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Site News -
Small change to TS2 guidelines for sims
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| Posted by StarboardParoxysm, Today at 9:05 AM
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Just a small thing but worth mentioning... The MTS guidelines for uploading "Other" sims (that is, not based on a celebrity, character, etc.) no longer require that you make your own custom content for the sim. In order to have a sim accepted, it still needs to have a unique look and a good face sculpt, good pictures, CC credits, etc., but you don't have to also know how to create good CC to upload a TS2 "other" sim.
It was kind of a stupid rule. There were good reasons for it, but not as good reasons as not having it. Sorry about that. It's fixed now. ... read more
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Site News -
Want to be an MTS moderator?
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| Posted by StarboardParoxysm, 13th Jun 2013 at 5:57 PM
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In the past several months, MTS staff has been making a lot of changes to our upload moderation system. These changes make it faster and easier for moderators to evaluate uploads in our moderation queue, and, especially with recent behind-the-scenes tweaks, mean most uploads are evaluated much faster than before.
However, some of our main upload moderators have gotten busy with real-life lately, meaning some of the areas of the queue could do with a bit more coverage to keep things moving swiftly through the queue and out into the eager hands of downloaders.
Thus, we are looking for a few new moderators to help with the uploads queue, and are looking for volunteers.
 What it will entail:
Upload moderators see the queue in a view much like the downloads browser, and individual uploads look much like users are used to seeing, just with some additional options on both. Uploads moderators look at uploads waiting in the queue, and then evaluate each one based on various criteria, using a handy rubric like a checklist. When all items are complete, the evaluation is sent to the creator and the upload is approved, rejected, or kept in the queue as it requires changes.
Each upload ... read more
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Featured Item - The Embodiment of Evil: Taahe Eylee'N & Nootok Eylee'N (No CC)
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| Posted by Yogi-Tea, featured 7th Jun 2013 at 4:16 AM
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Community News -
Story Contest: Fairy Tale Edition
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| Posted by Delphy, 5th Jun 2013 at 3:00 PM
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Fairy Tales: most of us have grown up with them and they’re magical stories that you remember, even well into adulthood. Like most genres, fairy tales have specific elements that make them what they are: special beginnings and endings (once upon a time anyone?), magic, folkloric characters, and a problem to solve.
Do you enjoy creating stories with your Sims games, either TS2 or TS3? Have an interest in fairy tales and feel like stretching your creative muscles? Join the Story Contest, run by our very own heaven.
For more information, see [url]http://www.modthesims.info/t/503135[/url ... read more
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Featured Item - 28 Tribal Māori Tā Moko Tattoos
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| Posted by cyclo_tripz, featured 23rd May 2013 at 4:12 PM
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A beautiful set of incredibly intricate tattoos for your incredibly simple sims!
Posted in » » Tattoos
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Featured Item - 21 Animated Lot Based Effects, Down from the 'Hood: Stinky Skunk Bugfix, May 25/13
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| Posted by Sophie-David, featured 18th May 2013 at 3:40 PM
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Ever wanted to build a murky swamp or a smoking volcano? These effects make all sorts of awesome things possible!
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Site News -
New theme - what went wrong, what went right, and next steps.
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| Posted by Delphy, 15th May 2013 at 8:22 AM
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TL;DR: Themes + code reverted. New style will go live eventually. Nothing to see here, carry on.
So the news yesterday was the introduction of a new theme here on the site. This garnered a LOT of feedback from users, with some nice breakdowns, some good constructive posts, and a whole bunch of polarised opinions thrown in for good measure.
So what went wrong? Well, firstly, and this is a valid point - not enough end-user feedback was gotten during the construction process. Secondly, the colour schemes chosen weren't "good enough" for a lot of people. Thirdly, the layout of the download browse pages and the member profiles came in for a lot of flak. Lastly, there seemed to be some client and server side performance issues. All of these I will be addressing. But the main point is that I've reverted the entire site *and* the codebase back to the old version. It's just not possible to run both at the same time so this was the only option.
What went right? Well, I believe that HTML5 and CSS3 *are* here to stay, same with the larger thumbnails and responsive design. A lot of you *did* like the ... read more
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Creator News -
New Creators, May!
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| Posted by Whiterudder, 13th May 2013 at 8:51 AM
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So, a little early this month. Why is that, you may ask? Well, for those who've forgotten (we're terribly offended, btw), tomorrow is MTS' 9th birthday! We have a rather wonderful treat for you guys for tomorrow - but for now, you'll just have to make do with a slightly pre-emptive new creators gallery. ... read more
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Community News -
The Sims 4 Officially Announced!
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| Posted by Whiterudder, 6th May 2013 at 8:33 PM
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As quite a few of you may have already noticed, EA has officially announced that The Sims 4 will be released next year! I'm far too lazy to decode the simlish message, but I'm sure if you all mosey on over to the Sims discussion forums, you'll find plenty of people who aren't.
Yes, yes, we'll tell you what MTS plans to do in relation to TS4 in a bit. Keep yer knickers on. ... read more
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Creator News -
New Creators, March!
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| Posted by Whiterudder, 15th Apr 2013 at 6:59 PM
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My god, it's been far too long since I got to do one of these. As expected, you lovely people completely flooded us with awesome stuff as soon as we switched the queue back on, so I hope I can convey some of the feeling of "wtf how am I ever going to get through all this" that we've been experiencing, with this ludicrously long new creators ... read more
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Featured Item - Escape the Bin Series: Hassan Mohsen
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| Posted by FREEDOM_55, featured 9th Apr 2013 at 2:20 PM
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A sim who absolutely leaks personality, and is neither a prettyboy nor a Russian neck wrestler!
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Featured Item - Hartlocke Estate
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| Posted by QBUILDERZ, featured 4th Apr 2013 at 7:39 PM
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A gorgeous, intricate home for your obscenely rich sims!
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Site News -
Official MTS Competition: Multicultural Sim/Photo Competition
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| Posted by missroxor, 2nd Apr 2013 at 8:36 AM
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Hello MTSers! Now that the dust is just about settled from our recent upload queue revamp and all the shenanigans that went on yesterday, it’s time we got our official competitions back on track!
Multicultural Create Competition
Our recent Cultural Diversity Create Competition is officially closed. Well done to those who participated! We’ll start collating and judging pretty soon and have the results to you by the end of the month.
Multicultural Sim/Photo Competition
Over the last three months we’ve been asking you to make or build something from different cultures around the world that interest and inspire you. Well now the photographers, story tellers and contest fans among you will get your turn!  This isn’t a beauty contest or a fashion contest: we want you to make a sim to represent a country of your choice then use that sim to teach us a little something about that country and the people that inhabit it. I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
As always, there’s a separate thread for TS2 and TS3 as well as a chat thread for each. Please keep general chit-chat, discussion of entries, additional/bonus pics etc in the chat threads so we can keep the official ... read more
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Featured Item - TS3 Apartment mod - V2 Test
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| Posted by ani_, featured 30th Mar 2013 at 10:29 AM
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Sick of EA's rather stunted attempts at introducing apartments into TS3? Well, good news - ani_ has created a fantastic mod which allows us to have TS2 style apartment living in TS3!
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Featured Item - ESkin-nAtural+
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| Posted by teru_k, featured 25th Jan 2013 at 9:02 PM
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A gorgeous, realistic skin-tone that's versatile for all your genetic needs.
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Featured Item - Nellie Kessler
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| Posted by malibibic, featured 7th Dec 2012 at 6:44 PM
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Need some gorgeous new genetics in your game? This striking sim will certainly make things more interesting!
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Featured Item - The Ephemeral
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| Posted by Tee Hee Hee, featured 25th Nov 2012 at 9:57 AM
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An absolutely gobsmacking lot by Tee_Hee_Hee - this architecture will have you chasing your eyeballs around the room!
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Featured Item - The Doctors Are In - The NuWho Trio
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| Posted by MistyBlue, featured 20th Oct 2012 at 5:59 PM
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Add this funny time traveling trio to your game!
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