sanity

Vacation Fixes

From Cyjon
Walkbys Behave-stops them from stealing the paper or kicking the trash can

Atavera's toddler blanket

[jessicasubedi2012]

Hi I see this is for sims 2 but I just wanted to say/ask
about a body parts mod. I am not smart enough to make a mod but I seriously think someone should do a mod without a censor and be able to see the penis and vagina for realism. Also, be able to go into CAS and have a slider to adjust. Anybody else want this?
:lol:

[Darby]

Bizarre choice of topics for a first post, jessicasubedi2012. :wtf:

Anyway, except for sliders, such mods already exist. People have been playing with the censor blur removed from the beginning, and I'm sure the first anatomically correct CC skins followed soon after.

I don't know about seeing a vagina, though. I get the impression some people don't understand that the vagina is inside the female body. One doesn't usually see a vagina. But if you want skins with visible labia, you'd probably be able to find them. Not my cup of tea, personally, since it would require shaving, which I think looks really silly. But that's just me. *shrug*

[joandsarah77]

I also think that might be a topic for Sexy Sims not here jessicasubedi2012, but welcome to MTS! And no I for one don't want those things. I dump any anatomical skins I pick up as for my personal taste they are creepy and unrealistic. The only things I have for male sims is some body hair because it's weird for them to have none and a download to give a male some shape down there in his jocks. :lol: I don't get why body hair was not included as it's not a private thing, all the guys I know have hair on their legs and they don't hide it.

[jjonewell1977]

Has anyone tried Ancient Highway's college mods? Like College Isn't Free? I'm reading up on Squinge's Mega College hack and thinking about trying Uni for base hood, and it mentions Highway's collection of college mods, but his site is dead and google isn't showing any details of his hacks. I'm curious to what they are and what they do, if anyone has tried them. I'm mainly curious on the College Isn't Free thing, or a hack similar for tuitions.

And can anymore explain in more detail how 'Visiting Other Sims' hack works? Like, when you visit another lot, is the family doing their own things, being at school/work during the times? Do they save their memories and relationships from the visit? Can you use everything in their house, like the fridge (like when you visit apartment neighbors)?

I found some here. There down a bit on the page. http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=8104.0
Hope it helps. :)

[JDacapo]

I also think that might be a topic for Sexy Sims not here jessicasubedi2012, but welcome to MTS! And no I for one don't want those things. I dump any anatomical skins I pick up as for my personal taste they are creepy and unrealistic. The only things I have for male sims is some body hair because it's weird for them to have none and a download to give a male some shape down there in his jocks. :lol: I don't get why body hair was not included as it's not a private thing, all the guys I know have hair on their legs and they don't hide it.

Women also naturally have some body hair that isn't in their pubic area - it can go right up to their navels, or even further, the older they get. They also get hints of mustaches and beards, but it's more socially acceptable for us wimmenz to shave and pluck, which does lead to some unpleasant problems like ingrown hairs :(

[MattShizzle]

I also think that might be a topic for Sexy Sims not here jessicasubedi2012, but welcome to MTS!

You do realize posting has been turned off there since JAN 30, 2011, right?

[Darby]

You do realize posting has been turned off there since JAN 30, 2011, right?
You do realize that jjonewell1977 just necro'd this thread, and that Jo posted that back in October, right? :lol: ;)

[M.M.A.A.]

You do realize that jjonewell1977 just necro'd this thread, and that Jo posted that back in October, right? :lol: ;)

You do realize that this thread is sort of like one of those common threads, right? So I don't see that there is any need to start a new identical one. BTW, its not like 12 months passed.

Wow, I like where this is going with the 'You do realize that...' :D :beer:

[Darby]

True, but you do realize the necro was a response to a question asked 61 posts and nearly nine months ago, and didn't even mention a "must have" mod of the poster's own, right? :jest:

[LilGeek]

Seems to be a lot of necromancy going about atm. Winter bringing up nostalgia?

[Darby]

The necromancy I've noticed seems to all be coming from new members.

[CrèmedelaCrème]

What Sims 2 mods can you not live without? What mods does your game/expansions need just to work right? I'm looking to reinstall the Sims 2, and I want to make sure I don't miss an important mod that my game will need in order to avoid problems in the future.

Most of my mods are either glitch-fixing mods or storytelling mods. I don't play with mods that add new functions into the game.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=12452.0
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=281167&c=1&ht=0&page=2&pp=25
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=400696

[MalcolmSims]

What Sims 2 mods can you not live without? What mods does your game/expansions need just to work right? I'm looking to reinstall the Sims 2, and I want to make sure I don't miss an important mod that my game will need in order to avoid problems in the future.

For me it begins and ends with the inSiminator.
I would also use the visitor controller mod to keep away that pesky Unsavory Charlatan and Mrs. Crumplebottom... And help me meet chicks faster. :heyhey: