
Enable mods afterward, as EA Games updates disable them.
Right-click the game and select “Check for update.”. Find Sims 4 among your installed games. To update your game, follow the steps below: If the mod is made for an older or newer version of Sims 4, it won’t appear in the game. You can usually find mod compatibility and game version requirements there. To check mod compatibility with your game version, check out its download page. Sometimes the problem lies in incompatibility. This is necessary for the changes to take place. Click “Other,” then “Enable Custom Content and Mods.”. If your downloaded trait mods don’t show up in Sims 4, ensure that mods are enabled altogether. Technically, trait mods in Sims 4 aren’t much different from any other type of mods. Right-click the game and select “Check for update.” If any updates are available, they will install automatically. If you haven’t updated Sims 4 for a while, it could have stopped supporting mods.
Make sure the downloaded mod version corresponds with your current game version and that you’ve made the necessary game updates.
This can usually be done on the mod’s download page. If the steps above don’t alleviate the issue, you may need to check the mod compatibility. The folder will unzip automatically in the same main folder.
If they’re in a compressed folder, double-click it. It's heartbreaking when fans and creators find themselves unable to agree on a balance between keeping the spirit of the original and moving the genre forward. Maybe Maxis will add official support for larger cities the way it did offline play.Īh, well, let's cut Maxis some slack - it has a particular vision for what the new SimCity should be, and an offline, single-city game isn't the connected, social, multi-city game it seems to have been aiming for. This is almost as good as the time it said offline play was impossible, and then modders did that.
This is a little embarrassing for Maxis, which said that "system performance issues" made it impossible for most users, and said it had completed months of testing before arriving at this conclusion. Naturally, the mod isn't perfect - you may have trouble building other cities nearby, and the various starting values like pollution and land value may be misaligned, among other issues But all in all, it proves that with a bit of fiddling, it is possible to have bigger cities in SimCity. You can download the mod from Simtropolis. Modders say it's not.Ī new SimCity mod called Project Orion extends the possible boundary of your city to 3km - about four times the default size. Maxis said it was a technical limitation. SimCity sets strict boundaries on the size of your cities, something longterm series fans found very disappointing.