Introduction

We have some pretty big changes to share with you today! These changes are to the Creator Guidelines (our standards and what we expect at minimum when people share content here), the Rubrics that MTS Staff use for evaluating things shared here, and also the general way we handle moderation of uploads in general. The focus of these changes is to make it easier and more enjoyable to share your work here at MTS, while still maintaining the basic standards of quality and presentation that set MTS apart from most sites that allow user submissions.


Queue Bypass

Creators with a good track record of uploading here will be able to share content instantly, bypassing the moderation queue. In order to bypass the queue, a creator must meet the following criteria:

1. Must have at least 10 approved uploads since we started tracking uploads (June 2008).
2. Out of the last 10 upload attempts (counting both approves and removed), at least 9 of those must have been approved (no more than 1 removed).
3. Out of the last 5 upload attempts, we have not had to ask for changes more than ... read more

Just a quick note to let you know that from 26 November to 30 November, you will not be able to upload anything new to MTS. This is because we will be turning off the upload wizard temporarily, so that we can clear the moderation queue, in preparation for the new Creator Guidelines and Rubrics going into effect on 1 December, along with the new Queue Bypass system. This allows us time to process creations uploaded before the wizard is turned off, and to allow any creators who are asked to make changes to have time to make those as well. This also will allow moderators to have a little extra time to finish up the things we need to do to get this stuff live!

The changes include:

• Queue Bypass, to allow creators with a good track record of uploading here to upload directly, without going through the moderation queue, so their creations will be up immediately. There will also be an option to go to the queue anyway, in case you'd like someone to look your creation over before it goes live. You can see whether you are eligible to bypass the queue by going to your Creator Statistics.
• New Creator Guidelines. We're reviewing every section and redoing the guidelines, simplified to remove the silly nitpicky stuff, reworded, and made much easier to understand and achieve.
• New Pay Content Rules which should be a lot easier to understand (and for us to moderate!).
• New Reports System with report types, to make it easier to report stuff that violates the rules (or things that may have bypassed but don't quite meet the guidelines).
• Creator Feedback Forum rules changes, to allow for it to be much more of a creator's "sandbox" for upload preparation, not just "does my sim look like the celebrity" quality type stuff.
• Moderation Methods changing drastically - the threshholds for accept/changes required/reject rejiggered, upload moderation no longer anonymous, and generally a lot gentler and friendlier - with moderator retraining to make sure everyone's on the same page.

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Hey ya'll, guess what! It's yearbook time again!

MTS Yearbook 2013

Click that thar link ^ and go and make your own yearbook entry! Upload a pic, add some info, and then comment on others' yearbooks. It's a fun opportunity to see what other simmers look like and are into, and to have a bit of a relaxed and silly time toward the end of the year. Add your entry today! Remember, yearbook entries can only be added to the end of the year and then the yearbook is closed till the next year, so hurry up and add yours! read more

The interesting multilevel terrain of this lot is flat at the edges so it will fit just about anywhere. The 3 story home is open and inviting and well designed for play. Your sims will love it.

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A seasonal tree that is perfect for building a playable tree house. Nuff said.

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It's roughly sort of that time again! I suppose as winter draws in (yay hemispherical imperialism), everyone prefers huddling with their feet up on a PSU to being "outdoors". One of our fabulous new creators even had their first upload featured - so double congratulations to them! Enjoy, all. read more

An absolutely stunning beach house that will literally blow your swim trunks away!

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Tucked away in a corner of the jungles of Simlandia, this house lies in wait for the perfect sim to retreat to its lofty heights.

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A gorgeous, versatile sim who looks fantastic no matter what you do to her!

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Great looking car, with an equal amount of attention to details. Well Done!

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Looks just like an artist's impression commissioned for an actual university. Northfield Dorms has it all.

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Do your sim kids need more cute in their toyboxes? Download this! It's 100% pure organic CUTE!

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Official MTS 2014 Calendar Contest

It's that time of year again! Starting today, we are launching not one, but two calendar contests for 2014. The contests will run for the entire month of November. There will be one specific for TS2 and one for TS3. This contest will give you a chance to share unique screenshots from your game depicting the calendar year.

Details and a chance to enter will be posted in the Sims Contests site area.

The picture should be a landscape or build/decor picture without sims as the main focus representing the "feel" of a particular month. Have the living room decorated for Christmas? Take a picture! Have a pumpkin patch to visit for Halloween? Snap that scene! A winner will be chosen for each month for, up to, a total of 24 winners (12 for each game)!

TS2 Contest

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It’s getting to that time of year again where many families and friends come together to stuff their faces with turkey and pretend they enjoy each other’s company remember the things in their life that they’re thankful for. Well that got us thinking that a lot of us here are very thankful to have a whole bunch of CC creators to make awesome things for our games. Sadly, we don’t always remember to say thanks to those creators when we’re too busy making grabby hands at their creations.

So, to say thank-you to all of our lovely creators we thought we’d host our first ever thanks-drive Anyone can participate by simply clicking the thanks button on anything they really enjoyed or appreciated. Even if you don’t download an item because it doesn’t fit your game play style, you can still hit that thanks button and let the creator know if you appreciate their efforts and creativity. Of course, comments and feedback are welcome too.

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A good deal of creativity and even better presentation, this futuristic grunge dive bar is truly an interstellar success.

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It's that time again, when I finally remember to do the new creators gallery! In fairness to myself, I didn't have an internet connection when I was supposed to do it last month.

So, many thanks, and congratulations and all that nice stuff, to our latest crop of new creators, and their awesome new creations! read more

Put aside everything that MTS is now, and ignore entirely the way we do things at the moment.

Now, imagine the ultimate site for sharing custom content you have made. How would it function? What features would it have? What would it feel like to use? Are there sites (not just for Sims, but for other games, or even just content sharing or uploading in general) that already do things in a way that you like? Are there features and aspects we currently have that you think would work better if we just changed them in a certain way? Or things we do now that you think are wrongity wrong and should be thrown out?

Tell us what you think - even if it's complaints - as long as you're reasonably courteous. If you are someone who makes custom content for TS2/TS3, we really want to hear from you! Small ideas, big ideas, and everything in between, we want to know your thoughts and feelings, so we can make MTS the best site it can be!

(And if you're a creator AND a downloader, please chime in on the other thread too!)

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Charm Estate boasts a well rounded balance of time, effort, and creativity. Plenty here to keep you and your sims busy for some time.

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