Reduce Demand! Download from Free Sites Instead!

[liegenschonheit]

Yep, this is my plan from Godaddy:

Deluxe Plan
100 GB Disk Space
1,000 GB Data Transfer

You get your choice of linux or windows platform, and like 25 SQL databases. It isn't bad at all. It's still shared hosting, but I haven't had any speed issues on this plan. The basic plan is $3.99 and has something like 5GB of disk space and 250GB transfer, but the basic shared server was too slow to host a forum on. But really, for a basic sims site sans forum, that's a pretty reasonable package. Even when I was on disability and couldn't even afford $4 a month extra, I always had a kind person or two donate to cover it. There is NO excuse for a paysite.

[euterpe]

I read this thread yesterday morning, thought about it, and spent the rest of the day at a site that I've only visited sporadically before--MTS2.  

I'm still just scratching the surface, but I've downloaded tons of free stuff I didn't even realize was available, and bookmarked dozens of artists whose work I'd only scanned before.

And I realized something about my downloading habits:  For me, it's not a matter of "this is better stuff because it's pay".  It's just been a matter of convenience.  I got into the habit of going to certain pay sites, giving a little money here and there, and downloading the things that appealed to me.  Why?  Because I was so eager to spend my limited free time playing that I didn't want to spend more time looking around for new sites to find free downloads, or plowing through huge sites like MTS2 to find what I wanted.

Am I ready to discard everything pay from my downloads folder?  Probably not--hey, I'm honest.  But am I going to be discarding a lot of pay stuff in favor of free stuff?  You betcha.

So I guess I'm learning  Not 100% there yet, and may never be.  But I can see having an 85-90% downloads folder that's from free sites in my not-too-distant future.

[Saraswati]

I actually think it's a lot easier than it was six or twelve months ago, because back then there was almost no free hair (barring the fabulous Nouk) and nearly no free pay objects.. Now that there are a lot of free creators doing objects, it's not a hardship to have all or mostly free stuff.

[euterpe]

For me it's never been hair...I've just not been into different hairstyles that much (until I started d'loading Nouk's!).  For me it's always been clothes and furniture and gadgets.  It's a lot more difficult and time-consuming to go out and find new and quality things when you're in the habit of going to a few major paysites and just taking what's available there.  

But I'm slowly learning.  Of course, it's taking time away from my game-playing, but I'm enjoying playing more because I know I'm not supporting those who are just in the process to make a buck or two.

[Hecubus]

I'm with you. My buy mode folder is bigger than all the others combined, and that's not including cars. I can't help myself...

[deelink]

My only pay stuff weakness is Wood For Sims and Holy Simoly

MAYBE some payhairs (but interestingly only the bobs.. I have this thing for short hair)

But the rest is all free. Free stuff has the most variety IMO.

[calalily]

My only pay stuff weakness is Wood For Sims and Holy Simoly

MAYBE some payhairs (but interestingly only the bobs.. I have this thing for short hair)

But the rest is all free. Free stuff has the most variety IMO.

If you want the most gorgeous bob you've ever seen - Carnaby Sims has it - it's gorgeous.

[deelink]

OMG..... Calalily...thanks!!!

Ack! So...excited...love...mod...stuff...


 :twisted:  Awesome!

*offeres you a cup of tears from people she had to torture at work today...for you!!!*

[calalily]

Gorgeous isn't it?  That's our very own Captain Berg's site.  She so rocks.  

[dorquemada]

Carnaby's easily one of the  - if not simply the - most stylish clothing sites out there. I try not to have too much recolours of the same model to control The Bloat, especially if they're heavy, but Carnaby's stuff looks so great in game I can't resist snatching another  'just one more thing' whenever taking a peak there.

[Saraswati]

I ADORE that bob.. Calalily put me onto it and it is one of the only 5 or 10 hair meshes I have in my game and can't do without. It looks even better in game than it does on the site.

[calalily]

I'm doing a sort through the hoarde (down to 2,000 bodyshop files to sort through! WOOHOO!) and I've decided I cannot live without that bob any longer.  It is so beautiful I canna resist - so I've decided to put some custom content back in my game.  I also blame it on Hecubus, whose wonderful houses I do not want to be without, and Nouk and her beguiling hair.  

[Anouk]

I wish Berg would make a BergNoukiesims with me.... or just some little BergNoukie's ....