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30th Oct 2021 at 11:12 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by nashwaht
Hello there! I have the Super Collection for Mac and it is quite hard to download sims without needing apartment life as it gives me the error "this content requires expansion data that is not installed"
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This worries me a little. As some of you may know, I am planning to download The Romanov family (the last Tsar and his family) as soon as Mischief Managed uploads them. Now my highest EP is
Open for Business but Mischief Managed normally shares her TS2 Sims as requiring all EPs and SPs. I was under the impression that Sims, unlike lots (but like other Body Shop items), could be opened in a game with a game engine from a lower EP than the one in which they were created, provided that the Sim is not using Maxis content (e.g. hair) from a higher EP. nashwaht's post would suggest that I'm wrong.
Now I seldom download Sims -- generally I prefer to make my own in Body Shop and CAS, but I do have some imported Sims. For a start I have the Newsons (from
Apartment Life). marka93 extracted them for me. (I'm sure I have a legal right to play them, as I have the Ultimate Collection in my Origin account -- even though I've never opened it.) They are all OK in my game, though I may have had to change the clothes of some of them, and perhaps the hair of one.
I've also got three Sims by d_dgjdhh, that I met when I was doing his Monopoly Game Town Contest. "Rich Uncle" Milburn Pennybags I downloaded from
MTS here. He needed the
Celebrations! Stuff Pack, but that was no problem as it comes with
Double Deluxe, which I've always had. I have incorporated that contest intto my regular game, by adding an initially nearly empty version on the Monopoly Game town (as a shopping district). I renamed the sub-hood "Monopolis". Andrew and Julian have continued to run the construction firm they set up for the contest, and they're still building new houses there. A little later I decided that I also wanted two other Sims that we met during the contest: Val Briggs, Milburn's Head of Planning, and Lore Yitzek, his Accounts Manager. d_dgjdhh kindly shared them both for me. I had no problems with Val Briggs, but Lore Yitzek had a Maxis hair from one of the later EPs. She appeared in my Bodty Shop and CAS with a hole in her head, and all attempts to give her hair failed. In the end I made a new Sim, sculpting her face as close as I could get it to d_dgjdhh's Sim. Since I'm nearly face blind, it probably isn't very good, but it's near enough for me! That was the version of Lore that I imported into my game,
So what are my prospects of being able to Import the Romanovs into my game? As far as I know Mischief Managed uses CC hair and clothes rather than Maxis content, so I am (or at least was) reasonably confident, but what if I get error messages like OP's?
I'll be very disappointed if I can't get Mischief Managed's Romanovs into my game, and so will some of Sims. Her Esteemed Grace Juliette Capp, Grand Duchess of Veronaville is offering the Romanovs sanctuary in Veronaville in order that they may escape the fate that befell them in real life. (They were murdered by the Cheka [forerunner of the KGB] in Yekaterinburg in July 1918.) On her orders we are preparing a large house in Bard Boulevard for them. At the moment electricians are wiring the house for electric light. (A surprising number of the old houses in Veronaville lack this modern essential. The place has been a backwater for centuries.)
Apologies for being so verbose!
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