sims 4 mrrakkon's World Redux! [Deprecated]

[Chipendale]

18 minutes ago, masure said:

As for the "update" drive folder, I don't understand it at all.

There are MANY duplicates inside it, some with just (1) or (2) at the end of the file name. Why?

I can't even access the update folder anymore.

But yeah, I spent like 6 hours the other night removing every duplicates I could find.

[mrrakkonn]

@masure I appreciate you finding and pointing out these, but there really isn't a "why" answer to this, it's just simple mistakes, that happens. And as you pointed out there are some packages that are same with different names that have ended up in my folder over time. You can of course safely delete duplicates. 

 

As for your comments on the update folder, I don't see what you're saying. At a glance through the folder I'm not seeing the duplicates with (1), (2) and so on at all. For that I would guess you ended up downloading the whole thing multiple times or something and you ended up with several versions of each package. 

 

Edited April 26, 2022 by mrrakkonn

[JughandleJones]

I think the .package(1) and .package(2) extensions are on Google's end when making a zip file out of the folders because I ended up with them too and I used the "Download All" button to download one big file instead of the individual ones.

[Toadvine85]

Just chiming in to say that this world pack has been an absolute game changer. Thanks for the continued updates to the save file, etc

[Meiton_88]

hello, for some reason I can't access the update file, it says it needs permission to access.

 

Edit : nevermind, I had to click view file first on the description page which sent me to a new page where the link works.

Edited April 26, 2022 by Meiton_88

[cantobite]

On 4/22/2022 at 8:59 PM, TriggerBlade said:

 

Sorry about that The links on the front thread should work now. No idea if the links in the quote updated so it's better to go to the first page.

Neither are working for me, but I am loving the little easter eggs in this. Keep it up.

Edited April 26, 2022 by cantobite

[Chipendale]

22 minutes ago, Meiton_88 said:

hello, for some reason I can't access the update file, it says it needs permission to access.

 

Edit : nevermind, I had to click view file first on the description page which sent me to a new page where the link works.

Thank you for this. I was confused as to why the link on the front page wasn't working anymore.

[TriggerBlade]

15 hours ago, Meiton_88 said:

hello, for some reason I can't access the update file, it says it needs permission to access.

 

Edit : nevermind, I had to click view file first on the description page which sent me to a new page where the link works.

 

Yeah I learned just recently that the download page and the thread page are independent of each other. I'll fix it. I'm considering doing something different with the download or something. IDK.

 

19 hours ago, Toadvine85 said:

Just chiming in to say that this world pack has been an absolute game changer. Thanks for the continued updates to the save file, etc

 

Thank you! mrrakkon and I try our best!

 

On 4/24/2022 at 3:49 PM, Jughandle said:

I think the .package(1) and .package(2) extensions are on Google's end when making a zip file out of the folders because I ended up with them too and I used the "Download All" button to download one big file instead of the individual ones.

 

The link should show just a folder that all the other folders are located in. Download "CC mrrakkon's sims" and "CC mrrakkon's sims update folder" instead of going into themand clicking "download all" as it'll sort things better.

 

15 hours ago, cantobite said:

Neither are working for me, but I am loving the little easter eggs in this. Keep it up.

 

On which page? The download or the thread here?

 

As for the easter eggs, I'll be adding more but in different capacities. As I said earlier in the thread I'm going to go with more "inspired by" sims to fill out NPC roles that mrakkon hasn't touched yet.

 

I'm not as skilled as him when it comes to sim creations so expect townies with the Rooby Doo gang probably being the only easter egg/parody that will be taking up real estate.

[TriggerBlade]

Oh I probably should have mentioned. The CC and folder duplicates has been taken care of.

 

I also set everything to fully public view. If you're still having issues seeing the folders then... I don't know what to tell you.

Edited April 27, 2022 by TriggerBlade

[cantobite]

On 4/26/2022 at 11:53 AM, TriggerBlade said:

 

Yeah I learned just recently that the download page and the thread page are independent of each other. I'll fix it. I'm considering doing something different with the download or something. IDK.

 

 

Thank you! mrrakkon and I try our best!

 

 

The link should show just a folder that all the other folders are located in. Download "CC mrrakkon's sims" and "CC mrrakkon's sims update folder" instead of going into themand clicking "download all" as it'll sort things better.

 

 

On which page? The download or the thread here?

 

As for the easter eggs, I'll be adding more but in different capacities. As I said earlier in the thread I'm going to go with more "inspired by" sims to fill out NPC roles that mrakkon hasn't touched yet.

 

I'm not as skilled as him when it comes to sim creations so expect townies with the Rooby Doo gang probably being the only easter egg/parody that will be taking up real estate.

I had tried both, I just re-tried the one in the quoted text from my first post, and it worked. So downloading the folder now. As for names, you could always try a random name generator, or even link so random characters to each other. So like some random Maid character you made is actually the sister of a Townie of something. Who's to say Penny Pizzaz doesn't have a brother who's a firefighter.

[TriggerBlade]

4 hours ago, cantobite said:

I had tried both, I just re-tried the one in the quoted text from my first post, and it worked. So downloading the folder now. As for names, you could always try a random name generator, or even link so random characters to each other. So like some random Maid character you made is actually the sister of a Townie of something. Who's to say Penny Pizzaz doesn't have a brother who's a firefighter.

I've actually been going around and doing this.

 

mrrakkon made a character with the last name Patel which shares the last name with Zoey Patel from the basegame Roomies household. So with permission I made them cousins. I downloaded a bunch of NPCs from the gallery and noticed that one of them also had Patel as their last name and so I made Zoey and her sisters.

I plan on doing this for a lot of NPCs but to not interfere too much with the "mrrakkon canon" cousin is pretty much the only connection.

 

I'm a really big fan of extended families. If you check relationships you'll find the missing Lydia Spencer from the background of the Spencer-Kim-Lewis family as a townie. 

As long as it doesn't risk burnout on important stuff or annoying him I often push mrrakkon to consider extended families and the like and help him flesh out backstories. Jason has like a ridiculous amount of cousins and basically all the Selverada sims are Linnie's cousins, aunts, and uncles. Chloe was almost  Linnie's cousin on her father's side but at that point we both mutually agreed that it would have been a bit much.

 

I'm not taking credit for any of these sims' existence. I just try to put importance on it when the conversation topic comes up.

[cantobite]

5 hours ago, TriggerBlade said:

I've actually been going around and doing this.

 

mrrakkon made a character with the last name Patel which shares the last name with Zoey Patel from the basegame Roomies household. So with permission I made them cousins. I downloaded a bunch of NPCs from the gallery and noticed that one of them also had Patel as their last name and so I made Zoey and her sisters.

I plan on doing this for a lot of NPCs but to not interfere too much with the "mrrakkon canon" cousin is pretty much the only connection.

 

I'm a really big fan of extended families. If you check relationships you'll find the missing Lydia Spencer from the background of the Spencer-Kim-Lewis family as a townie. 

As long as it doesn't risk burnout on important stuff or annoying him I often push mrrakkon to consider extended families and the like and help him flesh out backstories. Jason has like a ridiculous amount of cousins and basically all the Selverada sims are Linnie's cousins, aunts, and uncles. Chloe was almost  Linnie's cousin on her father's side but at that point we both mutually agreed that it would have been a bit much.

 

I'm not taking credit for any of these sims' existence. I just try to put importance on it when the conversation topic comes up.

I'm not overly familure with past game versions or their lore, but I've done some things like this in my version of this. Since L.Faba and Minerva have a grudge I ended up adding a ghost to the world that was the Brother of Faba and the Husband of Minerva and thus the father of her kids. My head cannon is that he died and Faba never forgave Minerva, blaming her. I also managed to make the angry ghost that comes with the Paranormal expansion the dead wife and mother of the Villareal Family with the idea that Jacques found them together and thought she was cheating so he killed them both, possibly in the apartment that has a chalk outline. I also made Moria Fyres and Morgyn Ember twins, made Moria and Morgan spellcasters and gave Morgan and Shioban bloodlines. I've made some other changes, as well, making Victor Feng the one that doesn't like kids, and making a couple other sims into Occult sims. I get that expansion packs need to stay seperate by EA, but I think it's weird that the only Occult Sims are the ones from those expansion packs. I also made other changes based on sims from other creators or mods that I use as well.

[TriggerBlade]

1 hour ago, cantobite said:

I think it's weird that the only Occult Sims are the ones from those expansion packs.

Sadly the save won't be including any extra mages as mrrakkon has made it very clear that he is not interested in Realm of Magic.

I did add the bloodline traits to the Goth family though as reference to their history with magic.

I have also set some houses as "haunted" in the save but from what I know they just revert to residential if you don't have the Supernatural pack.

[Reila]

By chance, do you have any more gameplay mods that you use but that are not necessarily a requirement or on the suggested list?

[TriggerBlade]

2 hours ago, Reila said:

By chance, do you have any more gameplay mods that you use but that are not necessarily a requirement or on the suggested list?

 

I just went over my mod folder and nope. Everything listed on the front page is all that I use. This was intentional as I didn't want to risk messing around with stuff that may break the save if I removed it.

So just to be 100% transparent. Everything with the exception of After School Activities is being used as I develop the save.

Edit: In the case this is you asking for mod suggestions? I got nothing. I'm not very adventurous in finding new mods unless they add depth to the save and aren't known to cause crashes such as the languages one.

Edited April 29, 2022 by TriggerBlade

[vinceguldo]

11 hours ago, TriggerBlade said:

I've actually been going around and doing this.

 

mrrakkon made a character with the last name Patel which shares the last name with Zoey Patel from the basegame Roomies household. So with permission I made them cousins. I downloaded a bunch of NPCs from the gallery and noticed that one of them also had Patel as their last name and so I made Zoey and her sisters.

I plan on doing this for a lot of NPCs but to not interfere too much with the "mrrakkon canon" cousin is pretty much the only connection.

 

I'm a really big fan of extended families. If you check relationships you'll find the missing Lydia Spencer from the background of the Spencer-Kim-Lewis family as a townie. 

As long as it doesn't risk burnout on important stuff or annoying him I often push mrrakkon to consider extended families and the like and help him flesh out backstories. Jason has like a ridiculous amount of cousins and basically all the Selverada sims are Linnie's cousins, aunts, and uncles. Chloe was almost  Linnie's cousin on her father's side but at that point we both mutually agreed that it would have been a bit much.

 

I'm not taking credit for any of these sims' existence. I just try to put importance on it when the conversation topic comes up.

 

Between Linnie's relatives I think I spotted two different sims both named Jesus Ocando (or whatever was the surname).

[Chipendale]

7 hours ago, Reila said:

By chance, do you have any more gameplay mods that you use but that are not necessarily a requirement or on the suggested list?

Don't know what kind of mods you're looking for exactly, but some that I've been using for a good while are SimRealist mods (except for Organic); SrslySims' Cooking Overhaul; KawaiiStacie's Slice of Life (with some features removed). I recently started using Carl's Gameplay Overhaul as well. It's a bit jiffy but I havn't noticed anything game breaking as of yet.

Just a few suggestions from the top of my head.

 

Pre-edit: No links because I'm lazy ?

[Chipendale]

I also forgot to mention that I decided to experiment by deleting the InactiveCustomSliders folder. That fixed the invisible sims bug for me. No idea what sims were using the sliders but so far I've had no issues with it gone. Just a little observation for y'all.

[mrrakkonn]

6 hours ago, Chipendale said:

I also forgot to mention that I decided to experiment by deleting the InactiveCustomSliders folder. That fixed the invisible sims bug for me. No idea what sims were using the sliders but so far I've had no issues with it gone. Just a little observation for y'all.

 

Oh, there's no mystery as to what causes that glitch. It's specifically Dumbaby Hips Height Slider MALE FEMALE.package, occasionally that one will glitch out causing sims' upper bodies to turn invisible. There's also the hat slider which is used for Linnie's hat and some sims with hair bangs accessories which occasionally glitches out making the hat invisible. 

 

If that glitch bothers you alot I would just remove those two, though the hat slider especially could cause stuff to look weird without it. I would not delete the entire folder because there's other sliders (without any glitches) in there relating to body shape and such you'll probably want to keep in, and removing them is likely to cause glitches in the long run with sims that were made with those sliders.

 

The glitch always goes away, either on its own or it will typically fix itself if you reload the game, enter and exit CAS or travel to a different location. 

Edited April 29, 2022 by mrrakkonn

[TriggerBlade]

7 hours ago, vinceguldo said:

 

Between Linnie's relatives I think I spotted two different sims both named Jesus Ocando (or whatever was the surname).

This is intentional. Many Christian Latins name their children Jesus with the same context that Islamic people name their kids Muhammad. I got like three cousins in Miami going around and existing. Probably more actually, it's a big family. Have my favorite vine.

[GhostJ27F]

1 hour ago, TriggerBlade said:

This is intentional. Many Christian Latins name their children Jesus with the same context that Islamic people name their kids Muhammad. I got like three cousins in Miami going around and existing. Probably more actually, it's a big family. Have my favorite vine.

LOL! so fn true, coming from a Latino background I have shit load of relatives with the same first name.

[TriggerBlade]

Hey so as mentioned in this thread and in mrrakkon's thread we have a preference for Simlish when it comes to clothing, tattoos, objects, ect.

 

Even if they are indicative of real life stuff.

 

So basically I'm asking, if any of y'all know of any video game poster CC that either lack text entirely or has Simlish words instead. Please let me know. All I've found so far has English text in it and if there is the option to have Simlish, that would be far more preferable.

Edit: Actually if you find Simlish versions of anything that's already in the save, including clothing, please let us know. We're still gonna use real life text if it looks better but as said we prefer Simlish.

Edited April 29, 2022 by TriggerBlade

[JughandleJones]

I don't know if you've seen the voidcritter gaming tablet mod but a sim like Selda can use it and she has the option to select any of the cartridges that are on display in her apartment without putting them into her inventory.

 

If you are looking for variety in vending machines on lots, Ravasheen has some functional ones that sell food and drinks. There are two more in this set (they are their own .package files so you don't have to keep everything in the pictures) which require the Ravasheen mod to function. I would recommend looking at all of Ravasheen's stuff because I can see some other uses on your lots.

 

LittleDica's Rise & Grind Coffee could be of use if you want to keep the Starbucks style cafe and get rid of English. The H&B store stuff would be a good substitute for the Apple store logo and give more variety to the items for sale.

Edited April 29, 2022 by Jughandle

[VomitMan]

Thanks for your effort keeping that alive!

I do have some bug reporting for you guys:

 

 

-> Windows not correct!

-> Bed CC are missing!

 

Also the Autoshop Career is broken: https://midnitetech.tumblr.com/post/184690867427/auto-shop-career-hi-all-heres-a-career-based

better use the new free midni career pack as an update for all used careers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/simdeed-services-63452495

Edited April 30, 2022 by Vomit2

[TriggerBlade]

16 minutes ago, Vomit2 said:

-> Windows not correct!

-> Bed CC are missing!

I haven't looked at that lot in ages and it wasn't on my radar so thanks for the heads up.

 

17 minutes ago, Vomit2 said:

Also the Autoshop Career is broken:

Can you tell me how it's broken?