I honestly (don't get offended by this message, people) don't get why I saw complaints and worries about CC. You could always uninstall it.
I'm not offended. I just can't believe you'd actually say something like this.
People who don't want custom content in their games shouldn't
have to go through the trouble of uninstalling it. Seriously, as a computer user, you should be able to fully identify with people having things that they don't want installed on their computers against their will. You use Trend for this purpose, don't you? To make sure that something's not getting installed on your computer that you don't want?
The reason that there are complaints is that, since this was not intended, it doesn't transfer these items in the same way that they would be transferred if that person had downloaded them. As a result, you can't just remove it like you would any other CC. There is a very specific process that you need to follow to remove custom content received this way, and if you don't follow the steps in order, there's a good chance that the custom content
won't be able to be removed. This is quite a bit more effort than you can reasonably expect someone, who doesn't want CC in their game in the first place, to go through for your benefit.
The worries about CC comes from the fact that a good amount of it is corrupt, not made properly, or just rubbish. Remember the "girldolldressed" incident? That was a piece of custom content. Remember the "distorted baby glitch?" That was the result of poorly made custom content (an adult outfit that was inadvertently authorized to be worn by toddlers). I also downloaded a bikini not long ago where the mesh was so entirely awful, that it left a gap in my sim's abdomen. The top half of their body floated above the bottom half, and there was an extremely visible gap between the two.
The other side of the coin is that some of it is
too good. Hair in particular can have a high polygon count and can impact performance if it's used. Lower spec machines really struggle with these items, and if there's too much in the town it can shorten the life of a computer's graphics card by making it heat up faster than it was meant to.
And if it's in your game, it's available to townies when they age up. So even if you don't use it, there's a good chance that someone in town will.
So what if I have CC patterns from The Exchange installed in my game, but the patterns aren't worn by my sims? Will they still be transfered?
This is a question that's been asked before. The answer is: no. When your game builds the simspack file for the SimPort, it only uses what it needs to recreate that sim in a different game.
Plus, it's okay to SimPort with me. I just do Trend Anti MicroVirus runs to make sure there's no spyware or anything on my CC.
I've never heard of anyone getting spyware or malware from custom content. That's not even close to the problem with it, as I explained above. Trend's not going to catch the actual problems with it.
Hopefully with this new patch (1.32) this has been fixed.
Grrrr! That means my mods are probably outdated.
Guess I'm going to wait.
