Did you have particular one's in mind?
I was looking at downloading ACR,but it makes me nervous lol

"No Sim loaded" is my first choice from Simbology-it prevents and nukes all memories during the loading of a lot.

This is the BoilingOils' Mods/hacks page with BO's hacks/mods. Not all of them are in my game, but what there are, definitely belong there.

TwoJeffs' Page has an entire section of his hacks as well. These are definitely an improvement on the game!

Paladin did a few that are fun and useful, but the HCDU is essential for anyone who plays the game and has lots of mods/hacks in it.

As for ACR, it is a lot less complicated and fussy than the Inteenimator..by far. You don't have much to do to set it up, and it can just sit in the background..but it is useful for when you're starting a custom hood, and want to set everyone's sexual preferences-either deliberately or randomly.

There's nothing to be afraid of-ACR works with nearly every single mod/hack ever put out by competing modders/hackers.

Just a bit of trivia: TwoJeffs used to belong to MATY and was as featured modder there for many years until he decided to open his own site. He was friends with JMP, alias the "Dirty Old Man", "Pescado"..among the other names he's been called.

So you know where the talent comes from.

mods and links
 

Not sure whether this would be any use to anyone but its a log of mods I use in my game with links direct to the mods. Not all mods have links as some can not be found but the majority do.

Cyjon's Fewer Tourists, NPC Maker Fix and Townie Apartment Residents mods are also essential for me.
Just like the There Can Only Be One Professor mod, it reduces the number of townies and NPCs in the neighborhood.

ETA: This mod fixes a game-crashing bug. Have you ever tried it? Mannequin sims can't give birth to babies because the game always crashes then but that mod fixes this issue. Therefore, I find it essential as well.
bloodredtoe's Mannequin babies can be born mod.

My special list
 

Mootilda (RIP, our lovely! :lovestruc )
Sims2Pack Clean Installer
Hoodchecker (Checks your neighbourhoods and can remove corruption)

Pescado
No Unlink On Delete
The Batbox
Creature Fixes (Mrs Crumplebottom is NOT healthy for your game, your sims or for her own self to become a vampire)
No Corrupt Death Memory

By other creators - Optional for your own use, but I recommend them
SuperDuperHug hider (Only the LBFRemovesocial file - stamps down the silly SuperDuperHug pie menu thingy)
Watch TV from all chairs (MogHughson - more Mog mods below)
Park inside the carpark! (Requires Nightlife - self explanatory)
Sit down with your drink (Self-explanatory)
Decorative parking spaces (Goes well with the park inside the carpark mod, generates random unusable cars)
Never lose homework again (Self-explanatory)
Phaenoh's Phone Book (The Yellow Pages of the Sims, basically. Get anyone's number, including townies)
treeag's Book of Talent (For the lazy who cannot be bothered to go on vacation to learn a dance and then go back home again)
Smonaff's Ghost Hack (Alive sims become deadlooking)
Change clothes in the pie menu (Smonaff again - this is really time-cutting by SIM HOURS and I seriously recommend this)
GunMod's camera mod Zoom in closer and see to the corners of your neighbourhood!
Inge Jones' teleportersBring stubborn townies to your lot!

Crumplebottom fix: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...pic,2688.0.html

Also, I should remind everybody that the Magnanimous J. M. Pescado has lowered the base price for VIP membership AGAIN! Get in while you can.
Participation Optional and contingent on parties ability to pay. ALL OFFERS ACCEPTED.

I'm sure someone included this or a similar list, but I found this article (http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Game_gui...ding_corruption) on avoiding corruption (with it's list of mods) very helpful. I keep those in a separate folder under Must Haves/ Anti-Corruption Mods. Some of the suggested mods in this MTS article DO change or "curb" the game in a way that I missed until I had to rebuild my Downloads folder and eliminated a lot of things I had previously.

I have added a new mod to the list in the first post called "BO - No Met Self Memories: Stop the "Met Self" memories without the use of NTM or Pescado's Dramafix."

This is one of the most prevalent memory that shows up in may game using Mootilda's Hood Checker program and this mod takes care of them.

Clicking on the More Awesome Than You links doesn't go anywhere, it just says Internal Server error.

That's normal so just type it in a browser and you should be able to go there.

Clicking any of the links gives an internal server error, typing it into the browser gives "This page cannot be reached."

MATY is down, it's an occupational hazard for that place. Just keep trying each day, it will be back up eventually.

I think I found another one while I was trying to work out why a new one was clashing.

Cyjon's Ghost Hack - Bug Fixes version http://www.cyjon.net/node/188

Bug Fixes - Contains a critical fix that prevents ghosts from haunting tombstones, potentially destroying them, shredding character data and corrupting your neighborhood. Contains smaller fixes that allow angry ghosts to visit the cowplant, and fixes reversed logic that causes Nice and Neat (rather than Grouchy and Sloppy) ghosts to create messes.

[Use Inaccessible Beds] from Simlogical has saved my life.

It's hardly essential for everyone, though! "Essential" here is supposed to mean "not wise to sim without it, regardless of personal taste," not "this is my favorite thing."

Sorry for my tardiness, but at this, the eleventh hour, I should point out that you've described the NTM a bit poorly: it does NOT prevent gossip from being generated, but ONLY from being recorded.

Saying "prevents it from being generated" CAN be interpreted as "sims do no longer gossip". And that just isn't true. With the NTM installed, sims will STILL gossip, but they will NOT store the things that they (hear) gossip about in their memories.

Hoping to have helped,
BO

Wow how did I miss this over a year ago.

Sorry BO but I only copied and paste what you have typed at Simbology.

Awesome thread, it was super helpful as I never knew about half of these mods before and have downloaded the Sims 2 Super Collection on my Mac. I also noticed that some of Pescado's mods (at MATY) were updated recently, just want to note that for some players reviewing this thread.

Apologies for replying after a year of inactivity, I figured I should post the Sim File Share link for Simbology as the site has shut its doors and I wouldn't have found the mods if not for this thread. There are read me files in the downloads which offer explanation to what they do.

Considering fixing this (and possible check of other mods?) link, cause the interface it displays of the base doesn't properly load the forum and the mod can't be downloaded

Some time ago everything was repackage and now all "Essential Mods" are in the download for your game set up and I posted that in the OP.

All these mods is included in the FFS Director's Cut download so you don't have to go search for each one for your EP setup.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s.../topic,8.0.html

If you're still updating your main post I suggest you add some of MidgetheTree's fixes to the list. She has also updated No Sim Loaded to not have any issues with the Pregnancy Controller.

I'd also recommend adding these fixes for sure:
• Sell Great Novel Personal Wealth Fix
• Photo/Changing Booth Preg Fix
• Hobby Friend Fix (I don't have FT but this sounds important)
• Drama Prof Fix Add-On
• Party Memory Fixes (conflicts with Cyjon's Memory Fixes and his mod needs to be edited in SimPE for the two to work together)

Child ghosts are a problem in a vanilla game.


You can use Cyjon's Spawn Tweaks (link in above quote), but that mod prevents child ghosts from spawning in the first place.

A better solution IMO are simler90 and BarterStu's mods. Choose either, but only one, as they both fix the same thing.

BarterStu's Child Ghost NPC Summon Fix:
https://modthesims.info/d/657223/

simler90's Visitor Child Collection Fix:
https://modthesims.info/d/623811/

Also, on an unrelated note, Cyjon's Reputation New Friend Fix says it prevents sims from becoming friends with the forbidden NPCs, so it may be useful as well:
http://cyjon.net/node/239

Another seemingly crucial mod is tunaisafish's Get Parents Fix. It fixes logical errors in the code when the game is attempting to find parents of a child. My favorite part of the mod's description is: "As the function sometimes returned garbage, then weird bugs would happen such as a child thinking that it is the offspring of a driveway or window."
https://web.archive.org/web/2020061...hp?topic=8588.0

Hiya @Marka93 - I was just referring a friend to this list, and realized you don't have the NEW HCDU+ listed that William made.
It is much easier to use/read and a more thorough search. And, it is still supported

He also made a What Caused This utility that is very helpful too!

...and a few other things you may not have seen yet.

Thanks for the info but I no longer play Sims 2, I may or may not play again I really don't know.
(I have almost stop playing all Sims games.)
You can PM a mod and let them add links if you want to.

Marka, they are literally asking you to edit your own post, not to try to get back to the Sims universe.